Conference: 2026-01-23

87 cases — 2 granted, 76 denied/dismissed, 9 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1279 Frank J. Anderson, Jr. v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Relisted (2) criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-modification sixth-amendment Does the New Jersey judicial process of preparing a judgment of conviction in the petitioner's absence, departing from the orally pronounced sentence,…
24-395 William Edward Neilly v. Michigan Michigan GVR Response RequestedRelisted (8) constitutional-law criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legal-interpretation punishment restitution Whether restitution ordered as part of a criminal sentence constitutes punishment under the Ex Post Facto Clause
24-7128 Kenneth Carey, et al. v. Jonathan Kirk, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP contract-conspiracy corporate-liability discovery-sanctions intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress jurisdiction-long-arm music-industry Whether UMG and Interscope Records can be held liable for profiting from an illegal marketing scheme involving physical attacks by DaBaby
24-7176 Miriam Pope v. Chetan Patel, fka Hitesh Patel Alabama Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law discovery-rights due-process immigration-status undocumented-persons Whether a statutory rule of civil procedure denying discovery to a defendant violates the Constitution's due process clause, and whether due process a…
24-7363 Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman Whether a circuit split exists regarding Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application to void judgments and whether institutional manipulation violates due p…
25-348 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit Pending drug-price-negotiation due-process government-pricing inflation-reduction-act medicare-transactions pharmaceutical-manufacturers Whether the IRA implicates an interest of pharmaceutical manufacturers that is protected by the Due Process Clause
25-426 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent Whether a state-court decision is 'contrary to' federal law where its reasoning and outcome contradict materially indistinguishable Supreme Court prec…
25-459 Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports Sixth Circuit Granted Relisted (2) audiovisual-services consumer-definition disclosure-liability personally-identifiable-information statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act Whether the phrase 'goods or services from a video tape service provider' in the VPPA refers to all goods and services or only audiovisual goods and s…
25-482 Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-law compensation-benefits disability-claims pension-benefits va-regulations veterans-benefits Whether the VA must process a disability claim as a claim for both pension and compensation if the veteran has a possible entitlement to both benefits…
25-497 Jacqueline Sterling v. Southlake Nautilus Health & Racquet Club, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied bankruptcy-discharge contempt-hearing discharge-injunction incarceration-damages reputation-damage tort-principles Whether Sterling is entitled to compensation for the decades-long effect of her erroneous incarceration on her reputation and whether a party in conte…
25-507 Chang Y. Aiona, V. v. County of Hawaii, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii Denied defamation first-amendment legal-precedent milkovich-standard opinion-exception public-interest Whether the 'opinion' exception can be extended to a private, non-public interest, defamation lawsuit in violation of the Court's decision Milkovich v…
25-51 Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al. v. Charles Brandon Martin Fourth Circuit Granted Relisted (11) aedpa-standard brady-violation federal-habeas judicial-deference legal-reasonableness state-court-review Did the Fourth Circuit violate AEDPA's deferential standard by overturning a state-court decision based on the supposed lack of 'nuance' and 'exhausti…
25-5254 Xena Ames v. Federal Express Corporation Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellant-court compulsory-process constitutional-rights district-court due-process sixth-amendment Whether the denial by the District Court and Appellant Court of compulsory process violated petitioners rights under the Sixth Amendment to the United…
25-5290 Stacy L. Conner v. Ken Paxton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-intervention liberty-interest petition-review Does the Constitution still protect and serve each American citizen equally, and does a single act of depriving a citizen of due process or access to …
25-5665 Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (1)IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection judicial-discretion jury-selection race-discrimination voir-dire Does the knowing judicial enforcement of defense counsel's explicitly race-based agreement to exclude a Black woman from the venire violate the Equal …
25-5704 Jeanie Reese v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-authority federal-prosecution interstate-commerce Does the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v. Raich expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original constitutional limits of the Comme…
25-5826 Dover Davis, Jr. v. Officer Aaron Swann Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-facts section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether there was a conflict between the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Northern District Court of Georgia regarding the statute of limitat…
25-592 Teresa Miller v. Officer Helms, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 conviction-vacatur heck-v-humphrey judicial-prejudice pro-se-filing section-1404 Did the Fourth Circuit misapply Heck v. Humphrey by failing to recognize a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim's accrual upon conviction vacatur, and did it err in…
25-593 Gerald Scott v. Boca Landings Homeowners Association, Inc. Florida Denied discretionary-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigants statute-of-limitations Whether a state supreme court's summary denial of discretionary review of a Per Curium Affirmance (PCA) involving a Statute of Limitation defense viol…
25-5933 Willie Dennis v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure counsel-abandonment court-of-appeals-inaction deadline-extension pro-se-petition record-access Whether the Supreme Court should grant relief due to constructive denial of appellate record access through counsel abandonment and court of appeals' …
25-5940 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence deprived Powers of his right to a fair trial in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
25-595 James William Hall v. Anthony Board, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure death-threats judicial-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Barberton Municipal Court's lack of subject matter jurisdiction and refusal to hold a hearing violated the petitioner's constitutional rig…
25-5993 Robert S. Pierce v. Demetric Godfrey, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
25-601 Ralston Brown v. Mellekas, Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process judicial-estoppel megan's-law plea-agreement retroactive-statute Whether the New York Court of Appeals erred in its conclusion regarding the retroactive application of Connecticut Megan's Law and its impact on Mr. B…
25-606 John Stockton, et al. v. Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment judicial-review medical-board-regulation state-action viewpoint-discrimination younger-abstention Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of Younger abstention doctrine improperly defers judicial review of a state medical board's COVID-19 misinform…
25-607 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause by creating de facto respondeat superior liability forbidden by Section 1983
25-610 Hansueli Overturf v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District California Denied civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment hague-service-convention service-of-process Whether entry of default based on defective service of process violates the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of notice and an opportunity to be heard?
25-613 Marquise Miller v. Legacy Bank Tenth Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-discouragement equal-credit-opportunity-act loan-application prospective-applicants Whether the Equal Credit Opportunity Act authorizes a cause of action for individuals who are prospective applicants or inquirers subject to discrimin…
25-6155 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct stare-decisis Whether established laws protect against indefinite suppression of public records showing fraudulent prosecutions and constitutional rights violations
25-6160 Pamela Short Powell, Individually and on Behalf of Diana Lynn Short, Margaret Julia Short, Daniel Alan Short, and Jack Warren Short, Jr. v. Anthony Decicco, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP fifth-circuit-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-conflict judicial-recusal procedural-irregularity sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in sua sponte dismissal of a case without addressing multiple procedural irregularities including judicial conflicts, …
25-6172 Quantell Williams v. Austin J. Robinson, et al. Florida Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-filing psychiatric-duress settlement state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court enforces a settlement entered over a litigant's explicit objectio…
25-6175 Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-counsel fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance reasonable-expectation-privacy state-law supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit and U.S.D.C. misinterpreted state law and Supreme Court precedent regarding ineffective assistance of appellate counsel and …
25-6182 Terrance Scott Belcher v. Christopher Becker Michigan Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6184 Albert Jackson v. Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review longshore-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an Administrative Law Judge can lawfully review, modify, and terminate a previously adjudicated Longshore Harbor Workers' Act claim without fo…
25-6190 Steven Dale Bradley v. Iowa Iowa Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Question not identified.
25-6192 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case now a ripe Article III constitutional case ready to proceed to discovery and jury trial as an 18 USC …
25-6193 In Re Gerald Nelson Dismissed IFP complete-preemption federal-removal labor-management-relations-act original-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus can compel a Circuit court to remand a case to state court when removal was improper, and whether complete preemption under…
25-6194 Douglas P. Pasquinzo v. Montana Montana Denied IFP constitutional-rights montana-law ninth-circuit procedural-due-process prosecutorial-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether state courts violate procedural due process by allowing prosecutors to amend complaints without judicial leave, thereby lacking subject-matter…
25-6201 Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Whether the Virginia Attorney General's office's discretionary decisions regarding state statutes and case law for civil commitments violate equal pro…
25-6204 Brian N. Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to have appellate counsel raise every nonfrivolous issue, and whether searches of home and per…
25-6205 Sonny L. Thomas v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6206 Brett Talmadge v. Alaska Alaska Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure Did the Alaska Supreme Court misapply Heck v. Humphrey and violate the Bill of Attainder prohibition in a decision of national importance?
25-6209 Rick Negrette v. Phu V. Pham, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-usc-110 bankruptcy-court fine-imposition judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant public-assistance Whether the bankruptcy court abused its discretion in imposing a $12,000 fine on a pro se litigant receiving public assistance without considering the…
25-6210 Ronnie James Monroe v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6211 In Re Jordan Monroe Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires Whether a Court of Appeals can issue a merits decision without a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in violation of 28 U.S.C. §2253 and Supreme Court …
25-6214 Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6225 Alejandro Peña Salvador v. Washington Washington Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether ineffective assistance of counsel during direct appeal constitutes a violation of due process rights that warrants federal habeas review
25-6226 Christopher Gregory v. California California Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6227 Melvin Clark v. Rafael Acevedo, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6231 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal requires mandatory Sprint analysis before Younger abstention and resolves circuit conflicts regarding…
25-6232 Stanley Foster Baker v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified.
25-6234 Edwin Riascos Romero v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) was proper on challenges to sufficiency of evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel i…
25-6238 Gregory Webb v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights incarceration ineffective-assistance legal-procedure post-conviction pro-se Whether an attorney proceeding pro se, having been sentenced, can be prejudiced by ineffective assistance of counsel after sentence has ended and whil…
25-6240 Joel Contreras-Aguilar v. Texas Texas Pending Response RequestedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process immigration-status ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Whether Texas courts have undermined federal law regarding disclosure of immigration status in criminal cases and the applicability of the Strickland …
25-6244 Tasleema Yasin v. VM Master Issuer, LLC Georgia Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review due-process electronic-filing equal-protection first-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a timely notice of appeal is denied solely because of the State's malfunctionin…
25-6246 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Piazza, Corrections Officer, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6248 Nathan David Black v. Ryan Flores, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction protection-order Question not identified.
25-6249 Robert Bell v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP dna-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sexual-assault sixth-amendment Is the right to effective assistance of counsel violated when defense counsel fails to investigate and obtain a DNA expert to rebut the state's expert…
25-6251 Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportunity…
25-6252 Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit Did the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition by procedural default without reviewing the record…
25-6268 Arnold Conyers v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant felon-disarmament legal-precedent second-amendment state-split Whether states can prevent a criminal defendant from invoking the Second Amendment as a defense and whether there is a historical tradition of permane…
25-6277 Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights eeo-claim employment-discrimination federal-employees postal-service workplace-harassment Question not identified.
25-6282 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process homeland-security labor-department osha-complaint whistleblower-protection Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings and erroneously dismissed the petitioner's AIR21…
25-629 Billy Puckett v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-questions police-procedure reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment by prolonging a traffic stop with unrelated investigatory questions
25-6295 Caleb L. McGillvary v. Nicholas Scutari, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review legal-standing Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportunity…
25-6312 Fred Baskin v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated by a warrantless search of an arrestee's backpack when the arrestee is in handcuffs and the police lack proba…
25-632 Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Eleventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether a court may independently determine the scope of claims in arbitral pleadings without deference to the arbitrator's determination under 9 U.S.…
25-6337 Reginald Sanders v. Fitness International, LLC, dba Esporta Fitness, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-filing appellate-procedure judicial-order local-rule petition-rejection rehearing-deadline Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 40(a)(1)'s mandatory 14-day rehearing deadline may be nullified through administrative filing systems that…
25-6346 Corey Gaynor v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel was ineffective and the trial court's unconstitutional jury instruction violated the 6th and 14th Amendments and whether the Thi…
25-6362 Dan Ioan Belc v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Whether the cumulative prosecutorial misconduct and trial court errors fundamentally undermined the petitioner's right to a fair trial
25-6364 Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal…
25-637 Mark Hanneman, Minneapolis Police Officer, et al. v. Karen Wells, as Co-Trustee for the Next of Kin of Amir Rahkare Locke, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deadly-force fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether an appellate court can dismiss a qualified immunity appeal for lack of jurisdiction when video evidence and factual allegations suggest the of…
25-6374 Darin Lee Jones v. Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP deliberate-indifference lieutenant-more log-book prisoner-housing procedural-misconduct signature-verification Whether Lieutenant More's signature on housing and segregation log books constitutes evidence of deliberate indifference or procedural misconduct in p…
25-639 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe…
25-6437 Sean Blaine James v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-clause incorporation-doctrine sentence-enhancement Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
25-648 Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, fka Greenback Business Services LLC, dba Cleer Tax Second Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review contempt-sanctions due-process legal-consequences mootness temporary-restraining-order Whether due process permits contempt sanctions to be imposed under a Temporary Restraining Order that was never reviewed on appeal, where the court of…
25-649 Tamim Shansab v. Nasir Shansab, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived continuing-violations-doctrine due-process evidence-tampering rule-12b6 statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Whether newly disclosed Department of Justice evidence can serve as grounds for reversing a district court's dismissal of a complaint, and whether the…
25-652 Patricia J. Curto v. Erie County Water Authority, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights due-process notice-requirements procedural-fairness water-service-termination Whether the Erie County Water Authority's alleged notice procedures violated due process rights when terminating water service to a customer based on …
25-654 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error Did the 3rd Circuit Court err by accepting District Court's interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order not signed by a Judge, violatin…
25-655 In Re Rayon Payne Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations due-process judicial-bias procedural-limbo statutory-interpretation venue-transfer Whether a United States District Court may transfer a case under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) to a judicial district where the Plaintiff has already demonstrat…
25-659 Michael L. Levinson v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence Whether the clandestine replacement of a Jewish Administrative Law Judge with a Muslim ALJ was prejudicial and violated due process rights, and whethe…
25-670 James Console, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process federal-tort-claims ftca-exception mandatory-duty restitution-statute victim-rights Whether the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act bars liability when federal employees violate mandatory statutory duties r…
25-677 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-harm disparate-impact fair-housing-act race-neutral-policy Whether a federal court may certify a damages class that contains members who lack any injury other than an intangible harm based on the asserted disp…
25-690 Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. Bradley Bieganski Ninth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived burden-shifting constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review Did the Ninth Circuit fail to apply the correct deferential standard of review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and misapply Supreme Court precedents regardi…
25-717 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-order state-action Whether the State of Mississippi can effectively suspend habeas corpus and incarcerate Carlos Jackson using an invalid order
25-738 Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test fails to comport with the Fourth Amendment and Graham v. Connor because the test does …
25M52 Antonia Blackwell v. Michael Boehm, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending None