Conference: 2026-02-20

453 cases — 0 granted, 32 denied/dismissed, 421 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1099 Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) bodily-pressure fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity restraint use-of-force Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time, did the officers act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment by using bodyweight pressure …
24-1155 Melynda Vincent v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Tenth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Relisted (7) circuit-split constitutional-challenge firearm-disarmament historical-analysis nonviolent-felony second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm a person with a seventeen-year-old nonviolent felony conviction for t…
24-1268 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Bastrop County, Texas Fifth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Relisted (12) criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-law innocence-claim postconviction-relief Whether Article 64, as authoritatively construed by the CCA, violates due process by arbitrarily denying prisoners access to postconviction DNA testin…
24-6550 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard Whether the Third Circuit misapplied Strickland and Slack standards in denying Brown's ineffective assistance of counsel claim when substantial eviden…
24-7345 Anita Sue Bryant v. Estate of Laura J. Bryant Indiana Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure case-dismissal court-of-appeals in-forma-pauperis notice-requirement procedural-due-process Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly closed Appellant's case without addressing pending motions and without providing notice
24-7489 Mark Todd Minor v. Florida Florida Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP None Question not identified.
24-7495 Jose Mario Lopez Carrillo v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether ineffective assistance of counsel occurred when discovery was not properly provided and multiple constitutional rights were allegedly violated
25-1 James Skinner v. Louisiana Louisiana Pending Amici (7)Relisted (5) brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-precedent post-conviction-relief Did Louisiana courts err in refusing to apply Wearry to Mr. Skinner's Brady claims?
25-153 Gator's Custom Guns, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) ammunition-feeding-devices arms circuit-split constitutional-protection precedent second-amendment Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are 'Arms' presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under…
25-170 Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. Colorado Pending Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) climate-change federal-law greenhouse-gas-emissions international-emissions interstate-emissions state-law-claims Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-…
25-179 Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force Whether an officer's intended level of force and mistaken use of force impacts Fourth Amendment reasonableness and qualified immunity analysis in exce…
25-198 Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (6)Relisted (7) ammunition-ban common-use firearms-regulation property-rights second-amendment takings-clause Whether a ban on commonly owned ammunition feeding devices violates the Second Amendment and whether dispossessing citizens of lawfully acquired prope…
25-206 Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. District of Columbia Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction Whether a state criminal court can renege on a prior dismissal of criminal cases and whether such action constitutes judicial misconduct or violates d…
25-227 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor and Loper Bright constrain the deference courts may accord the Sentencing Commission's inter…
25-238 Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Amici (1)Relisted (6) constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-rights individual-liberty second-amendment semiautomatic-weapons Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles
25-248 District of Columbia v. R.W. District of Columbia Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) fourth-amendment investigative-stop judicial-review law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude a fact known to the officer, or instead must as…
25-259 January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Amici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (5) circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy When a plaintiff alleges that the application of a state policy infringed a fundamental right 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition,' …
25-283 Seaboard Marine Ltd. v. Odette Blanco De Fernandez, aka Blanco Rosell Eleventh Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) corporate-law cuba-sanctions helms-burton-act property-confiscation shareholder-rights trafficking-definition Does the Helms-Burton Act abrogate basic corporate law and permit shareholders to maintain Title III actions based on confiscated corporate property t…
25-29 Priscilla Villarreal v. Isidro R. Alaniz, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) arrest-without-cause civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-officials qualified-immunity Whether it obviously violates the First Amendment to arrest someone for asking government officials questions and publishing the information they volu…
25-297 Jacob P. Zorn v. Shela M. Linton Second Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity specificity Whether the Second Circuit's qualified immunity analysis conflicts with this Court's repeated instruction that courts must define rights with specific…
25-316 Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla Florida Rehearing Relisted (2) access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether a state court's denial of meaningful appellate review based on an absent transcript violates due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
25-324 Richard William Kleinhammer v. California California Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment Whether a postconviction appellate court can create a bar to self-representation without exception or discretionary review of merits
25-325 Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland Maryland Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2) violate the Second Amendment on its face and as applied, in light of recent Supreme Court pre…
25-337 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-structure first-amendment government-powers local-government official-capacity state-law Whether the Constitution categorically denies a local government any capacity to invoke it against its State, without first determining its status wit…
25-356 Steven P. Mancuso v. New York New York Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense Whether New York's firearm possession laws prohibiting ownership for persons with prior non-violent criminal convictions are facially unconstitutional…
25-362 James Griffiths, Individually and as Employee of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority v. Rita Keith, Individually and as the Natural Parent of Arthur Keith and as Administrator of the Estate of Arthur Keith, Deceased Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) None Question not identified.
25-368 Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Eleventh Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-protection first-amendment injunction law-enforcement public-begging Whether the First Amendment protects begging
25-378 Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (1) brady-violation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial-rights identification-procedure qualified-immunity section-1983 Is a police officer liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for nondisclosure of material exculpatory evidence and for violating fair trial rights through sugge…
25-382 Alicia Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission Oklahoma Pending Amici (4)Relisted (4) indian-country mcgirt-precedent reservation-rights state-taxation tax-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma may tax the income of a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen who lives and works within the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation that McGirt v. Ok…
25-409 Sherry L. Miller v. Campbell Soup Company Retirement & Pension Plan Administrative Committee Third Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) disclosure-requirements erisa fiduciary-breach procedural-protections state-law-release welfare-benefits 1. Whether ERISA permits fiduciaries to enforce a state-law general release as a condition of receiving welfare benefits, where the release bars plan-…
25-417 Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe Ninth Circuit Pending alternative-remedies bivens-remedy damages-action eighth-amendment prison-conditions special-factors Whether the Ninth Circuit here erred in recognizing a Bivens cause of action.
25-420 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. Eighth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights? Does a peti…
25-421 National Association for Gun Rights, et al. v. Ned Lamont, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit Pending Amici (2)Relisted (2) common-use-test constitutional-interpretation firearms-regulation gun-rights heller-precedent second-amendment Whether a ban on the possession of AR-15-style rifles and firearm magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds—both of which are possessed by mil…
25-427 Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process 1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du…
25-430 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Relisted (4) district-court judicial-review merits-adjudication ninth-circuit privileged-information state-secrets-privilege Whether dismissal of a claim after assertion of the state-secrets privilege requires a district court to adjudicate the merits of the claim using the …
25-434 Timothy Ryan Gove v. Sargento Foods, Inc. Seventh Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2) administrative-investigation civil-rights corporate-liability employment-discrimination federal-regulations hostile-work-environment 1. If management of a company orders and directs activities outside of its facilities listed under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(c) or framing-up an/or under…
25-438 Pacific Gas & Electric Company, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived federal-power-act ferc-jurisdiction interstate-transmission preemption regional-transmission-organization utility-incentives Regional transmission organizations ("RTOs") operate the interstate electricity grid independently. Congress in the Federal Power Act ("FPA") mandated…
25-446 Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending back-pay equitable-relief judicial-estoppel reinstatement religious-freedom-restoration-act retirement-points 1. Whether RFRA permits the equitable relief of reinstatement, to include back pay and retirement points. 2. Whether Respondents are judicially estop…
25-448 Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (1) back-pay equitable-relief judicial-estoppel reinstatement religious-freedom-restoration-act retirement-points The Religious Freedom Rest oration Act ("RFRA") permits courts to award " appropriate relief " against the government. 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb -1. This …
25-457 Topaz Johnson, et al. v. High Desert State Prison, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Relisted (4) civil-procedure court-fees filing-fee in-forma-pauperis incarcerated-plaintiff statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1) require each incarcerated plaintiff filing in forma pauperis to pay the full amount of a filing fee whether or not he is f…
25-464 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process land-use section-1983 takings-claims Whether the accrual rule for takings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies to procedural due process claims asserted in land-use disputes.
25-479 National Rifle Association of America v. Maria T. Vullo Second Circuit Pending Amici (12)Relisted (2) None 1. When Vullo implemented her scheme against the NRA, was it clearly established that the First Amendment did not allow a government official to coerc…
25-484 Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas Texas Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-technology location-tracking search-and-seizure Fourth Amendment rights vary among circuits and state high courts, as well as intrajurisdictionally between Texas federal and Texas state courts, rega…
25-487 Lynette Hathon, et al. v. Michigan Michigan Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights state-liability takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is a self-executing stand-alone claim that permits property owners to sue a State directly for just …
25-49 Alexander Sittenfeld aka P. G. Sittenfeld v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (12)Relisted (5) bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo Whether a defendant may be convicted of bribery based on ambiguous evidence of campaign contributions without an explicit quid pro quo agreement
25-492 Everglades College, Inc. v. Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1) article-iii-injury class-action-settlement government-litigation intervention legal-prejudice prudential-standing Rebuffed by Congress and this Court in its attempts to cancel student-loan debt en masse, the Biden Administration transmogrified a narrow procedural …
25-495 The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members Texas Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) airline-industry collective-bargaining-agreement preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claims third-party-liability Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law claims against a third party that cannot be resolved without interpreting a collective bargaining agr…
25-496 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-review first-amendment licensing-standards nationwide-injunction professional-speech rules-enabling-act Whether federal district and bankruptcy court professional speech local (sic) rules—that create a nationwide patchwork of conflicting licensing standa…
25-516 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Pending aedpa-deference brady-violation constitutional-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") prevents federal courts from granting habeas petitions for constitutional violations regar…
25-5202 Jacob Montana Mills v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
25-5298 Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law due-process employment-rights first-amendment judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether a federal employee's speech reporting unsafe conditions and potential misconduct is protected under the First Amendment and whether agency ret…
25-532 Diana Snow, et al. v. Dennis Wiertella, as Father and Administrator of the Estate of Randy Wiertella, Deceased Sixth Circuit Pending constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness 1. Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners, des…
25-534 Andrew Harrington, et al. v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. Ninth Circuit Pending collective-action fair-labor-standards-act forum-state nonresident-defendant opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court that has taken personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action mus…
25-5343 Kendrick Jarrell Beaird v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment, whether Stinson v. United States accurately states deference to Federal Se…
25-5398 Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment precedents by upholding Pennsylvania's Rule 590(c) regarding j…
25-5400 Andrew Charles Beard v. United States Fifth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure federal-prosecution plea-waiver sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction Whether challenging an 18 U.S.C. §924(c) conviction is a constitutional or statutory construction claim that impacts plea enforcement
25-5434 Christian Lamont Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Relisted (7)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5442 Jaron Burnett v. United States Third Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP fifth-amendment imprisonment jury-right revocation-proceeding sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment jury right applies to supervised release revocation proceedings that impose a term of imprisonment beyond the ma…
25-5456 Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America Maryland Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appointed-counsel equal-protection mootness procedural-due-process service-of-process Whether a state court of last resort erred in affirming lower court decisions that deprived petitioners of 14th Amendment equal protection and procedu…
25-5473 Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. California Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-obstruction material-errors Whether the judicial review of material errors can be obstructed
25-5489 Peter Fowler v. Correctional Officer Lucas Bohnert, et al. Seventh Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment equal-protection incarceration plra sexual-abuse Whether equal protection applies to elder inmates under sexual abuse while incarcerated and whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying a motio…
25-5521 In Re Dwight Campbell Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP None Question not identified.
25-558 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Michael Sockwell Eleventh Circuit Pending batson-challenge equitable-remedy federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-prisoner 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. §2254. 2. Whether a federal court may grant habeas relief to a guilty state prisoner upon identify…
25-559 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. v. Andrew Harrington, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1) circuit-split collective-action fair-labor-standards-act joinder notice-authorization similarly-situated Whether a district court may authorize notice inviting joinder to an FLSA collective action before a plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evid…
25-5596 Ardy Merritt v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Ninth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process fourth-amendment ninth-circuit-jurisdiction property-rights statutory-definition Does the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit have the right to redefine words, disregard constitutional and state law statutes, and oversimplify felon…
25-5608 Gary Jordan v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review government-misconduct guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment structural-error Can a defendant collaterally attack his guilty plea via 28 U.S.C. § 2255 as unconstitutional based on surreptitious pre-plea government misconduct wit…
25-5639 Fathiree Uddin Ali v. Stephen E. Adamson, Chaplain, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment individual-capacity injunctive-relief mootness religious-freedom rluipa Whether RLUIPA authorizes monetary damages against state officials in their individual capacities and whether claims for injunctive relief become moot…
25-566 Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. v. Ronnell Higgins, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Transportation, et al. Second Circuit Pending common-use constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-possession second-amendment semiautomatic-rifles Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common …
25-5663 Brahim Boumakh v. Michelle C. Reid, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools, et al. Fourth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations employment-discrimination jury-trial procedural-technicalities religious-accommodation Whether a United States District Court judge may dismiss a civil rights employment discrimination case on procedural technicalities without granting: …
25-5679 Lewis Anderson v. California California Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights deadly-weapon due-process evidence-admission propensity-evidence trial-procedure Whether California state courts violated petitioner's constitutional rights by admitting propensity evidence and convicting for assault with a deadly …
25-573 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll Second Circuit Pending Amici (5) evidence-rules propensity-evidence rule-403 rule-404b rule-413 rule-415 I. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 415 overrides Rule 403's requirement to balance the probative value of temporally remote propensity evidence again…
25-5740 Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction dna-evidence evidence-sufficiency jackson-rule moveable-object reasonable-doubt Whether any rational trier of fact could return a guilty verdict where the only evidence was a DNA hit of unknown type and quantity found on an easily…
25-5746 Kevin Dwayne Woods, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights firearm-possession individual-dangerousness marijuana-possession second-amendment state-law Whether a state may criminalize possessing a firearm while possessing a user quantity of marijuana without an individualized showing of dangerousness
25-5750 Gary David Green v. Texas Texas Pending IFP None Question not identified.
25-5753 Eddie Scott v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-statute federal-rule-60b habeas-corpus mandate-rule section-1983 younger-doctrine Whether a federal judge can keep a case closed after a plaintiff's state trial acquittal and deny relief under Federal Rule 60(B) despite the Younger …
25-5756 In Re Jody M. Johnson Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony habeas-corpus Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant a writ of habeas corpus where the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's claims o…
25-5776 Thomas Scott Perkins v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP comparative-analysis federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-commission sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Whether the detailed Judiciary Sentencing Information (JSIN) statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission are relevant to considerin…
25-5787 James Taric Byrd v. United States Third Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None 1) Whether an attorney's motion to withdraw, after being punched by his client, must be granted, in accord with this Court's decision in United States…
25-579 Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan Ninth Circuit Pending administrative-procedure-act agency-action cooperative-federalism environmental-review hazardous-waste resource-conservation-recovery-act 1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t…
25-5798 Mikhael Y. Lerman v. Celine E. Lerman California Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether California Family Code § 2550, as applied in this case, violates my Equal Protection and Due Process rights. 2. Whether rigid equal divisi…
25-5804 Kevin Kou Chun Hsieh v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Fourth Circuit Pending IFP None
25-5809 Anthony Lee Van Durmen v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-impediment WHERE PETITIONER'S APPEAL OF RIGHT WAS DELAYED FOR OVER (20) YEARS DUE TO THE STATE'S CREATED IMPEDIMENT WHICH PROHIBITED HIM FROM FILING, RESULTING I…
25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " …
25-5842 Jorge Alberto Rodriguez v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-5895 Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States Second Circuit Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi…
25-5914 Martins Inalegwu v. United States Third Circuit Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-error variance Whether a district judge can render sentencing errors harmless by stating it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any error, or by simpl…
25-5965 Samson Kanla Orusa v. United States Sixth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split controlled-substance-prescription health-care-fraud jury-instruction medical-purpose subjective-knowledge I. Whether the district court's erroneous instructions regarding what constitutes criminal liability under 21 U.S.C. section 841 (illegal distribution…
25-6008 Andre Edwards Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending IFP None 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits firearm possession by a person who "is an unlawful user of … any controlled subst…
25-6024 Wilson Ochar v. Roy S. Rubenfield Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP None Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 14.1(a) - The questions presented for review: 1. First, on June 10th 2024 the plaintiff alleges medical malpractice ag…
25-6035 Ryan P. Givey v. Alicia A. Givey Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights custody-order due-process emergency-jurisdiction patient-privilege psychological-evaluation This case was initiated by Respondent solely based on the fact that Petitioner filed a court case (US Supreme Court, Givey v DOJ, 23-7063) claiming he…
25-612 Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin Pending criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation 1. Does the word "expunged" in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or does an expungement under state law have to…
25-6134 Rodrick Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending IFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-precedent fugitive-tolling sentencing-variance supervised-release supreme-court-rule-10 (1) Should this Court summarily vacate Petitioner's judgment in light of Esteras v. United States, 666 U.S. 185 (2025), because the district court bas…
25-6136 Damien Antione Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending IFP appellate-waiver collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement Petitioner is serving a sentence for an offense that was later declared unconstitutional by this Court in United States v. Davis, 588 U.S. 445 (2019),…
25-6142 John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending IFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea mandate-rule sentencing-error I. If a court of appeals recognizes a sentencing error and remands for resentencing, does the mandate rule bar the district court from considering a d…
25-618 Craig Jonathan Warner v. Texas Texas Pending constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment witness-testimony 1. At least ten states' courts and four federal circuit courts recognize that a state's unknowing presentation of false testimony denies a defendant d…
25-62 Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2) appellate-review constitutional-rights judicial-jurisdiction procedural-due-process separation-of-powers ultra-vires When a judge ignores mandatory statutory hearing requirements, acts ultra vires, and potentially violates separation of powers, are their rulings null…
25-620 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California Pending class-action constitutional-protections employment-law opt-out-notice privacy-rights wage-and-hour After under two months, commencing after Thanks giving 2020 until separation just after Epiphany 2021, respondent Sara Perez held temporary employment…
25-623 Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco…
25-6253 Sharon Johnson v. David Danon California Pending IFP constitutional-rights first-amendment government-redress judicial-review petition-rights vexatious-statutes Whether vexatious statutory schemes used in state and federal courts overreach and violate First Amendment rights of victims to petition the courts an…
25-6256 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida Pending IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause In Artis v. District of Columbia, 138 S. Ct. 594 (2018), this Court held that states may not dismiss 28 U.S.C. § 1332 claims denied supplemental jur…
25-6258 Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. Massachusetts Pending IFP None
25-6262 Stevie Wyre v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending IFP civil-procedure complaint-dismissal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules Me fiouids Abused rU cVscoehoiJ in vlqjiesilQ€3 Comped, LxDheu Me decl we 4o etfeecise suppkwd jmzisiudwo o\fe£ ChJq $We to Qfl. defied of VbS I^wssd …
25-6263 Sherri Richardson v. Irongate Mutual Homes, Inc., trading as Pear Tree Park Townhomes Fourth Circuit Pending IFP appellate-review counterclaims district-court federal-question jurisdiction procedural-considerations I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT THAT FEDERAL QUESTION JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL CONSIDERATIONS DI…
25-6272 James Taylor v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending IFP consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa legal-standing nonjudicial-foreclosure statutory-interpretation I. Under 15 U.S.C. § 1692, is Freedom Mortgage Corporation a "Debt Collector" under the FDCPA's Primary Definition, when attempting to collect debt? …
25-6274 In Re Richard B. Jennings Pending IFP None Question not identified.
25-6283 Samuel Patrick Cain, Jr. v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-claim district-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review state-law 1. Whether District court erred in stating Petitioner's claim involves state law, not federal law and habeas relief is not available for violations of…
25-6287 Marcus Brent Fields v. Pfizer Inc., et al. Second Circuit Pending IFP corporate-ethics drug-development federal-violations pharmaceutical-liability regulatory-compliance securities-law a) Pfizer Defendands Knew there Courd ~ TO yotene Lot RA boy , Could ~ Cause more Sever and or Heard damage body orguns damage eS pecially Ceeapmet Am…
25-6289 Freeman Adrian Smalls v. Medline Industries Eleventh Circuit Pending IFP None In rvxy 4o 3okn KIPlny <L<An '-V kx k({d<x$5 4-k<_ f*<4 , tazMAe. © P A b tC ^Vud^^ ZTohjq K dfiA^ Pf^e_ ry\x^-k> I U-fy } b<ty^ k)^vH1^2<LwV'^ dv<lf…
25-6290 In Re Jerry E. Robertson Pending IFP None Question not identified.
25-6291 Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. Ohio Pending IFP equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul…
25-6292 Rickey Benson v. Kirk Fields, Chief Jailer, Shelby County Correctional Center Sixth Circuit Pending IFP None Question not identified.
25-6296 Emmanuel Folly v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Pending IFP arbitration-findings civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigant 1. Whether systemic barriers preventing a pro se litigant from securing counsel, where stigma impedes representation, constitute "extraordinary circu…
25-630 Ruth Moton v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Pending Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights court-access due-process election-claims impartial-adjudication 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by dis…
25-6301 Leroy Dorsey v. New York New York Pending IFP None (fit $-3. Erhnd 'not! ^•(Xfld&s VldV u.Se/ pC <2X&rd/5e^ ^e * clodtr p«i<S Pf'ix/a'te invesri3-artvr a&e.<x 7^ 'PubPee.rfa the Text fftSSci&e-S Pt'o…
25-6304 John Henry Clemons, III v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-deprivation due-process first-amendment policy-implementation prisoner-rights property-interest 1) When considering the suppression of a prisoner's First Amendment right to freedom of expression and association by a prison policy, is it possible…
25-6305 Anthony Darrell Heath v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health miranda-rights 1. Was Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966) decided for that specific class of persons "not mentally ill" that is…
25-631 Jae S. Nah v. Andrew V. Jablon, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived copyright-discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-courts judicial-procedure remand-order 1. In this early stage of litigation, DC and Appeal courts ignored 1-188 pages of factual evidence showing 7 Orders of 4 federal courts ruled by fraud…
25-6320 Dean Spencer v. Utah Utah Pending Response WaivedIFP blood-alcohol-concentration criminal-prosecution measurement-error per-se-threshold reasonable-doubt toxicological-evidence 1. In an alcohol DUI prosecution where the only question was if Mr. Spencer's BAC was above Utah's then-applicable per se threshold of 0.08, two toxic…
25-6322 Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington Washington Pending IFP factual-findings fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction-exception sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was subject to an increased standard sentence based on the trial cour…
25-6328 Talitha Lacey Combs, aka Talitha Lacey Randall v. Urban Restaurant Group, et al. Oregon Pending IFP constitutional-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss pro-se-status whistleblower-retaliation (1) When the bias, prejudice, or partiality against a pro se Plaintiff is based on either her pro se status or her previous whistleblowing activities …
25-6331 Anthony Roland v. NBC Subsidiary (WMAQ-TV) LLC Seventh Circuit Pending IFP complaint-interpretation due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review privacy-violation video-evidence Whether the lower courts deprived the Petitioner of due process by failing to acknowledge or examine video evidence properly incorporated into the com…
25-6333 Cameron Kemp v. Michael Powers, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity municipal-liability self-help-eviction 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's statutory right to appeal, despite Judge Sims' knowledge of a self-help evi…
25-6336 Joshua J. Lewandowski v. Jefferey Perkins, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-counsel fetal-alcohol-syndrome guilty-plea mental-disability sixth-amendment A. Does the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution require Defense Counsel to ensure A mentally disabled defendants guilty plea tod of Congr…
25-6338 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending IFP appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-standing Did the lower court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a …
25-6339 Jeffrey Keller v. Justices of the Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District Illinois Pending IFP None Question not identified.
25-6340 Robert Knickerbocker v. Michigan Michigan Pending IFP constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review I. Did A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATION OCCUR WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 29B …
25-6349 In Re Ashley Black Pending IFP None Whether the lower courts violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments through judicial misconduct, fr…
25-635 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC Sixth Circuit Pending appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review? 2. Whether the United S…
25-6351 Anthony James Merrick v. Kenneth Herman, Former Administrator of Religious and Volunteer Services, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-decisions prisoners-rights Mr. MeMTicXC oMegecl -HieA pv\scsr* cXVtcvcAs hack wvcAcAed V»ls freecWguvoC reU^ur* cmA*-><a V»Abe U& D^irictCcwrV cmci AVicA Atae cLocAvM<ve-s <s4 R…
25-6352 Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia Virginia Pending IFP complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpator…
25-6355 Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge bruen-test circuit-split felony-restriction firearm-possession second-amendment 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet…
25-6356 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio Pending IFP appeal-as-of-right due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-judgment pro-se 1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the fi…
25-6358 Larry E. Webster, Jr. v. Bala Davuluri Fifth Circuit Pending IFP false-claims-act first-amendment hipaa-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress medicaid-jurisdiction medical-malpractice Under Article III of the Constitution, Federal courts can hear 'all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, [and] the laws of the U…
25-636 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts Pending confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets 1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote…
25-6360 Fatima Touijer v. Providence Housing Authority, et al. Rhode Island Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination due-process fair-housing-act housing-authority 1. Whether the Rhode Island state courts erred in treating Petitioner's claims of racial, religious, and disability-based discrimination under the Fai…
25-6361 Ronald Johnson v. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. Kansas Pending IFP constitutional-provisions court-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari I. Bia. \\\e, W/. CO. ICC. CHi'jrnO' Oxd h.av£ -[he. auihof'i '-n b i//oldr& bto ^wacoL obflarBrcS / dto&3 dJ-^Y/bClo), oC ^coceed, u/tlkajb^ L \M£C o…
25-6363 Arturo Amaran v. Florida Florida Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law fifth-amendment judicial-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Given the United States Supreme Court's now long standing and clear 5th Amendment jurisprudence, do Florida Courts have authority to expand, or oth…
25-6365 Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Pending IFP ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access 1. Recusal and Void Orders Whether the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause permit a state judge to continue issuing substantive custody, cont…
25-6370 Evelyn Courtney v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-employment mspb-jurisdiction prohibited-personnel-practices WHY WILL THE MSPB NOT TAKE JURISDICTION OVER MY REQUEST FOR GRIEVANCE WHEN NUMERQUS PROHIBITED PERSONNEL PRACTICES WERE PERFORMED, THREATS TO MY SAFET…
25-6372 Andre Belous v. City of Battle Creek, Michigan Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-defect loper-bright municipal-officer oath-of-office 1. Oath of Office & Due Process Whether a state court judgment is void when initiated by a municipal officer who never filed the constitutionally req…
25-6376 In Re Evelyn Thomas Pending IFP court-access docket-manipulation judicial-fraud judicial-integrity mandamus-writ pro-se-rights 1. Whether the Supreme Court should issue an extraordinary writ of mandamus where the petitioner has provided documented evidence of fraudulent docket…
25-6377 Ronald Wolters v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Did the Sixth Circuits denial of a COA decide the important federal question related to sufficiency of the evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doub…
25-6378 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio Pending IFP aggravated-murder criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether sufficient evidence existed to reject the defense of self defense where the defendant was violently attacked, beaten, and through the a mir…
25-6379 Kevin Ogden v. George Stephenson, Warden, et al. New Mexico Pending IFP constitutional-rights corrections-department disciplinary-procedures double-jeopardy legal-process witness-treatment Does the State of N.M. practice illegal Law violating the N.M. Corrections Department and its facilities? Does the State of N.M. commit fraud by fili…
25-6380 Anthony James Merrick v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending IFP due-process first-amendment grievance-rights judicial-decision legal-access pro-se-prisoner I. THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICTS WITH TURNER V. SAFELY, 482 U.S. 78 AND CREATES A DOUBLE STANDARD FOR PRO-SE PRISONERS THAT DO…
25-6381 James Pettus v. Bryan Mazzola, et al. Second Circuit Pending IFP case-statement constitutional-provisions jurisdiction opinions statutory-provisions writ Tb ^2^ '2 2c\ O^ ,£> oe o\d tub 2.^° ex^cjort CoocsT iT^d z Get Congee H^piGvAE?, oe vUa-stAe cvTeG CjleGE Appa^t--o B' ~TWL Gcmhzmd G^ SEE- AvVe^Ai…
25-6383 Wilson Ochar v. Lentegrity, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 14.1(a) - The questions presented for review: 1. HERE COMES NOW, Wilson Ochar, the petitioner in this case, hereby sub…
25-6384 Edward F. Parks v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6386 Gavin Michael Harold v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-punishment jury-trial mandatory-minimum restitution sixth-amendment In 2018, Congress enacted the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act, which established a mandatory minimum restitution amount o…
25-6388 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-counsel suppressed-evidence voluntary-manslaughter Should a certificate of appealability have issued, where the suppressed evidence, considered cumulatively, would have placed a burden on the Commonwea…
25-6391 Delfon Blair v. Ohio, et al. Ohio Pending IFP None /he. looK <A eta en>JJta\ ta taw-t |4 tau> ta ta<
25-6392 Christopher Tyler Bray v. Texas Texas Pending IFP constitutional-law establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-interest religious-freedom What is the meaning of religion as it concerns the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, and what are the implicatio…
25-6393 Cortez D. Porter v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-6394 Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda New Jersey Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment 1. Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations. 2. Whether judicial sanctions imposed as penalties require due pr…
25-6395 In Re Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-status writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether the Court of Appeals violated its constitutional duty by failing to determine the absence of federal subject-matter jurisdiction after the…
25-6396 Javier Rivera Franco v. Texas Texas Pending IFP conviction-validity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sentencing-error 1. Is Petitioner Franco illegally imprisoned under a invalid 75 year sentence in Indictment / Cause No. F05-45713-T and under a invalid conviction ?…
25-6397 Mark Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t…
25-6398 Loni Nicole Granger, et al. v. Lauren J. King, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mandamus ninth-circuit random-assignment 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated petitioners ' Fifth Amendment due-process rights by summarily denying in-forma-pauperis status and dismissing t…
25-6399 John Willie Mack, Jr. v. Barry Joe Barnette, Solicitor of the 7th Circuit, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending IFP None Question not identified.
25-640 Randall Williams, as Personal Representative of the Estates of Shanice R. Dantzler-Williams and Miranda R. Dantzler-Williams, et al. v. Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending arm-of-the-state county-office eleventh-amendment judgment-analysis sovereign-immunity state-liability When the State is not liable for a judgment against an entity, what weight should this fact be given in the arm-of-the-state immunity analysis of that…
25-6400 Israel Montemayor v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP None
25-6401 Frankie Centeno v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure felony-conviction gun-rights second-amendment supervised-release 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with theSecond Amendment, the federal…
25-6402 Anwar Mithavayani v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the lower courts provided sufficient and adequate process to test the legality of Petitioner's Detention under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and due pro…
25-6403 Miguel Abreu v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felony-possession gun-rights permanent-disarmament second-amendment Petitioner Miguel Abreu possessed a gun only because, during a dispute, he disarmed another person and then retreated. Because he had two prior felony…
25-6404 JT Myore v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-jury-instructions due-process homicide-prosecution lesser-included-offense voluntary-manslaughter Under federal law, murder is defined as "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought." 18 U.S.C. § 1. Voluntary manslaughter is def…
25-6406 Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli…
25-6407 Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w…
25-6408 Lynette Cooper v. City of Baltimore, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending IFP chemical-battery civil-rico due-process judicial-review pro-se-litigant witness-tampering 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's Due Process rights by affirming the District Court's sua sponte dismissal of a detailed civil RIC…
25-6410 Hunter Michael Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing firearms-display glock-switches instagram-advertisement sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g.-guidelines Whether the court properly applied a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) based on Petitioner's display of firearms in advertisement…
25-6412 Israel Navarro v. New York New York Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee criminal defendants, like the petitioner Israel Navarro, the right to a jury trial on statutorily req…
25-6413 Marcus T. Dixon v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure law-enforcement probation-condition property-rights standing-to-challenge warrantless-search 1) Law enforcement conducted warrantless searches related to Marcus Dixon and a supervision condition that allowed searches of "his" property. He move…
25-6414 Matthew R. Davis v. Maine First Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-rights expert-testimony eye-witness-identification ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel, under the Sixth Amendment, by failing to timely disclose an expert report on eye-witness …
25-6415 Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 is titled "Clerical Error" and states, "[a]fter giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any…
25-6416 Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Though district courts have discretion to impose appropriate conditions of supervised release, that discretion is limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3583. See Con…
25-6417 Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None /-w/alh C/mut C&aA Appeals bo 1-0 CL XSA-U^zt're 0£ Z^tyjfid^ih-ly. <3 -Vo dl&ims X c*\A H CiX oi A-bbo/ie/b-s Xsezlwn ^25^ U* zi j XnJ2, S&nc&on&J …
25-6418 Joshua David Havins v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split firearm-possession second-amendment section-922g supreme-court-review Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of the potential grant…
25-6419 Tonnie Nealy v. Donald Sawyer, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference institutional-liability prisoner-safety professional-judgment (1) Whether the 11th circuit failed to comply with this court's binding ruling in FARMER V. BRENNAN, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in its finial opinion, since …
25-6420 In Re Ryan D. Mumme Pending IFP article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction federal-court government-liability judicial-power sovereign-immunity 1. Whether the applicant has a right to the relief he demands; 2. If he has a right, and that right has been violated, whether the laws of his countr…
25-6421 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Is a Writ of Audita Querela under 28 USC 1651, the "All Writs Act", applicable where a defendant was barred under the Supreme Court's UNITED STATES v.…
25-6422 Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation 1. Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800, under which Petitioner was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, enacted in…
25-6423 Ammar al Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review detainee-rights geneva-convention jurisdiction military-law mixed-medical-commission Whether the Court of Appeals erred by denying jurisdiction over Petitioner's appeal. In particular, did the Court of Appeals err by interpreting provi…
25-6424 Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25-6425 Tyshon Thompson v. Illinois Illinois Pending Response WaivedIFP None 1. Whether this Court's language in footnote nine from New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 38 n. 9 (2022), allows courts t…
25-6426 In Re Tamas Hampel Pending IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-process petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is required to docket a timely filed petition for rehearing submitted pursuant to Fed…
25-6427 Devin Joe Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25-6429 Georgiy Chipunov v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats In Counterman v. Colorado, 600 U.S. 66, 73 (2023), the Court clarified that, to comply with the First Amendment's protections, prosecutors "must prove…
25-643 Onwy Uzoigwe v. Charter Communications, LLC Second Circuit Pending appellate-review civil-procedure forum-defendant-rule pro-se-pleading removal-jurisdiction service-of-process 1. Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's late return of a CPLR 312-a acknowledgment form does not constitute proper service u…
25-6430 Jesse Michael Holliday v. California California Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pretrial-detention state-court-review 1) Whether the due process rights of the petitioner were violated when he was subjected to multiple pretrial assaults/batteries/maiming by deputies a…
25-6431 Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s…
25-6432 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Under the ACCA's categorical approach, if a state statute expressly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definitions of "serious drug offense" or …
25-6433 Avis Coward v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on…
25-6435 Lenny Reyes v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-6436 Francisco Junior Louis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-delay criminal-procedure grand-jury pro-se-motion speedy-trial Is a criminal defendant's statutory and constitutional right to a speedy trial violated when the delay in obtaining an indictment arose from the gover…
25-6438 Frankie Acosta v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearms-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term e…
25-6439 Marquis Melton v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's statement, asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error, renders that err…
25-644 Albert G. Gerhart v. Charity Linch, Chairwoman, Oklahoma Republican Party Oklahoma Pending Response Waived anti-slapp derivative-action due-process judicial-bias procedural-conflict shareholder-rights Question 1. Whether the Due Process was given in the lawsuit under the 5" and 14 Amendment. Specifically Points A, B, C, D and E. Point A. Whether …
25-6440 Juan Guajardo-Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-law-enforcement immigration-authorities indictment-delay speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should recognize the "ruse exception" to the Speedy Trial Act when federal law enforcement and immigration authorities work togethe…
25-6442 Michael Hinds v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error Does the ACCA occasions -different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi- factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses— fac…
25-6445 Charlie Bullock v. Virginia Virginia Pending Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process false-testimony witness-testimony (1) . In claim number two of petitioner's state "Motion to Vacate", was the petitioner's 14th Amendment Due Process Rights violated when Detective Cuf…
25-6447 Torrence Belcher v. Joshua Wallen, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights physical-injury prison-safety 1. How isn't an official being responsible for an inmate 's death not a basis for suing them?? 2. If it is possible to hypothesize a set of facts cons…
25-6448 Torrence Belcher v. Terri Hale, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights state-law 1. Should the intervening circumstances be consider when questioning the Continuing Validity or soundness of this case?? 2. What is good reasons to c…
25-6449 Cynthia Lynn Pollick v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pending IFP constitutional-rights disorderly-conduct due-process legal-counsel pro-se sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania when it failed to honor…
25-645 Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones Virginia Pending None Should the Appellant be denied her Constitutional Rights to be protected by law when the Court failed to accurately review the facts of the matter per…
25-6451 Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty…
25-6452 Juan Manuel Monroy-Vega v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending 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 eithe…
25-6453 Rai Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction felonies-clause foreign-nationals high-seas vessel-nationality Whether 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) exceeds Congress's authority under the Felonies Clause by authorizing the United States to exercise criminal jurisd…
25-6454 Derek Capozzi v. United States First Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-retroactivity residual-clause section-2255 sentence-enhancement 1. Whether, to qualify under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 for relief from a sentence enhancement imposed by operation of the now abrogated residual clause of 18 U…
25-6455 Mark Bolling v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment impeachable-fact inevitable-discovery nix-standard search-and-seizure Whether the presence of impeachable fact is required under Nix before an inevitable discovery analysis can be allowed in the context of a Fourth Amend…
25-6456 Nosoregbe Asemota v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None 1. WAS THE FACTUAL BASIS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT MR. ASEMOTA'S GUILTY PLEA WHEN NO INTERSTATE NEXUS WAS ESTABLISHED? IS HIS GUILTY PLEA THEREFORE INVOLU…
25-6457 Elijah Behringer v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP covid-mandates jacobson-precedent jury-trial rational-basis-review sixth-amendment substantive-due-process (1) Whether this Court's decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) provides authority for automatic dismissal of lawsuits challenging …
25-6458 Matthew Darrel Childers v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandate-recall sixth-circuit 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it denied without explanation Petitioner's Motion to Recall the Mandate, Strike Reply Brief o…
25-6459 Oscar Dillon, III v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph…
25-646 Mary E. Hill v. Malcolm S. Spratley, Sr. Virginia Pending None Should the Appellant be denied her Constitutional Rights to be protected by law when the Court failed to accurately review the facts of the matter per…
25-6460 Brad O'Neal Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner.
25-6461 Michael Anthony Christopher Cochren, II v. White Castle System, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP court-clerk-duties default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure record-falsification service-of-summons waiver-of-service Introductory Statement: White Castle System, Inc.'s redundant counsel improperly waived service, outside of FRCP 4(d), and nullified a summons. This c…
25-6462 Jamaur Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery …
25-6463 Luis Antonio Talamantes-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending 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)?
25-6466 Israel Alberto Rivas Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-warning right-to-counsel Whether law enforcement's advisement to a defendant that entirely omits the "if he so desires" language regarding the right to appointed counsel satis…
25-6468 Derrick Hahn v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to an individual based on his past conviction for a non-violent offense. …
25-6469 Charles Grim Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constructive-possession criminal-firearms-offense dominion-and-control felon-in-possession reasonable-doubt In a prosecution for knowing possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, does the government satisfy its burden of proof beyond a rea…
25-647 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Individually, and as Judge, 280th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity 1. Whether a federal appellate court may deem constitutional arguments waived when a pro se appellant, entitled to liberal construction under Haines v…
25-6470 Jose Ferrer-Sosa v. United States First Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-violation fair-trial mental-health-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure sentencing witness-competency 1. Whether the right to a fair trial is violated when a judge tells the jury that the only witness to a conspiracy was competent, after the witness ha…
25-6471 Marcia Vazquez Rijos v. United States First Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conspiracy criminal-procedure indicative-ruling jurisdiction sixth-amendment Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure allows a party to seek an indicative ruling from the district court while an appeal is pending. Whi…
25-6472 Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-offense direct-review due-process felony-murder retroactive-application substantive-change Roberto Lopez -Ortiz is serving life in prison for an offense that no longer exist s. He fully preserve d his challenge to second -degree felony -murd…
25-6473 Clover McGregor v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-restriction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment.
25-6477 Warren Harold Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy hobbs-act judicial-precedent sentencing Whether Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587 (1961), should be overruled or limited as violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause where petitioner was…
25-6478 Jeremy Edward Johnson v. United States Third Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination 1. DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR BY ASSUMING EVEN IF THERE WAS A MIRANDA VIOLATION, THE VIOLATION WAS HARMLESS? a. Did the Third Circuit err by not deter…
25-6479 Leontis Cornelius v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-recklessness felon-in-possession jury-trial self-defense sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1.When the government seeks to aggravate the sentence of a felon in possession of a firearm (18 USC § 922 [g]) contending that he violated a State c…
25-6480 Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States First Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP baker-v-wingo constitutional-rights judicial-review procedural-error sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether there was failure to properly weigh the Baker v Wingo 3rd and 4th factor s when the issue was not presented below in violation of the Petition…
25-6485 Michelle Renee Morton v. Iowa Iowa Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-proceedings due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-defect structural-error void-ab-initio 1. Whether a conviction initiated by a warrant issued by a magistrate who is later adjudicated not neutral and detached, constitutes a structural juri…
25-6487 Derrick S. Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated when a sentencing judge, rather than a jury, finds facts that otherwise alter the minimum and/o…
25-6489 Jason William Dobbs v. Nevada Nevada Pending Response WaivedIFP computer-privacy consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement third-party-consent warrantless-search 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to make sufficient inquiries as to the authority of a third person to consent to a warrantles…
25-6490 Gary Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felony-regulation firearms-possession historical-tradition second-amendment I. Consistent with the Second Amendment, may Congress bar all felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), as five circuit courts have…
25-6491 Billy J. Wilkins v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-fact-finding right-to-jury right-to-silence second-amendment sixth-circuit I. Is the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in United States v. Williams, 113 F.4th 637 (6th Cir. 2024) unconstitutional because it allows a judge…
25-6492 Arthur Fayne v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud 1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis). Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 conf…
25-6493 Paul Keith Barksdale v. Jeffrey Wehking, Warden Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus Question not identified.
25-6494 River William Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP conduct-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion political-beliefs sentencing 1) Whether a Defendant can be held accountable at sentencing for conduct that was dismissed? 2) Whether a Defendant's sentence can be enhanced becaus…
25-6497 Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana Indiana Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver I. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals ' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo waived his post-conviction claim because he failed to make specific c…
25-6499 Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States First Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t…
25-6501 Edgar Harris, aka Edgar Putman, aka Edgar Putnam v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None
25-6502 Donald Wayne Barksdale v. Virginia Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP corporate-fraud due-process habeas-corpus human-rights legal-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Corporate State of Virginia is the free and well Trust Husband KOA medium de itlecdace with the CA NVerteccal Yexses ) few moved: JJ Ai S …
25-6503 Carlos A. Ortega v. Santa Clara County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6504 Antonio J. Negron v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6505 Kenneth Christopher Pointer, aka Keith Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct a prompt Evidentiary Hearing and the Sixth Circuit's affir…
25-6506 John Wesley Patton v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Louisiana Pending Response WaivedIFP civil-rights district-court judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal Could a Louisiana District Judge, namely, Steven C. Grefer, 24th Judicial District Court, in Division "J" in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana be considered…
25-6509 Charles Bocock v. Illinois Illinois Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction digital-evidence due-process forensic-attribution fourteenth-amendment substantive-proof 1 Due Process —Sufficiency of the Evidence / Digital Possession. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits affirmance of a convic…
25-651 Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Requested bankruptcy-code debt-discharge intentional-tort legal-injury subjective-intent willful-injury The Bankruptcy Code excepts from discharge any debt "for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another …
25-6511 Eric Mauricio Franco-Cruz v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None
25-6513 Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment firearms-regulation gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits those under indictment from shipping, transporting, or receiving any firearm or ammunitio…
25-6514 Epifanio Leos-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-law notice-clause prior-conviction recidivism sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
25-6516 Auburn Calloway v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process equal-protection judicial-disqualification mens-rea sentence-reduction Whether the appellate affirmance of the district court's sentence reduction denial overlooked A) that the district court was disqualified because the …
25-6518 Deandre M. Smith v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-amendment strickland-standard This case presents an important question regarding an individual's entitlement to a certificate of appealability. Regarding that entitlement, this Cou…
25-6519 Cornelius Davis v. Southeast QSR LLC Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process employment-law racial-discrimination workplace-retaliation Fact 1. Racial Discrimination. Based on my first argument Tenecca Brunner is Caucasian, she is a female and I'm black male. She got her job back. Fac…
25-6520 Steven George Morgan v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-statements miranda-rights police-deception 1. Whether police deception that explicitly disavows the interrogative nature of questioning—specifically, an officer's false promise that she is not …
25-6521 Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing-exposure 1. May a conviction be overturned if Counsel gave erroneous advice regarding a sentence exposure that induced Petitioner to reject a favorable plea of…
25-6522 Miguel Angel Macias-Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-review supreme-court-review This petition presents two questions. First, whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled? Second, whether th…
25-6523 Dennis Martin v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr…
25-6524 Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States First Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP collective-knowledge-doctrine criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-suppression police-investigation traffic-stop 1. Following a months-long investigation into drug trafficking and while preparing to search an apartment within a large apartment complex, police obs…
25-6525 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure legal-ethics model-rules professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics sanctions Is requesting, For sanctions inapplicable in criminal Proceedings when an or violates the Model Rules i professiona| Con uct ? Tin requesting that so…
25-6527 Brian William Schumaker v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent jurisdictional-challenge motion-denial plenary-review record-expansion section-2255 I. WHETHER the lower courts erred in denying petitioner's motions to expanding the record in the district court and supplementing the record in the co…
25-6528 Victor Shelton v. Department of Justice Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP agency-discretion civil-rights-act department-of-justice federal-financial-assistance judicial-review nondiscretionary-duty 1. Does the U.S. Department of Justice have a nondiscretionary duty to investigate civil rights complaints submitted by complainants who allege discri…
25-6529 Jaquan Eaddy v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6530 Terry Lee Gammage v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a criminal d…
25-6532 Robert Armendaris v. Arizona Arizona Pending Response WaivedIFP None Does the Sixth Amendment guarantee the right to a 12-person jury?
25-6534 Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado Colorado Pending Response WaivedIFP None (1) Whether the State of Colorado violated petitioner's rights to due process, a fair trial, and equal protection by failing to address prosecutorial …
25-6539 Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Third Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process executive-overreach frivolousness-standard judicial-review separation-of-powers 1. Whether federal courts can brand as "frivolous" under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) a citizen's constitutional claims supported by official government …
25-6540 Jason M. Potter v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search state-law warrantless-search Whether the warrantless impoundment and subsequent inventory search of a vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment when the operator has not been arrested…
25-6542 In Re Todd McDonald Pending IFP None Question not identified.
25-6546 Miguel Bocardo and Cyr Dino Banguguilan v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals district-court evidence-challenge federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sexual-abuse In Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519, 534 (1992), this Court held that "[o]nce a federal claim is properly presented, a party can make any argume…
25-6548 Nathan Cooper v. Rhode Island Rhode Island Pending Response WaivedIFP emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant This case presents an issue identical to that in Case v. Montana, No. 24-624, currently before this Court, i.e., whether law enforcement may enter a h…
25-6550 George Madison Kitchen, IV v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP evidence-rule-404b federal-appellate-review hearsay-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard traffic-stop 1. WHETHER THE 8TH CIRCUIT ERRED FINDING THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTED JUSTIFYING THE STOP OF PETITIONER'S VEHICLE AND MISAPPLYING RODRIGUEZ ON WH…
25-6551 Esteban Burgos v. Florida Florida Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-procedure district-court judicial-administration speedy-trial-rule supreme-court-order 1. MAY A DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS, AND CIRCUIT COURT DISREGARD MANDATORY RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATED WITH A SUPREME COURT ORDER? 2…
25-6556 Darrell Jones v. Stephen Reynolds, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debat…
25-6557 David Calhoun v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re…
25-6559 Charles Kafeiti v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-delay procedural-rules 1. Whether a district court's 13-month, unexplained silence on liberty-related motions — followed by unsigned docket-entry denials that never addresse…
25-6562 Dustin Shane Sandiford v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement and the Fifth Amendment due process mandate, when …
25-6563 Gary Craig Stephens v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release 1. Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range,…
25-6564 Ambreia Washington v. Tennessee Tennessee Pending Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment plain-view-exception probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-seizure Whether information obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause can establish the probable cause necessary to authorize a…
25-6565 Jaison L. Coleman v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP consent-search fourth-amendment police-entry probable-cause scope-of-consent warrant-exception 1 Having already expressly denied consent for police to enter the residence, does the occupant's "okay" in response to the officer's statement that po…
25-6567 Rajeri Curry v. United States Third Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP edwards-rule evidence-suppression fourth-amendment interrogation-violation poisonous-tree-doctrine right-to-counsel Where the police violated the rule announced in Edwards v. Arizona by continuing to question petitioner after she twice invoked her right to counsel, …
25-6568 James Dorelus v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy drug-trafficking firearm-offense safety-valve sentencing-reduction Where a defendant pleads guilty to the crime of carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime in violation of 18 USC § 924(c)(…
25-6569 Jamarcus G. Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-purity evidence-standard methamphetamine preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court can infer that unseized methamphetamine has similar purity to seized methamphetamine. If so, what specific evidence must supp…
25-657 Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner 's appeal, constituted such a substantial departure fro…
25-6570 Orlanda Travon Sloan v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-history individualized-sentencing mental-health-considerations methamphetamine-offense sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigation Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' static Criminal History Categories and excessive offense levels for methamphetamine actual/ice fail to propose a re…
25-6571 Maxo Casseus v. Florida Florida Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6572 Dayveon Batiste v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. II. Whet…
25-6573 Bernard Kentrell Breeland, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which categorically prohibits all persons with felony convictions from possessing firearms or ammunition, is faciall…
25-6574 Christopher Michael Arredondo v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o…
25-6577 Charles Denard Milbry v. Florida Florida Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect ex-post-facto habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Petitioner played a relatively minor role in his acceptance of plea. A trial judge was assigned to petitioner's case when it was filed in 1996 and pre…
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause Whether an accused's right under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment is offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies…
25-6581 Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence 1. What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective …
25-6582 Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25-6583 John Hotaling v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement santobello-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether the government breaches a plea agreement, and violates due process under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971), when it enters into an a…
25-6584 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment (1) Whether Standley Counsel Richard Hoke Violated Sullivans waht +0 eelt vepresentahon when he filed a Nohcee of Tntent that =) to Judge wt. Michael …
25-6585 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering prosecution-misconduct self-incrimination speedy-trial 1. Whether the prosecution can use an arbitrary and fictitious list of 442 unknown individuals during sentencing all of whom never testified during t…
25-6587 Jett Garriott Adams v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ake-v-oklahoma harmless-error-analysis indigent-defendant psychiatric-assistance sanity-defense sixth-amendment 1. When this Court held in Ake v. Oklahoma that an indigent defendant must make a threshold showing that their sanity would be a significant factor at…
25-6589 Jesse Franklin Swartz v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Of Society and Persons 1. How are logic, reasoning and morality built in the human mind and who determines their absence or presence, and to what deg…
25-6590 Huron Fields v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified.
25-6594 William James Forbis v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens…
25-6595 Hugo Ivan Macias-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure prior-convictions sixth-amendment stare-decisis 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[]…
25-6597 Daniel Duane Smith, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens…
25-6598 Ashley Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-rahimi-test commerce-clause firearms-regulation historical-analysis probation-status second-amendment 1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)…
25-6600 Naveed Rasheed Shike v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression judicial-review legal-dismissal suppression-motion I. Whether Shike's suppression motion should have been granted? II. Whether Shike's indictment should have been dismissed?
25-6601 Melvon Adams v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeals equitable-tolling government-motion jurisdictional-limits time-limitations Some lower courts hold that even when extraordinary circumstances prevent a defendant's timely filing of a notice of appeal in a criminal case, Rule 4…
25-6602 In Re Derrick L. Johnson Pending IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court Question not identified.
25-6606 Robert Paul Rosell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-6607 Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida Florida Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6611 James E. Frantz v. Andre Stancil, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations constitutional-error habeas-corpus judicial-discretion substantive-claim 1) Did the District Court error by failing to recognizing substantive claims as cognizable under habeas corpus and failing to exercise its equitable a…
25-6612 Qing Han v. Joseph Auto Service Inc. Texas Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause documentary-evidence exhibit-admission notary-interpretation pro-se Whether the Court of Appeals permits an appellate court to give a notice of judgment on the theory that a prose, interpreter-assisted litigant never o…
25-6614 In Re Joey Lamont Brunson Pending IFP due-process fifth-amendment rule-12 subject-matter-jurisdiction title-iii wiretap-evidence 1. ) WAS THE DISTRICT COURT'S ASSERTION OF "SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION" VALID AFTER JURISDICTION WAS CHALLENGED UNDER F.R.CR.P. RULE 12(b)(2), REGARD…
25-6616 Okechukwu Desmond Amadi v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling governmental-intervention statute-of-limitations Whether the dismissal of an out-of-time appeal upon the government raising a statute of limitations defense, without providing defendant a full and fa…
25-662 Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 This section 1983 civil rights case arises from the devastating consequences of medical and investigative errors in a child protection proceeding. Aft…
25-6622 Alante Martel Nelson v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi…
25-6623 Hamed Kian v. Florida Florida Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6624 Ryan Adelbert Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury reasonable-doubt trial-evidence I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment was violated when no rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of Counts 1…
25-663 Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-servitude trial-by-jury unconstitutional-avoidance IL CONSTITUTIONAL RIPENESS Whether the Supreme Court, in this age of equality, should consider gender-based servitude ripe for correction. II. UNCONS…
25-6630 In Re Anthony Tyrone Campbell, Sr. Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus penal-code senate-bill-775 (1) In light of a newly post conviction law, as established under California Senate Hill Vo. 775, could petitioner lawfully remain convicted of an a…
25-6633 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-history district-court plea-agreement sentence-adjustment sentencing-guidelines status-points &ivn(<)WineVViev' be ^-zmled sendee reducho-n uvtdeK ■sfetfus points Amendment &aJ aiad -WnaA' unde« IS U.SZ. Z&SSfa'fte) 7 reaumnq-toe Court to ronf…
25-6634 Joseph D. Reaves v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea newly-discovered-evidence pcra-petition psychiatric-medical-history 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an Petitioner in a PCRA Petition, Notice of Appeal and Allowance of …
25-6637 Elizabeth A. Hughes v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pending Response WaivedIFP blood-test civil-consequence due-process fourth-amendment voluntary-consent warrant-requirement Whether the voluntary consent exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies where a person arrested for driving under the influence ag…
25-6638 In Re Michael Kenny Carter Pending IFP None i\L&d& /WxA-ter AumschcYirw ? • AurxsAxcbort Ad&s at^Y cvt-fi'r/naYwcly C\PP€ar cohere. CW YV\£ Y<XC€_ oV YYe. f€6^rA? 2s)mWW ck SPeoPfc Course o-P C…
25-6640 Juan Carlos Bejar-Guizar v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP border-patrol fourth-amendment illegal-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude facts that show a likelihood of innocent behavi…
25-6641 Ervin Thornton, II v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Section 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The ac…
25-6643 Lawrence Rhoden v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IS LEGALLY ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE: (1) IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DE…
25-6648 Nathan Bermea v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exc…
25-6649 Lesley Chappell Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP communications-intercept court-sanctioning law-enforcement legal-constraints territorial-jurisdiction title-iii Whether the Government met the intended constraints of Title III and state law incorporating Title III for a lawful interception of communications wit…
25-6650 Michael Ledon Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o…
25-6651 Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi , 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a crimina…
25-6652 Jarmarl Thornton v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-6653 Randy Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Did the district court obviously err by considering the retributive factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A), in violation of Esteras v. United States,…
25-666 Samantha Estefenia Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara Fifth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived child-abduction clear-error de-novo-review habitual-residence hague-convention well-settled-defense Is a trial court's determination that a child is "well settled" subject to de novo review, or is it reviewed for clear error?
25-6660 Demetrius Franklin v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Petitioner Demetrius Franklin was convicted of first degree murder based on the testimony of a single identifying witness, Shanti Day. The prosecution…
25-6661 In Re Terrance Sykes Pending IFP None Whether Petitioner's commitment to federal custody under Indictment No. 05-08-6057 and 06t-&TS-N\WP and Pronouncement of Judgment without Petitioner t…
25-6663 Richard Kirkland Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure firearm-possession knowledge-inference temporary-occupancy Whether the mere presence of a firearm s in a bag on a shelf in a residence is sufficient to presume a defendant's knowledge and constructive possessi…
25-6678 Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia Virginia Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un…
25-668 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived clean-water-act environmental-enforcement epa-authority sackett-decision surface-water-connection wetlands-regulation Petitioner Jeffrey Andrews resides on his family farm in Connecticut. His farm contains a short reach of an unnamed tributary to the Farm River, but n…
25-671 In Re Mark Christopher Tracy Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry…
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private …
25-673 Bradley Andrew Herbst v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Response Waived civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute statute-of-limitations 1. While this matter does require review, the main question of "should a statute of limitations be allowed" when addressing an individual's constituti…
25-674 George Sachs v. Ricardo Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Response Waived client-representation conflict-of-interest defense-strategy legal-dismissal multi-defendant-case statute-of-limitations 1. When can or cannot a statute of limitations be raised in order to immediately dismiss and prevent a case from moving forward, even one having po…
25-676 In Re John A. Shepardson Pending Response Waived attorney-disqualification due-process ex-post-facto free-speech petitioning-rights racial-discrimination Should this Court grant certiorari to address California State Courts violating constitutional due process, free speech, and petitioning rights of a s…
25-678 Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. Virginia Pending bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion Whether this Court's decision in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) militates in favor of abrogating the prosecutorial discre…
25-679 Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1) article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages 1. Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information, specificall…
25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California Pending Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa…
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention 1. Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed, 145 S.Ct. 465 (2025)? 2. If so, does this S…
25-686 Gary Sebastian Brown, III v. Federal Bureau of Investigation District of Columbia Pending Response Waived confidential-source exemption-7d foia foreseeable-harm law-enforcement transparency I. Whether, after the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, an agency invoking Exemption 7(D) must, in addition to establishing that the exemption applies, se…
25-687 Richard Eugene Bryant, aka Ritshard Anu Bey v. Mark S. Braunlich, Judge, 38th Circuit Court of Michigan, Monroe County, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Response Waived color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause 1. What is the nature and the cause of action for Mark Braunlich to issue a warrant on June 11, 2019, and to issue a license suspension on February 13…
25-688 Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz Fourth Circuit Pending law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation 1. Does a police officer observing an undisputed legal act(s) or something that is not illegal, without more, provide probable cause or a reasonable i…
25-692 Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline In separate proceedings consolidated on review, the state high court affirmed 30-day suspensions of two attorneys, Reverend Girley and Professor Girle…
25-694 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Waived judicial-immunity just-compensation permitting-monopoly property-rights res-judicata takings-clause 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion citing res judicata allows the government to overextend and leverage its permitting monopoly to take private…
25-697 Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, under the NPA, an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA JOA needs another Attorney General written consent to be lawful or to be en…
25-698 Noris Babb v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Waived age-discrimination employment-discrimination federal-employees sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal District Court jury instructions and decisions on motions for summary judgment must be consistent with Babb v. Wilkie's statutory fram…
25-700 Joan V. Bayley, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response Waived clean-water-act cooperative-federalism environmental-violations federal-overreach justiciability state-authority Petitioners owned a lot with a slowly failing 1937 bulkhead onshore of the shoreline along Hood Canal, Washington state. Hundreds of properties along …
25-701 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Bakery Drivers Local 550 and Industry Pension Fund Second Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived critical-declining-status mass-withdrawal multiemployer-pension pension-plan-termination special-financial-assistance statutory-interpretation Whether a multiemployer pension plan that terminated through mass withdrawal before the 2020 plan year is eligible for Special Financial Assistance un…
25-702 CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis…
25-706 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California Pending arbitration-rights civil-procedure contract-law equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act preclusion-doctrine Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides equitable estoppel in enforcing arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
25-707 Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona…
25-708 Rupert Baptiste v. Fatou Jallow Third Circuit Pending due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner judicial-act pro-se-rights self-representation The United States Constitution grants certain inalienable rights to its citizens. The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment is to protect people from be…
25-709 West Virginia v. Michael Keith Allman West Virginia Pending custodial-arrest evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the State must show that an arrestee could access a weapon or destructible evidence from a bag the arrestee was carrying immediately before ar…
25-710 Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. Pennsylvania Pending appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal? 2. Whether the Pennsylvania appellat…
25-711 Deborah Cooney v. San Diego Gas & Electric, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech privacy smart-grid We live in a fast-paced society where technological innovations make possible the most unthinkable forms of trespass. Never before have policy-makers …
25-713 George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Response Waived discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr…
25-714 Rafael Paredes v. United Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit Pending anti-retaliation constitutional-rights due-process employment-law title-vii workplace-discrimination 1. Federal anti-retaliation protections prohibit adverse treatment in response to protected activity, particularly where comparable conduct by others …
25-715 Masahide Kanayama v. Scott Kowal, Chief Pretrial Services Officer, Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure damage-calculation district-court dual-criminality extradition japanese-law Whether in certifying Dr. Masahide Kanayama's extradition to Japan, the District Court for the Southern District of New York improperly relied on a hy…
25-716 ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. New York Pending Response Waived arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion 1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the…
25-718 Missouri, ex rel. Sylvia Pride v. Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District Missouri Pending appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fabrication open-records property-interest When a state appellate court ignores the undisputed facts of an appeal and expressly decides an appeal on different, even opposite facts, does the res…
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit Pending circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's continued refusal to apply Kemp v. United States, 596 U.S. 528 (2022), directly conflicts with this Court's holding tha…
25-721 Jennie Landsman, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of J. L. v. Melissa Aviles-Ramos, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure burlington-carter-test due-process individuals-with-disabilities-education-act reimbursement special-education 1. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, in order to determinewhether the parent of a disabled child is entitled to reimbursement fro…
25-722 Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-disclosure foia-exemptions government-transparency national-security records-search In response to requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding potential domestic surveillance abuse, the respondent agenci…
25-723 Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service Fifth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction 1. Should the district court have held an evidentiary hearing to address Petitioners' allegations that pieces of paper purporting to be summonses lack…
25-724 Unified Life Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company Fifth Circuit Pending Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-common-law insurance-law reinsurance state-law Whether a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction exceeds its authority under Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) by creating a new st…
25-725 Edward Weinhaus v. Regina A. Scannicchio, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Response Waived district-court-jurisdiction federal-lawsuit jurisdictional-challenge merits-dismissal rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-decision 1. Whether the District Court is precluded from exercising jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine when Petitioner's injury occurred prior to t…
25-727 Douglas M. Folts v. United States Armed Forces Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech military-law obscenity-standard servicemembers Whether the military's obscenity standard is unconstitutional under Parker v. Levy and Miller v. California.
25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
25-730 Jennesis V. Dominguez-Garcia v. United States Armed Forces Pending Response Waived appellate-authority firearms-prohibition military-courts-martial post-trial-processing second-amendment ucmj Whether the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals has authority under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) to correct an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after …
25-731 Yellow Turtle Design, LLC, et al. v. Sonya Salkin Slott, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-distribution chapter-7-liquidation creditor-priority settlement-approval statutory-interpretation In Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 580 U.S. 451, 457, 137 S.Ct. 973, 979, 197 L.Ed.2d 398 (2017), this Court held, "The [Bankruptcy] Code makes clea…
25-733 Joseph Soaris v. Tony Aikhionbare California Pending civil-rights equal-protection legal-equality state-law The question presented is whether the state is applying its laws equally amongst its citizens?
25-734 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky, New York State Board of Elections Co-Executive Director and Chief Election Official New York Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge judicial-review mootness natural-born-citizen presidential-eligibility supreme-court-doctrine WHETHER, in this U.S. Constitution, Article II, §1, Clause 5 "natural born Citizen " challenge to the 2024 Democratic candidate for President of the U…
25-736 World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement The Lanham Act prohibits use of a trademark when such use is "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive." 15 U.S.C, §1114(1)(a); s…
25-737 John S. Morter v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense District of Columbia Pending Response Waived agency-discretion essential-job-function medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act security-screening 1. Whether a federal agency may, consistent with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and EEOC regulations, redefine a security screening requirement —suc…
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud 1. Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the ri…
25-740 Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit Pending Amici (1) diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability When Petitioner's husband died of COVID-19 in Colorado, she brought a wrongful death action into federal court, alleging novel tort claims against the…
25-741 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota Pending Response Waived constitutional-claims federal-court first-amendment petition-clause statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review To protect the right of access to the courts under the First Amendment's Petition Clause, during the petition stage of this Court seeking review of fe…
25-742 Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States Armed Forces Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived courts-martial firearms-prohibition military-justice post-trial-process second-amendment statutory-authority 1. In 2021, Congress added a new subsection to Article 67(c), Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. § 867(c). The new language incorporat…
25-743 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland Pending constitutional-rights disbarment due-process judicial-procedure lawyer-discipline legal-ethics 1. Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue orders disbarring an attorney without first addressing cited, un…
25-745 Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. Tennessee Pending Response Waived appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and …
25-747 Matthew Cline v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Waived co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely…
25-752 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers 1. Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant? 2. Does…
25-755 The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab…
25-756 Larry Householder v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo The First Amendment's protection of political speech ensures that a political contribution will not constitute extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h…
25-757 Matthew Borges v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo The First Amendment protects soliciting for, and contributing to, political campaigns based on policies that a candidate agrees to take while in offic…
25-758 Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived cercla cost-recovery environmental-law national-contingency-plan private-party-cleanup substantial-compliance Under CERCLA, private parties who clean up contaminated land may recover their costs from polluters only if their cleanup substantially complies with …
25-759 Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board First Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child's room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worke…
25-762 Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States First Circuit Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency Did the federal agency FinCEN exceed the authority granted in 2001 by Congress in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to regulate money transmitting businesses when FinC…
25-763 PACEM Solutions International, LLC v. Small Business Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Response Waived administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference judicial-review statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment 1. Should this Court summarily reverse and remand this case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for the same reason it did …
25-764 Flintco, LLC v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Oklahoma Pending Response Waived arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legal-interpretation tort-claims Whether placing the "tort" label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' contract.
25-765 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-scrutiny fundamental-rights government-mandate judicial-review medical-treatment rational-basis-review 1. Does this Court's opinion in Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), limit a court's review of government mandated medical t…
25-766 Justyna Jensen v. Maryland Cannabis Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Response Waived business-licensing dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection nonresident-discrimination pell-grant-eligibility state-university Whether a state statute discriminates against nonresidents in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause if it confers eligibility for a business licens…
25-77 Stephen Foote, Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of B. F. and G. F., Minors, et al. v. Ludlow School Committee, et al. First Circuit Pending Amici (21)Relisted (7) constitutional-rights educational-policy gender-transition minor-consent parental-rights school-authority Whether a public school violates parents' constitutional rights when, without parental knowledge or consent, the school encourages a student to transi…
25-770 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Waived actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment As the District Court explained, "Of course, Dershowitz said nothing of the kind[.]" App. 71a. The court was referring to how CNN defamed Professor Al…
25-772 Lev Aslan Dermen v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Waived None 1. Whether a federal court of appeals is categorically barred from finding plain error if circuits are split on the issue under review. 2. Whether 18…
25-773 Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. Third Circuit Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause…
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove…
25-776 Youth 71Five Ministries v. Charlene Williams, Individually and as Director of Oregon Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment government-action grant-funding religious-autonomy For years, Petitioner Youth 71Five Ministries received grant funds from Oregon's Youth Community Investment Grants program. One year, 71Five even had …
25-778 Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh…
25-779 Bright Data Ltd. v. Code200, UAB, et al. Federal Circuit Pending Response Waived claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-claim-scope patent-disclaimer patent-prosecution trademark-office-proceedings When a patentee disclaims subject matter from the scope of its claims by written statements made at any time during U.S. Patent and Trademark Office p…
25-780 Leda Health Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment marketing-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination The State of Washington makes it unlawful to sell a lawful product "with which evidence of sexual assault is collected" if, and only if, the seller "m…
25-782 Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin…
25-792 Neil Binder v. Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC Third Circuit Pending Response Waived federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review procedural-due-process rule-1006 rule-60 summary-evidence Whether a court may exclude a Federal Rule of Evidence 1006, summary—derived entirely from records already admitted into evidence—without reviewing it…
25-793 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Waived appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing Whether this panel of the U. S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (CA) erred by: (1) denying our petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc with its ord…
25-794 Jordan Spatz v. Regents of the University of California Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights intentional-discrimination medical-residency private-right-of-action 1. Does the 1975 Age Discrimination Act apply to applications for matriculation in the medical residency match process, to prohibit discrimination bas…
25-795 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Chauncey J. Watches, Judge, Steuben County, New York, et al. Second Circuit Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity petition-clause second-amendment WHETHER federal in forma pauperis litigants may be significantly denied immediate access to Court while filing-fee paying litigants suffer no such con…
25-796 Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Title 18, United State Code, Section 1028A imposes a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence on anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, w…
25-797 Steven J. Hecke v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response Waived affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant 1. Whether, and how, Franks applies to material information that is omitted from a search warrant affidavit. 2. Whether omissions from a search warra…
25-800 Matthew Scott Rocco v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response Waived bailey-precedent fourth-amendment geographical-restriction law-enforcement probation-officer search-warrant Does it violate the Fourth Amendment when, during the execution of a residential search warrant, law enforcement subverts the geographical restriction…
25-801 Thomas Schramm v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, aka United Steel Workers, aka USW Sixth Circuit Pending Response Waived contract-negotiations duty-of-fair-representation individual-discharge labor-law objective-evidence union-grievance 1. Whether the same standards for determining a breach of the duty of fair representation in contract negotiations should be imposed upon unions fo…
25-802 Foothills Christian Ministries, et al. v. Kim Johnson, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived child-care-act compelled-speech first-amendment free-exercise religious-services zauderer-review Three churches in San Diego County, California, seek to open preschools on their campuses as extensions of their ministries. Under the Child Day Care …
25-805 Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. New Mexico Pending Response Waived access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of…
25-806 Tarlochan Singh v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Seventh Circuit Pending Response Waived None
25-807 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Waived church-autonomy civil-law-claims internal-affairs ministerial-exception religious-institution self-governance Does the church autonomy doctrine apply to, and foreclose, civil law claims which are not disputes about the internal affairs or self-governance of a …
25-808 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th…
25-811 Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence?
25-812 James Greiner v. Tesla, Inc. Ninth Circuit Pending Response Waived arbitration-clause breach-of-contract consideration due-process prenuptial-agreement private-right-of-action 1) When a woman signs a Prenuptial Agreement for a set amount, she cannot argue in divorce court that the Law says "she has the right" to half. Theref…
25-814 Assata Acey Hackman v. Inductev Third Circuit Pending Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review evidence-review judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court-oversight Does the oversight of the US Supreme Court permit its lower courts to ignore submitted evidence in order to refuse pro se petitions?
25-816 Kenneth R. Spirito v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and its progeny, prosecutors have an obligation to disclose evidence favorable to the accused, either bec…
25-817 Charles W. Christopher v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response Waived criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity?
25-819 Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. Seventh Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment free-speech pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination Whether and in what circumstances public employers may discipline employees based on their expression of controversial views while off the job.
25-820 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. Federal Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel…
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights…
25-825 Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal 1. Whether a district court may categorically stay all discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil action on a closed record where adjudicat…
25-829 Matt Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending Response Waived civil-liability indian-commerce-clause internet-contract rico-act state-regulation tribal-lending 1. Whether the Indian Commerce Clause preempts state regulation of loans made on an Indian reservation, by an arm of a tribe, when the borrower contra…
25-837 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response Waived conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit 1. Whether by establishing a pyramid scheme, the Government can shortcut its burden of proving the necessary elements of conspiracy to commit mail fra…
25-839 Nicholas Fugedi, in His Official Capacity as Trustee of Carb Pura Vida Trust v. Initram, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending Response Waived diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-standard misjoinder statutory-interpretation Whether the proper standard to be applied by a court determining if diversity jurisdiction has been improperly manufactured is the motive test applied…
25-841 Henry Troy Wade v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response Waived brady-violation constitutional-procedure due-process grand-jury sixth-amendment wire-fraud 1. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §1343 must be vacated where the Government obtained a verdict under a theory materially broader than the indic…
25-846 Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit Pending Response Waived amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct 1. Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in agreeing that a federal district court does not have jurisdiction to judge unconstitutional actions …
25-849 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell District of Columbia Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived church-autonomy constitutional-claims legal-defense neutral-principles religious-offering state-power For over 1,000 years, Catholics have given an annual offering to the Pope called Peter's Pence. A parishoner claims he was misled during Mass by an in…
25-853 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process Congress has authorized inventors to patent "any new and useful process," or "any new and useful improvement thereof." 35 U.S.C. § 101. This Court has…
25-855 The Visionary, Books + Cafe, LLC v. Bank OZK Eleventh Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response Waived arbitral-award contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review party-presentation-principle sua-sponte-grounds This petition concerns the proper scope of judicial review under §10(a)(4) of the Federal Arbitration Act, which permits a court to vacate an arbitral…
25-861 Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law Minnesota enacted a law prohibiting employers from requiring employees to attend meetings in which the employer discusses its views on political or re…
25-863 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit Pending Response Waived assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in…
25-869 James T. Weiss v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response Waived custodial-interrogation detention-scope due-process law-enforcement-authority miranda-warnings search-warrant In Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692, 704–05 (1981), this Court held that pursuant to a lawfully executed search warrant, officers have a limited auth…
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland Pending constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari I. WHETHER THIS COURT'S POWER TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN A STATE PRISONER IS CONFINED BY A COURT WITHOUT JURISDICTION A…
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud …
25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct "materiality" standard for false and misleading…
25M53 Yasir Qahtan Saud v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending None
25M54 Haocheng Qian v. YouTube, LLC, et al. Second Circuit Pending None
25M55 George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. 81st Readiness Division, Ft Jackson, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Pending None
25M56 Armando Martinez v. Richard Martinez, et al. Tenth Circuit Pending None
25M57 San Diego Family Housing, LLC, et al. v. Lena Childs, et al. Ninth Circuit Pending None
25M58 Larry Wayne Kimes v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending None
25M59 Mark T. Stinson v. James M. Moody, Jr., Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas Eighth Circuit Pending None
25M60 In Re Mark T. Stinson Pending None
25M61 Harlan Leroy Kelly, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending None