Conference: 2025-12-12

109 cases — 1 granted, 92 denied/dismissed, 16 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1138 Rafael Beltre v. Fit Guys Walk, LLC, dba Planet Fitness Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2) case-management civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jurisdiction section-1983 Whether the Middle District Court of Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit properly dismissed a case for failure to state a ca…
24-1142 Robert Holman v. Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, et al. Sixth Circuit GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None Question not identified.
24-1259 Jamond M. Rush v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights firearms-regulation lawful-possession second-amendment short-barreled-rifles unregistered-weapons Whether the Second Amendment secures the right to possess unregistered short-barreled rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes
24-6750 Troy Rambaransingh v. Bank of America National Association, Individually and as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review constitutional-jurisdiction due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-transparency separation-of-powers Whether district appellate courts in Florida can constitutionally restrict the Florida Supreme Court's jurisdiction through per curiam affirmances (PC…
24-7025 James Todino v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc., et al. Massachusetts Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-harm due-process internet-immunity platform-liability section-230 user-generated-content Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides continued immunity to internet platforms that knowingly host user generated content inv…
24-7187 Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon Wisconsin Denied Relisted (2)IFP divorce-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct marital-settlement-agreement Did the trial court violate Elizabeth Fitzgrebon's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by losing the parties' final…
24-7325 Tracie L. Green, aka Tracie Ledora Mitchem-Green v. US Bank National Association Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP bank-misconduct civil-litigation false-statements foreclosure-fraud intent-to-defraud property-theft Are the elements of fraud satisfied in this foreclosure case involving U.S. Bank National's alleged scheme to steal property?
24-7349 Reymundo Arredondo v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure essential-elements indictment statutory-interpretation When a criminal offense can be committed in a variety of ways, does a prosecutor constructively amend an indictment by altering the essential elements…
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit Granted Amici (10)Relisted (8)IFP batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Does clearly established federal law require reversal of a state appellate court's denial of relief from a capital prosecutor's discriminatory exercis…
24-7352 Robert Allen Benney v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-doctrine constitutional-rights due-diligence equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-doctrine Since Youngblood & Brady are doctrines governing evidentiary preservation and focus on the prosecutions conduct, should courts be allowed to impose a …
24-7414 Ricardo Fishburne v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-7438 In Re Reina Tea Wood-Jimenez Denied Relisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
25-120 Mark Gustafson, Individually and as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of James Robert ("J.R.") Gustafson, et al. v. Springfield, Inc., dba Springfield Armory, et al. Pennsylvania Denied federalism gun-manufacturers interstate-commerce legislative-action state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Whether Congress has violated federalism principles and the Tenth Amendment through the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) by restricti…
25-126 Michael Kane, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) accommodation first-amendment religious-discrimination strict-scrutiny title-vii undue-hardship Whether strict scrutiny applies to a discretionary scheme that turns on whether individuals follow organized religion and whether their personal relig…
25-148 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-guarantees due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Whether the Rhode Island Supreme Court's interpretation of interlocutory appeals and judicial procedure unconstitutionally violated the Petitioner's d…
25-154 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeals judicial-procedure Whether the Rhode Island Supreme Court's interpretation of interlocutory appeals and disbarment proceedings violated constitutional due process and Fi…
25-188 JFXD TRX ACQ LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. trx.com, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) anticybersquatting-consumer-protection-act bad-faith-registration circuit-split domain-name-registration intellectual-property-law trademark-protection Whether registration of a domain name for purposes of the ACPA includes re-registrations, or if it is instead limited to the initial registration
25-225 MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Federal Circuit Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) after-arising-technology claim-construction federal-circuit patent-infringement patent-validity section-112 Whether, in a patent-infringement suit, a court may consider after arising technology to hold that the patent is invalid under § 112(a) of the Patent …
25-246 Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska Alaska Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law culpability due-process excessive-fines judicial-standard property-forfeiture Whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the…
25-266 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived drought-impact fifth-amendment property-rights reclamation-act takings-clause water-rights Whether the beneficial users of Reclamation Project irrigation water have compensable water-property rights under the Fifth Amendment and whether Recl…
25-303 Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation Does the Americans with Disabilities Act allow an employer to be held liable for discrimination on the basis of disability where the employee has no p…
25-326 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act Whether a business association that publishes an optional rule for its members can immunize the rule from being considered a conspiracy under Sherman …
25-331 Patrick Wayman Scullark, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arrestee-bag evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment categorically permits warrantless searches of bags carried by arrestees at the time of arrest but inaccessible to them at…
25-389 Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh v. Swedish Health Services, et al. Washington Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant summary-judgment Whether a state court's application of summary judgment standards violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by excluding qualified expert…
25-432 Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived auto-pen-signature constitutional-procedure informed-consent judicial-nomination presidential-delegation quorum-validity Whether the use of an auto-pen signature by President Biden on judicial nominations and commissions without clear informed consent renders them null a…
25-435 Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. Federal Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Requested administrative-agency federal-circuit legal-standing proximate-causation trademark-opposition zone-of-interests Whether a party desiring to participate in an administrative agency proceeding must satisfy the zone-of-interests and proximate-causation tests set fo…
25-442 Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith Tenth Circuit Pending Amici (1) constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny or a deferential standard of review
25-452 UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, et al. v. Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), Ltd., a Nevada Professional Corporation, et al. Nevada Denied Amici (1)Response Waived erisa-preemption health-plan-administration out-of-network-care plan-reimbursement state-law-claims unjust-enrichment Whether ERISA § 514 preempts a claim asserting that the administrator of an ERISA-governed health plan was required by state law to reimburse out-of-n…
25-460 Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the lower court's decision ratifying a real property sale during COVID-19 executive orders in pote…
25-468 Walter Rosales, et al. v. Condon-Johnson Associates, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied district-court federal-claims futility-exception remand statutory-interpretation supplemental-jurisdiction Does a District Court have supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1367 to dismiss a proffered amended complaint deleting all federal claims pursua…
25-471 Tami M. Dixon v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act covid-testing disability-discrimination rehabilitation-act title-vii unvaccinated-status Whether an employer's COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated employees constitutes regarding the employee as having a disability under the ADA …
25-477 Aaron Jacob Mindiola v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived claim-construction eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-credit-reporting-act pro-se title-ii-ada Whether a federal court may dismiss a pro se complaint and deny leave to amend as 'futile' without liberally construing the allegations and performing…
25-5042 Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry mental-health Whether a judge's failure to conduct a reasonable inquiry into a defendant's competency to stand trial violates due process when the defendant's menta…
25-5108 Howard Griffith v. New York New York Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review clean-slate-act constitutional-rights criminal-record-sealing due-process rape-first-degree Whether a defendant's inability to seal a criminal record under the Clean Slate Act constitutes a further constitutional violation following an uncons…
25-5142 Jeffrey Sredl v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bruen-precedent common-use-doctrine firearms-possession founding-era-rights second-amendment unregistered-weapons Whether under N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, prosecution for possession of homemade unregistered fire arms that were in common use at the t…
25-5150 David Robinson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP congressional-taxing-power constitutional-provisions nfa-registration second-amendment short-barreled-rifle tenth-amendment Whether federal criminal punishment of the possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Congress's pow…
25-518 Canna Provisions, Inc., et al., v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General First Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived commerce-clause congressional-power economic-activity interstate-commerce marijuana-regulation rational-basis Should the Court overrule Raich's holding that Congress can regulate purely local economic activity if there is any 'rational basis' that such activit…
25-5199 Burk N. Ashford v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure court-reporter-transcript due-process indigent-plaintiffs transcript-entitlement trial-rights Do Civil Case indigent Plaintiffs have the same right to a Trial Court Reporter Transcript as do indigent incarcerated Defendants?
25-5246 Louis R. Clemons v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
25-5256 Leroy A. Garrett v. PDV Holding Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-procedure equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-technicalities procedural-fairness Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly managed proceedings by prioritizing technicalities over substantial justic…
25-5265 Jessica M. Graulau Maldonado v. Orange County Public Library System Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment material-facts negligence-tort summary-judgment witness-credibility Whether the trial court's application of federal summary judgment standard violates due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by improperly de…
25-5266 In Re Kimberly Lee Kessler Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Whether the trial court's jury instructions and prosecutorial misconduct violated the defendant's due process rights and right to a fair trial
25-528 David Paitsel v. United States District of Columbia Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bribery circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent official-act prosecutorial-standards Did the D.C. Circuit err in its interpretation of McDonnell v. United States regarding prosecutorial standards in bribery cases?
25-5287 Andrew W. Bell v. Karli Swift, et al. Georgia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-guarantees due-process election-contest fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether Georgia courts may dismiss election-contest petitions for 'failure to perfect service' when statutory duty for service rests with clerks and s…
25-5325 Robert W. Hassett, III v. Delaware Delaware Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-instructions Whether the Eighth and 14th Amendments are violated when a court applies a capital sentencing statute to a non-capital offense and instructs the jury …
25-5426 Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by denying Appellant's appeal without addressing the state trial court's violation of Appellant's Sixth Amendment c…
25-550 Michael Fernandez, D.D.S., LTD., a Division of Atlantic Dental Care, PLC, et al. v. Stephen C. Brich, P.E., Commissioner of Highways, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived class-of-one comparator-analysis constitutional-claim equal-protection pleading-standard zoning-law Is Appellants' non-zoning related equal protection claim based upon a 'class-of-one theory' subject to the heightened pleading standard for similarly …
25-552 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived ballot-access elector-candidates electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-election Is not States' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational p…
25-553 Sossamma George Sebastin v. Sebastin Francis Illinois Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights custody-evaluation due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness Whether fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution are violated when a court denies a pro se litigant access to a sealed custody evaluator's re…
25-554 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability for alleged due process violations and federal habeas review issues
25-5541 Camerron L. Bradberry v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-action due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment procedural-rights whistleblower-reprisal Whether a federal agency denies a tenured career employee their Fifth Amendment due process rights when it terminates them using summary procedures fo…
25-5602 Christopher Guy Jasso v. California California Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-561 Dominic L. Ruiz v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived common-law evidence-rule federal-appeals-courts intoxication temporal-requirement witness-credibility Does the common law temporal requirement apply to Military/Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B)(ii)?
25-5628 Stephen Shapiro, et al. v. Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights fourteenth-amendment incarcerated-litigants procedural-due-process self-represented-litigants Do self-represented litigants receive their constitutional right of procedural due process? Does the Fourteenth Amendment's right of access to the cou…
25-563 Logan A. McLeod v. United States Armed Forces Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived court-of-appeals-armed-forces factual-sufficiency military-justice national-defense-authorization-act statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has statutory authority to hold that a conviction is factually insufficient under 10 U…
25-564 Scott Meyer v. Gayla Rahn, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion qualified-immunity second-amendment sovereign-immunity Whether the district court's dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint was an abuse of discretion and violated his Second Amendment and due process right…
25-565 Yogesh K. Pancholi v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bad-faith compulsory-process criminal-procedure discovery-violation sixth-amendment witness-preclusion Whether the Constitution permits a trial court to impose witness preclusion as a sanction for a discovery violation in a criminal case, absent a findi…
25-5661 In Re Ronald Freeman Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus liberty-interest strict-scrutiny Whether being in federal detention constitutes a substantial denial of constitutional liberty rights and warrants habeas corpus review under strict sc…
25-574 Ron K. Elfenbein v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived criminal-conviction false-representation health-care-fraud medical-billing statutory-interpretation upcoding When an allegedly false statement is premised on an ambiguous rule open to multiple reasonable interpretations, can the government secure a defendant'…
25-5754 Biobele Georgewill v. Joshua M. Ball, et al. Tennessee Denied IFP constitutional-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-recusal professional-relationship Whether a judge's 14-year professional partnership with a law firm now appearing as a defendant creates an unconstitutional appearance of bias under t…
25-576 Stephen Buyer v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-limitations criminal-prosecution insider-trading prosecutorial-discretion stock-exchange venue Whether a stock trading on an exchange whose physical headquarters is located in Manhattan suffices to establish venue in the Southern District of New…
25-5783 Tanya Spurbeck v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Nevada Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-rights due-process federal-claims indigent-litigants legal-representation supremacy-clause Whether a lower court's dismissal that avoids federal claims and disadvantages indigent and disabled litigants violates the Supremacy Clause and due p…
25-582 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived ex-parte-young federal-court real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity sovereign-lands state-officials Whether a State is the real party in interest, and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity, where a private plaintiff sues state officials in federal…
25-5834 Gary Leon Webster v. Does, et al. Eighth Circuit Dismissed IFP None Question not identified.
25-5839 Tenisha Rooney v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5840 Robin Emanuel Hammock v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5843 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus trial-procedure Whether a prisoner's habeas petition challenging his conviction can proceed when he was denied access to potentially exculpatory evidence during his o…
25-5845 Ohio, ex rel. Christopher Michael Williams v. Marilyn Zayas, Judge, First District Court of Appeals, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. Ohio Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling judicial-immunity state-court-procedure Does a state Court Judge commit a violation of a Defendant's 14th Amendment rights to the United States Constitution for Due process and equal protect…
25-5846 Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP appellate-review due-deference legal-issues miranda-waiver standard-of-review supreme-court What is the correct standard of review on appeal for a court reviewing a finding that a Miranda waiver is voluntary?
25-5849 Darvin W. Gray v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner can challenge a state's obstruction of justice conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1503 through federal habeas review when state courts …
25-5852 Amro N. Elkabany v. Louis C. Shapiro, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine state-law Whether judicial immunity bars relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when a judge conducts a secret, off-the-record hearing and deprives a litigant of due pro…
25-5881 John Fakla v. Matthew Geist, Middlesex Borough Police Chief, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights favorable-termination heck-doctrine judicial-procedure malicious-prosecution section-1983 Whether the district court and court of appeals erred by applying Heck v. Humphrey to bar petitioner's § 1983 malicious prosecution claim, despite the…
25-5886 Kevin Scott v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legal-uniformity state-court Does a State Court that refuses to uniformly apply its own laws and rules to similarly situated state prisoners violate the Due Process and Equal Prot…
25-5920 Donald Otis Williams v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge death-penalty first-degree-murder legislative-expansion proportionality-review Whether the Florida Legislature's expansion of 'aggravating factors' and the Florida Supreme Court's elimination of proportionality review has rendere…
25-5946 Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation When does a record show that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines within the meaning of Mol…
25-596 Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion rule-60b sanctions-award subject-matter-jurisdiction When a district court is presented with a motion for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), does it abuse its discretion by…
25-6019 Juan Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure death-threats extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus plea-coercion sentence-reduction Did the lower courts improperly deny sentence reduction based on extraordinary and compelling reasons involving death threats against the petitioner a…
25-6025 Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6040 Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment state-law trial-counsel May a state court that reaches and decides an asserted violation of the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial that has not been waived or forfeited unde…
25-6046 In Re Larry E. Clark Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdictional-error mandamus res-judicata Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has a constitutional duty to issue a mandamus to the 5th Circuit to reverse void judgments and address alleged jurisdic…
25-6057 Katrina Lawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-seizure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant unreasonable-search warrantless-search Whether a warrantless seizure of a cell phone from a private closet during a lawful arrest, without either a warrant or the owner's consent absent exi…
25-6063 Timothy LeBlanc v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment self-defense Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional under New York State Rifle & Pistol Associati…
25-6067 Vivian A. Earle, aka Vivian A. Earl v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6075 Derek Muñoz-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract criminal-procedure guideline-range plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-enhancement Whether the prosecution breached the plea agreement by vigorously advocating for sentencing enhancements that were explicitly excluded in the original…
25-6079 James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines Is the lifetime ban on firearms possession by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent and…
25-6082 Karl Roseboro v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance jury-prejudice strickland-standard Whether a curative instruction was improperly denied when rumors of murder involvement were introduced without counsel objection, and whether the Supr…
25-6083 Rolando Midder v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6085 Marlon Rando Lee v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6086 Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may categorically foreclose appellate review of a defendant's disparity claim under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) by requiring 'id…
25-6090 Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal charging-error fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error structural-error Whether a Fifth Amendment charging error for an aggravated offense is structural error and how harmless error review should be applied in the guilty p…
25-6092 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor…
25-6094 Chimene Hamilton Onyeri v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing law-enforcement-testimony rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether a writ of certiorari is warranted when a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel in multiple contexts…
25-6095 Joseph Alfred Odir v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6105 Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State…
25-6110 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process habeas-proceeding judicial-review rule-60b writ-of-mandamus Did the district court's summary denial of a Rule 60(b) motion without appellate court permission constitute an inadequate means of relief, and did th…
25-6119 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Speedy Trial Act's 'ends of justice' provision permits open-ended continuances without a definite termination date
25-6123 Osvaldo Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-review criminal-procedure liberty-interests pretrial-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether Barker v. Wingo's rejection of fixed time periods in defining the scope of the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause has been abrogated and re…
25-6124 Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spending…
25-6125 Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP dual-role-testimony evidence-admissibility expert-witness gatekeeping-role rule-403 rule-702 Must a district court exercising its 'gatekeeping role' under Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence in some instances exclude dual role testimony …
25-6126 Nathaniel Durham v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca criminal-law multi-factor-analysis prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement structural-error Does the ACCA occasions-different determination, requiring a multi-factored analysis of the factual circumstances involving at least three prior quali…
25-6195 In Re Jerome Long Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6202 In Re Andy D. Pearson Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6208 Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island Rhode Island Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP bias-evidence cross-examination fourteenth-amendment juvenile-records sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to bar cross-examination of a prosecution witness about sealed juvenile records and w…
25-71 Matthew Farney, et al. v. Michael Rose, as Personal Representative for the Estate of Bradley Rose and on Behalf of all Statutory Beneficiaries of Bradley Rose, Deceased Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter qualified-immunity summary-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit err in defining the qualified immunity right at issue too broadly by holding this was an 'obvious' case?
25M38 Charity Merrill v. Garfield Hecht PC Colorado Pending None
25M39 Olasebikan N. Akinmulero v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending None
25M40 Mark Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending None
25M41 Jermaine Smith v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Pending None
25M42 Samuel Ghee, IV v. Flix North America, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending None