Conference: 2025-11-21

118 cases — 0 granted, 101 denied/dismissed, 17 pending

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24-1078 Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against servicemembers' tort claims is limited to injuries directly caused by military duties or should be narrowed/o…
24-1126 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) district-court mootness personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in assuming the District Court reacquired subject matter jurisdiction after a judgment's expiration without new claims…
24-1159 Jeffrey Clyde Pitts v. Mississippi Mississippi Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-screening criminal-procedure trial-procedure Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the use of a screen at trial that blocks a child witness's view of the defendant, without any individualized …
24-1253 Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations Whether the CMS Rule 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n) is constitutional according to conflicting Circuit Court interpretations
24-1293 Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t…
24-1302 MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute Whether physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening cause in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs,…
24-6605 Eric Samuel Tucker v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP None
24-7142 Saad Hanna v. Kimberly A. Nelson, M.D., et al. Colorado Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance judicial-error jury-instructions racial-threat Whether the trial court erroneously used prejudicial language suggesting defendant's guilt during jury instructions and whether defense counsel was in…
24-7252 Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap…
24-7331 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was proper after appellate review
24-7370 Jonathan Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure implied-bias juror-disqualification jury-impartiality sixth-amendment Does the Constitution require selected jurors to be free from implied bias and what standards should apply when assessing an implied bias claim?
24-7374 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment particularity-clause search-and-seizure stare-decisis warrantless-search Whether considerations of stare decisis impact the constitutional protections against warrantless searches under the Fourth Amendment's Particularity …
25-208 Delaware Trust Company v. Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Noteholders, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied bankruptcy-code court-discretion estate-recovery monetary-judgment property-transfer value-compensation Whether Section 550(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code gives a bankruptcy court discretion both to order the return of transferred property to the estate …
25-234 State Board of Election Commissioners, et al., Appellants v. Mississippi State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. Mississippi Pending None
25-243 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act Alabama's 2021 congressional districting plan was preliminarily enjoined under §2 of the Voting Rights Act because it splintered one community of inte…
25-253 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota Eighth Circuit Pending Amici (12)Relisted (2) civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti…
25-264 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1) administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether a "contributing factor" in Section 42121(b) is one that "alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of …
25-273 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al., Appellants v. Bobby Singleton, et al. Alabama Pending None
25-274 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al., Appellants v. Evan Milligan, et al. Alabama Pending None
25-310 J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini Fifth Circuit Denied diversity-jurisdiction due-process erie-doctrine force-majeure impossibility-defense jury-instructions 1. Whether a federal court sitting in diversity may deny a party the right to present the equitable defense of impossibility to the jury—despite unc…
25-315 Silas Salyers, aka Silas Salyer v. Clifford B. Walker, Personal Representative of the Estate of Evelyn Walker Michigan Denied Response Waived contract-clause deed-ownership due-process equal-protection property-rights trespass-damages I. Did the State of Michigan by its judiciary violate Petitioner's due process and equal protection rights by ruling contrary to the binding rule of l…
25-317 Estate of J. B., et al. v. Howard Muser, et al. New York Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process guardianship incapacitation judicial-proceeding 1. Does an alleged incapacitated person have a constitutional right to, at a minimum, be present at her own guardianship proceeding?
25-321 Jeanette A. Stengel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dale E. Stengel v. Heartland Bank Nebraska Denied active-concealment discovery-rule due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-claims probate-rule 1. Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's kno…
25-322 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit Denied appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver 1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo…
25-329 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied attempted-murder court-influence fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-acts Can the Federal Government get away with attempted murder, terrorist acts, and Human Rights violations on an American Citizen and use the Federal Gove…
25-330 Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied 42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may nonetheless invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.…
25-336 Elsie Franklin v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied adequate-opportunity confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-standard prior-testimony In Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), this Court held that, under the Confrontation Clause, an unavailable witness's prior testimony "is admi…
25-338 Simon Ateba v. Karoline C. Leavitt, in Her Official Capacity as Press Secretary to the President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived content-neutrality first-amendment judicial-review press-access speech-licensing viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether the existence of unbridled discretion in a speech-licensing regime is per se viewpoint discrimination or merely assessed for constitutional…
25-339 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing, both based o…
25-340 Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Denied arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the lower court failed to properly weigh Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad's "spite" and "improper…
25-35 In Re Raymond J. Fallica Denied Relisted (2) None 1) Mandamus 24-2346 ; issued legal order Respondent unlimited authority ignore statute facilitated altered jurisdiction occurred since 2004, Responden…
25-352 Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Requested affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-discretion pleading-rules summary-judgment Where a defendant has filed an answer without pleading an affirmative defense, may the defendant nonetheless assert that affirmative defense as the ba…
25-367 Todd M. Harper, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, et al. v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-governance executive-authority federal-courts removal-power separation-of-powers This Court in Humphrey's Executor sustained restrictions on the removal of Commissioners of the 1935 Federal Trade Commission, and it has since reaffi…
25-373 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived article-three due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of issuing affirmances without opinion under Rule 36 in Merit Systems Protection Board cases unconstitutiona…
25-386 Vonn Capel, et al. v. Pasco County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived ad-valorem-taxation comity constitutional-injury federal-review property-rights tax-injunction-act Whether the Tax Injunction Act and comity foreclose federal review of the regulatory scheme, when no "plain, speedy, efficient remedy exists" to prote…
25-387 Anita Louise Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-liability device-adulteration food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-fraud patient-disclosure surgical-instruments In what world do physicians have to disclose to patients that their surgical procedure will be performed with previously used surgical instruments in …
25-397 Delton York v. Scott Kupor, Director, Office of Personnel Management Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights employment-discrimination neutral-reason prima-facie-case racial-animus summary-judgment Assuming the petitioner established a prima facie case of employment discrimination, if the respondent offers evidence of a neutral reason for its ref…
25-400 PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra…
25-403 Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo…
25-412 Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance 1. Whether a "search" occurs when the government takes a purposeful, investigative act directed toward an individual's home and curtilage, regardless …
25-414 The Sunshine Group, LLC v. City of Dana Point, California, et al. California Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte notice-requirement property-rights regulatory-taking The City of Dana Point "red tagged" Petitioner's motel and then had a receiver appointed to oversee its rehabilitation without ever providing notice o…
25-415 Haywood Jackson Mizell v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process foreclosure-auction holder-in-due-course mortgage-fraud property-rights right-of-redemption 1.Whether or not a mortgagee is required to "Surrender the unseparated mortgage and promissory note instruments of debt if full payment is made." 2.W…
25-431 Ealaila Conard v. Chanel, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived ada-discrimination employment-law informed-consent job-related-standards medical-privacy medical-treatment Did the Court create conflicts in the law by failing to be guided by the common-law rule, well-established public policy and the long legal tradition …
25-447 Mark Schena v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived compensation-scheme criminal-liability healthcare-referral kickback-statute medical-marketing statutory-interpretation Whether paying a healthcare marketer a commission when a physician independently makes a patient referral and receives none of the compensation qualif…
25-450 Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived adverse-employment burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence personnel-action protected-conduct whistleblower-protection Whether AIR 21's affirmative defense is satisfied where an employer proves protected activity played only a limited role along with non-protected cond…
25-453 Stephen K. Bannon v. United States District of Columbia Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived committee-authority congressional-subpoena criminal-intent due-process statutory-interpretation willful-conduct Whether "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful. Whether the proper composition of…
25-454 Ismael Bimbow v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry 1. Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apart…
25-455 Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani…
25-461 Edward Mangano v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged "official action" was using his "tremendous poli…
25-469 Heriberto Carbajal-Flores v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge firearm-possession noncitizen-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which prohibits firearm possession by all unlawfully present noncitizens, is unconstitutional on its face underth…
25-50 Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff, Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. v. Bradley Patton Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure class-action jurisdiction mootness standing Whether Article III permits a plaintiff with moot claims to continue a putative class action based on the possibility that a future class-certificatio…
25-503 Matthew D. McMaster v. Arthur McCracken, et al. Georgia Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-code federal-preemption lease-termination residential-lease state-court-ruling 1. Whether the Bankruptcy Clause of the United States Constitution and 11 U.S.C. § 365(e)(1) preempt a state court ruling that a residential lease and…
25-5143 Mary Lynn Taylor v. Michigan, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contractual-obligation due-process economic-liberty employment-rights property-interest school-denial-period Did the implementation of Michigan's School Denial Period create an established property interest, and/or an economic liberty interest for Appellant, …
25-5187 Shantell Lewis v. Hernan Castro, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-tribunal civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-immunity veterans-benefits 1. Does State Judges have Jurisdiction over Veterans Benefits? 2. Does Absolute Immunity Apply when a judge has acted criminally under color of state…
25-52 Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from granting habeas relief on any claim alleged by a habeas petiti…
25-526 Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous…
25-5316 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP abstention-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-intervention judicial-comity state-interests In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 setting, when a federal court is asked to stay the enforcement of a State Court's Order in a civil case initiated by private par…
25-5389 Steven Pitts v. New York New York Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing factual-findings jury-trial prior-incarceration sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to factual findings regarding the length of a defendant's prior incarceration and the date o…
25-5575 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review state-prisoner Whether the Courts of Appeal may dismiss an appeal by a state prisoner on habeas review when a circuit judge votes to grant a certificate of appealabi…
25-5609 Jackie Kavaskia McMillan v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending IFP appeal-waiver district-court illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement sentencing While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet decided "wha…
25-5620 Terry Duane Qualls v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending IFP appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object.
25-5686 In Re Francisco Rodriguez Ruiz, Jr. Denied IFP None WL v\oV Vvvxo Wo -Vc Ao AUe^ of V VoVCB .CM 'S . K'kA C\VY\ CK CaA ^-CVA , O'-* v\V\ <A ■ 'S>1'£ KoO j^([k u^r -tu; AvmcIc^ oji^ DtSabh-ltA kc-l v
25-5696 Anatole Mbe v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov…
25-5700 Patricia Ann Jackson v. John Xiao-Jian Qian, et al. California Denied IFP affidavit default-judgment judicial-error liberal-construction pro-se truth-in-commerce Is truth expressed in the form of an affidavit? Is an unrebutted Affidavit fact? Is truth sovereign in commerce? Are pro se filings to be liberally…
25-5701 William Scales v. Hotel Trades Council of New York Local 6 Second Circuit Denied IFP arbitration-rights constitutional-violation employment-contract fair-business-practices freedom-of-speech union-representation Did The Hotel and Motel Trades Council, Violate the Constitution of The United States of America, by not allowing Mr Scales the plaintiff, freedom o…
25-5702 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner Denied IFP constitutional-rights extraordinary-writ federal-intelligence injunctive-relief odni-operations religious-freedom 1. Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court and the Iowa Northern District Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs and monetary damages …
25-5705 Jua Smith v. Delta Barometre, Superintendent, Otisville Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-counsel counsel-disclosure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default writ-authorization a. Whether petitioner is entitled to have his habeas corpus petition disregarded if habeas counsel was not acting on behalf of the petitioner; and fai…
25-5709 Fateen Groce v. Detective McGoldrick, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5714 Abass Yaya Bamba v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion 1. Whether a federal court may constitutionally dismiss a civil rights complaint solely for inability to pay filing fees, in violation of 28 U.S.C. § …
25-5723 Matthew A. Tobin v. Florida Florida Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5727 Aaron Smith v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP arrest-warrant constitutional-violation due-process investigative-alert law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause Does the city of Chicago, Illinois violate the Constitution by using an investigative alert opposed to a proper warrant when there is no exigent circu…
25-5728 Jesse M. Skinner v. R. Lee, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None 1 1/1 Mm it ><o»n {✓) c\ JjUmo 0^ S l^3y Al/«*VAZJ AS Cl vj^iAO£ A Al/34_4#tH
25-5729 Raylon Browning v. Georgia Georgia Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pretrial-incarceration pro-se-representation speedy-trial Whether the trial court violated Browning's Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial by failing to try his case within two complete court terms after h…
25-5733 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Jesus Valdivia, Police Officer, et al. Eleventh Circuit Dismissed IFP access-to-court appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection Did the Appellate Court wrongly dismiss the appeal because, although the orders did not end the litigation, they prevented the Plaintiff from litigati…
25-5735 Cheyenne Fink v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied IFP None • roay t pk-asc be_ qrm-W Q p<Kco/<sT) tT) CLocSe, ) c*ri& 1 e_4- CL cv&e. Acv^^c^.c^ pe have • EC Oi%K -fha.4- leoavV pieeS-e have nn^rcy ojp ^ys«a…
25-5736 In Re Ahmad Aljindi Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process federal-circuit judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief obstruction-of-justice 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, led by Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore, violate its mandatory duty under FRAP 27 and …
25-5738 Mark H. Wilson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence…
25-5739 Rade Q. Zone v. Youtube, LLC, a Subsidiary of Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5741 Jerome Curry v. Terri Wallace, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5742 Zachary C. Crouch v. University of Tennessee Sixth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law de-novo-review freedom-of-speech sovereign-immunity state-law The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to unofficial acts and the Constitutional ri…
25-5871 Isaiah Stacy Alstad v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance summary-dismissal QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily Dismissing Ground One, Conflict of Interest claim and did the Eight…
25-5877 Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review …
25-5878 Detrayous D. Curry v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the definition of a "Controlled Substance Offense" for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense…
25-5883 Leonard James Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment hotel-search law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause scent-tracking Whether a law enforcement officer's untrained and uncorroborated tracking of marijuana odor through a multiunit hotel, without canine assistance or in…
25-5892 Daniel Jacob Werk v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rule judgment-of-acquittal ninth-circuit rule-29-motion Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's denial of Petitioner's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of …
25-5893 Frederick M. Hill v. Angela Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fourth-amendment knock-and-talk procedural-due-process sixth-amendment 1. Should the "one fair shot" and procedural due process require the court of appeals to notify a petitioner that an appeal and briefing schedule is …
25-5896 Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness-standard sentencing-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
25-5897 John Richard Burch, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None 1. WHETHER THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS PROHIBIT A FEDERAL COURT FROM BASING A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE ON CONDUCT WHICH WAS ABANDONED BY THE G…
25-5898 Jeremiah Bobb v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-witness constitutional-rights evidentiary-error ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strategic-decision A child-witness's initial interview with the authorities was recorded and the child un-equivocally stated that the Petitioner did not sexually assault…
25-5899 Michael Keith Marechale v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver "Courts of Appeals have stated . . . under the 'invited error' doctrine that a party may not complain on appeal of errors that he himself invited or p…
25-5902 Ramon Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split credibility-determination evidentiary-hearing section-2255 sixth-amendment Whether, in light of a profound and acknowledged circuit split, a district court may deny a § 2255 hearing by making a dispositive credibility determi…
25-5904 Lawrence Ray v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus criminal-statute enterprise-definition knowledge-requirement rico-conspiracy sex-trafficking 1. Whether, in a RICO conspiracy prosecution, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), the government must prove the existence of a de facto enterprise that affects commer…
25-5905 Antonio Valle-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5906 Alfredo Ramon Cerda v. W. Z. Jenkins, II, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights extradition-treaty international-law mexico-us-relations speedy-trial treaty-interpretation Whether the government is prohibited from extraditing a person to Mexico under Article 7 of the U.S. Mexico Extradition Treaty, when the prosecution f…
25-5913 Rashun Rafael Suncar v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-judgment circuit-split controlled-substances drug-statute federal-interpretation state-law-interpretation 1a. Whether a court of appeals may disregard an unpublished but considered judgment of Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court interpreting its ow…
25-5917 Thomas Avery Drum v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-authority judicial-discretion new-trial-motion rule-33 weight-of-evidence When a criminal defendant files a timely motion for a new trial under Rule 33(b)(2), what is the scope of the district court's authority to grant a ne…
25-5918 Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f…
25-5921 Frederick L. Brewer v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
25-5922 Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. Whether the district court committed reversib…
25-5924 Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)?
25-5925 Tracy Jenkins v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v…
25-5927 Chase Russell Downey v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None The questions for the Court are whether, under these circumstances, the District Court erred in refusing to grant a continuance of trial and leave to …
25-5930 William Maxwell v. Albert Thomas, III, Warden Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP administrative-remedies exhaustion-doctrine first-step-act habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing-credits I. The question for this Court is whether disputes regarding the calculation of an inmate's earned First Step Act time credits, enabling the inmate to…
25-5937 Timothy Simms v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-review habeas-corpus judicial-prerogative legislative-limitation separation-of-powers I. Whether the Habeas Corpus provisions of the AEDPA, constitute a legislative usurpation of the Judicial prerogative to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus…
25-5938 Manuel Santiago-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights-framework civil-rights criminal-law discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
25-5944 Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
25-5947 Darrell Wickware v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (…
25-5951 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts 1. Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator …
25-5954 In Re Michael Albert Focia Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment 1. Does the district court's application of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. section 921 and following, to apply to private arms sales on the secondary …
25-5961 Eva Marie Gardner v. Maryland Maryland Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP concealed-carry due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-travel second-amendment self-defense 1. Does Maryland's prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit, as applied to an interstate traveler with a valid Virginia concealed carr…
25-5989 Chian Chiu Li v. Apple, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP enablement negative-limitation patent-law specification-requirement statutory-interpretation written-description Section 112(a) of Title 35 requires that a patent include a specification containing "a written description of the invention ... in such full, clear, …
25-5992 In Re Roger Larry McCluer Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining 1. WHETHER OR NOT COUNSEL'S ADVICE TO PETITIONER, TO FOREGO A TWENTY (20) YEAR PLEA OFFER, WHEN THE STATE THREATENED TO RE-VISIT THE "CAPITAL MURDER" …
25-6001 Charles Chad Giese v. Edward Borla, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to present Evidence About the Psychological and Physical Effects of Methamphetamine and …
25-81 Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective change…
25A182 Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis, et al. Arizona Application constitutional-protections due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines petition-rights republican-form-of-government Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits local governments from imposing excessive fines that violate constitutional protections and deny citizens' righ…
25A212 Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, et al. Second Circuit Application appellate-review constitutional-rights domain-transfer due-process judicial-procedure preliminary-injunction Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a district court from compelling a party to testify through preselected deposition excerpts while barring tha…
25A249 Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit Application access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-restraint pre-emptive-injunction Whether a state court's pre-emptive injunction barring a litigant from filing future lawsuits violates the constitutional right of access to courts
25M34 Juan Antonio Pizarro v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending None