Conference: 2026-02-27

74 cases — 0 granted, 12 denied/dismissed, 62 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22O141 Texas, Plaintiff v. New Mexico and Colorado Pending CVSGAmici (25)Relisted (17) None
24-1095 Chelsea Koetter v. Manistee County Treasurer, et al. Michigan Rehearing Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) constitutional-law due-process government-action just-compensation property-rights takings-clause Does the government violate the Due Process or Takings Clause by denying just compensation to property owners who miss a narrow and premature window t…
24-7002 In Re Clifford L. Noll Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP debt-collection due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourth-amendment property-seizure Whether the unwarranted seizure of real properties and personal savings by the United States violated the petitioner's Fourth and Fifth Amendment righ…
24-858 Kari Beeman, et al. v. Muskegon County Treasurer Michigan Rehearing Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) constitutional-law due-process just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-foreclosure Does Michigan's tax foreclosure claims statute violate due process and the right to just compensation, and should the Court overrule Nelson v. City of…
25-203 Johanna McGee, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jacqueline McGee, et al. v. Alger County Treasurer, et al. Michigan Rehearing Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) claims-process due-process government-taking just-compensation property-rights takings-clause When government takes and sells private property to collect a tax debt, it must return the surplus proceeds from the sale to the former property owner…
25-255 Dion Horton, et al. v. Bruce R. Beemer, Administrative Judge, et al. Third Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process government-interest judicial-finding liberty-deprivation morrissey-v-brewer procedural-safeguards Whether the Due Process Clause requires a judicial finding that depriving a person of physical liberty pending a probation-revocation hearing is neces…
25-343 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit Pending circuit-precedent constitutional-rights jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment waiver This Court has held that equitable restitution can be awarded without a jury but is capped at "a defendant's net profits," Liu v. SEC, 591 U.S. 71, 87…
25-379 Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law article-three-standing election-integrity public-records statutory-interpretation voter-registration Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") to increase and enhance registration and voting by "eligible citizens," "protect the int…
25-416 Cangrejeros de Santurce Baseball Club, LLC, et al. v. Liga de Béisbol Professional de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. First Circuit Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-law baseball-exemption federal-baseball flood-case sports-litigation toolson-precedent Ordinarily, there would be no question that collusion among ostensible adversaries to expel a competitor from a market would give rise to federal anti…
25-437 Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Jocelyn Benson, in Her Official Capacity as Michigan Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) deceased-registrants election-integrity national-voter-registration-act public-records standing voter-registration Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") to increase and enhance registration and voting by "eligible citizens," "protect the int…
25-449 Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. District of Columbia Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ai-generated-works artificial-intelligence authorship copyright-law creative-works intellectual-property 1. Whether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.
25-451 Faytima Howard v. Macomb County, Michigan Sixth Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge just-compensation property-rights state-procedure takings-clause tax-foreclosure 1. Does the government violate the Takings Clause's "categorical duty" to pay just compensation for property taken in excess of the taxes, fees, and p…
25-506 Stroma Medical Corporation, et al. v. Samuel Blumberg California Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review due-process economic-harm punitive-damages statutory-malice substantial-evidence 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires California appellate courts to review punitive damages awards de novo, as this Court held in Cooper Industr…
25-517 Maryland, et al. v. 3M Company Fourth Circuit Pending 28-USC-1442 federal-officer-removal injury-causation liability-basis removal-statute state-court-remand Must an action removed under the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1442, be remanded to state court when the conduct the defendant asserts …
25-523 United Water Conservation District v. United States Federal Circuit Pending Amici (7) fifth-amendment government-appropriation physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking water-rights Whether the government's appropriation of water that a person had a property right to use is analyzed as a physical taking, rather than a regulatory t…
25-5461 Gary Eugene Maddox, II v. United States Federal Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP clerk-obstruction document-misappropriation fraud-upon-court jurisdictional-challenge right-to-petition supreme-court-docket 1. Did National Supreme Court clerk Danny Bickel violate Maddox's right to petition the Government when he committed clerk obstruction, and fraud upon…
25-562 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit Rehearing Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains "pend…
25-5715 In Re Daniel E. Hall Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act judicial-conduct judicial-review magistrate-appointment mandamus-relief misconduct-complaints 1. Whether the Judicial Council of the First Circuit may disregard mandatory provisions of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act and the Rules for …
25-577 Chaldean Coalition, Inc. v. San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. California Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) district-design equal-protection fourteenth-amendment population-deviation racial-gerrymandering redistricting During the summer of 2020, the term "BIPOC"— "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color"—emerged as the preferred moniker for the theory that all non-wh…
25-5953 Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama Alabama Pending IFP adverse-inference capital-murder criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment prosecutorial-conduct right-to-silence In the sentencing phase of a capital trial, where the defendant exercises his right to remain silent and to plead not guilty, does the Fifth Amendment…
25-5962 Ismael Adan Ortiz-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending IFP administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation A noncitizen, unlawfully present in the United States, may be deported through an expedited removal if an immigration officer finds that the noncitize…
25-5964 Oladayo Oladokun v. United States Second Circuit Pending IFP agency-deference judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines ' commentary promulgated without notice-and-comment rulemaking retains binding authority after Loper Light Ente…
25-603 Wenbin Que v. Lihua Song Ninth Circuit Pending arbitration-fairness arbitrator-misconduct due-process foreign-award-enforcement fundamental-fairness panel-integrity Do arbitration proceedings held by a three-member panel lack fundamental fairness if one arbitrator has functionally abandoned his post?
25-6217 Christopher Wuchter v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending IFP constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t…
25-6218 Kenleone Joe Nyandoro v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending IFP appeal-waiver controlled-substance firearm-possession ineffective-assistance second-amendment statutory-maximum 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds…
25-6443 Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee Connecticut Pending IFP appellate-review due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-defect recusal standing 1. Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate…
25-6450 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Carlos Rosado, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending IFP 14th-amendment court-access due-process indigency legal-proceedings procedural-rights Did the lower Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a resul…
25-6467 Roberto Morales Diaz v. Florida Florida Pending IFP None 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…
25-6475 May Chen v. Manufacturers & Traders Trust Company, et al. District of Columbia Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review default-judgment emergency-motions judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct rules-of-procedure This is a 4th filing of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari following the previous Supreme Court Case No. 23-5501 "May Chen v. MPD et.al.". Due to repea…
25-6526 Johnny Ray Walls-Bey v. Arizona Arizona Pending Response WaivedIFP brady-rule due-process false-testimony napue-violation plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Where State Prosecutors knowingly used and failed to correct false sworn testimony in connection with the plea such as at the plea colloquy, in …
25-6552 Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant removal-jurisdiction 1 Whether 28 U.S.C. §1443(1) permits removal to federal court when a pro se litigant with disabilities alleges systemic discrimination, retaliation, a…
25-6560 Tony Daniel Klein v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-defense criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion sixth-amendment witness-bias Does a court violate a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a defense by excluding the strongest evidence supporting the sole theory o…
25-6610 Robert Franklin Brown v. Arizona Arizona Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process legal-access legal-assistance prison-system prisoner-rights Question not identified.
25-6662 Pierre Burns v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-of-mistake first-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the District Court's prohibition against presenting a defense of mistake of age in a case arising under 18 U.S.C. § 225l(a) created a viola…
25-6664 Freddrick Reed v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP None Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide…
25-6665 Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP arrest-seizure constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process miranda-rights probable-cause 1. Given the absence of probable cause to arrest here, and/or the right to seize, and/or the right to shackle here (and detain and the like, as was do…
25-6667 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States First Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment neutral-arbiter probation-revocation Does a district court violate the Fifth Amendment's neutral-and-detached-arbiter requirement, as recognized in Morrissey, when it engages in ex parte …
25-6668 Matthew Evan Davis, Sr. v. Douglas Curtis, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP court-martial habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdictional-review military-justice suspensions-clause WHETHER, IN THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE, THE CLAIMS OF JUDICIAL BIAS AND IMPROPER REFERRAL OF CHARGES ARE JURISDICTIONAL IN NATURE. WHETHER …
25-6674 Justin K. Eaton v. United States Eighth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split commission-authority congressional-review due-process sentencing-guidelines I. Can U.S.S.G. §1B1.13(b)(6) be held to be an "excess of authority" by the Commission when Congress has reviewed and ratified that guideline pursuant…
25-6675 Paul Wright v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP administrative-law disability-claims judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-jurisdiction veterans-benefits Is an impacted veteran entitled to judicial review of a definitive decision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assert jurisdiction under 38 U.S…
25-6677 John Wayne Morgan, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. 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…
25-6682 Fidel Aramboles v. United States Second Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or ammunition, for …
25-6691 Nedry McLean v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP article-i-powers due-process felonies-clause foreign-prosecution maritime-drug-law vessel-nationality 1. Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) exceeds Congress's Article I powers, particularly where the MDLEA is extended to the prosecut…
25-6692 Ana Rosenda Mancio v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus strickland-standard 1. In applying Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 (1935) to a Habeas Corpus Claim based on the State's unreasonable application of "characterized mi…
25-6694 Donny Ray Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant 1. Whether the "materiality " prong of Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), is satisfied when a search warrant affidavit recklessly omits a confid…
25-6698 Dalando T. Garner 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…
25-6699 Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States Ninth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient …
25-6700 Aita Gurung v. Vermont Vermont Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights jury-selection peremptory-challenges public-trial sixth-amendment waller-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee applies to the cause and peremptory challenges phase of jury selection or may the court exclude t…
25-6701 Eskender Getachew v. United States Sixth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-court-duty Both the Constitution (through the Fifth and Sixth Amendments) and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 43) provide that a defendant "must be…
25-6702 Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup…
25-6703 Pedro Cesar Villalobos-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled?
25-6715 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP congressional-power constitutional-interpretation define-and-punish-clause high-seas international-jurisdiction maritime-law Under the Define and Punish Clause and the Founders' understanding of sea zones, does Congress have the authority to punish felonies that occur in ano…
25-6716 Ramon Manuel Ortega-Borunda 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)?
25-6724 Diamond King v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review procedural-dismissal service-evasion whistleblower-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit violated Petitioner 's Fifth Amendment right to due process by affirming dismissal o…
25-6755 Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado Colorado Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law coroner-authority death-investigation district-attorney prosecutorial-discretion sub-delegation In a matter of first impression whether the district attorney may charge a person for causing a death that the coroner declines to find was a homicide…
25-6768 In Re Mark Anthony Morris Pending IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-interference 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit Mark Morris' continued imprisonment after establishing that constitutional viol…
25-6769 In Re David J. Gottorff Pending IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment Question 1. Whether the arrest and prosecution of the Petitioner in Ouray District Court case 2022 CR 8 was in criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512(d)…
25-750 Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC Louisiana Pending causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort Whether under 46 U.S.C.A. § 30104 (The Jones Act) relaxed causation standard, requiring only that the employer's negligence play "any part, even the s…
25-754 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit Pending burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright 1. Whether, on an acknowledged Circuit split, copyrightability is a pure question of law, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or includes considerations …
25-760 Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer Eighth Circuit Pending Amici (2)Response Waived bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine 1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983. 2. If no…
25-768 Charity Mainville v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit Pending circuit-court extraordinary-writ judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus procedural-standard 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit may impose "undue delay" as a standalone prerequisite to mandamus relief when this Court's three-part test includes no s…
25-769 Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Marita R. Sciarrotta, Director of the New Jersey Division of Taxation New Jersey Pending Response Waived commerce-clause corporate-taxation due-process interstate-commerce royalty-payments tax-deductibility (1) Whether New Jersey's scheme for taxing royalty payments, that conditions the deductibility of related-party royalty payments on the extent of t…
25-771 Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. Eleventh Circuit Pending appellate-review eleventh-circuit judicial-precedent jury-tampering presumption-of-prejudice trial-integrity Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the presumption of prejudice standard when evaluating unrefuted evidence of jury …
25-777 Christopher L. Thompson v. Illinois Illinois Pending Response Waived None 1. Whether a court conducts an adequate inquiry into juror racial bias where it discounts evidence of racial bias as "off-hand" remarks, relies upon t…
25-833 Duane Letroy Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-commitment congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a) exceeds the constitutional limits of Congress's powers insofar as it permits the federal government to civilly commit a pe…
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding…
25-905 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors 1. Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from "an ot…
25-909 Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont Vermont Pending Response Waived due-process internet-business minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a state court from exercising personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant unless …
25-911 Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Tenth Circuit Pending Response Waived first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co…
25-929 Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. Sixth Circuit Pending Response Waived 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights Issue I: Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond for the express ed purpose of inhibiting appellants ' pursuit of their statutory righ…
25A171 Robert Monteiro v. United States First Circuit Application drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-admission prior-bad-acts rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the admission of prior bad act evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) and reliance on extra-record statements violated the defendant's…
25A549 In Re Henry L. Klein Fifth Circuit Application business-qualification debt-collection debt-purchaser henson-v-santander special-purpose-vehicle supremacy-clause Whether the Supreme Court will enforce the Henson v. Santander ruling as the supreme law of the land regarding debt ownership and collection rights un…
25A773 Katherine London v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit Application appellate-procedure due-process first-amendment professional-sanctions rico-litigation zealous-advocacy Question not identified.
25M62 Chantel Mitchell v. Office Depot, Inc. Ninth Circuit Pending None