Conference: 2026-01-09

435 cases — 5 granted, 397 denied/dismissed, 33 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6912 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (10)IFP aedpa clearly-established-law constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus jury-experiment jury-trial verdict-standards Whether a jury's consideration and reliance on extrinsic evidence as part of a jury experiment violates the clearly established federal law requiring …
23-7490 Chanel E. M. Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., dba Cover Girls, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP civil-rights discrete-acts employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection limitations-period national-railroad-passenger-corporation-v-morgan racial-discrimination Where the discriminatory act was refusing admission of Petitioner (a Black entertainer) to the business' premises for work because her admission would…
24-1062 The Hertz Corporation, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, et al. Third Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) absolute-priority-rule bankruptcy-code make-whole-premiums solvent-debtor statutory-interpretation unmatured-interest Whether an unwritten pre-Code exception overrides the Bankruptcy Code's express statutory text and allows creditors in solvent-debtor cases to recover…
24-1146 Gilda Ryan, et al. v. County of Imperial, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process judicial-supervision ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the District Court's use of a pro-se §1983 civil action as on-the-job training constitutes a severe departu…
24-1192 Ovation Fund Management II, LLC v. Nossaman LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) bar-order circuit-split claim-extinguishment equity-receivership federal-court-power third-party-claims Whether a federal court overseeing an equity receivership has the power to enjoin and extinguish claims that belong to non-receivership entities again…
24-1295 Brandon Phillips v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court should apply the plain meaning of 'expunged' when calculating a defendant's criminal history under the Sentencing Guideline…
24-1307 Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-tort ex-parte-young ongoing-violation property-retention state-officials Whether the unlawful retention of property by state officials constitutes a past wrong or an ongoing constitutional violation under Ex parte Young
24-1315 Andy Desty v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) corporate-powers due-process equal-protection promissory-note takings-clause truth-in-lending Whether Supreme Court precedents permit Santander Consumer USA Inc.'s actions involving deprivation of rights without due process of law
24-620 Jaime H. Pizarro, et al. v. The Home Depot, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Dismissed CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) burden-shifting causation erisa fiduciary-duty statutory-interpretation trust-law Whether burden-shifting applies to the element of causation under ERISA's fiduciary enforcement provisions
24-6426 Carlin U. Powell v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation dna-evidence evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance interstate-detainer perjury Whether state prosecutors and witnesses can commit perjury and evidence tampering without constitutional consequences
24-7040 Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Does Jones v Hendrix overturn Bousley v United States regarding actual innocence claims and § 2241 procedures?
24-7088 Sam Autry Fletcher v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Does Title 28 U.S.C. §2254(e)(1) provide federal courts discretion to disregard clear and convincing evidence submitted by a state habeas petitioner t…
24-7191 Daryl Cook v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-analysis Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its review of federal habeas corpus petition and procedural analysis of petitioner's claim
24-7206 Mark Bochra v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination-retaliation executive-committee first-amendment judicial-immunity public-forum Question not identified.
24-7251 Michael Deuschel v. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 12b6-dismissal civil-procedure discovery-rule due-process erie-doctrine ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from the Erie Doctrine and violated Appellant's due process rights when it ratified the district court's 12(b)(6) d…
24-7298 Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Leonardo Brown, Administrator, Richland County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights district-court equal-protection fourth-circuit rule-59e Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred under Rule 59(e) and violated constitutional rights related to judgment modificat…
24-7366 Damien Deshawn Pugh v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security supplemental-security-income Whether social security applicants are unfairly subjected to political opinions that deviate from medical facts in disability determinations
24-7372 Guy Cuomo v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP computer-crime computer-fraud criminal-intent social-security-fraud statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether petitioner knowingly accessed a public computer 'without authorization' within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when accessing …
24-7386 Monique C. Wallace v. Aramark at Capital One Arena District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-7396 Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the mandate rule precludes or permits a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on i…
24-7403 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation Whether multiple convictions and sentences under a single statutory provision of Title 8 U.S.C. 1324 for simultaneous conduct violate the Double Jeopa…
24-7439 In Re Terron Dizzley Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-trial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion trial-court-jurisdiction Did the trial court exceed its jurisdiction in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause by trying Mr. Dizzley a second time for the c…
24-7448 Jesse Gregory Fairley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-7458 Ricardo Fishbourne, aka Ricardo Fishburne v. Alex Murdaugh, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
24-7486 Bruce Stroud v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing fact-finding fifth-amendment jury-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a restitution order imposed as part of a federal criminal sentence and based on fact-findings made by the district court, rather than the jury…
24-7529 Matthew Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the sentencing of a defendant to over 10 years in prison based on a conviction from 2007 should be reviewed under current legal standards
24-856 Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. Ninth Circuit Granted CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act Whether the Alien Tort Statute allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting, and whether mere knowledge rather than pur…
24-917 Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al. v. NTE Carolinas II, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) antitrust-law legal-aggregation market-conduct monopolization section-2 sherman-act Whether a plaintiff can prevail on a monopolization claim under Section 2 of the Sherman Act by aggregating multiple distinct, independently lawful ac…
25-114 Evelyn-Natasha La Anyane v. Georgia Georgia Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) None 1. This Court has repeatedly held that the government may not confer a benefit conditioned on the waiver of a constitutional right. A blood draw is a …
25-135 Kelvin Fortenberry v. Esther Shack, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) None 1. Why didn't Michigan check into the allegation of intimidation against me by the court officer? 2. How can a judge ignore an objection made by a de…
25-138 Margo Roman v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine Massachusetts Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment licensing-board occupational-speech professional-licensure speech-regulation whether a state occupational licensing board is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor…
25-14 Marty Hierholzer, et al. v. Kelly Loeffler, Administrator, Small Business Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing business-development race-based-presumption sba-program small-business-owner social-disadvantage Whether a small-business owner who was denied entry into SBA's Section 8(a) Business Development Program for failing to prove "social disadvantage" ha…
25-151 Kim H. Peterson, Individually & as Trustee of the Peterson Family Trusts, et al. v. Krista Freitag, Receiver for ANI Development, LLC, American National Investments, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split equitable-receivership federal-court-authority non-consensual-release sec-enforcement third-party-claims As discussed in a nearly-identical, unopposed petition (24-1192), the extent to which federal courts can exert power over third-party claims and claim…
25-156 Freedom Foundation v. Rita Gail Turner, in Her Official Capacity as Litigation Research Coordinator in the Public Records Act Unit, Office of General Counsel, Los Angeles School District, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-information first-amendment labor-law public-employees union-membership viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that prevents anyone but incumbent unions from accessing information necessary to communicate with public employees before they are recr…
25-160 Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review consent-element criminal-statute identity-theft jury-instruction mens-rea 1. Whether the government must prove that the defendant used a means of identification without the consent of its owner, that is, stole the identity, …
25-161 Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) asset-seizure criminal-law forfeiture proceeds property-rights statutory-interpretation Whether in a forfeiture action seeking "proceeds," defined in 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(2)(A) as "property of any kind obtained directly or indirectly, as th…
25-165 Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived district-court equitable-relief inherent-power injunctive-standards treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether a district court has "inherent equitable power" to enter a coercive "decree" restricting an Indian tribe's treaty rights without its consent a…
25-166 Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure jury-size jury-trial-right nonunanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether the Court should overrule Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970).
25-168 Nuzaira Mahfuz Rahman v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Denied None
25-172 Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review counterclaims due-process ejectment rooker-feldman summary-judgment Whether THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT applied the incorrect standard, when affirming the lower tribunal's judgment, which g…
25-173 Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause economic-regulation interstate-commerce market-discrimination state-law Whether a state law that discriminates against firms engaged in interstate commerce by forcing firms to choose between being part of the enacting stat…
25-175 In Re Andy Desty Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power separation-of-powers 1. Has the authority and ruling of the Supreme Court case between Holmberg v. Holmberg, 588 N.W.2d 720 (Minn. 1999), to stop Corporation 's child supp…
25-178 Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales, LLC v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) excise-tax highway-tractor safe-harbor statutory-interpretation tax-exemption taxable-article The term "taxable article" or its equivalent are used repeatedly as a term of art throughout the tax code, case law, and Internal Revenue Service guid…
25-187 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split evidentiary-presumption federal-rule-of-evidence mailbox-rule state-law-preemption In 2021, Petitioner discovered that New York City had issued him a notice of violation in 2015. When he filed this lawsuit to challenge the constituti…
25-2 Deon Reese v. United States Third Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-conspiracy due-process judicial-precedent pinkerton-doctrine statutory-interpretation vicarious-liability Whether this Court should overrule Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946).
25-201 Mahsa Parviz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied consent-requirement criminal-statute identity-theft mandatory-sentencing means-of-identification statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), titled "Aggravated identity theft," imposes a mandatory consecutive two-year prison term on one who, while committing a liste…
25-213 Atlas Turner, Inc. v. Donna B. Welch, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Melvin G. Welch, Deceased, et al. South Carolina Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process in-rem-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court territorial-boundaries The U.S. Constitution imposes due-process limits on the jurisdiction of state and federal courts. Those limits differ depending on the type of jurisdi…
25-215 Vetements Group AG v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied consumer-perception descriptiveness foreign-equivalents genericness lanham-act trademark-law Under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., no mark shall be refused nationwide protection as a registered trademark on account of its nature unle…
25-216 Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) clearly-established-law imminent-danger jurisdiction objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity tenth-circuit Under this Court's well-established qualified-immunity framework, courts conduct a two-part analysis to resolve an officer's qualified-immunity defens…
25-222 Victor Everette Silvers v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-notice maritime-jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Certain federal criminal offenses under Title 18 of the United States Code, including under § 1(b) (murder), § 1113 (attempted murder or manslaughter)…
25-229 Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), this Court held that disparate impact dis…
25-240 Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-rules circuit-split class-arbitration delegation-doctrine gateway-question Whether the parties' generic incorporation of an arbitration association's rules in their arbitration agreement is clear and unmistakable evidence tha…
25-244 Demetric Simon v. Officer Keith Gladstone, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment judicial-notice law-enforcement-conspiracy statute-of-limitations In a now proven criminal conspiracy framing Petitioner but likely undiscoverable before Federal indictment on Conspiracy to Deprive Civil Rights, shou…
25-245 Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t…
25-257 Wells Pharma of Houston, L.L.C. v. Zyla Life Sciences, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit Pending CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) consumer-protection drug-marketing fdca-preemption outsourcing-facilities premarket-approval state-law-claims Whether the FDCA preempts private state-law unfair competition and consumer protection claims premised on the marketing of compounded drugs without pr…
25-267 Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2) constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard summary-judgment 1. In a case alleging that an officer used excessive force based on a mistake of fact, is the reasonableness of the officer's mistake a legal question…
25-271 United States, ex rel. Mark J. O'Connor, et al. v. USCC Wireless Investment, Inc., et al. District of Columbia Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-defense civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality public-disclosure qui-tam 1. Whether the D.C. Circuit erred by requiring plaintiffs to anticipate and negate in their complaint a False Claims Act affirmative defense, in direc…
25-293 General Dynamics Corporation, et al. v. Susan Scharpf Fourth Circuit Pending CVSGAmici (2) antitrust-claims conspiracy fraudulent-concealment sherman-act statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Whether plaintiffs adequately plead that defendants engaged in fraudulent concealment, for purposes of tolling the Section 15b statute of limitations,…
25-307 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas Denied due-process foreign-will international-comity judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause testamentary-rights "Comity " entails "the recognition which one nation allows within its territory to the ... judicial acts of another nation, having due regard both t…
25-309 Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action 1. Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that state officials fabricated evidence against the petitioner accrues only upon favorable termination of the cri…
25-320 Alaska, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4) alaska-lands federal-regulation land-management navigable-waters public-lands statutory-interpretation Whether the United States can regulate fishing on Alaska's navigable waters under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, when its statut…
25-327 Express Scripts, Inc., et al. v. California Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure automatic-stay coinbase-precedent federal-officer-removal remand-order statutory-exception Whether a remand order appealed under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), like the orders at issue in Coinbase, is subject to an automatic stay pending appeal.
25-347 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1) billing-records circuit-split false-claims-act qui-tam rule-9b whistleblower The circuits are intractably divided over whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) permits False Claims Act suits by plaintiffs who possess detail…
25-354 Pedro Zarate Pina, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) None
25-355 James Dondero, et al. v. Stacey G. Jernigan, et al. Fifth Circuit Rehearing Amici (3) appellate-deference bankruptcy-proceedings judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus-review standard-of-review 1. Should a judge's order declining to recuse be reviewed de novo or for abuse of discretion? 2. When a litigant seeks review of a decision not to re…
25-363 Victor Manuel Castro-Aleman, aka Alfredo Quinones Olmo v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (2) discretionary-relief due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-procedure removal-proceedings Whether an immigration judge's failure to inform an alien of the right to seek discretionary relief from removal violates due process and thus can con…
25-369 United Natural Foods, Inc., dba United Natural Foods, Inc., and SuperValu, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference chevron-doctrine federal-officer-removal judicial-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , 603 U.S. 369 (2024), permits a court to (a) accept an agency's reasonable construction of a statut…
25-372 Erik Matthew Harris v. United States Third Circuit Pending Amici (2) constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-statute firearm-possession marijuana-use second-amendment I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any…
25-374 Rebecca Irene Harp v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) None
25-381 AdvanFort Company v. Zamil Offshore Services Company, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied case-splitting foreign-forum forum-non-conveniens judicial-jurisdiction multi-court-litigation plaintiff-rights In Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 454 U.S. 235 (1981), this Court held that "[a]t the outset of any forum non conveniens inquiry, the court must determi…
25-390 Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. Second Circuit GVR circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which defines "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the mail and wire statutes to include a scheme or artifice to "depriv…
25-391 Citigroup Inc. v. Otto Candies, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-litigation pslra racketeer-influenced rico securities-fraud In the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA), Congress barred plaintiffs from bringing claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Or…
25-396 Hernan Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit GVR criminal-prosecution foreign-commercial-bribery honest-services-statute judicial-interpretation second-circuit statutory-vagueness 1. Whether the honest-services statute criminalizes foreign commercial bribery. 2. Whether the honest-services statute is unconstitutionally vague.
25-399 Ronell Moses, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit Denied Amici (1) criminal-procedure curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure 1. Whether a defendant's actual use of an area adjacent to his home is relevant to whether that area is curtilage under the Fourth Amendment, as four …
25-406 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. Fifth Circuit Granted administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act provisions that govern the FCC's assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Ame…
25-419 Shelby County, Iowa, et al. v. William Couser, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (4) circuit-conflict federal-preemption interstate-pipeline pipeline-safety-act safety-standard state-local-regulation Whether a state or local law regulating the location or routing of an interstate pipeline is a preempted "safety standard" under the Pipeline Safety A…
25-428 Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (6) contract-award court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit interested-party procurement-law statutory-interpretation Congress has provided the Court of Federal Claims with exclusive jurisdiction to hear claims brought by "an interested party objecting to " 1) "a soli…
25-429 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau Second Circuit Granted immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu…
25-441 Guardian Flight, L.L.C., et al. v. Health Care Service Corporation Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split contract-breach erisa-standing injury-in-fact no-surprises-act statutory-interpretation The No Surprises Act ("NSA") is Congress's solution to the problem of surprise medical bills. Under the NSA, insurers must cover services provided by …
25-463 Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Three, LLC v. Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Two, LLC, et al. Second Circuit Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-sale good-faith-purchaser rooker-feldman subject-matter-jurisdiction ucc-sale There are two issues presented for review: (1) whether the Bankruptcy Court has subject matter jurisdiction over a bankruptcy petition under 28 U.S.C…
25-466 Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit Granted Amici (3) circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm.
25-467 Joseph Ebu v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied None
25-470 Scott Cannon, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. First Circuit Denied derivative-claim erisa-preemption first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation wrongful-death Whether a claim for wrongful death under Massachusetts law is preempted by ERISA.
25-472 Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith Tenth Circuit Denied clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force 1. Second-volley rule. When an officer shoots a suspect once in the chest, steps back for cover to reload, six to eight seconds pass, and the suspect …
25-474 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas Denied criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement strickland-standard I. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and discover impeachment evidence against a key prosecution witness before a defendant accepts a ple…
25-475 Jason Camp v. Los Angeles Unified School District California Denied educational-funding federal-education-law regulatory-compliance school-district-manipulation statutory-interpretation title-i-funding 1. Whether a school district's deliberate manipulation of federal Title I enrollment counts to maximize funding allocations—while systematically diver…
25-476 Eli Lilly and Company, et al. v. Monica Richards, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (8) None 1. Whether this Court should overrule Hoffmann-La Roche's holding that district courts may authorize and facilitate notice to nonparties on behalf of …
25-48 Tarek Farag v. Climate United Fund, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) climate-change corruption-allegations fossil-fuel intervention-motion legal-standing scientific-evidence I. Did the District Court and Appellate Court err in denying petitioner's motion to intervene? II. Did the District Court and Appellete Court err in …
25-480 Karim Annabi v. New York University Second Circuit Denied alumni-benefits breach-of-contract civil-rights contractual-rights discrimination university-obligations Petitioner, a two-time New York University ("NYU") alumnus, was banned from alumni entrepreneurship programs and later in retaliation was designated a…
25-481 Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-funding informed-consent liberty-interest medical-treatment state-action Since the passage of the 1974 National Research Act, federal policy has ensured that no individual faces penalties or loss of benefits for refusing un…
25-483 Edward Jacob Lang, et al. v. Daniel Thau, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules incarceration-rights judicial-discretion service-of-process The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—reciting its awareness that the Petitioners /Plaintiffs were incarcerated and even some in soli…
25-485 Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct 1. Whether the doctrine of judicial immunity protects judges who engage in and facilitated fraud in violation of constitutional due process rights? 2…
25-488 Valerie Asato v. Hawaii Government Employees Association, et al. Hawaii Denied Response Waived constitutional-search duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights fourth-amendment grievance-process labor-law 1. Whether the Hawaii Government Employees Association ("HGEA") breached its duty of fair representation under federal and state labor law by engag…
25-489 Norman Engel v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-stability property-rights workers-compensation Injured workers in Texas have One Year after their date of injury to make a claim for workers' compensation benefits and a Two Year limit to reach med…
25-490 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (2) asset-sale bankruptcy-code equitable-mootness nonconsensual-release reorganization-plan third-party-release 1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §363(m) applies to asset sales under reorganization plans —and if so, whether §363(m) immunizes Purdue-forbidden releases. 2. Wh…
25-493 M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health reasonable-accommodations use-of-force 1. Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act is violated when law enforcement officers fail to provide reasonable accommodations to a su…
25-494 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Pennsylvania Department of Education, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-discipline burden-of-proof confrontation-rights due-process educators-rights first-amendment 1. Do educators have the basic First Amendment right to communicate with their students free of a presumption that by doing so they are engaged in "…
25-499 Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment I. To resolve the confusion among circuit courts, the Court should decide whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for analysis at …
25-500 George M. Tronsrue, III v. Elsa M. Tronsrue Illinois Denied disability-pay federal-preemption marital-settlement state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran…
25-501 Jennifer Young, et vir v. Collect Co. California Denied asset-seizure court-order due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing 1. Whether it violates the Constitution for a state judge without jurisdiction to reopen a closed judgment and order the prevailing judgment creditors…
25-502 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure florida-law nolle-prosequi sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does the State of Florida violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to speedy trial applicable to the State through the Fourteenth Amendment, by comm…
25-504 Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management LLC Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (1) arbitration-act circuit-split federal-arbitration judicial-review manifest-disregard vacatur Whether the Federal Arbitration Act allows a court to vacate an arbitration decision on the ground that the decision was based on a manifest disregard…
25-5055 Andrew Marowitz v. Cory Dostie California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law due-process first-amendment housing-discrimination tenant-rights void-for-vagueness 1. Does the Department of Fair Employment and Housing statutes regarding misgendering of a transgender room renter, when describing the individual as…
25-5060 Harold Alvin Campbell v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-challenge constitutional-violation intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-statute negligent-homicide WHETHER THE LOUISIANA STATE MURDER STATUTES WHICH INCORP ORATES " NO INTENT TO KILL ", LSA-RS 14:30.1(2), 14:31(2), ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY A DISTINCT…
25-5067 Kira Kristina Zielinski v. United States Eighth Circuit GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affirmative-defense child-protection criminal-law domestic-violence parental-kidnapping statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is "fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence" under § 1204(c)(2) if she is fleeing domestic violence against her child…
25-508 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect 1. Whether due process is violated when state courts rely on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent allegations —previously adjudicated as l…
25-5088 Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-innocence statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism This Petition seeks an order granting a certificate of appealability or. in the alternative, plenary review of the following questions: 1) Whether re…
25-509 Jana Shepherd v. Helen Painter & Co., et al. Texas Denied breach-of-fiduciary-duty constitutional-rights due-process fraud jury-trial summary-judgment Did the Trial Court violate the Appellant's constitutional right to a jury trial by denying the request for a jury trial, despite the Appellant's time…
25-5091 Andres Burgara v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP controlled-substance criminal-offense drug-possession simultaneous-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-code Does the simultaneous possession of one type of controlled substance in two different locations constitute a single offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1…
25-510 Damon Balar Cook v. Luis Garnica, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied appeal-reinstatement discretion-abuse mandate-recall miscarriage-justice ninth-circuit procedural-review 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Abused its discretion in denying Petitioner Damon Cook's timely motion to recall the mandate and to rein…
25-5131 Lucio Roy Atkinson v. Texas Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights drug-testing due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus pro-se-litigation 1. Can the State of Texas "dry lab" test results in order to obtain a conviction under TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 481.104(a)(2) and § 481.114(a)(c) ?…
25-514 Microchip Technology Incorporated, et al. v. Peter Schuman, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) breach-of-duty employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty release-of-claims voluntary-release Whether, in a case involving a release of claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a plan sponsor's alleged breach of fiduciary duty …
25-5162 Christopher Binetti v. New Jersey, et al. New Jersey Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-act constitutional-equal-protection ethnic-discrimination italian-american-rights legislative-districts state-discrimination The questions presented are 1) whether the State of New Jersey, under United States Constitution, the New Jersey Constitution, the federal U.S. Civil …
25-5167 Monique C. Wallace v. Cedar Hill Dental District of Columbia Denied Relisted (2)IFP compensation evidence justice legal-action mental-health service ftx'ift carfees for t-egoi! acfeons ctrtd is f-elevarff to -f/iis case- (rw +o teiwj i<pv and abandoned tjf rtfe-foiwr fefefefe Kmv /to-Hiiw; about de…
25-5168 John E. Jackson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing John Jackson fully completed his sentence while the government's second appeal was still pending. He argued at the third and fourth sentencings that t…
25-5177 Aaron Edward Meier v. Aaron Williams, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-ethics supremacy-clause 1. Does a state judge's refusal to follow federal law and a prosecutor's claim under oath that "the Republic is dead" violate due process and the Supr…
25-5183 Manuel Javier Perez v. Texas Texas Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation dna-evidence habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence IS DNA DIFFERENT FOR BRADY CLAIMS? The State prosecutors suppressed DNA evidence of a third-party contributor which their own expert had labeled ''im…
25-521 Google LLC, et al. v. Epic Games, Inc., a Maryland Corporation Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse Waived antitrust-law article-iii-standing injunctive-relief market-competition procompetitive-conduct rule-of-reason In this antitrust case, the court instructed the jury that it could find Google liable for antitrust violations even if no less restrictive alternativ…
25-522 Ruby Tang v. Somerset House Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Maryland Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-fees state-court Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to deny a statutorily guaranteed de novo evidentiary hearing after collecting the required fees, …
25-524 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s…
25-5249 Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment 1. Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense, and thereby commit a trial error of constitutional dimension, w…
25-527 Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda First Circuit Denied bankruptcy-procedure creditor-rights due-process judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment Whether if; United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, CASE NO. 24-1290 decided correctly validating United States Bankruptcy Court for the…
25-5280 Philip J. Marquis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights firearms-licensing interstate-travel nonresident-travelers police-discretion second-amendment 1. Does Massachusetts' firearms licensing regime, which grants a police colonel the power to deny any nonresident traveler a temporary firearms licens…
25-5288 Eddie Mekasha v. Christy Chapplear, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP covid-19-complications disparate-treatment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity performance-review workplace-termination The petitioner, Eddie Mekasha, was terminated by Tyson Fresh Meats on June 1, 2021, for a misdemeanor related to COVID-19 complications, despite havin…
25-529 Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court 1. Do th is Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence "clearly establish," under § 2254(d)(1) , that a sta…
25-530 James C. Wetherbe v. Texas Tech University System, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived None 1. This is a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Around 1950, this Court first asked whether the common law in 1871 would have…
25-5323 Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. Office of the South Carolina Governor, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination employment-opportunities pro-se-petition title-vii I. Is a Charge filed with U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission required to bring a lawsuit in federal court against an employer(s). II. Is it lawfu…
25-533 Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (4) demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny 1. Whether pursuing a legal vocation that is completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Am…
25-5346 Carlos Alberto Cordova-Garcia v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
25-5348 Hector Cristobal Mejia-Estrada v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission standard-conditions supervised-release Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer?
25-535 Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III Arkansas Denied Amici (5) administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation 1. Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power makes private conduct illegal absent a clear statement that Congress intended to do more…
25-5367 Clevern A. Granger v. Andrea Tack, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25-537 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing California Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment insurance-litigation medical-emergency 1a. Isn't it true that under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, that Dr. Pierson, a self-represented party without alternat…
25-538 City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, and M. L. H., et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived body-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment moment-of-threat police-shooting qualified-immunity This case arises from a split-second police encounter in which an officer fired six shots in six seconds at a suspect armed with a knife who appeared …
25-5383 Oscar Barrios v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion plain-error Whether the absence of a binding, on-point decision of either this Court, or of the reviewing court of appeals, is enough to preclude the potential fo…
25-5386 Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default (1) Petitioner properly presented thirteen claims of constitutional violations and sub-issues to each state court including the Michigan Supreme Cou…
25-539 Johnathan H. Dinh, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived fifth-amendment government-liability just-compensation property-rights takings-clause third-party-taking 1. Can Congress insulate itself from Fifth Amendment takings liability by creating a separate, third-party entity and authorizing that entity to "inde…
25-5397 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas Denied IFP capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar (1) Was the novel state procedural ground for denying the false evidence claims in the initial habeas application inadequate? (2) Was the state proce…
25-540 Beyond Nuclear, Inc. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-licensing congressional-action judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Do the Administrative Procedure Act and the constitutional separation of powers doctrine prohibit an agency from issuing a license conditioned on Cong…
25-541 Benjamin Schoenthal, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived citizens-rights constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation fourteenth-amendment public-transportation second-amendment Whether Illinois' flat ban on ordinary citizens carrying firearms on public transportation violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.
25-542 Tonya Lee Randleman v. Firelands Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied bankruptcy creditor-priority debtor-assets federal-priority-statute government-claims insolvency Under, the "Federal Priority Statute, " also known as 31 U.S.C. § 3713, essentially establishes that when a debtor is insolvent, the United States mus…
25-543 Thomas John Styczinski, et al. v. Grace Arnold, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-three constitutional-avoidance dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation judicial-power state-law 1. Whether a federal court exceeds its "judicial power" under Article III and Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood when the federal court unilaterally imposes…
25-544 May Yan Chen, dba Ability Customs Broker v. Ameriway Corporation Second Circuit Rehearing ancillary-jurisdiction common-nucleus mandamus-review rico-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction 1. Whether the district court had exceeded its subject-matter jurisdiction when it exercised ancillary supplemental jurisdiction over a third-party co…
25-545 Julia M. Robinson v. FedEx Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25-546 Julia Mae Robinson v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-standards federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25-5469 Bryan Christopher Bell v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Amici (5)IFP batson-challenge equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether this Court may review the merits of an undisputable violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994) where the state court app…
25-547 Andrew Grimm v. City of Portland, Oregon Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived None 1. Whether governmental obligations to attempt further notice under the Mullane standard can only be triggered if the government has "actual knowledge…
25-5470 Hombra Lavail Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion esteras-precedent sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Esteras v. United States, 145 S. Ct. 2031 (2025) and in order to maintain uniform application of this Co…
25-548 Jeana Roxas, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Roger Roxas, et al. v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None Whether, in an enforcement action under 28 U.S.C. § 2467, (A) a claimant who presents direct and circumstantial evidence that assets were derived from…
25-5480 Sean L. Hagins v. United States Third Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-precedent compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances legal-error manifest-injustice sentence-classification 1) Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to address the misapplication of binding circuit precedents in Sean L. Hagins* Motion for com…
25-5486 Bruce Anderson v. Kenneth Lizotte, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance second-petition Whether Petitioner Bruce Anderson's new federal habeas petition, in which he claims to have received ineffective assistance from the court-appointed d…
25-5487 Joseph W. Wade v. Walter T. Mosley, New York Secretary of State, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-standing compensatory-relief official-capacity race-conscious section-1983 sex-conscious 1) Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against state officials in 'official capacity, ' does Article III standing require proof that the final outcome of a 'discr…
25-549 Russian Federation v. Hulley Enterprises Ltd., et al. District of Columbia Denied arbitration-agreement court-procedure foreign-state-immunity international-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation "A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction" of a United States court where "the action is brought ... to confirm an award made pursuan…
25-5491 Daniel James Caldwell v. Texas for the Protection of Jennifer Zimmerman Texas Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority parent-child-relationship restraining-order second-amendment 1. Whether a lifetime, nationwide restraining order permanently revoking Second Amendment rights without judicial findings of probable cause for a civ…
25-5499 Timothy Alexander v. New York New York Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct 1. Can inevitable discovery, as set forth by This Court in Nix V. Williams, be proven through the testimony of a detective not actively involved in …
25-5507 Jamillah Cherry-Wiggins v. The Methodist Hospital, Inc. Indiana Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure e-filing judicial-error legal-review precedent-conflict supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the decisions the courts rendered were erred as it conflicts with prior decisions and error in the computer (E~File)(iyier Host) system citize…
25-5525 Teresa Lynette Bloodman v. Robert Brech, Executive Director, Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct Arkansas Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment interim-suspension liberty-interest procedural-fairness I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to impose a imposes an interim suspension of an attorney '…
25-5532 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia Denied Relisted (2)IFP bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence 1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of Rogers's new …
25-5534 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prot…
25-5537 Benito M. Valdez v. United States District of Columbia Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-access judicial-discretion public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Is the Sixth Amendment right to a "public trial" violated where the trial court—for the stated purpose of keeping the proceedings private rather than …
25-5548 Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP AEDPA due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect state-prisoner Whether the Federal Courts have misapplied habeas restrictions introduced by the AEDPA to State prisoners under FRCP rule 60(b)(4) Motion Based on Fun…
25-555 SurfCast, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue "opinion[s]" in PTAB appeals, is a reasoning-giving directive that prohibits the …
25-5553 Adrian Goudelock v. United States Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion legal-argumentation procedural-fairness Where the right to appeal a trial court judgment is provided by statute, "that appeal must accord with due process." Simmons v. Reynolds, 898 F.2d 865…
25-5555 Ky Tan Le v. Social Security Administration Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
25-556 William Loginov v. Sheridan Memorial Hospital, aka Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied article-iii diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts rules-of-decision-act state-law-interpretation Whether Article III, the Rules of Decision Act, and the Erie doctrine mandate that federal courts sitting in diversity must certify novel state law qu…
25-557 Donald T. Trinen v. Supreme Court of Colorado Colorado Denied Response Waived cle-compliance due-process equal-protection judicial-review lawyer-discipline suspension-order Diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI ") continuing legal education ("cle") is required for Colorado lawyers. Attorney petitioner Donald Trinen ("Tri…
25-5583 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discrimination-charges due-process eeoc-regulations fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-interest I. Cause of Action as Property Right Under the Fourteenth Amendment Whether a state-created statutory right to file discrimination charges and receive…
25-5585 Arseles D. Miller v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendment court-of-appeals habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a 2254 application is second or successive if it challenges a new judgment for purpose of §2244(b). Whether a new judgment, resulting from re…
25-560 Sheffield Korte Joint Venture v. Daniel P. Driscoll, Secretary of the Army Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived contract-law design-build government-contract government-liability implied-warranty spearin-doctrine In a landmark decision, this Court held in United States v. Spearin, 248 U.S. 132 (1918) (Spearin), that the federal government impliedly warrants to …
25-5612 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law procedural-fairness 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit violate Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 41(b) by issuing a mandate while rehearing en banc was pending, and whether re…
25-5660 In Re David C. White Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity loper-bright pro-se-litigation 1. Shall U.S. Courts at all levels persist in extreme bias against pro se or any litigant, contrary to Judicial Code of Conduct and Loper Light, espec…
25-5662 Martha Jane Ford v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, for CWABS, Incorporated Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2 Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice attorney-misconduct due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity mediation-agreement 1. Whether the enforcement of a mediation agreement procured through fraud, coercion, and attorney misconduct —despite a prior court order barring for…
25-5664 In Re Amy Bishop Anderson Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error habeas-corpus new-evidence procedural-default specific-intent steroid-psychosis 1. ) Statement of the Case and exhaustion of claims pursuant to 28USC section 2254(b)(1)(A) as delineated in S.Ct. Rule 20.4(a). Where, in my petition…
25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit Granted Amici (3) article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
25-5687 Curtis Gorham v. Michael Alan Jenkins, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights healthcare-liability judicial-procedure medical-malpractice mental-illness pro-se-litigation I became "mentally ill" in 2007 according to Social Security Disability. (See, Exhibits J & K). Apparently I'm entitled to "civil private counsel " I …
25-5688 Linda Kay Twigg v. Allan Lee Twigg Maryland Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP divorce-proceedings dna-evidence evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct property-division retirement-benefits 1) Why did Judge Michael Twigg at Allegany Court House make the false accusation that our thirty-five-year-old daughter is the product of infidelity …
25-569 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus In Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, this Court held that federal appellate courts do not "have jurisdiction under [28 U.S.C.] § 1291 . . . to review an order…
25-570 Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp. Federal Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived anticipation burden-of-proof enablement patent-validity printed-publications prior-art 1. Should printed publications be presumed to be enabling when a party challenging the validity of issued patent claims asserts that a printed publ…
25-5706 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure false-testimony fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in refusing to certify the Napue claim, when it failed to reach punishment-phase harm and when it conflated the question …
25-5713 Emanuel Leyton Picon v. United States District of Columbia Pending IFP age-restriction constitutional-rights due-process firearms-regulation right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms applies fully to 18-20-year-olds.
25-572 James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity 1. Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias and procedural disregard toward pro se litigants, resulting in dismissal despite detailed factual …
25-5725 In Re David C. White Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law affirmative-action agenda-21 due-process educational-priority judicial-immunity 1. Shall United States Citizens be given priority over foreign students for participation in doctoral programs of American institutions of public educ…
25-5726 In Re David C. White Denied Relisted (2)IFP None 1 illegal Administrative Law courts convened in defiance of Loper Light. 8. Shall judges in the Ninth Circuit persist in violation of Loper Light, th…
25-5737 Antwan Elvago Coplen v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-law statutory-interpretation (1) WHETHER A COMBINATION OF "EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS" THAT MAY WARRANT A DISCRETIONARY SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)U) (…
25-5752 Olivia C. Davie, on Behalf of Harold E. Davie v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
25-5762 Muhammad Masood v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated…
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
25-5789 Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California California Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ…
25-5808 In Re David C. White Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation dam-removal judicial-discretion loper-bright pro-se-litigation 1. Shall any hydroelectric dam be removed in the United States without express consent of Congress, when the simple, scientific solution is dam mainte…
25-581 St. Mary Catholic Parish, Littleton, Colorado, et al. v. Lisa Roy, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-law discretion employment-division-v-smith general-applicability religious-freedom secular-conduct Colorado's so-called universal preschool program pays for families to send their children to the preschool of their choice, public or private. To part…
25-5817 Kyle Krill v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment When a factual finding that multiple counts arose out of "separate acts or transactions" is necessary to authorize an increase in punishment, must thi…
25-5818 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied IFP conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-counsel postconviction-relief procedural-bar simultaneous-representation state-court-jurisdiction Petitioner and his brother were adversely situated codefendants in two separate felony cases over which the same judge presided. That judge appointed …
25-5819 Max Fontes v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial ramos-precedent sixth-amendment twelve-person-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony.
25-585 SunTrust Bank v. Charles Daniel Bickerstaff, as Administrator of the Estate of Jeff Bickerstaff, Jr., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated Georgia Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreement class-action federal-arbitration-act opt-out preemption state-court-rule Whether the FAA preempts a state court rule permitting a proposed class representative to effectively opt out of arbitration on behalf of all unnamed …
25-5851 Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b…
25-5856 Cheryl Steele v. Micah Salb District of Columbia Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-notice due-process judicial-procedure personal-service property-rights writ-of-execution In the ruling of MENNONITE BOARD OF MISSIONS, Appellant v. Richard C. ADAMS, the Supreme Court of the United States held that knowledge of a pending s…
25-586 Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment merit-system-protections-board property-interest 1. Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by terminatin…
25-5865 Aaron Norman Dunn v. California California Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment payne-v-tennessee victim-impact-evidence Whether under Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), a prosecutor can be permitted to play for the jury during the penalty phase of a capital trial …
25-5866 Davon Anthony Beckford v. United States Third Circuit Pending IFP miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance third-circuit waiver-of-appeal 1. DOES ENFORCEMENT OF APPELLANT'S WAIVER OF APPEAL AND THE GOVERNMENT'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE MOTION OF MR. BECKFORD'S SENTENCE CONSITUTE A MISCARRIAGE …
25-587 Julio Licinio v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-shifting case-law employment-discrimination judicial-framework mcdonnell-douglas stare-decisis Whether McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), should be overruled.
25-5872 Ramon Jackson v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights election-law national-voter-registration-act secretary-of-state voter-registration voting-rights 1. Did the Michigan Secretary of State violate the Plaintiff Constitutional or Statutory voting rights by registering the Plaintiff to vote without th…
25-5874 Bruce S. Myles v. New York New York Denied IFP competency due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel prosecutor-testimony sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE COURT VIOLATED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE PROSECUTOR WAS ALLOWED TO ACT AS AN UNSWORN WITNESS? 2. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN VIOLATI…
25-5876 William Housman v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-constitutional-claim judicial-review reasonable-jurists state-court-decision Does a state court's divided decision on the merits of a federal constitutional claim demonstrate that reasonable jurists would debate the claim's mer…
25-588 Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana Montana Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment police-questioning seizure traffic-stop Whether a driver who is lawfully stopped for a traffic infraction remains seized for Fourth Amendment purposes when the officer concludes the purpose …
25-5880 Derrick Gregory James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review sentence-modification "What constitutes the legal meaning of the word "Active"? Does a Double Jeopardy Violation, and Due Process Violation Occur Whenever a Dept. of Corre…
25-5884 Derrick U. Jacobs v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation fabricated-prosecution first-amendment immunity-doctrine retaliation Philadelphia Police Detective Derrick Jacobs (Petitioner/Jacobs) observed newly elected Philadelphia District Attorney, Lawrence Krasner ("Krasner") a…
25-5887 Dorice Moore v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence 1. Why was the DNA allowed to be down played by the state without defense providing proof of its importance at the crime scene? 2. If the state did n…
25-5888 Michael A. Powell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction 1. The court has without jurisdiction to chose the file a certified legal for stitioner? And petitioner did not receive it? 2. The court violated pro…
25-5889 Angel E. Gaston v. City of Leesburg, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5890 Jermel Arcilicia Taylor v. Illinois Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5891 Jermel Arcilicia Taylor v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5894 Kenneth Lavigne v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard time-barred Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Sixth Amendment and this Court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), Hill v. Lockhart, …
25-590 Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived None Under § 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (a)(3), a beneficiary may bring suit to obtain "appropriate…
25-5907 Cory Collin Fitzgerald Sanders v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-inference guilty-knowledge jury-instruction specific-intent willful-intent In a federal criminal prosecution that requires proof of specific intent, may a court instruct the jury that it may infer willful intent or guilty kno…
25-591 Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claims habeas-corpus judicial-review 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) and this Court's precedents establish that certificates of appealability ("COA") may be issued to habeas petitioners seeking ap…
25-5910 Guadalupe Romero v. Arizona Department of Child Safety Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5915 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2 California Dismissed IFP due-process federal-constitution jurisdiction land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law 1. Did the lower court violate Article VI Clause 2 as to the Supremacy Clause of Federal Constitution in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws on L…
25-5919 Kevin Griffin v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment search-warrant 1. Did the State Courts error by denying Petitioner 's Fourteenth Amendment 's Due process rights by the State's knowing use of false testimony and th…
25-5923 Timothy W. Fletcher v. Florida Florida Denied IFP None Whether the Florida Legislature's expansion of the applicability of our statute's "aggravating factors" requirements, Section 921.141(6), Florida Stat…
25-5929 Nintu Xi Gilmore-Bey v. Henry Meltser, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights employment-discrimination national-origin protected-class race-discrimination title-vii 1. Whether the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions' (EEOC) federal employment discrimination laws under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act o…
25-5931 Caleb Campbell v. Officer Terry Pruitt, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process procedural-grounds state-court I.Wh^v -Pv^Ul'M h\s SubsWiWe tiiAe. Process uAiev-e 0 < um.M tAvvM Wl ^4 feuwo( oh A-33^^kd Hee,^ AUekMpUj -k E-luiAc A PoWoPficcv- pv-t0V. 4c, -P4;lz…
25-5932 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota Denied IFP choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an error of the most fundamental character, properly before t…
25-5934 David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bankruptcy-law circuit-court de-novo-review judicial-discretion legal-procedure 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit fails to distinguish between issues raised in the trial court and arguments there made, as this…
25-5935 Antonio Marquis Eubanks v. California California Denied IFP None 'W QaX- Secrt^ IHA^S; MW ion ^4 ^(^/W 'pstoWiiNij U^Ajet- P^CsPe /203,^f sl^iM l\A>f SW44 MCSV lie €kAcxJ^> To y<XtM Stp^€ UApo u)W J A-W M^=erfc /W O…
25-5936 Stephen Lambert v. Ross Casteel, York City Police Officer Third Circuit Denied IFP None 1. The District Court time-barred the events and facts on which Lambert brought forth his claim. The same order ruled that continuing wrongs "do" exis…
25-5939 Michael Georgie Carson v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment DOES THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT'S DECISION CONFLICT WITH THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S CASELAW, WHEN THEY OVERTURNED THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS FINDING …
25-594 Elizabeth Crockett, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived clearly-established-right excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-officer On the evening of July 1, 2019, Wagoner County Lieutenant Elizabeth Crockett and Deputy Matthew Lott responded to a call from deputies requesting assi…
25-5941 Mohammad Reza Assadi v. Randolph N. Osherow, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure chapter-7-trustee due-process electronic-filing jurisdictional-issue notice-requirements Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(b) — and Article III permit a federal appellate court to enter judgment in the name of a Chapter 7 trus…
25-5942 Ky Tan Le v. Stephen H. Locher, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-statement federal-crime judicial-misconduct 1. While presided the case in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Respondent in a particular Order knowingly, willfully made,…
25-5948 Jody D. Kimbrell v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedure pro-se venue-change 1. Under Federal Rule for venue change can Central District Court of California change rule procedures if plaintiff is pro se? 2. Can Ninth Circuit i…
25-5949 Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance 1. Whether the Oklahoma courts ' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual …
25-5957 Katherine Contejean v. Ameren Missouri Eighth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-5958 Elet Valentine v. Verizon Wireless, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment arbitration cpni due-process federal-communications-act service-of-process 1. Whether Appellant Valentine's federally protected Due Process rights and access to the courts under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constit…
25-5969 James Logan Diez v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review cross-examination due-process judicial-discretion transcript-error 1] Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abuse its discretion when it refused Review after Petitioner discovered approx. 20-25 min. of Cross-Examina…
25-597 Donatus Iriele v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-statute jury-instructions reasonable-doubt subjective-knowledge Donatus Iriele was indicted for violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) based on a superseding indictment that failed to allege a knowing violation of the st…
25-5970 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Dismissed IFP federal-courts legal-interpretation magwood-v-patterson procedural-error supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari DID THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS MISAPPREHEND AND MISAPPLY THE UNITED STATES DECISION IN MAGWOOD V. PATTERSON?
25-5979 Hubert Arvie v. Cathedral of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-intervention judicial-immunity section-1983 younger-abstention Questions have risen out of state and federal court final judgments involving retaliatory, fraudulent, conspiratorial, and ultra vires acts or omissi…
25-598 Vishara Video, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived first-amendment free-expression municipal-ordinance police-powers secondary-effects zoning-restrictions 1. Where there have been substantial changes in the circumstances since a municipality enacted an ordinance under its police powers that impacts fre…
25-5980 Kenny Taylor v. Brook Valley Management, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Denied IFP background-context federal-removal independent-claims jurisdictional-challenge state-law-cause-of-action statutory-references Whether a state-law cause of action — such as a meal-period violation under Texas law — may be dismissed or removed to federal court solely because t…
25-5982 Bani Marcela Duarte v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder I. Did the Prosecution Fail to Prove the Second Degree Murder Charge Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; Did Appellate Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance? …
25-5984 Richard Vandale Clowney v. Walker Miller, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether A Magistrate Issuing Search Warrants And Arrest Warrants At A Law Enforcement Center In Violation Of The Fourth Amendment Neutral And Detached…
25-5986 Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c…
25-5988 Huong Thi Nguyen v. Corporation of Catholic Archbishop, et al. Federal Circuit Denied IFP attorney-fees claims-management court-procedure judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-dispute supreme-court 6/ Why did Judge Timothy L. Ashcraft, Let Attorney William do the complaint again, while Judge Timothy stated in the trial that, William to appear in …
25-599 James P. Baumgartner v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived court-martial discretionary-review gender-discrimination panel-selection prima-facie race-discrimination Since at least 1988, race- and gender-based discrimination was permissible when selecting court martial panel members, the functional equivalent of ju…
25-5995 Vernon Montgomery v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-5996 Jean-Michael Kisi v. Joseph Joyce, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-deliberation sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING THE PETITIONER FROM THE COURTROOM WHEN PERSONS DISPLAYED THE STATE 'S LAPTOP IN THE DELIBERATION ROOM AND A …
25-600 John Paul Beaudoin, Sr. v. Charles D. Baker, et al. First Circuit Denied Response Waived case-dismissal civil-rights court-access due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing this case on standing and pleading standards? Whether meritorious cases filed in U.S. Courts are habituall…
25-6000 Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-rule criminal-procedure due-process hearsay testimonial-evidence Whether permitting a detective to testify to unconfronted, testimonial hearsay statements that directly inculpate a defendant statements, made by witn…
25-6002 Linaker Charlemagne v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-claims discretionary-jurisdiction evidentiary-conflicts legal-requirements newly-discovered-evidence record-of-appeal 1. Whether District court departed from essential requirements of law, by not allowing the Record of Appeal to be Supplemented as U.S. 4b Provide a Co…
25-6004 Fillmore Wright v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment uncorroborated-confession Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest …
25-6005 Sean D. Jones v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP inmate-rights medical-indifference negligence prison-healthcare standard-of-care treatment-delay (1) Did the failure by NP Tenorio ,failure to assure that the pl aintiff , Jones ,was seen by a specialist ,when the medication of which Tenorio had …
25-6011 John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. California Denied IFP appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer 1. Automatic Preemptive Rulings and Judicial Overreach Whether a state court violates basic principles of due process by issuing preemptive rulings —s…
25-6012 Julia Dixon v. Medhost Dispatcher, et al. Massachusetts Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-plaintiff medical-malpractice 1. Whether requiring an indigent, self-represented plaintiff to post a mandatory medical tribunal bond as a condition for access to a malpractice tria…
25-6013 Kimberly Lee Kessler v. Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus kangaroo-court prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering OR. tteARb me EVER. 8§Ft V41THCUT habbas Corpus )(3^JUSST<6M 3 KANGAROO CSURT Ktspr JUR.y OUT OP TRtlAL <»ouRTROCi/n FbR ftNTiRlT TRiAL— JUR.y NevgR …
25-6014 Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida Florida Dismissed IFP None /. Dots 4 mnl'Fe4 fauface O«.ur <fa>ri fai C~4«l A> P^'J Collfafa Clc^ej of a f (<4, •Avk rtndtrt f'k. fk*> I>izo 1 , niJu/A'n^ I" «■ f*<-A'•'t-A / e/…
25-6015 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it selects a singular appella…
25-6016 Todd White v. ACell, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by denying his motion …
25-6017 John Todd Williams v. Richard J. Sullivan, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion 1. Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status to an indigent litigant raising substantial constitutional claims — including violations of the Four…
25-6018 Wayne Taylor, III v. Dao Vang, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None I5 0^ ApfwJs? -tr4k U/Ah Cirawh ortUr H^We/l , I oUc k jurWiWn (W^4lic $ W^tfay ^r A AfMure 4wi 4hc ^pM m4 6^ur^ i^wiediak App^lHc wi^vJ or > m^is-W…
25-6020 Christopher Maurice McDowell v. CVS Caremark Corp. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6031 Michael McAfee v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF A HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDING IS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT A MAN IS NOT UNJUSTEY IMPISONED; AND IF FOR SOME UNJUSTIFIABLE REASONS AS IN…
25-6032 Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant 1. Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied social license for law enforcement officers to enter the pro…
25-6033 Willie Frank Nelson v. Tanya Demers, Acting Superintendent, Bare Hill Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review district-court judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-impediment statute-of-limitations A. The relief sought has common law analogue vi. B. The All Writs Act empowers federal courts to issue writs "agreeable" to the usages and principles…
25-6034 Markus Odon McCormick v. Michael J. Crumpler, Individually and as a Detective for the City of Southern Pines, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None (l)VJWUr <x 6>rnUF A~uaU*-V wffe<A^ fU<L? [iOwWKu- fc ftw\u>Aov<A ■ , ^A V,- ? ^IXkcWvcr ckwv, Wn-A °W
25-6036 Jermel Arcilicia Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6037 Jermel Arcilicia Taylor v. Oregon Democratic Party Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6039 Allan Douglas Wilson v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship-rights compensatory-damages due-process evidence-preservation mootness-doctrine statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the D.C. Circuit's reliance on mootness doctrine to avoid addressing a case of first impression regarding temporary deprivation of citizens…
25-604 Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity This case involves an attempt by several law enforcement officers to detain and arrest Respondents' decedent Jeffery Krueger on July 1, 2019. On that …
25-6041 Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi…
25-6044 Don Angelo Davis v. Officer R. Hutcheson, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6045 In Re Rayfield J. Thibeaux Denied IFP civil-rights-litigation conviction-reversal court-of-appeals district-court-access due-process judicial-procedure The District Court denied me access to the court after my 1987 conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Then, the District Co…
25-6047 Peter Bormuth v. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, aka EGLE Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law due-process precedent religious-freedom standing Two questions are presented: 1. Does the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause require state administrative tribunals to follow their own clearly establi…
25-6048 Mark Brentley, Sr. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-service-commission federal-jurisdiction property-rights 1. WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURT HAS JURISDICTION OVER THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 2. CAN YOU APPEAL THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION IN FEDERAL COURT BASED…
25-6049 Richard Vandale Clowney v. Greenville County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement neutral-detached-magistrate search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a Magistrate who holds office at the law enforcement center investigating crimes is subject to and why law enforcement on easily passes, i.e. …
25-605 James Maharg v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response Waived appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu…
25-6050 David Wood v. Rachel Patton, Assistant Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-appeals dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' fifteen-year, twenty-three case unbroken string of denying DNA testing appeals create a plausible claim that…
25-6058 Raymond E. Lumsden v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment prison-ministry religious-discrimination rluipa 1. Does.Texas' Partnership With The 'Heart'Of Texas College Of Ministry, A Solely Christian-Based Organization Housed And Operated On A Texas Prison…
25-6059 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, with knowledge of extrinsic fraud that results in void orders…
25-6060 Katherine Henry, et vir v. City of Ormond Beach, Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection excessive-fines local-law-compliance malum-prohibitum The lower tribunals committed harmful errors by violating Henrys' right to Equal Protection, issuing orders violating state and local laws, and issuin…
25-6065 Rashid El Malik v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-delay due-process extraordinary-relief judicial-review mandamus-relief veterans-benefits 1. Whether a catastrophically disabled veteran facing imminent, life threatening harm is entitled to mandamus relief under Martin v. O'Rourke when a g…
25-6066 Rodney James Dilworth v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct sexual-relationship 1. Was petitioner deprived of due process and his right to a fair trial in a fair tribunal, where the trial judge was in a undisclosed sexual relation…
25-6068 Eliezer Rosario-Ramos v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing first-offender judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines upward-variance A. Whether first offender Rosario's 23-year prison sentence, that resulted from a 104.4% upward variance, is unreasonable because it was grounded on t…
25-6069 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-procedure legal-defense 1. Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from defending himself i…
25-6070 Jean Max Darbouze v. California California Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6071 Anna Joy Eltgroth v. Edward Aaron Pierson Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process legal-accommodation protection-from-abuse self-representation 1) Does the only modernly developed 1994 PA Protection from Abuse Act constitute a serious enough civil matter to warrant a consideration of specific…
25-6072 William Douglas Marcum v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-denial due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment merit-systems-protection-board perjured-testimony 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the Merit Systems Protection Board relies on perjured testimony, denies discovery…
25-6073 Brett Alan James Talmadge v. Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention-doctrine court-appointed-counsel habeas-corpus incarceration pro-se-pleading speedy-trial I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court for the District of Alaska's dismissal of Mr…
25-6074 Olayiwola Adebisi v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas Denied IFP child-support-enforcement due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-access pro-se-litigant service-of-process Whether the Texas courts violated clearly established federal precedent protecting jurisdictional access and due process rights of pro se litigants wh…
25-6076 Martin Ponce Ramirez v. Leo Quiroz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process extradition-warrant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-coercion THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY DENIED PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (28 U.S.C. §2253). REGARDING ISSUES: …
25-608 Cambra L. Lucas v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board overpayment-recovery statutory-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) violated its statutory jurisdiction and due process obligations by failing to provide Petitione…
25-6089 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-precedent due-process panel-rule stare-decisis statutory-right Whether the Eleventh Circuit's recent iteration of its "prior panel precedent rule"—which requires rigid adherence to prior circuit precedent, even if…
25-609 Clinton Siples v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Pending Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-law agency-decision clear-unmistakable-error judicial-review legal-interpretation veterans-benefits In the uniquely pro-claimant veterans-benefits system, Congress has provided that an otherwise final agency decision is subject to revision if that de…
25-6101 Michael Muthee Munywe v. Scott R. Peters, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6109 Dion Marsh v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant due-process fifth-amendment remorselessness self-incrimination sentencing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits a sentencing court from inferring remorselessness from a criminal defendant's silence.
25-611 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue Oregon Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible …
25-6115 Anton Lazzaro v. LGM Consulting Group, Inc. Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights contract-law damages first-amendment fundraising political-speech The State of Florida authorizes political fundraising consultants to recover expectancy damages in breach of contract actions against political campai…
25-6116 Frank Iglesias v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretion early-termination ninth-circuit sentencing supervised-release Did the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion in finding that Petitioner is not entitled to shortening or terminating supervised release of his sentenc…
25-6131 Zeno E. Sims v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentencing federal-court judicial-discretion legal-precedent sentencing-procedure state-court Whether this Court should revisit Setser and affirmatively hold that once a federal court runs a future state court sentence concurrently to a defenda…
25-6132 Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof congressional-intent evidence-law fundamental-rights legal-procedure statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a mandatory statute enacted by Congress to protect an important fundamental right titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wir…
25-6135 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about…
25-6137 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor In light of United States v. Taylor , 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A),…
25-6138 Michael Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo…
25-6139 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-prosecution due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal reasonable-person-standard In the recusal context, would a reasonable person conclude that a judge could remain impartial during a conspiracy prosecution of a defendant when the…
25-614 Jefferson A. McGee v. California Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeal district-court federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination Whether the appeal in this action lacked merit to proceed and therefore should not have been allowed to proceed.
25-6141 Mark Abercrombie v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion …
25-6144 George Eugene Cross v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District California Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6145 Gabriel Gallegos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion show-of-authority terry-stop vehicle-stop When law enforcement makes a show of authority that causes a vehicle to come to a complete stop, however briefly, before fleeing, is that a stop withi…
25-6147 Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedies freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review pro-se-petition summary-dismissal Whether the court of Appeals may summarily dismiss a Petitioner's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) claim on the ground that "any issues which could b…
25-615 Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (5)Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-enclaves legal-borrowing legislative-authority military-servicemembers state-law Whether federal law on federal enclaves borrows current state law, rather than state law only as it existed when the enclave was created.
25-6151 Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure medication-administration pretrial-custody sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Is a twenty-five year term of supervised release with stringent special conditions including the forced administration of medication "greater than nec…
25-6152 Melvin Alberto-Velasquez 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)?
25-6156 Thomas J. Zajac v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance Speedy Trial Act A. In contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 10, was the appellate court's avoidance of, through modifications to appellant's facts and…
25-6157 Eric King v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment identity-theft indictment-defects I. DUBIN MISAPPLICATION Whether Petitioner's conviction for aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A can stand where, contrary to Dubin v. Un…
25-616 Juston D. Beyer v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review judicial-review military-justice Petitioner made an unrebutted showing of good cause to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to review his case. Nevertheless, the court denied re…
25-6161 James Capers v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-standard apprendi-rule constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement 1) In regards to 21 U.S.C. §846, to be in accordance with both Apprendi and Alleyne , to punish as 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(A) (10 to life), must the ju…
25-6162 Terrell Onterial Lobley v. Don Harris, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-interpretation state-law trial-procedure Are the Courts (state and otherwise) required to uphold Laws that are in violation of State and Federal Constitutions? Is an individual, incarcerated…
25-6163 Terrance Deshun Cash v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment Petitioner Cash contend that his constitutional rights was violated be fore the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals due to the stated facts raised beforet…
25-6165 Tyjuan Devon Gray v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6166 Gregory P. Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(…
25-6167 Amir Golestan v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP denaturalization guilty-plea immigration-consequences rule-11 substantial-rights wire-fraud Whether the failure to give the Rule 11(b)(1)(O) warning affects the substantial rights of a naturalized United States citizen who could be denaturali…
25-6168 Carl Rose v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence revocation-hearing supervised-release Whether the Due Process Clause and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b)(2)(C) require a district court, before admitting hearsay at a supervised…
25-6169 Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation A person who is convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, but who…
25-617 Jakalien J. Cook v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived court-martial due-process military-justice punishment-calculation sentencing-range uniform-code-military-justice For almost all non-capital offenses from the timeframe of Petitioner's convictions, criminal defendants in courts-martial are sentenced in accordance …
25-6173 Charles Jason Carmichael v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony trial-error X. 4^ $ X. S-t-M-j-e $ Cot>r4 e^cej4 no4 nj v^UoX^ e'r 4\i€ 4r<c<l Coucf errcA in cv<Jvn.44->n« He +es4>'w,otnj cl"' <1 vJifnesS Q.C. , ^kex-fc -He c…
25-6174 Jill Capobianco v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-discretion disability-benefits due-process medical-evidence social-security During an application for Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) and Disability Benefits (SSDI), under 20 § C.F.R. §§ 404.1527(c), SSR-2p, and SSR 16-3…
25-6176 Melanie Nicole Moore v. Pooches of Largo, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-interpretation employment-law flsa-retaliation judicial-procedure minimum-wage wage-dispute 1. Whether the district court's characterization of Petitioner's unpaid wage complaint as "merely" a contract dispute rather than a violation of the F…
25-6178 Kenneth Kiprono Kirui v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6179 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit I. Under its original meaning, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment was interpreted as including disproportionate and arbi…
25-6180 David Craig Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion plea-withdrawal sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
25-6181 Graham Schiff v. Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct speech-protection I. First Amendment and Certificate of Appealability Standard Whether this Court should grant certiorari —or exercise its supervisory authority —to dir…
25-6183 Stephen C. Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment perjury reasonable-doubt self-defense sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether this Court should adopt and encourage, when requested by a party, a definition of reasonable doubt to include "a doubt that would cause a r…
25-6185 John Pearl Smith, II v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP distinctive-groups duren-test fair-cross-section jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion 1. Is the Sixth Amendment right to a jury that represents a fair cross-section of the community violated where a defendant identifies a specific syste…
25-6186 Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the…
25-6188 Abel Vargas-Maldonado v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-619 Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) providing "if death results, [the offender] shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, o…
25-6191 Duane E. Adams v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court WAS ADAMS ' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN THE TRIAL COURT CONDUCTED A TRIAL AND ENTERED A JUDGMENT, WITHOUT HAVING SUBJECT MATTE…
25-6196 Jason W. Attride v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6197 Edmund Lowell Fields v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief ministerial-duties notice-requirements I. PER THE MINISTERIAL DUTIES SET FORTH IN FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 4(a)(6) DOES "ACTUAL NOTICE" SUPERSEDE "FORMAL NOTICE," AND SHOULD THE…
25-6198 Steven Perez v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights firearms-acquisition meaningful-constraint second-amendment statutory-interpretation Petitioner was convicted of interstate transport and receipt of firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), and conspiracy to commit this offense…
25-6199 Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse constitutional-sufficiency criminal-indictment criminal-procedure sexual-abuse statutory-language Whether an indictment charging violations of 18 U.S.C. § § 2241(c) and 2244 is constitutionally sufficient when it alleges only that the charged acts …
25-6200 Daman Thomas Caldwell v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations false-police-report fifth-amendment first-amendment per-curiam-affirmance sixth-amendment Whether the conviction of Petitioner, obtained under a per curiam affirmance without opinion and supported by a false police report, violates the Firs…
25-6203 Misael Fabian Medina v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay-exception procedural-fairness reliability-standard Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule, such that the r…
25-6207 Mark Eugene Benton v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment vehicle-search 1) Was the search of the petitioners vehicle, on 12-31-2020, lawful under the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as Montana Cnst…
25-621 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived attempted-kidnapping attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-act Can the Federal Government's get away with attempt kidnaping, multiple attempted murder, terrorist act and Human Rights violations on an American Citi…
25-6212 Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol…
25-6213 Samuel Galbraith v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP federal-review habeas-corpus parole-board procedural-adequacy state-remedy statutory-interpretation When a person has no cause of action and no right of action to appeal the affirmative decision of a parole board, does the simple ability to mail and …
25-6215 Christopher Takhvar v. Florida Florida Dismissed Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6216 Fred Lee Williams v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP None i) i>o% Btdjv analysis CmRW 2) 1M fa wfa Btdfa-J&penJa^ wfa in jLt(y/'7/2^^ p^MW %) J>?J, S/We J4en^4 $ Jmc8^4 I^j-M pfrwj+h^P ^y\ 4Wi ^JmJr W Jiil…
25-6219 Guy Lynn Wilson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None 1. Does the Eighth's Circuit ruling that images of a minor dressing and using the toilet constitute "lascivious exhibition" in violation of 18 U.S.C. …
25-6220 Marcus Turner v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None I. 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 pas…
25-6221 Hugo Chavez Valdivias v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights jury-nullification jury-trial sentencing-consequences sixth-amendment verdict-power Does the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial guarantee a jury informed of its power to return a verdict against the law and the facts? Does the Six…
25-6222 Gilberto Rolando Canales-Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
25-6223 Daniel Kroeker v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-statute dost-factors jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition sexual-offense Whether, in a non-production child-pornography prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2), a trial court should define the phrase "lascivious exhibitio…
25-6224 Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p…
25-6228 James Anthony Hale v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-defect right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHERE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL DURING HIS INITIAL ARRAIGNMENT PROCEEDING, JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT DEPRIVE THE STATE C…
25-6229 Douglas A. Krusley v. Abigail Caudill, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-violation court-access equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se-prisoner WHETHER PETITIONER QUALIFIES FOR EQUITABLE TOLLING DUE TO INABILITY TO ACCESS THE LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ON THE MERITS OF BEING ACTUALLY INNO…
25-6230 McKinley Kelly v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation sentencing-procedure Whether the sentencing procedure mandated by Indiana Code Sec. 35-38-l-7.1(A) and utilized by the state trial court in imposing Kelly 's sentence, whi…
25-6233 Rod Serp v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice case-dismissal federal-courts government-accountability judicial-review pro-se-litigation This case began in late 2023 in Central District Court. It was dismissed without prejudice by Judge Fisher to be refiled in Federal Claims Court. Judg…
25-6235 Joseph Jones, III v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Whether the District Court for and WFLA Circuit Enter By Qc reser US, MeaDSotes aude al Tucomecct guidelive Aaioe.
25-6236 Jesse Alan Walker v. William D. Snyder, Sheriff, Martin County, Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pretrial-proceedings sixth-amendment Does the United Constitution of the Constitution of Florida permit the petition for a writ of habeas corpus to be decided based on the facts and retur…
25-6237 Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Contreras v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-construction supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6239 Elijah D. Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that …
25-624 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard 1. Where the court that presided over a defendant's trial and post-conviction evidentiary hearing finds the defendant suffered prejudice under Strickl…
25-6241 Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment vicar-prosecution Whether a district court commits plain error and violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when it fails to give a spec…
25-6242 Willie Frank Gordon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause vehicle-seizure 1. Sheriff's deputies suspected a driver had drugs, stopped him, and wanted to search his car to find them. Only when their attempt to establish proba…
25-6245 Dean Alan Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-instruction due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury jury-deadlock sixth-amendment WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO PROFFER NOT ONE BUT TWO DISTINCT ALLEN INSTRUCTIONS WHERE THE JURY WAS…
25-6247 Jackie Lee Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance proffer-agreement slack-v-mcdaniel 1. Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner who alleges constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel for faling to object to the Government's Due…
25-6250 Richard Ruston v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(1), as well as the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1), as cross-referenced in section 3583(d)(1), means "and," o…
25-6254 Jorge C. Ferretiz-Hernandez, Ignacio Felix-Salinas, and Elias Chiroy-Cac v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent legislative-reenactment racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
25-6255 Aaron J. Thorpe v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP article-ii criminal-procedure executive-power final-conviction prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers In our constitutional system of separated powers, Article II vests the Executive Branch with the plenary authority to initiate and terminate criminal …
25-6257 Eric L. Ramos v. Nebraska Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial supreme-court-review Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States Sup…
25-6259 Sam Boyd v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey…
25-6261 Joshua Adam Schulte v. D. Baysore, Warden, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Cos'-e- j^v&-ca| i(\<& arabk. inters ' USUe-5 r^div^ ai^Apr^ to Une A^missa^ ^Af-fUuUil^ M^a'-bn 'cus. 6&s^s no or oppMum'-H^. ' (2l> U/Mh^c JisM<4- …
25-6264 Kimondra Damon Skyler v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None I. WAS MR. SKYLER'S PLEA OF GUILTY KNOWING OR VOLUNTARY, WHEN THE FACTUAL BASIS IS INSUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH A VIOLATION OF THE HOBBS ACT OR A CONSPIR…
25-6265 Rodney Hamilton Higgins, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more than a defendant's status as a drug dealer and residential address to establish probable cause for a sea…
25-6266 George Ugochukwu Egwumba v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consent criminal-law identity-theft means-of-identification possession-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the government must prove a defendant possessed a means of identification without the consent of its owner – that is, stole the identity – to …
25-6270 Jhon Henry Alvarado-Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-waters maritime-law Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the United States Constitution empowers Congress "[t]o define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the hig…
25-6271 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretionary-standard district-court pro-se-representation standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the standard of review of a district court's decision to allow a defendant to proceed pro se at a supervised release revocation hearing is de …
25-6275 Louie Holloway v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6276 Hisan Lee v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-evidence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process federal-court-review judicial-discretion 1. Due Process and False Evidence: Whether due process is violated when a federal court relies ona demonstrably false affidavit from defense counsel, …
25-628 Kevin Mitchell v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None
25-6280 Lewis Day v. Denise Hacker Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None y\CT <V VovM^ss f o / RDft Viol^ofii' Thru Gn'ev&flce Ibc&lurQ .' JTtoju (l)D(x^sla^er W! s_5Qu r ? . \rth^€jAo<\€M^'(rftilOf '<lH6V6i\feM€ft|^ej/ \…
25-6284 Leonard W. Houston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-litigation individual-actions jurisdiction pleadings statutory-provisions WAS IT ABUSE OF DISCRETION ON ALL CLJA ACTIONS ON INDIVIDUAL DOCKETS, AS COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT NEED NOT FILE RESPONSIVE PLEADINGS IN STAYED INDIVI…
25-6286 Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation time-limit Is the Appellate Court able to violate 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(D) arguing that this statute is not mandatory but a simple guideline? It is incontrovert…
25-6288 Christopher John Derting v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-offender-statute preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment The State of Florida employs recidivism statute 775.084 known as "Habitual Offender Statute ". The statute has several factual determinations that nee…
25-6293 Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161.
25-6294 Sherman Lamont Fields v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6300 Anthony Jones v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plain-error structural-defects I. Whether structural constitutional defects in indictments should be reviewed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52's plain error standard when…
25-6302 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus identification-evidence ineffective-assistance procedural-default 1. Whether, under the circumstances presented hear, petitioner 's constitutional right to a fair trial due to insufficient identification evidence cla…
25-6303 Anthony Unocic v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None 0 a coaxHcV'oa £or | $ USC Tec^rc ^rociC a£ wvuvs reos eVerrserxH. feG\cUsSf\e.ss ^orVVe. Vrue. W\CeA cAdrerA cvmS 5^<2 cv^< 'iaAixY is csiaV^Ve.^ or …
25-6306 Mark Anthony Gooding v. Parole Board, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus pleading-amendment statutory-limitation Whether a prisoner arrested and housed in Oakland County Jail, 1201 N. Telegraph Road, Rawlins, Michigan 48341 as a pretrial detainee on an unrelated …
25-6308 Johnny Joe Figueroa-Mangual v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether it was a violation to the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the sentencing factors enshrined in 18 U.S.C. 3553 (a) a…
25-6310 Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant I. In United States v. Leon, this Court announced a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. 468 U.S. 897, 922-23 (1984). "[T]he marginal or non…
25-6314 Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law 1. Does Congress's power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas," authorize the United States to impose its laws upon forei…
25-6318 Edward Bingham v. New Mexico New Mexico Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6319 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP court-judgment due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias legal-review procedural-error Does A Sufficiently Court Err For Court In Structuring When Making A Disrobed Opinion Concluding There The Appellants Of Judicial Bias Is Inadequate S…
25-6321 Wenlasombo Ilboudo v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process language-barrier rule-11-colloquy sentencing-rights waiver-of-appeal Whether a defendant who speaks no English may properly be determined to have waived his right to appeal a substantively unreasonable sentence without …
25-6324 Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure factual-findings self-defense sentencing-discretion sixth-circuit supervised-release I. Whether the Sixth Circuit decision affirming Mr. Hunnicutt's supervised release violation and new law convictions, improperly upheld the clearly er…
25-6326 Eric Lebron Burney v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana probable-cause search-and-seizure By April of 2019 both the state of Tennessee and the federal government excluded low-THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) marijuana from the definition …
25-6329 Tommie Slack v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession control criminal-law dominion firearm-possession intent Whether establishing constructive possession of a location is sufficient to establish constructive possession of contraband found in the location occu…
25-633 Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived charging-document due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment Under the Fifth Amendment right to due process and the Sixth Amendment right to fair notice, may a conviction be affirmed as legally sufficient based …
25-6330 Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen…
25-6332 Ángel Forteza-García v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen…
25-6334 Robert Ruben Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-request district-court exculpatory-evidence government-assertion judicial-review post-trial-motion Did the district court erroneously rely on the government's bare assertion that no exculpatory evidence existed in denying a post-trial motion for dis…
25-6335 Jake Paul Heiney v. Ashley Richardson, Director, Lucas County Adult Probation Department, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-review habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists state-court-record 1. Whether a district court must review evidence in the state-court record when the habeas petitioner alleges it demonstrates that the state court unr…
25-6341 Selvin Edgardo Molina-Guzman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing If a federal criminal defendant fails to present rebuttal evidence, is the district court is free to adopt the Presentence Report's findings without f…
25-6342 Sergio Zamora-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing precedent-review sixth-amendment The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. "[F]act[s] that increase[]…
25-6343 Sharard Collier v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regarding Ground One pre-trial ine…
25-6344 Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP commerce-clause de-novo-review internet-crime jurisdictional-element rule-29 sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether a general challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, pursuant to Rule 29(a), preserves for de novo review the full range of sufficiency …
25-6345 Felix Verdejo-Sanchez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce pro-se-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit deny the Petitioner his motion pro se requesting to invoke the supervisory power of the Court to verify…
25-6350 Samuel J. Barrett v. Walter Tripp, Warden, Wyoming Department of Corrections State Penitentiary, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-procedure covid-pandemic effective-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment I. If a state denies a defendant a public trial by implementing a defective trial structure mech anism to limit the spread of a pandemic at the expens…
25-650 Raymon Walters v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived counsel-strategy criminal-defense defendant-rights jury-trial legal-ethics sixth-amendment Whether defense counsel may concede an element of an offense over the defendant's objection, where the concession is reasonably designed to advance th…
25-653 Shannon McKinnon v. Genaro Hernandez Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (4)Response Waived appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine federal-jurisdiction final-judgment-rule sovereign-immunity state-law-immunity Whether an order denying a local official's claim of state-law immunity is immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral-order doctrine…
25-656 In Re Rayon Payne Denied Response Waived due-process immigration-law judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default supervisory-authority 1. Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory authority under 28 U.S.C. §165 1(a) to resolve a structural conflict created when two federal…
25-665 Colin R. Covitz v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice Did the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals err when it held there was "no basis for relief" under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) merely because there was not …
25-669 Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal 1. Whether Rosin's involuntary transfer was: 1) an administrative transfer, or 2) a punitive/disciplinary demotion? 2. Whether a certified public-sch…
25-675 Lawrence Rudolph v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c…
25-682 Nikolas S. Casillas v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived due-process fair-notice military-justice sexual-assault statutory-liability yates-error A "Yates" error occurs when a general verdict is supportable on one theory of liability but not on another, and it is impossible to tell which theory …
25-684 Malcolm Curtis, et ux. v. Department of the Treasury, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection income-reporting judicial-presumption tax-law Whether granting the IRS a judicial presumption of correctness violates due process and equal protection in a case where a taxpayer is accused of not …
25-685 Robert D. Schneider v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response Waived criminal-appeals entry-of-judgment firearms-ban military-courts second-amendment ucmj Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. §§ 860c and 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated…
25-696 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a "suitable" federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.…
25-72 James Randall Moehle v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-mandate criminal-procedure felony-trial jury-composition sixth-amendment williams-precedent Whether this Court should reevaluate its decision in Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970), and hold that twelve-person juries are constitutionally …
25-76 Carolyn Jackson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process post-release-punishment sentence-recall Carolyn Jackson fully completed her sentence of 40 months' incarceration plus supervised release. More than four and a half years after being released…
25-88 Delco LLC, dba Delco Products v. Leviathan Group LLC Sixth Circuit Denied arbitration-award attorney-fees circuit-court-review contract-breach contract-deliverables michigan-law 1. Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") erred by not remanding to the District Court to order Leviathan to pro…
25A489 Ray L. Diaz Santiago v. Manuel Miranda, et al. First Circuit Application None Question not identified.
25A571 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. Eighth Circuit Application child-protection constitutional-rights custody-proceedings due-process fraud perjury Whether a state child protection agency's alleged fraudulent or perjured petition violates a parent's constitutional due process rights when used to i…
25M43 Jett Garriott Adams v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending Relisted (2) None
25M44 In Re Patrick R. Harper Pending None
25M45 George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. United States Federal Circuit Pending None
25M46 Edward L. Clark v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending None
25M47 Tony Daniel Klein v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending None
25M48 John Doe v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pending None
25M49 David Calhoun v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending None
25M50 Duane Letroy Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Relisted (2) None
25M51 In Re Rodolfo Vela, Sr. et al. Pending None