First Circuit

1 granted23 pending17 judgments issued since June 2020← All courts

Case Title Docketed Type Status Tags
25-6791 David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States 2026-02-11 IFP Pending appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines
25-934 Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. 2026-02-06 Paid Pending 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction
25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. 2026-01-30 Paid Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction
25-6680 Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico 2026-01-30 IFP Pending appellate-review brief-filing circuit-court due-process judicial-procedure procedural-validity
25-6667 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States 2026-01-29 IFP Pending criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment neutral-arbiter probation-revocation
25-6635 Jose Amaury Sanchez-Jimenez v. United States, et al. 2026-01-21 IFP Pending criminal-procedure federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause superseding-indictment
25-6531 Rafael Jorge v. Marie Adler 2026-01-09 IFP Pending appellate-procedure district-court judicial-discretion jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant
25-6524 Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States 2026-01-08 IFP Pending collective-knowledge-doctrine criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-suppression police-investigation traffic-stop
25-6498 Cynthia Stephanie Jones v. Providence Teachers Union, Local 958 2026-01-07 IFP Pending district-court eeoc employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis right-to-sue teachers-union
25A783 Crystal Greenlaw v. United States 2026-01-07 A Application 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process sentence-reduction
25-6499 Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States 2026-01-07 IFP Pending age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor
25-787 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. Amici (3) 2026-01-06 Paid Pending constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process judicial-scrutiny rational-basis-test separation-of-powers
25-6480 Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States 2026-01-05 IFP Pending baker-v-wingo constitutional-rights judicial-review procedural-error sixth-amendment speedy-trial
25A769 Jeffrey L. Clemens v. W. Michael Stewart, et al. 2026-01-05 A Application civil-rights clerk-magistrate harm-to-party nondiscretionary-actions qualified-immunity section-1983
25A772 Jason A. Czekalski v. William L. Wrenn, Individually, and as former Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. 2026-01-05 A Application appellate-jurisdiction extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure mandate-issuance panel-review petition-for-rehearing
25-6471 Marcia Vazquez Rijos v. United States 2026-01-02 IFP Pending appellate-procedure conspiracy criminal-procedure indicative-ruling jurisdiction sixth-amendment
25-6470 Jose Ferrer-Sosa v. United States 2026-01-02 IFP Pending apprendi-violation fair-trial mental-health-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure sentencing witness-competency
25-6454 Derek Capozzi v. United States 2025-12-30 IFP Pending armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-retroactivity residual-clause section-2255 sentence-enhancement
25-762 Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States 2025-12-29 Paid Pending administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency
25-759 Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board 2025-12-29 Paid Pending 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy
25A739 Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. 2025-12-23 A Application appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time first-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari
25A734 Frank Thompson v. Carl Wilson, Commissioner, Maine's Department of Marine Resources 2025-12-22 A Application carpenter-precedent closely-regulated-industry digital-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking warrantless-search
25-6414 Matthew R. Davis v. Maine 2025-12-22 IFP Pending constitutional-rights expert-testimony eye-witness-identification ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment
25A714 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. 2025-12-18 A Application birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing
25-6345 Felix Verdejo-Sanchez v. United States 2025-12-11 IFP Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce pro-se-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction
25-6330 Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States 2025-12-10 IFP Denied aiding-and-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement
25-6332 Ángel Forteza-García v. United States 2025-12-10 IFP Denied aiding-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement
25-6308 Johnny Joe Figueroa-Mangual v. United States 2025-12-08 IFP Denied constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment
25A666 Citizens Bank, N.A. v. John Conti 2025-12-08 A Application bank-preemption escrow-accounts incidental-powers mortgage-lending national-bank-act state-regulation
25-6286 Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States 2025-12-04 IFP Denied appellate-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation time-limit
25-600 John Paul Beaudoin, Sr. v. Charles D. Baker, et al. 2025-11-24 Paid Denied case-dismissal civil-rights court-access due-process pleading-standards standing
25-602 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz Santiago v. José Ramon Cárrion Morales, Chapter 13 Trustee, et al. 2025-11-24 Paid Denied appellate-jurisdiction article-iii bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-violation due-process mandate-stay
25-6203 Misael Fabian Medina v. United States 2025-11-24 IFP Denied appellate-review evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay-exception procedural-fairness reliability-standard
25A588 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States 2025-11-18 A Application constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-public-defender first-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari
25-6098 Elston Bone v. Massachusetts, et al. 2025-11-13 IFP Denied 42-usc-1983 constitutional-challenge intermediate-scrutiny new-york-rifle-bruen state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction
25-6086 Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States 2025-11-12 IFP Denied appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation
25-6068 Eliezer Rosario-Ramos v. United States 2025-11-10 IFP Denied criminal-sentencing first-offender judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines upward-variance
25-6075 Derek Muñoz-Gonzalez v. United States 2025-11-10 IFP Denied breach-of-contract criminal-procedure guideline-range plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-enhancement
25A539 Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al. Amici (3) 2025-11-07 A Application administrative-procedure-act appropriations executive-discretion judicial-injunction nutrition-programs separation-of-powers
25-527 Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda 2025-10-31 Paid Denied bankruptcy-procedure creditor-rights due-process judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment
25-5985 Anne M. Lynch v. United States 2025-10-29 IFP Denied criminal-law fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instruction prosecutorial-discretion statutory-vagueness
25A489 Ray L. Diaz Santiago v. Manuel Miranda, et al. 2025-10-29 A Application None
25-518 Canna Provisions, Inc., et al., v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General Amici (3) 2025-10-28 Paid Denied commerce-clause congressional-power economic-activity interstate-commerce marijuana-regulation rational-basis
25-520 Alan Howell Parrot v. United States 2025-10-28 Paid Denied assault-on-officer domicile-entry federal-statute jury-instruction law-enforcement mistake-of-fact
25-5975 Thiago de Sousa Prado v. United States 2025-10-28 IFP Denied attorney-disqualification conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics
25-5981 Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States 2025-10-28 IFP Denied criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing
25A487 Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States 2025-10-28 A Application constitutional-delay criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial
25-5922 Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States 2025-10-21 IFP Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing
25-470 Scott Cannon, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. 2025-10-16 Paid Denied derivative-claim erisa-preemption first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation wrongful-death
25A436 Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board, et al. 2025-10-16 A Presumed Complete None
25A430 Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid 2025-10-15 A Presumed Complete child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent
25M31 Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States 2025-10-15 M Pending None
25A413 Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States 2025-10-09 A Presumed Complete constitutional-review extension-of-time federal-appeal first-circuit procedural-standards writ-of-certiorari
25A404 Ángel Forteza-García v. United States 2025-10-08 A Presumed Complete criminal-appeal federal-public-defender first-circuit legal-standard time-extension writ-of-certiorari
25A408 In Re Gregory Alvin James Van Etten 2025-10-08 A Application constitutional-injury due-process federal-review jurisdictional-defect service-of-process void-judgment
25-416 Cangrejeros de Santurce Baseball Club, LLC, et al. v. Liga de Béisbol Professional de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. Amici (3) 2025-10-07 Paid Pending antitrust-law baseball-exemption federal-baseball flood-case sports-litigation toolson-precedent
25A397 Obe E. Johnson v. Harry Feliciano-Maldonado, et al. 2025-10-07 A Presumed Complete constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-proceedings
25-5801 David C. Lettieri v. Santander Bank N.A. 2025-10-03 IFP Dismissed None
25-365 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. Amici (22) 2025-09-29 Paid Pending birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law
25A330 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. 2025-09-23 A Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights licensing-restrictions property-rights rational-basis
25A319 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al. Amici (1) 2025-09-19 A Application biological-sex equal-protection executive-order gender-identity passport-policy sex-designation
25M27 Linda A. Logan, et al. v. Heather Antaya, et al. 2025-09-18 M Presumed Complete None
25-272 Andy Luu Tran v. Herbert Jacobs 2025-09-10 Paid Denied bankruptcy-code deed-validity land-records mortgage-foreclosure state-law transfer-avoidance
25-260 Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter 2025-09-05 Paid Denied appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255
25-5486 Bruce Anderson v. Kenneth Lizotte, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2025-08-27 IFP Denied aedpa constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance second-petition
25-199 Daniel Concepcion, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, dba MLB, et al. Amici (2) 2025-08-19 Paid Denied antitrust-exemption baseball-litigation constitutional-challenge equal-protection sherman-act supreme-court-precedent
25-5411 Admilson Pires v. United States 2025-08-19 IFP Denied None
25A180 Canna Provisions, Inc., et al., v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General 2025-08-13 A Presumed Complete commerce-clause controlled-substances-act gonzalez-v-raich interstate-commerce intrastate-marijuana marijuana-regulation
25A171 Robert Monteiro v. United States 2025-08-08 A Application drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-admission prior-bad-acts rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence
25-5292 John Charles Volungus v. United States 2025-08-06 IFP Denied adam-walsh-act civil-commitment conditional-release district-court-authority medical-treatment statutory-interpretation
25A147 Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. 2025-08-05 A Presumed Complete erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death
25A151 Rosemary Morgan-Lee v. Therapy Resources Management, LLP 2025-08-05 A Presumed Complete None
25-5224 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States 2025-07-29 IFP Denied criminal-conviction defendant-rights jury-trial structural-error trial-court waiver
25A120 Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Fidel Angel Lopez-Quinteros, et al. 2025-07-29 A Presumed Complete asylum family-relationship immigration-and-nationality-act nexus-requirement particular-social-group persecution
25-110 Sally Priester v. Puerto Rico Department of Health, et al. 2025-07-29 Paid Denied first-amendment free-speech government-interference healthcare-speech licensing-board pandemic-restrictions
25-5235 Carlton Vose v. Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island 2025-07-29 IFP Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus state-law
25A103 National Institutes of Health, et al. v. American Public Health Association, et al. Amici (2) 2025-07-24 A Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-discretion grant-termination judicial-review research-funding subject-matter-jurisdiction
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. Amici (21) 2025-07-22 Paid Pending constitutional-rights educational-policy gender-transition minor-consent parental-rights school-authority
25-46 Boat Santa Rita II, Inc. v. Magnus Aadland 2025-07-14 Paid Dismissed court-of-appeals maintenance-and-cure maritime-law punitive-damages standard-of-review vessel-owner
25-33 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. 2025-07-09 Paid Denied adverse-employment-action comparator-evidence discrimination-inference employment-discrimination prima-facie-case retaliation
25-5047 Michael Francis v. United States 2025-07-08 IFP Denied fourth-amendment informant-reliability judicial-integrity law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-warrant
25-5036 Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States 2025-07-07 IFP Denied constitutional-provisions federal-prosecution grand-jury interstate-commerce jurisdiction puerto-rico-statehood
24-7528 John A. Sam v. United States 2025-06-30 IFP Denied constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-ban second-amendment
24A1288 Aren S. Tau v. Town of Lakeville, Massachusetts, et al. 2025-06-26 A Presumed Complete None
24-1307 Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. 2025-06-24 Paid Denied civil-rights constitutional-tort ex-parte-young ongoing-violation property-retention state-officials
24-7461 Pedro A. Martinez-Mercado v. United States 2025-06-18 IFP Denied None
24A1243 Richard W. Gannett v. Nahabet Cimenian 2025-06-16 A Presumed Complete None
24-7393 Walter Aceituno v. United States 2025-06-10 IFP Denied coram-nobis effective-assistance-counsel immigration-consequences padilla-standard permanent-ban sixth-amendment
24A1216 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States 2025-06-10 A Presumed Complete bank-fraud criminal-procedure guilty-plea jury-trial plea-colloquy structural-error
24A1203 Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. Amici (1) 2025-06-06 A Presumed Complete administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction
24A1166 Ray Leonerdirt Diaz Santiago v. Jose Ramon Carrion Morales, et al. 2025-05-30 A Presumed Complete bankruptcy constitutional-violations due-process foreclosure notice-of-hearing property-rights
24-1210 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. 2025-05-29 Paid Denied appellate-review civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act fifth-amendment rule-41-dismissal
24A1153 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. D.V.D., et al. Amici (3) 2025-05-27 A Presumed Complete None
24-7281 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation 2025-05-23 IFP Dismissed abuse-prevention custody-definition fraud-on-court habeas-corpus second-amendment statute-of-limitations
24-7282 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. 2025-05-23 IFP Denied child-separation constitutional-rights due-process federal-reimbursement lgbtq-rights state-law
24A1132 Nancy Newbury v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. 2025-05-22 A Presumed Complete None
24A1079 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security v. Svitlana Doe, et al. Amici (7) 2025-05-08 A Presumed Complete None
24-1123 Rahim Caldwell v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. 2025-04-30 Paid Denied constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process emergency-certification judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant
24A1051 Laurel D. Libby, et al. v. Ryan M. Fecteau, Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, et al. Amici (1) 2025-04-30 A Presumed Complete None
24-1114 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Sara Gagne-Holmes, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. 2025-04-28 Paid Denied civil-rights constitutional-review judicial-scrutiny litigation-sham religious-exemption vaccine-mandate
24-7078 Guillermo Vasquez-Landaver v. United States 2025-04-25 IFP Denied drug-quantity federal-crime possession-with-intent schedule-drug standard-of-review state-offense
24-7054 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States 2025-04-22 IFP Denied circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment
24A1018 Dominick Bailey v. United States 2025-04-22 A Presumed Complete None
24-7036 Jose Padilla-Galarza v. United States 2025-04-21 IFP Denied brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard
24-7011 Donald Turner v. United States 2025-04-16 IFP Denied appellate-review de-novo-review plain-error rule-12 second-amendment sentencing-proceeding
24A976 Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. 2025-04-11 A Presumed Complete None
24-1048 Karen Read v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. 2025-04-03 Paid Denied acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict retrial
24-6919 Pablo Enrique Rosado Sanchez v. Travis Kalanick, et al. 2025-04-03 IFP Denied algorithmic-harassment employment-discrimination independent-contractor-rights non-disclosure-agreement tip-stealing uber-ai-manipulation
24-1044 Erroll Tyler, individually and as President and CEO of Nautical Tours, Inc., et al. v. Michael Cox, Commissioner, Boston Police Department, et al. 2025-04-01 Paid Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection summary-judgment void-judgment
24A910 Department of Education, et al. v. California, et al. Amici (1) 2025-03-26 A Presumed Complete administrative-discretion district-court-jurisdiction executive-power federal-grants judicial-review separation-of-powers
24A915 Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, et al. 2025-03-25 A Presumed Complete certiorari federal-legislation fiscal-oversight governmental-autonomy puerto-rico supreme-court-rules
24A917 Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda 2025-03-25 A Presumed Complete appellate-review bankruptcy-court discretionary-ruling reconsideration standard-of-review summary-judgment
24-1014 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. 2025-03-24 Paid Denied age-discrimination burden-of-proof disparate-impact eeoc-regulation employment-law reasonable-factors
24-6824 Hansel Janel Rijo-Guerrero v. United States 2025-03-21 IFP Denied criminal-procedure downward-variance drug-trafficking sentencing-disparity sentencing-enhancement ussg-guidelines
24-6779 Daniel E. Hall v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. 2025-03-17 IFP Dismissed court-integrity fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure legal-remedy local-rule rule-60
24-6764 Albert Johnson v. United States 2025-03-13 IFP Denied assets employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty
24A886 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. Amici (1) 2025-03-13 A Presumed Complete None
24-971 Seafreeze Shoreside, Inc., et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. Amici (1) 2025-03-11 Paid Denied administrative-law agency-deference environmental-policy judicial-review offshore-energy statutory-interpretation
24-966 Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, a D.C. Nonprofit Corporation v. Department of the Interior, et al. 2025-03-10 Paid Denied administrative-interpretation federal-permitting fishing-industry ocean-energy offshore-wind statutory-construction
24-963 Elvin Torres-Estrada v. United States 2025-03-07 Paid Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion
24-949 Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission 2025-03-05 Paid Denied anti-fraud-provisions disgorgement investor-protection materiality-standard sec-enforcement securities-law
24-6700 George E. Kersey v. Donald J. Trump 2025-03-04 IFP Dismissed None
24A848 Stephen Foote, Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of B. F. and G. F., Minors, et al. v. Ludlow School Committee, et al. 2025-03-04 A Presumed Complete None
24-938 American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. Amici (2) 2025-03-03 Paid Denied anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law joint-venture market-competition procompetitive-effects rule-of-reason
24-6674 Kevin Millette v. United States 2025-02-28 IFP Denied appellate-jurisdiction compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing-modification
24-922 James Harper v. Michael Faulkender, Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, et al. Amici (12) 2025-02-26 Paid Denied cryptocurrency-records fourth-amendment privacy-rights surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrantless-search
24-913 Nubian Nuh Mohammed v. Universal Protection Service, LLC, dba Allied Universal Security Services 2025-02-25 Paid Denied business-purpose consent contractual-damages electronic-signature legal-standing unauthorized-use
24-6593 Juan Guerrero v. United States 2025-02-19 IFP Denied circuit-court-review fourth-amendment officer-safety protective-sweep suppression-ruling vehicle-search
24-875 Lucas Sirois v. United States 2025-02-14 Paid Denied appropriations-law compliance-standard criminal-prosecution federal-enforcement medical-marijuana state-authorization
24M64 Albert Johnson v. United States 2025-02-13 M Presumed Complete None
24-6554 Adriano Cortez v. United States 2025-02-12 IFP Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission government-tolling statute-of-limitations
24-832 Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. 2025-02-05 Paid Denied diversity-jurisdiction investment-advisor jurisdictional-test navarro-precedent trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity
24A745 American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. 2025-01-29 A Presumed Complete airline-regulation consumer-protection federal-preemption interstate-commerce marketing-claims pricing-practices
24-794 Amy Rae v. Woburn Public Schools, et al. 2025-01-27 Paid Denied actionable-conduct discrete-acts employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment retaliatory-harassment statute-of-limitations
24-777 Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana, et al. v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Amici (9) 2025-01-23 Paid Granted administrative-law asylum-eligibility board-of-immigration-appeals immigration-law judicial-review refugee-status
24-6364 Cedric Cromwell v. United States 2025-01-22 IFP Denied criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act indian-tribes official-right sovereign-immunity
24-769 Joan Stormo, as Assignee of Peter T. Clark v. State National Insurance Company 2025-01-17 Paid Denied certification diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-procedure federalism state-law
24-6279 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden 2025-01-13 IFP Denied brady-disclosure exculpatory-evidence first-degree-murder habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense
24-6287 Sean J. Trahan v. United States 2025-01-13 IFP Denied child-pornography federal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction
24-6245 Brad A. Smith v. United States 2025-01-08 IFP Denied fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-law interrogation-rights knock-and-talk sixth-amendment
24A664 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. 2025-01-03 A Presumed Complete civil-procedure constitutional-claims discovery-rights discrimination due-process rule-12b6
24A665 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. 2025-01-03 A Presumed Complete age-discrimination circuit-split constitutional-rights disparate-impact employment-act jury-trial
24-691 Debra Brown v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. 2024-12-30 Paid Denied constitutional-law due-process fnma-authority government-instrumentality property-rights state-consumer-law
24A622 Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission 2024-12-23 A Presumed Complete circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedy investor-protection sec-enforcement securities-law
24A609 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. 2024-12-19 A Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process fair-labor-standards-act judicial-procedure res-judicata rule-41
24-6108 Sixto Jorge Diaz-Colon v. United States 2024-12-10 IFP Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment procedural-rules sixth-amendment
24-626 F.W. Webb Company v. Vincent N. Micone, III, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor 2024-12-06 Paid Denied administrative-exemption employment-law fair-labor-standards-act judicial-interpretation labor-regulations regulatory-compliance
24A549 James Harper v. Daniel I. Werfel, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. 2024-12-05 A Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act cryptocurrency financial-privacy fourth-amendment john-doe-summons third-party-doctrine
24-577 Gilbert Perez v. United States Amici (2) 2024-11-25 Paid Denied arrest-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement luggage-search warrantless-search
24-5999 Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico 2024-11-19 IFP Denied civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review
24A496 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation 2024-11-19 A Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-timeliness section-2254
24-5972 Alex N. Morales-Velez v. United States 2024-11-14 IFP Denied criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation strickland-standard
24A423 Sean J. Trahan v. United States 2024-10-30 A Presumed Complete categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation
24-5820 Tevon Ngomba v. United States 2024-10-24 IFP Denied acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure first-circuit obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines
24-445 Samuel Kinuthia Gicharu v. Antone Moniz, Superintendent, Plymouth County Correctional Facility 2024-10-21 Paid Denied None
24-5794 Juan Daniel Sierra-Jimenez v. United States 2024-10-21 IFP Denied breach-of-agreement circuit-split plain-error-rule plea-agreement prejudice-prong sentencing-review
24-5795 Carl Langston v. United States 2024-10-21 IFP Denied constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation
24A370 Michel D'Angelo v. United States 2024-10-18 A Presumed Complete attorney-client certiorari communication-barriers criminal-procedure due-process pro-se-petition
24A364 Debra Brown v. et Bank of America Corporation, et al. 2024-10-17 A Presumed Complete court-integrity due-process financial-conflict judicial-recusal mandamus section-455
24-5762 Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States 2024-10-16 IFP Denied appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
24-419 Hartono Djokro, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General 2024-10-15 Paid Denied None
24-5757 Damian Cortez v. United States 2024-10-15 IFP Denied circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant
24-410 L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. Amici (13) 2024-10-11 Paid Denied first-amendment ideological-speech personal-identity school-censorship student-speech tinker-standard
24A346 Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., Not Individually but Solely as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. 2024-10-11 A Presumed Complete diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-test subject-matter-jurisdiction trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity
24-5715 Lashaun Casey v. United States 2024-10-07 IFP Denied criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance law-enforcement-questioning safe-harbor statement-suppression strickland-standard
24-355 Kari MacRae v. Matthew Mattos, et al. Amici (3) 2024-09-30 Paid Denied constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech-rights pickering-test pre-employment-speech public-employee-speech
24-337 Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, et al. v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. Amici (2) 2024-09-25 Paid Denied best-available-science endangered-species federal-agency offshore-wind-energy section-7-analysis statutory-obligations
24-5600 Abimael Narvaez-Rosa v. United States 2024-09-20 IFP Denied criminal-procedure first-circuit incarceration-term judicial-breach plea-agreement sentencing-error
24-306 Michael Bush, et al. v. Linda Fantasia, et al. 2024-09-18 Paid Denied injunctive-relief mootness pro-se-plaintiffs rule-12-procedure standing sua-sponte-dismissal
24-287 Jennifer Root Bannon, as the Special Personal Representative of the Estate of Juston Root v. David Godin, Boston Police Officer, et al. 2024-09-12 Paid Denied circuit-split credibility-assessment deadly-force evidence-weighing factual-determination summary-judgment
24-5520 Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. 2024-09-11 IFP Denied administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation
24-5481 Cody Mercure v. United States 2024-09-06 IFP Denied criminal-procedure eighth-amendment federal-sentencing judicial-review proportionality sentencing-guidelines
24-5484 Irvin Abreu v. United States 2024-09-06 IFP Denied categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation
24-165 Trina Wilkins, et al. v. Genzyme Corporation 2024-08-15 Paid Denied class-action equitable-tolling fairness-act federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity relation-back-doctrine
24A161 L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. 2024-08-09 A Presumed Complete first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard
24-131 Ocean State Tactical, LLC, dba Big Bear Hunting and Fishing Supply, et al. v. Rhode Island, et al. Amici (4) 2024-08-06 Paid Denied 2nd-amendment ammunition-feeding-devices civil-rights common-use constitutional-protection due-process property-rights retrospective-ban second-amendment takings takings-clause
24M18 Martha I. O. Mogaji v. Rosa Chan, et al. 2024-08-06 M Presumed Complete None
24-5172 Hassan Abbas v. United States 2024-07-30 IFP Denied conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud
24-5176 Antonio Santonastaso v. United States 2024-07-30 IFP Denied 18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation
24-5105 Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States 2024-07-18 IFP Denied agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines
24-51 Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. 2024-07-17 Paid Denied judicial-immunity licensing-board market-participants professional-licensing quasi-judicial-immunity sherman-act sovereign-immunity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity supreme-court-precedent
24A53 Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, et al. v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. 2024-07-16 A Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference endangered-species-act environmental-statutes loper-bright
24-5028 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States 2024-07-09 IFP Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver
23-7821 Noe Rodriguez-Adorno v. United States 2024-06-27 IFP Denied communications constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court impasse right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervised-release
23-1343 Darwin Quinones-Pimentel, et al. v. Nicholas W. Cannon, et al. 2024-06-26 Paid Denied bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-tort federal-agents fourth-amendment frank-v-delaware monetary-damages search-warrant
23-7785 Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. 2024-06-24 IFP Denied academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination
23-7759 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States 2024-06-20 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent
23-7749 Carlos Enrique Lopez-Soto v. United States 2024-06-18 IFP Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal due-process government-objection judicial-procedure notice notice-of-judgment standing timeliness
23-7754 Alejandro Carrasco v. United States 2024-06-18 IFP Denied bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation
23-7714 Derek Gerrish v. United States 2024-06-13 IFP Denied bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure
23A1103 Rahim Caldwell v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. 2024-06-11 A Presumed Complete constitutional-claims dismissal judicial-procedure no-bid-contracts notice-of-deficiencies pro-se
23-7615 Randall Crater v. United States 2024-06-03 IFP Denied compulsory-process criminal-procedure fair-trial sixth-amendment structural-error touhy-regulations trial-subpoenas witness-testimony
23A1058 Ocean State Tactical, LLC, dba Big Bear Hunting and Fishing Supply, et al v. Rhode Island, et al. 2024-05-30 A Presumed Complete arms-regulation bruen-test historical-tradition large-capacity-magazine second-amendment self-defense
23A1031 Ryan Welter v. Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Company, dba Coverys, et al. 2024-05-20 A Presumed Complete 28-usc-1446 federal-question removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction subsequent-paper timeliness
23-7498 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation, et al. 2024-05-17 IFP Dismissed abuse-prevention-order civil-rights constitutional-deficiency custody due-process in-custody legal-standing matthews-v-eldridge parental-rights
23-7332 Angel De Jesus Castillo-Godoy v. United States 2024-04-29 IFP Denied appeal-waiver burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-defense jurisdiction opening-brief reply-brief sixth-amendment
23-1141 Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos Amici (45) 2024-04-22 Paid Judgment Issued aiding-and-abetting drug-cartel-violence drug-cartels firearms-industry firearms-trafficking international-tort legal-causation plcaa proximate-cause trafficking
23-1137 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. Amici (8) 2024-04-19 Paid Denied boston-school-committee disparate-impact equal-protection exam-schools intentional-discrimination race-neutral-criteria racial-balancing school-admissions
23A941 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States 2024-04-19 A Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver
23-1115 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University Amici (1) 2024-04-15 Paid Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination false-statements gender-discrimination retaliation sexual-harassment title-ix whistleblowing
23-7172 JB Nicholas v. Judy A. Camuso, Commissioner, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife 2024-04-10 IFP Denied burford-abstention civil-rights due-process evidence first-amendment government-restrictions judicial-review occupational-liberty rational-basis
23A908 Alejandro Carrasco v. United States 2024-04-10 A Presumed Complete anti-corruption-law federal-bribery municipal-contract official-act public-official statutory-interpretation
23-7175 Philip Ayala v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2024-04-09 IFP Denied capital-case criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records
23-7184 Daniel Paul Sansone v. United States 2024-04-09 IFP Denied confinement confinement-period criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing detention-calculation juvenile-commitment legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines
23-7165 Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States 2024-04-08 IFP Denied article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation
23-1090 Scott D. Pitta v. Dina Medeiros, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Administrator of Special Education for the Bridgewater Raynham Regional School District, et al. Amici (3) 2024-04-05 Paid Denied citizen-rights civil-rights expressive-activity first-amendment free-speech government-employee inherently-expressive public-interest public-space recording-rights
23M77 Edmund J. Janas, II v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. 2024-03-20 M Presumed Complete None
23M76 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University 2024-03-19 M Presumed Complete None
23-1016 William Facteau and Patrick Fabian v. United States Amici (1) 2024-03-15 Paid Denied arbitrary-enforcement fda-regulations fifth-amendment first-amendment interstate-commerce medical-device off-label-use truthful-speech
23-6980 Matthew Murphy v. United States 2024-03-15 IFP Denied bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error
23-7005 Simon Chan v. Maura Tracy Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. 2024-03-15 IFP Denied 14th-amendment ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights class-of-one due-process engquist-v-oregon equal-protection government-discrimination judicial-review
23-6910 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States 2024-03-06 IFP Denied 46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction
23-6896 Anthony Rimas v. United States 2024-03-05 IFP Denied 18-usc-2256 28-usc-994 congressional-authority law-enforcement-undercover minor minor-definition sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-interpretation undercover-law-enforcement
23A813 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington 2024-03-04 A Presumed Complete appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default
23-6876 Joseph Neil Bronson, Jr. v. United States 2024-03-01 IFP Denied constitutional-law criminal-attempt criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-intent overbroad post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation vagueness
23-919 Kristin DiCroce v. McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, et al. 2024-02-26 Paid Denied buckman-ruling buckman-v-plaintiffs-legal-committee circuit-court-interpretation federal-food-drug-cosmetic-act federal-preemption implied-preemption medtronic-precedent medtronic-v-lohr state-law-causes-of-action state-law-claims statutory-interpretation
23-6817 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States 2024-02-23 IFP Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent
23A771 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. 2024-02-23 A Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983
23A767 Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States 2024-02-22 A Presumed Complete appellate-procedure circuit-precedent criminal-sentencing en-banc-review procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review
23-6794 Isaac Cardona v. United States 2024-02-21 IFP Denied criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine
23-6802 Wally Irizarry-Sisco v. United States 2024-02-21 IFP Denied child-sex-abuse child-sex-case criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment
23-6745 Raymond Wilson, III v. Fairhaven Police Department, et al. 2024-02-14 IFP Denied civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection interstate-crime jurisdictional-issues legal-elements malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment
23-839 David Littlefield, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. 2024-02-05 Paid Denied carcieri-v-salazar federal-jurisdiction indian-reorganization-act land-into-trust secretary-of-interior tribal-recognition tribal-status
23-6634 Andres Colon-Miranda v. United States 2024-01-31 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process litigation-strategy package-doctrine sentencing-guidelines summary-dismissal ussg-3d1.2
23-821 Michelle Smith v. Peter B. Krupp, Judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. 2024-01-30 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-of-court jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-proceedings title-42 usurpation-of-power
23-6592 Bernardito Carvajal, aka Christian Mendez-Acevedo v. United States 2024-01-26 IFP Denied acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-discretion unreasonable-sentence
23-777 Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court 2024-01-18 Paid Denied attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger
23A662 Jacques Saade v. Fay Servicing, LLC, et al. 2024-01-18 A Presumed Complete appellate-procedure filing-restrictions judicial-economy mortgage-default pro-se-litigation sanctions
23-6443 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Pablo Crespo-Claudio, et al. 2024-01-09 IFP Denied attorney-assignment civil-rights constitutional-rights contract due-process fraud loan-modification loan-promissory-note pro-se-rights promissory-note secured-loan
23-736 Bernard Gadson v. United States 2024-01-08 Paid Denied administrative-law agency-deference criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
23-711 James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. 2024-01-03 Paid Denied appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits
23A610 Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. 2024-01-02 A Presumed Complete antitrust-law licensing-board market-participants midcal-test north-carolina-dental state-action-immunity
23-6398 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. 2023-12-29 IFP Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity
23-6378 Gilmer Diaz-Jaramillo v. United States 2023-12-28 IFP Denied criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause due-process felony-on-high-seas foreign-nationals interlocutory-review maritime-drug-enforcement maritime-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction
23-6382 Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States 2023-12-28 IFP Denied circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation
23A591 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States 2023-12-27 A Presumed Complete article-ii circuit-split constitutional-error guilty-plea maritime-drug-law subject-matter-jurisdiction
23-678 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico 2023-12-22 Paid Denied bankruptcy-code close-nexus-test fiscal-plan oversight-board policy-dispute promesa related-to-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction title-iii Title-III-court
23-674 Rafael Hernández-Montañez v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico Amici (1) 2023-12-21 Paid Denied bankruptcy civil-procedure financial-crisis financial-oversight-and-management-board judicial-jurisdiction municipal-bankruptcy promesa promesa-act puerto-rico puerto-rico-debt territorial-instrumentality territorial-oversight
23-6240 Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States 2023-12-12 IFP Denied constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation
23-630 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. 2023-12-12 Paid Denied civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine
23-6213 Robert Poliero, aka Charlie v. United States 2023-12-11 IFP Denied cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure
23-6179 Anibal Miranda-Montanez v. United States 2023-12-06 IFP Denied appellate-review case-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions legal-sufficiency procedural-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence verdict-challenge
23-6165 Jesus Del Valle Gonzalez-Rodriguez v. United States 2023-12-05 IFP Denied appeal-waiver brief-filing burden-of-proof court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process government-defense opening-brief plea-agreement reply-brief
23A504 Fernando Diaz Rodriguez v. United States 2023-12-04 A Presumed Complete aiding-and-abetting criminal-statute hobbs-act section-924(c) supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine
23-6131 Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States 2023-11-29 IFP Denied administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement
23-565 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. 2023-11-27 Paid Denied attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party
23-6096 Thomas Oliver v. Joseph Leonard Michaud, et al. 2023-11-22 IFP Denied civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing
23A466 Melissa Ing v. Tufts University 2023-11-22 A Presumed Complete appellate-review first-circuit judicial-procedure supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari
23-547 Sunil Kumar Sharma v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General 2023-11-21 Paid Denied None
23-6086 Luis Alberto Marcano-Godoy v. United States 2023-11-21 IFP Denied appeal-waiver criminal-defendant criminal-procedure government-defense opening-brief procedural-rule reply-brief
23-6057 Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States 2023-11-20 IFP Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur
23-6044 Cristian Rodriguez v. United States 2023-11-17 IFP Denied criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause felonies-on-high-seas felony-on-the-high-seas international-law laws-of-nations maritime-drug-enforcement-law maritime-law piracy-principles subject-matter-jurisdiction
23-6012 Rafael Espinal-Mieses v. United States 2023-11-15 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960(b) criminal-sentencing federal-statute maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation
23-6021 Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Boston Housing Authority, et al. 2023-11-15 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process retaliation rule-12 rule-70 rule-8 rule-9 standing
23A439 Nancy Roe, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of A.R., et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. 2023-11-15 A Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion fape idea mootness preliminary-injunction standing
23-496 Sharan Garlapati v. Brigham & Women's Hospital, et al. 2023-11-09 Paid Denied access-to-courts civil-rights coercion constitutional-protections cyberstalking due-process obstruction-of-justice privacy privacy-rights stalking-by-proxy
23-485 Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States 2023-11-08 Paid Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process entrapment entrapment-defense government-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion self-incrimination use-immunity witness-immunity witness-testimony
23-472 Dora L. Bonner v. Triple S Management Corporation, et al. 2023-11-03 Paid Denied admissibility-of-evidence affidavit-evidence circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-conflicts civil-procedure discovery discovery-dispute procedural-fairness rico-violations summary-judgment weighing-of-evidence
23-468 Matthew Haney, as Trustee of the Gooseberry Island Trust v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. 2023-11-02 Paid Denied civil-procedure constitutional-property-rights due-process government-permit judicial-review prudential-ripeness ripeness standing takings takings-claim variance variance-request
23-460 C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. 2023-11-01 Paid Denied and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers
23-5927 Katerin Martinez-Alberto v. United States 2023-10-31 IFP Denied criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error self-incrimination testimonial-evidence testimony
23A391 Bernard Gadson v. United States 2023-10-31 A Presumed Complete administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines
23-5906 Carey Ackies v. United States 2023-10-30 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance procedural-prerequisites sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
23-5796 Jose Folch-Colon v. United States 2023-10-17 IFP Denied aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States 2023-10-17 IFP Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion
23-5787 Richard Frasca v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al. 2023-10-13 IFP Denied age-discrimination constitutional-rights depression equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing mental-illness procedural-flaws retaliation
23A329 AJ Mini Market, Inc. v. United States 2023-10-13 A Presumed Complete None
23-378 Joel Douglas, et al. v. David Hirshon, et al. 2023-10-11 Paid Denied civil-procedure district-court extrinsic-documents extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings public-records standard-of-review
23-5757 Marigdalia K. Ramirez-Fort v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. 2023-10-11 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts forum-state-interests minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction state-interests
23-5761 Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court 2023-10-11 IFP Denied circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration
23-5696 Elvins Sylvestre v. United States 2023-10-03 IFP Denied 4th-amendment controlled-purchases informant-reliability law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant warrant-sufficiency
23-5699 Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States 2023-10-03 IFP Denied compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines
23-5692 Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States 2023-10-02 IFP Denied 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment
23-5649 Jonathan Monson v. United States 2023-09-26 IFP Denied 18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction
23-281 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. 2023-09-22 Paid Denied appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review
23-5619 Jordan Winczuk v. United States 2023-09-20 IFP Denied circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation
23A253 Rafael Espinal-Mieses v. United States 2023-09-19 A Presumed Complete None
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2023-09-12 IFP Denied circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing
23A235 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. 2023-09-12 A Presumed Complete 17-usc-505 attorney-fees circuit-split copyright-infringement fee-shifting intellectual-property
23-5536 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine 2023-09-07 IFP Denied child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing
23-5539 Trezjuan Thompson v. United States 2023-09-07 IFP Denied appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents
23A223 Dora L. Bonner v. Triple S Management Corporation, et al. 2023-09-07 A Presumed Complete None
23A211 Sunil Kumar Sharma v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General 2023-09-05 A Presumed Complete None
23-5474 Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center 2023-08-29 IFP Denied dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine
23-5444 Adam P. Strege v. Eric A. Vos, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Chief Defender for the Office of the Federal Public Defender District of Puerto Rico, et al. 2023-08-25 IFP Dismissed abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-civil-procedure free-speech government-officials malicious-prosecution standing
23A164 Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States 2023-08-23 A Presumed Complete compulsory-process entrapment-defense fifth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment use-immunity
23-152 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. 2023-08-16 Paid Denied Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship
23-100 Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Michael J. O'Hara 2023-08-02 Paid Denied appellate-review civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process false-testimony heck-bar iqbal-plausibility malicious-prosecution
23-101 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Julio Mario Briseno-Luna 2023-08-02 Paid GVR None
23-98 Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission 2023-08-02 Paid Denied first-amendment fraud free-speech market-speech material-misstatement rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation
23A98 Matthew Haney v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. 2023-08-02 A Presumed Complete fifth-amendment final-decision regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine variance-request zoning-board
23A92 C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. 2023-07-31 A Presumed Complete None
23-5208 Jason Boudreau v. United States 2023-07-26 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement
23-5216 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. 2023-07-26 IFP Denied child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering
23M10 Artecia Behroozi v. Jeremiah S. Jeremiah, Jr., et al. 2023-07-26 M Presumed Complete None
23-5184 Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. 2023-07-25 IFP Denied appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing
23-5185 Yolanda Howard v. United States 2023-07-25 IFP Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop
23-5180 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden 2023-07-24 IFP Denied criminal-investigation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness post-arrest-conduct post-conviction-review right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
23A52 Joel Douglas, et al. v. David Hirshon, et al. 2023-07-20 A Presumed Complete None
23-5132 Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States 2023-07-19 IFP Denied compassionate-release covid-19-risk district-court extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances incarceration medical-vulnerability SARS-CoV-2 scientific-assumptions
23-5142 Joseph Counts v. Maine 2023-07-19 IFP Denied appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules standing stare-decisis
23-5110 James K. Silva v. District Court of Massachusetts, Dukes County 2023-07-14 IFP Denied appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing
23-5086 Betsy Sachs v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority 2023-07-12 IFP Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-constraints due-process executive-power finra-immunity non-delegation-doctrine private-delegation quasi-governmental quasi-governmental-entity securities-regulation
23A16 Thomas Stalcup v. Department of Defense 2023-07-10 A Presumed Complete None
23-5055 Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States 2023-07-07 IFP Denied aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines
23A7 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, et al. 2023-07-05 A Presumed Complete None
23-1 Eric Clopper v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, et al. Amici (1) 2023-06-30 Paid Denied amendment-right civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment procedural-due-process rule-12(b) rule-12b rule-15 rule-15(a)
22-7890 Christopher Ochoa v. United States 2023-06-29 IFP Denied 18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation
22-7853 Carlos Miguel Concepcion-Guliam v. United States 2023-06-26 IFP Denied arrest criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant
22-1231 Laird J. Heal v. Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee for WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Services 2006-PR2 Trust, et al. 2023-06-23 Paid Denied circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-estoppel motions-to-strike standard-of-review summary-judgment
22A1116 Christoper Ochoa v. United States 2023-06-23 A Presumed Complete None
22A1092 Belkis Brito v. Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC 2023-06-20 A Presumed Complete None
22-1219 Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al. Amici (14) 2023-06-16 Paid Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-deference agency-power chevron chevron-deference federal-observers fishery-management magnuson-stevens-act marine-fisheries regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation
22-7786 Lei Yin v. Biogen Inc. 2023-06-14 IFP Denied access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure judicial-discretion legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing
22-1181 Evenflo Company, Inc. v. Mike Xavier, et al. 2023-06-07 Paid Denied article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights class-action concrete-harm consumer-protection due-process economic-injury judicial-inference pleading-standard standing
22-7722 Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States 2023-06-06 IFP Denied ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection 22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision
22A1056 Joseph Counts v. Maine 2023-06-06 A Presumed Complete None
22A1050 Quinton Spinks, aka Travis v. United States 2023-06-05 A Presumed Complete None
22A1036 Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Michael J. O'Hara 2023-05-31 A Presumed Complete None
22-7633 José L. Canales-Cancel v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security 2023-05-25 IFP Denied None
22-7645 Bryan O'Brien v. Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, et al. 2023-05-25 IFP Denied arbitrability civil-procedure court-jurisdiction exemption-doctrine federal-arbitration-act mandatory-language statutory-interpretation threshold-question wholly-grounded-exemption
22-7607 Sensa Verogna v. Andrea K. Johnstone, et al. 2023-05-22 IFP Denied administrative-duties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extrajudicial-knowledge federal-judges judicial-immunity judicial-recusal recusal standing
22-7601 Daniel E. Hall v. Twitter, Inc. 2023-05-19 IFP Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation
22A1006 Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission 2023-05-19 A Presumed Complete None
22-1123 Richard J. Peltz-Steele v. UMass Faculty Federation, Local 1895 American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, et al. 2023-05-18 Paid Denied civil-rights exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association labor-law
22-7523 Samuel Caison v. United States 2023-05-11 IFP Denied criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines
22A913 Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States 2023-04-18 A Presumed Complete None
22-7304 Gricely Rosa v. Lawrence Housing Authority, et al. 2023-04-17 IFP Denied administrative-policy americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-rights fair-housing-amendments-act federal-funding housing-discrimination justiciability public-housing reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act
22-7289 Terrick Bishoff v. United States 2023-04-14 IFP Denied appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
22-7293 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. 2023-04-14 IFP Dismissed appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal
22A874 Lei Yin v. Biogen Inc. 2023-04-06 A Presumed Complete None
22A875 Sarah McDonald v. Grace Murray, et al. 2023-04-06 A Presumed Complete None
22-965 Heewon Lee v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. 2023-04-05 Paid Denied appeals-court civil-procedure claim-requirements district-court legal-precedent legal-precedents res-judicata rico rico-claim supreme-court
22-7139 Bobby Richardson v. Richard A. Luna, Warden 2023-03-29 IFP Denied actual-innocence civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus savings-clause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction
22-7130 Timothy Fletcher v. United States 2023-03-28 IFP Denied booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker
22-939 Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire Amici (3) 2023-03-28 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-prosecution defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech public-official standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine
22-7015 Timothy Reaves v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center 2023-03-15 IFP Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation
22-878 Alexander V. Brown v. William Harrington, United States Trustee for Region 1 2023-03-14 Paid Denied 28-usc-1930 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-fees chapter-11 constitutional-challenge equal-protection reopened-case reopening retroactivity statutory-interpretation united-states-trustee
22A810 Evenflo Company, Inc. v. Mike Xavier, et al. 2023-03-14 A Presumed Complete None
22-847 Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation 2023-03-07 Paid Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection
22-836 Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. 2023-03-03 Paid Denied civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing
22-806 John Doe v. United States 2023-02-24 Paid Denied acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation
22-6802 Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States 2023-02-16 IFP Denied 4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure
22-6704 Angel Vazquez-Figueroa v. United States 2023-02-06 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure individualized-assessment judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion
22-6659 Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States 2023-01-30 IFP Denied appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review
22-707 Barry J. Cadden v. United States 2023-01-30 Paid Denied circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement
22-6648 Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al. 2023-01-27 IFP Dismissed civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-misconduct judicial-overreach legislative-authority separation-of-powers standing state-statute state-supreme-court torture
22A670 Shalini Ahmed v. United States 2023-01-26 A Presumed Complete None
22A663 Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire 2023-01-24 A Presumed Complete None
22A653 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Sergio Rodolfo Laparra-Deleon 2023-01-20 A Presumed Complete None
22-6556 Lawrence Anderson Fonseca, fka Lawrence Anderson Fonseca-Garcia v. United States 2023-01-18 IFP Denied criminal-procedure foreign-national guilty-plea innocence new-evidence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction
22A633 Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States 2023-01-12 A Presumed Complete None
22-6515 Christopher Raiche v. United States 2023-01-10 IFP Denied criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing
22M66 Frances Hines v. Boston Public Schools 2023-01-03 M Presumed Complete None
22-6429 Robert McKenna v. United States 2022-12-30 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness
22A580 John Doe v. United States 2022-12-29 A Presumed Complete None
22-6400 José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. 2022-12-27 IFP Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation
22-6374 Damian Perry v. United States 2022-12-22 IFP Denied constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-circuit same-offense sentencing-enhancement successive-punishments
22-6375 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington, United States Trustee 2022-12-22 IFP Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process nationality pro-se pro-se-litigant religion
22-6322 Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al. 2022-12-16 IFP Denied administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law
22-6323 Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States 2022-12-16 IFP Denied circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release
22A530 Souleymane Yacouba-Issa v. Steve Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center 2022-12-15 A Presumed Complete None
22A524 Heewon Lee v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. 2022-12-14 A Presumed Complete None
22-6287 Ashley Y. (Yoo Hyang) Kim v. Public Schools of Brookline, et al. 2022-12-13 IFP Denied civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment fourth-amendment legal-representation privacy-rights school-search student-surveillance termination
22M54 M. L. - S. F. v. Kimberly S. Budd, et al. 2022-12-13 M Presumed Complete None
22-532 Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. 2022-12-09 Paid Denied 1996-interactive-computer-service common-carrier common-law-common-carrier constitutional-right-to-non-discriminatory-common- digital-property first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-refuse-message-common-car hosting-of-digital-personal-literary-property-as-s interactive-computer-service logical-fallacy-in-statute-interpretation public-forum social-media
22-6253 Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States 2022-12-07 IFP Denied appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review
22-524 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island Amici (2) 2022-12-06 Paid Denied climate-change federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction greenhouse-gas-emissions preemption public-nuisance removal state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction transboundary-harm
22-6221 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States 2022-12-05 IFP Denied conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment
22-481 Daphne Moore v. United States Amici (4) 2022-11-22 Paid Denied curtilage fourth-amendment home home-curtilage police-technology reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance surveillance-camera
22-484 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico Amici (2) 2022-11-22 Paid Denied administrative-law administrative-review board-determination civil-rights due-process federalism fiscal-plan legislative-oversight promesa puerto-rico-sovereignty statutory-interpretation territorial-self-rule
22-471 Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. Amici (2) 2022-11-18 Paid Denied circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. 2022-11-18 Paid Denied civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings
22-456 Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. 2022-11-15 Paid Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver
22-6061 Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2022-11-15 IFP Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct
22-6042 Ryan Hayes v. United States 2022-11-10 IFP Denied appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing
22A415 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington, United States Trustee 2022-11-09 A Presumed Complete None
22-429 Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Deborah Laufer Amici (21) 2022-11-08 Paid Judgment Issued ada ada-tester article-iii-standing civil-rights disability-accessibility disability-rights legal-standing public-accommodation standing website website-accessibility
22A387 Heewon Lee v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. 2022-11-03 A Presumed Complete None
22A347 Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2022-10-26 A Presumed Complete None
22A345 Naomi Kinuthia v. Donna Carr, Chief Clerk, Board of Immigration Appeals, et al. 2022-10-25 A Presumed Complete None
22-367 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Cooperative de Ahorro y Credito Abraham Rosa, et al. 2022-10-19 Paid Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-claims equitable-treatment fresh-start just-compensation takings-clause unsecured-claims
22-369 Carlos Monteiro Silva v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General 2022-10-19 Paid Denied None
22A329 Timothy Reaves v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center 2022-10-19 A Presumed Complete None
22-344 Naomi Wahu Kinuthia v. Donna Carr, Chief Clerk, Board of Immigration Appeals, et al. 2022-10-13 Paid Denied None
22-5834 Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. 2022-10-13 IFP Denied appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error
22-327 Confederación Hípica de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. v. Confederación de Jinetes Puertorriqueños, Inc., et al. Amici (2) 2022-10-06 Paid Denied antitrust antitrust-law concerted-action employer-employee-relationship employment employment-relationship independent-contractors labor-dispute labor-exemption statutory-interpretation
22-313 Naomi Wahu Kinuthia, et vir v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General 2022-10-03 Paid Denied None
22-5721 Sealed Appellant v. United States 2022-10-03 IFP Denied 18-usc-4245 constitutional-rights due-process government-action involuntary-transfer liberty-interest mental-health mental-health-detention statutory-procedure vitek-v-jones
22A259 Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. 2022-09-22 A Presumed Complete None
22A248 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Gilberto Pereira Brito, et al. 2022-09-21 A Presumed Complete None
22-5634 Nelson Jean Dion v. United States 2022-09-20 IFP Denied bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation
22A233 Shell Oil Products Company, et al. v. Rhode Island 2022-09-16 A Presumed Complete None
22-5568 Douglas Gordon v. United States 2022-09-13 IFP Denied copyright-infringement criminal-conviction criminal-law evidence fair-use first-circuit jury-instructions orphan-works sufficiency-of-evidence willful-conduct
22A223 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico 2022-09-13 A Presumed Complete None
22A224 Daphne Moore v. United States 2022-09-13 A Presumed Complete None
22-227 Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin Amici (9) 2022-09-12 Paid Judgment Issued abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty
22-5512 Maurice Diggins v. United States 2022-09-12 IFP Denied 18-usc-249 district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction public-interest public-interest-prosecution racially-motivated-assault substantial-justice thirteenth-amendment
22-5534 Glenn A. Chin v. United States 2022-09-08 IFP Denied criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1
22-5508 Hanford Chiu v. United States 2022-09-06 IFP Denied criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant
22-177 Monica Toth v. United States Amici (2) 2022-08-29 Paid Denied bank-secrecy-act civil-penalties civil-penalty deterrence deterrent-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause fbar foreign-bank-accounts
22-178 Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 2022-08-29 Paid Denied ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act
22A169 Jeffrey A. Cookson v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden 2022-08-23 A Presumed Complete None
22-5377 Malik Breyon Hollis v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden 2022-08-17 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-composition jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination
22-142 Federacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. 2022-08-15 Paid Denied constitutional-analysis constitutional-preemption insular-cases oversight-board plan-of-adjustment preemption preemption-doctrine promesa puerto-rico puerto-rico-law statutory-preemption
22-5293 Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States 2022-08-04 IFP Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers
22-96 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. Amici (11) 2022-08-01 Paid Judgment Issued abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation
22-5190 Rafael Cortez-Oropeza v. United States 2022-07-26 IFP Denied admissibility-of-evidence atf bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony firearms interstate-commerce judicial-discretion legal-standard
22-5170 Cristian Serrano-Delgado v. United States 2022-07-25 IFP Denied 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting conspiracy crime-of-violence davis-v-united-states hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instructions pinkerton-doctrine pinkerton-liability section-924c
22-5127 Edward Brown v. United States 2022-07-19 IFP Denied co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines
22-5133 Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. 2022-07-19 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court issue-preclusion obstruction procedural-fairness standing witness-protection
22-5141 Jodie Louise Byrne v. Maryland, et al. 2022-07-19 IFP Denied 1983-civil-action civil-rights constitutional-violation consular-notification due-process equal-protection human-rights state-actor-liability victim-protection
22-43 Program Administrator of the New Hampshire Controlled Drug Prescription Health and Safety Program v. Department of Justice 2022-07-15 Paid Denied administrative-subpoena anti-commandeering commandeering drug-enforcement federalism healthcare-program prescription-drug-monitoring state-data state-official state-sovereignty
22A31 Monica Toth v. United States 2022-07-14 A Presumed Complete None
22A23 Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin 2022-07-12 A Presumed Complete None
22M6 Sealed Appellant v. United States 2022-07-05 M Presumed Complete None
21-8282 Allan M. Leavitt v. United Services Automobile Association, et al. 2022-06-29 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief lance-v-dennis rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine specific-performance standing
21A857 Cristian Serrano-Delgado v. United States 2022-06-24 A Presumed Complete None
21A845 Robert R.Cushing, individually and in his capacity as the Minority Leader of the N.H. House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, in his official capacity as Speaker of the House for the N.H. House of Representatives 2022-06-22 A Presumed Complete None
21A817 Douglas Norris v. United States 2022-06-14 A Presumed Complete None
21-1539 Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine 2022-06-08 Paid Denied cable-communications-policy-act express-preemption preemption presumption-against-preemption rate-regulation state-and-local-laws state-law statutory-interpretation
21-1487 Brian Bilodeau v. United States 2022-05-26 Paid Denied appropriations appropriations-rider controlled-substances-act department-of-justice federal-prosecution medical-marijuana standing state-law
21-7954 Jordan Monroe v. United States 2022-05-25 IFP Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment prima-facie-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-validity
21-7891 William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States 2022-05-17 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing
21A727 J. David Golub v. Northeastern University 2022-05-16 A Presumed Complete None
21A698 J. David Golub v. Northeastern University 2022-05-10 A Presumed Complete None
21A699 Edward Brown v. United States 2022-05-10 A Presumed Complete None
21A702 Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Stephen C. Pfaff, et al. 2022-05-10 A Presumed Complete None
21-7762 Jesus Leonardo Castillo-Martinez v. United States 2022-05-03 IFP Denied 8-usc-1326d administrative-exhaustion collateral-challenge deportation-order illegal-reentry immigration-removal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-to-appear
21A679 Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. 2022-05-03 A Presumed Complete None
21-1403 Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French 2022-05-02 Paid Denied circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement
21-7739 Kendall Whitaker v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Warden 2022-04-28 IFP Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment
21-7728 Antonio M. Branco v. Massachusetts 2022-04-27 IFP Denied civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-appeals
21-1381 Enrique Vazquez-Quintana v. Jose Alberto Morales-Rodriguez, et al. 2022-04-26 Paid Denied civil-rights court-ruling democratic-system due-process expert-testimony free-speech medical-decision medical-expertise scientific-evidence standing
21A653 Antonio M. Branco v. Massachusetts 2022-04-26 A Presumed Complete None
21-1376 Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA 2022-04-25 Paid Denied accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure
21-7659 John Doe v. United States 2022-04-20 IFP Denied appellate-review business-records criminal-prosecution hearsay-exception interrogation-statements miranda-rights outsider-source standard-of-review trustworthiness
21A619 Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine 2022-04-19 A Presumed Complete None
21A626 Rian Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. 2022-04-19 A Presumed Complete None
21-7638 Carlos Jimenez v. United States 2022-04-18 IFP Denied criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court
21-7632 Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States 2022-04-15 IFP Denied application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
21-1324 John Zarba, et ux. v. Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, et al. 2022-04-04 Paid Denied appellate civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing municipal-liability rule-12b6 section-1983 standing
21-7530 Paul M. Weadick v. United States 2022-04-04 IFP Denied 18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering
21-1313 Martin Gottesfeld v. United States 2022-04-01 Paid Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation
21-7513 Jonathan Carvalho v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley 2022-03-31 IFP Denied aedpa-deference antiterrorism-effective-death-penalty-act arbitrary-decisions constitutional-reliability due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard lower-courts supreme-court trial-court-procedure
21-1301 Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. 2022-03-29 Paid Denied civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation
21-1303 Abigail Walsh, et al. v. Amy Cohen, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. 2022-03-29 Paid Denied civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process notice procedural-fairness rule-23 settlement settlement-revocation
21-7467 Patrick Muraca v. Securities and Exchange Commission 2022-03-25 IFP Denied access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-rights court-deadlines due-process incarcerated-rights incarceration legal-access procedural-rules right-to-counsel speedy-trial
21A546 A.C.., A Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Torrence S. Waithe, et al. v. Daniel J. McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. 2022-03-25 A Presumed Complete None
21-7441 Edgardo Maldonado-Arce v. Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency 2022-03-23 IFP Denied appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standing state-law statute-of-limitations
21-1232 Paul C. Nordberg v. The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System 2022-03-10 Paid Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hans-v-louisiana judicial-interpretation legal-precedent sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity
21-7326 Edison Burgos-Montes v. United States 2022-03-09 IFP Denied 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-motion record-development summary-dismissal
21-7287 Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States 2022-03-08 IFP Denied 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure
21-7253 Luis D. Sambolin-Robles v. Corrections Administration 2022-03-02 IFP Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard judicial-review legal-procedure standing trial-fairness
21-1192 Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc. v. John Waters, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Amici (1) 2022-03-01 Paid Denied bristol-myers-squibb circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-civil-procedure personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(1)(a) service-of-summons standing
21-7236 Joseph Crocco v. United States 2022-03-01 IFP Denied career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law
21A441 Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States 2022-02-23 A Presumed Complete None
21-1160 Alfred Morin v. William Lyver, et al. Amici (1) 2022-02-22 Paid GVR 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation gun-rights licensing-requirements misdemeanor-restrictions second-amendment standing state-regulation
21-7153 Arthur Miles v. United States 2022-02-17 IFP Denied constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions
21-7133 Francis P. Salemme v. United States 2022-02-16 IFP Denied accessorial-liability accessory-after-the-fact aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent middleton-v-mcneil
21-1119 Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee 2022-02-11 Paid Denied 11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte
21-7090 Larry O'Neal v. United States 2022-02-09 IFP Denied child-pornography constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation customs-and-border-patrol federal-agents in-custody-interrogation law-enforcement-procedure miranda-rights miranda-warning ruse
21A390 Carlos Jimenez v. United States 2022-02-03 A Presumed Complete None
21-1047 Annick Roy, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Guy Veilleux, Deceased, et al. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company Amici (1) 2022-01-27 Paid Denied appeal appeal-tolling bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure district-court federal-rules judicial-review title-11
21-6952 Sunrise Lee v. United States 2022-01-25 IFP Denied circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs
21-1032 Jason T. Berry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. 2022-01-21 Paid Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone-intrusion civil-procedure en-banc-review evidence exceptional-importance fbi-abuses fourth-amendment mandate-recall pro-se pro-se-litigation standing
21-6933 Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States 2022-01-21 IFP Denied barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length
21-6910 Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. W. Stephen Muldrow 2022-01-20 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion attorney-for-government attorney-for-the-government criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure grand-jury grand-jury-procedure indictment indictment-validity judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-petition
21-6916 Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. 2022-01-20 IFP Denied civil-rights common-carriage constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech internet-law public-accommodation section-230
21-6930 Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States 2022-01-20 IFP Denied confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right
21-6884 Hermin Rodriguez-Monserrate, aka Cano, aka Canito v. United States 2022-01-18 IFP Denied coronavirus-act coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act criminal-procedure defendant-absence due-process educational-condition learning-disability sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release
21-6886 Roberto Martinez-Rivera v. United States 2022-01-18 IFP Denied actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason plea-withdrawal presumption-of-innocence rule-11
21A330 Abigail Walsh, et al. v. Amy Cohen, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. 2022-01-14 A Presumed Complete None
21-994 John Kapoor v. United States 2022-01-13 Paid Denied conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence
21-990 Aldrich L. Boss, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stewart R. Crane v. United States, et al. 2022-01-12 Paid Denied 5th-amendment bona-fide-purchase fifth-amendment forfeiture innocent-owner-defense property-forfeiture public-record standing takings-clause
21A312 Anesh Gupta v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. 2022-01-12 A Presumed Complete None
21-6814 Eleazar Flores-Mora v. United States 2022-01-11 IFP Denied administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-jurisdiction niz-chavez-v-garland notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation
21-6788 Bernard Lindsey v. United States 2022-01-10 IFP Denied appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity
21-6744 Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States 2021-12-29 IFP Denied 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search
21-6737 James P. Donoghue, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue 2021-12-28 IFP Denied general-intent judicial-oath judicial-regulation judicial-remand judicial-review objective-review perjury specific-intent statutory-interpretation tax-court
21-6664 Robert Breest v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire 2021-12-17 IFP Dismissed appellate-review constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sullivan-v-louisiana
21-6598 Glen Plourde v. Northern Light Acadia Hospital, et al. 2021-12-15 IFP Dismissed abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process procedural-dismissal standing state-actors torture-allegations
21-884 Blake Fields v. United States 2021-12-15 Paid GVR criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation
21-890 Gaspee Project, et al. v. Diane C. Mederos, et al. 2021-12-15 Paid Denied campaign-finance commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-law disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy strict-scrutiny
21-6583 Roger Edward Picard v. United States 2021-12-13 IFP Denied appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mental-health-assessment rule-35 rule-35-motion sentencing sentencing-procedure
21-838 Penobscot Nation v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. Amici (1) 2021-12-07 Paid Denied alaska-pacific-fisheries indian-canons indian-canons-of-construction indian-settlement-acts maine-indian-settlement-acts penobscot-nation reservation reservation-boundaries statutory-interpretation tribal-rights
21-840 United States v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. Amici (1) 2021-12-07 Paid Denied indian-reservation land-claims maine-indian-claims-settlement-act native-american-rights natural-resources penobscot-nation settlement-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction tribal-rights tribal-sovereignty
21-6520 Mark J. Zimny v. United States 2021-12-06 IFP Denied appeal appellate-court due-process motion-for-summary-disposition reasonable-jurists substantial-question summary-disposition supreme-court-precedent
21-6510 Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States 2021-12-03 IFP Denied crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates
21-814 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. 2021-12-01 Paid Denied 4th-amendment cady-v-dombrowski community-caretaking home-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-entry
21A189 District 4 Lodge of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge 207, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. 2021-12-01 A Presumed Complete None
21A184 Annick Roy, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Guy Veilleux, Deceased, et al. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company 2021-11-29 A Presumed Complete None
21A175 Together Employees, et al. v. Mass General Brigham Inc. 2021-11-23 A Presumed Complete None
21A167 Joseph Crocco v. United States 2021-11-22 A Presumed Complete None
21-6313 Glen Plourde v. Knox County, Maine, et al. 2021-11-17 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction human-rights judicial-abuse judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation standing torture-allegations
21-718 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, et al. v. United States, et al. 2021-11-16 Paid Denied civil-rights decolonization disenfranchisement due-process insular-cases self-governance territories-clause voting-rights
21-6268 Cesar Martinez v. United States 2021-11-15 IFP Denied criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment trial-by-jury
21-711 Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. v. Hasbro, Inc., et al. Amici (5) 2021-11-15 Paid Denied 1909-act 1976-act copyright copyright-law copyright-ownership employer-employee independent-contractor statutory-interpretation work-for-hire
21-717 John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. Amici (3) 2021-11-15 Paid Denied covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii
21A151 John Kapoor v. United States 2021-11-15 A Presumed Complete None
21-6249 Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center 2021-11-12 IFP Denied burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation
21-6250 Joel Rivera-Alejandro v. United States 2021-11-12 IFP Denied 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process excessive-delay fifth-amendment indictment multi-defendant sixth-amendment speedy-trial trial-delay
21-6225 Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States 2021-11-10 IFP Denied accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding
21-688 Neris Montilla, et al. v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Amici (1) 2021-11-09 Paid Denied administrative-law conservatorship constitutional-claims due-process federal-agency federal-housing-and-finance-agency federal-national-mortgage-association mortgage-association state-actor
21-675 Jeffrey G. Carswell, et al. v. E. Pihl & Sons, et al. 2021-11-05 Paid Denied administrative-law administrative-support congressional-intent director-standing federal-review-jurisdiction jurisdictional-review labor-director longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act private-fund statutory-interpretation wage-loss-claims workers-compensation
21-6182 Erick Argueta Larios v. United States 2021-11-04 IFP Denied clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement
21-6166 Ángel De la Cruz v. United States 2021-11-03 IFP Denied circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states
21-642 Jehu Hand v. United States 2021-11-02 Paid Denied criminal-liability disclosure-requirements hype regulatory-interpretation resale-of-shares rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-law stock-fraud stock-price-crash total-mix-of-information
21-6119 Roger Edward Picard v. United States 2021-10-28 IFP Denied criminal-law due-process mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states scienter sorna SORNA-registration supervised-release
21-6098 Hector Enamorado, aka Vida Loca v. United States 2021-10-27 IFP Denied bruton-doctrine bruton-v-united-states codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence multi-defendant-trial multi-defendant-trials rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment
21M40 Cesar Martinez v. United States 2021-10-26 M Presumed Complete None
21-6066 R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC 2021-10-25 IFP Denied ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing
21-590 A. Michael Davallou v. United States 2021-10-22 Paid Denied administrative-law discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability hazard-disclosure negligence policy-decision specific-known-immediate-hazard warning-duty
21A101 George Torres-Rodriguez v. United States 2021-10-22 A Presumed Complete None
21A90 John Does 1-3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. Amici (3) 2021-10-20 A Presumed Complete None
21A83 John Does 1-3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. 2021-10-15 A Presumed Complete None
21-5953 Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley 2021-10-13 IFP Denied certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber
21A69 Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States 2021-10-13 A Presumed Complete None
21-5932 Michael R. Burns v. United States 2021-10-08 IFP Denied chain-of-custody civil-rights dna-fabrication due-process evidence-substitution evidence-tampering fabrication forensic-evidence forensic-integrity laboratory-procedure substitution
21-5865 Glen Plourde v. Maine, et al. 2021-10-04 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-abuse pro-se pro-se-litigant standing torture
21-5805 Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States 2021-09-29 IFP Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction
21-5812 Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States 2021-09-29 IFP Denied 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review
21-5816 Ronald Peden v. Democratic National Committee, et al. 2021-09-29 IFP Denied civil-rights dismissal-on-merits due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-conduct media-filtering political-preference preliminary-injunction prudential-standing res-judicata standing
21-5791 Cesar Santana v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2021-09-28 IFP Denied due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-statements miranda-warnings police-assurances police-interrogation self-incrimination
21-5806 Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States 2021-09-28 IFP Denied bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt
21-5705 Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett 2021-09-17 IFP Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva
21-5669 Thomas Woods v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2021-09-14 IFP Denied 5th-amendment adversarial-system compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury racial-disparities self-incrimination
21-286 Abeba Mekonnen v. OTG Management, LLC, et al. 2021-08-26 Paid Denied discrimination-claims employee-manual employment-laws employment-termination fair-pay-act ledbetter-fair-pay-act mystery-shopper mystery-shopper-report performance-evaluation procedural-due-process termination wage-hour-law
21-5456 Yarlin Garcia v. United States 2021-08-24 IFP Denied 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review
21-5458 Henry J. DuLaurence, III v. Douglas P. Woodlock, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts 2021-08-24 IFP Denied bivens-action constitutional-rights criminal-obstruction-of-justice due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice
21-232 Veena Sharma v. Domenic S. Terranova, et al. 2021-08-17 Paid Denied civil-procedure dismissal-without-hearing due-process first-circuit hearing judicial-review jury-trial pro-se-petition procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations summons
21-5398 Scott Estes v. United States 2021-08-17 IFP Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-call evidence hearsay-exception sixth-amendment testimonial-statements
21-5318 Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States 2021-08-06 IFP Denied 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review
21-143 Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States Amici (3) 2021-08-03 Paid Denied agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines
21-138 Luz González-Bermúdez v. Abbott Laboratories P.R. Inc., et al. 2021-08-02 Paid Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination comparator-evidence employer-defense employment employment-discrimination jury-inference jury-verdict pretext retaliation retaliation-claim
21-5266 Alla V. Stepanets v. United States 2021-07-30 IFP Denied causation-chain chain-of-causation criminal-misdemeanor drug-dispensing drug-distribution federal-drug-laws medical-facility proximate-cause statutory-interpretation strict-liability
21-5200 Walter Himmelreich v. Stephen Spaulding, Warden 2021-07-23 IFP Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-sovereignty habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights standing statutory-analysis
21-5153 Brian K. Rogers v. United States 2021-07-21 IFP Denied circuit-split fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-examination self-incrimination sex-offender-treatment supervised-release
21-83 William H. Sorkpor v. The Harlo Fenway 2021-07-21 Paid Denied civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination minority-rights section-1982 spending-power statutory-interpretation title-viii
21-84 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. Amici (4) 2021-07-21 Paid Denied adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix
21-1 Shilo Abell v. United States 2021-07-06 Paid Denied civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment mandatory-victim-restitution-act marital-property pension-rights
21-5011 Anthony Farmer v. United States 2021-07-06 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
20-8474 Glen Plourde v. Maine, et al. 2021-07-01 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts geneva-conventions international-law judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation standing torture
20-1812 Donald C. Kupperstein v. Irene Schall, Personal Representative of the Probate Estate of Fred Kuhn, et al. 2021-06-28 Paid Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-jurisdiction civil-money-judgment civil-procedure governmental-collection jurisdiction police-power-exception
20-1802 Joyce Rowley v. City of New Bedford, Massachusetts 2021-06-25 Paid Denied animal-welfare-act breeding captivity circuit-court-interpretation de-novo-review endangered-species harassment-exception preliminary-injunction usda-aza-substitution
20-1800 Harold Shurtleff, et al. v. City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. Amici (24) 2021-06-24 Paid Judgment Issued content-discrimination establishment-clause first-amendment flag-display free-speech government-speech public-forum religious-expression religious-viewpoint viewpoint-discrimination
20-1779 Carlos A. Morales-Vázquez v. Óptima Seguros 2021-06-23 Paid Denied contract-avoidance disclosure federal-maritime-law insurance-disclosure marine-insurance maritime-insurance maritime-law material-risk materiality reliance uberrimae-fidei
20-8352 David Alexandre v. United States 2021-06-21 IFP Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court
20-1735 Angel Manuel Ortiz-Diaz, et al. v. United States, et al. Amici (7) 2021-06-17 Paid Denied agriculture-improvement-act cockfighting commerce-clause constitutional-power cultural-tradition federal-regulation local-traditions puerto-rico puerto-rico-sovereignty sovereignty
20-8346 Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States 2021-06-17 IFP Denied 18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
20-1745 Richard Sylvester v. United States 2021-06-16 Paid Denied 4th-amendment burden-of-proof community-caretaking fourth-amendment investigatory-motive law-enforcement-procedure police-policy probable-cause subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances vehicle-impound vehicle-impoundment
20-8328 Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States 2021-06-16 IFP Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence
20-8233 Adam Paul Strege v. United States 2021-06-07 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment free-speech judicial-review pro-se-representation standing
20-1682 Jayson Badillo v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. 2021-06-04 Paid Denied civil-rights discrimination disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination intervention minority-hiring settlement-agreement standing title-vii
20A170 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Chris Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire, et al. 2021-06-04 A Presumed Complete None
20A171 Zakaryah Ahch Yashar'al v. Ashley Hopper, et al. 2021-06-04 A Presumed Complete None
20-8212 Dany L. Brandao v. United States 2021-06-03 IFP Denied criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle
20-1658 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor 2021-05-27 Paid Denied administrative-exhaustion appellate-procedure civil-procedure department-of-labor federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure non-waiver-mandate sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction
20M94 Susan Ferraz v. Howard Speicher 2021-05-27 M Presumed Complete None
20-1650 Carlos Concepcion v. United States Amici (10) 2021-05-26 Paid Judgment Issued circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation
20-8072 Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States 2021-05-19 IFP Denied commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation
20-1598 Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rachael S. Rollins, in Her Official Capacity as District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts Amici (4) 2021-05-17 Paid Denied civil-rights facial-overbreadth first-amendment free-speech newsgathering ripeness secret-recording speech-suppression standing
20-1577 John S. Barth v. Adam Buckley, et al. 2021-05-13 Paid Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pleadings standing
20-8024 Lisa Biron v. United States 2021-05-13 IFP Denied non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process
20M84 James Edward Rose, Jr. v. Chris Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire, et al. 2021-05-11 M Presumed Complete None
20-7946 Lisa Biron v. United States 2021-05-06 IFP Denied appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits
20-1534 Patrick Doughty, et al. v. State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire, SEIU Local 1984, CTW, CLC Amici (1) 2021-05-04 Paid Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees compelled-association compelled-speech damages first-amendment restitution section-1983
20-1535 Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson 2021-05-04 Paid Denied administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act
20-7906 Gerald J. Silva v. United States 2021-05-03 IFP Denied brady-v-maryland civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure
20-7910 Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States 2021-05-03 IFP Denied article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status
20-1519 Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. 2021-04-29 Paid Dismissed appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing
20-1505 Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Amici (2) 2021-04-28 Paid Denied border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement
20-7856 Dennis Ayala v. United States 2021-04-27 IFP Denied appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines
20-1466 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, Inc., et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. 2021-04-20 Paid Denied burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause fiscal-crisis heightened-scrutiny legislative-impairment public-contract reasonableness-and-necessity
20-1458 Jon L. Bryan v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. 2021-04-19 Paid Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure duty-of-fair-representation grievance-procedure grievance-withdrawal labor-law statute-of-limitations union-representation
20-7696 Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. United States, et al. 2021-04-09 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-arrest due-process equal-protection false-arrest false-indictment forced-medication human-rights malicious-prosecution selective-prosecution
20-7694 Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States 2021-04-08 IFP Denied 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation
20-1400 Mark Elliott, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. 2021-04-06 Paid Denied article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-plan constitutional-rights due-process equitable-mootness secured-creditors statutory-appeal statutory-jurisdiction takings
20-7661 Rodney Russell v. United States 2021-04-06 IFP Denied appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error
20-1392 Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. Amici (2) 2021-04-05 Paid Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger
20-7635 Lisa Biron v. United States 2021-04-01 IFP Denied conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner
20-1346 Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine 2021-03-25 Paid Denied employment-division-v-smith establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-discrimination jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions preliminary-injunction religious-liberty strict-scrutiny temporary-restraining-order
20-7543 Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States 2021-03-24 IFP Denied appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver
20-7486 Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States 2021-03-18 IFP Denied 28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation
20-1256 Malcolm A. French v. United States 2021-03-10 Paid Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error
20-7387 Vaughn Lewis v. United States 2021-03-09 IFP Denied agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation
20-1224 O’Reilly Auto Enterprises, LLC, dba O'Reilly Auto Parts v. Brian Bell 2021-03-05 Paid Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination essential-functions essential-job-functions first-circuit reasonable-accommodation
20-7337 Kevin Thurlow v. Michelle Edmark, Warden 2021-03-05 IFP Denied conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation counsel-representation ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-conflict-free-clause strickland-standard witness-testimony
20-1199 Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College CVSG Amici (32) 2021-03-01 Paid Judgment Issued affirmative-action asian-american-discrimination civil-rights equal-protection higher-education race-based-admissions strict-scrutiny title-vi
20-1133 Nicholas L. Triantos v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE4, et al. 2021-02-19 Paid Denied due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federalism mgc-93a remand separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction
20-7167 Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States 2021-02-17 IFP Denied controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation
20-7171 Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States 2021-02-17 IFP Denied criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force
20-1116 Anthony Seward v. United States 2021-02-12 Paid Denied criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction
20A141 Michael L. Taylor, et al. v. Jerome P. McDermott, Sheriff, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, et al. 2021-02-12 A Presumed Complete None
20-1106 Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., et al. 2021-02-11 Paid Denied administrative-record circuit-split de-novo-review erisa-benefits evidence material-dispute standard-of-review summary-judgment
20-1088 David Carson, as Parent and Next Friend of O. C., et al. v. A. Pender Makin Amici (55) 2021-02-09 Paid Judgment Issued constitutional-rights equal-protection espinoza-v-montana first-amendment first-circuit religion-clauses sectarian-instruction student-aid-program
20-1077 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka Amici (1) 2021-02-08 Paid Denied arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers
20-7049 Edwin Gonzalez v. United States 2021-02-04 IFP Denied 8th-amendment age-based-sentencing brain-development constitutional-interpretation criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation
20-1061 Dantzler, Inc., et al. v. S2 Services Puerto Rico, LLC, et al. 2021-02-03 Paid Denied article-iii-standing causation circuit-split federal-court federal-jurisdiction injury judicial-standing standing third-party third-party-action
20-7019 Kourtney Williams v. United States 2021-02-03 IFP Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error
20-7010 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States 2021-02-02 IFP Denied ambiguity amendment-782 criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture molina-martinez-v-us peugh-v-us rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines
20-6991 Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States 2021-02-01 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing
20-6962 Misael Herrera-Fuentes v. United States 2021-01-27 IFP Denied administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation
20-6944 Jose Manuel Zavala-Marti v. United States 2021-01-26 IFP Denied brady-material civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-act
20-6945 Robert White v. Kubotek Corporation, et al. 2021-01-26 IFP Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) timeliness timely-filing
20-980 Veena Sharma v. Santander Bank 2021-01-25 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-crime judicial-review preclusion standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment
20-6771 Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States 2021-01-05 IFP Denied 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application
20-900 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island Amici (2) 2021-01-05 Paid GVR appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation
20-6726 Jamie Betances v. United States 2020-12-30 IFP Denied acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure factual-objections guilty-plea legal-arguments plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines
20-6732 Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States 2020-12-30 IFP Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence
20-867 Shalini Ahmed v. United States 2020-12-30 Paid Denied appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention
20-6632 Claudio Valdez v. United States 2020-12-15 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing
20-781 United States, ex rel. Concilio de Salud Integral de Loíza, Inc., et al. v. J.C. Remodeling, Inc., et al. 2020-12-08 Paid Denied benefit-of-bargain benefit-of-the-bargain circuit-split damages damages-calculation false-claims-act intangible-benefits prejudice tainted-claim-theory treble-damages
20-6538 Gabriel Schmitt v. Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts 2020-12-04 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment police-power public-health public-health-emergency service-of-process standing substitute-service
20-6511 Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Antonio Moraima, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, aka Alex v. United States 2020-12-03 IFP Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment
20-6521 Hector Valdez v. United States 2020-12-03 IFP Denied appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights
20-6446 Yaira T. Cotto-Flores v. United States 2020-11-25 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing
20-6417 Edwin Omar Almonte-Nunez v. United States 2020-11-24 IFP Denied 18-usc-2112 abuse-of-discretion counsel-substitution crime-of-violence double-jeopardy due-process party-presentation resentencing sentencing-review
20-714 Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. 2020-11-24 Paid Denied appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent
20-6402 Eric Treantos v. United States 2020-11-23 IFP Denied appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-eric-treantos
20-6384 Owen McCants v. Steven Silva 2020-11-19 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review
20-568 William Geoffroy v. Town of Winchendon, Massachusetts, et al. 2020-10-30 Paid Denied 29-usc-626 age-discrimination due-process employee-rights employment-law statutory-interpretation voluntary voluntary-consent waiver waiver-validity
20M39 Eric Treantos v. United States 2020-10-29 M Presumed Complete None
20-6143 Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States 2020-10-28 IFP Denied carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine
20-6154 Roderick Perez-Gonzalez v. United States 2020-10-28 IFP Denied conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-bargaining prosecution united-states-constitution
20-6140 Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States 2020-10-27 IFP Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment
20-547 Luis Xadiel Cruz Vazquez v. United States 2020-10-26 Paid Denied brady-violation certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mickens-v-taylor sixth-amendment united-states-v-decologero wheat-v-united-states
20-6122 Jerome Capelton v. United States 2020-10-23 IFP Denied aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing
20-533 Jeffrey Boudreau, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wendy Boudreau v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. 2020-10-22 Paid Denied business-invitee daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony foreseeability kumho premises-liability rule-702 summary-judgment
20-499 Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell 2020-10-16 Paid Denied attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law
20-6051 Jonathan Ortiz-Torres v. United States 2020-10-16 IFP Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness
20-474 CMT Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas v. Jose Suero-Algarin 2020-10-13 Paid Denied civil-procedure damages-review diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine excessiveness federal-standard gasperini-standard gasperini-v-center-for-humanities remittitur state-law
20-5962 Erik Diaz-Colon v. United States 2020-10-08 IFP Denied civil-rights-conspiracy constitutional-rights constructive-amendment deprivation-of-rights ineffective-assistance plea-agreement right-to-testify trial-counsel
20-5942 John Tran v. United States 2020-10-07 IFP Denied criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity
20-443 United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev Amici (10) 2020-10-06 Paid Judgment Issued capital-sentences district-court penalty-phase pretrial-media-coverage reversible-error voir-dire
20-5917 Eric Malmstrom v. United States 2020-10-06 IFP Denied civil-procedure competency criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process embassy-communication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect standing sua-sponte
20-5925 Roberto Mendoza-Sanchez v. United States 2020-10-06 IFP Denied administrative-law due-process immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear pereira-v-sessions removal-proceedings service-of-process statutory-interpretation
20-5832 Damon Graham v. United States 2020-09-29 IFP Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search
20A48 John Masiz v. Securities and Exchange Commission 2020-09-18 A Presumed Complete None
20-5743 Johnny Melendez v. United States 2020-09-17 IFP Denied career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement
20-340 Olga Paule Perrier-Bilbo v. United States, et al. 2020-09-15 Paid Denied civil-rights equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion government-endorsement religious-discrimination standing
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. 2020-09-14 IFP Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review
20-323 John S. Barth v. City of Peabody, Massachusetts 2020-09-11 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment municipal-ordinance property property-rights regulatory-taking takings
20-318 Equal Means Equal, et al. v. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States Amici (1) 2020-09-10 Paid Denied 1-usc-106b article-iii article-v constitution equal-rights-amendment standing
20-5650 Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States 2020-09-10 IFP Denied criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation
20-303 United States v. Jose Luis Vaello Madero Amici (31) 2020-09-09 Paid Judgment Issued civil-rights congressional-authority due-process equal-protection federal-benefits fifth-amendment puerto-rico statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income territorial-rights
20-310 Robert James Keach, Estate Representative of Post-Effective Date Estate of Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway, Ltd. v. New Brunswick Southern Railway Company, Ltd., et al. 2020-09-09 Paid Denied bankruptcy-code federal-equity-receivership fosdick-v-schall priority-of-payment priority-payment railroad-reorganization six-months-rule unsecured-claims
20-5615 Michael Gordon v. United States 2020-09-08 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire
20-253 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. 2020-09-01 Paid Denied community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry
20-248 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Charles Koch, et al. 2020-08-31 Paid Denied 5th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing
20-5541 Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. 2020-08-31 IFP Denied arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard
20-223 Michael P. O'Donnell v. United States 2020-08-27 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing
20-5533 Gayle McNamara v. United States 2020-08-27 IFP Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review
20-5498 John Silvia, Jr. v. United States 2020-08-26 IFP Denied attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview
20-5478 Fernando Hernandez v. United States 2020-08-25 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion domestic-violence drug-trafficking due-process sentencing sentencing-discretion
20-213 Dilip Dey v. Li-Huei Tsai, et al. 2020-08-24 Paid Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination race-discrimination retaliation title-vii
20-5418 Danny Veloz, aka Maestro, aka Joil Rivera v. United States 2020-08-19 IFP Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-discretion probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant
20-155 New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund v. Sun Capital Partners III, LP, et al Amici (1) 2020-08-13 Paid Denied circuit-conflict civil-rights culbertson-precedent due-process erisa mppaa partnership partnership-in-fact private-equity private-equity-funds
20-157 Edward A. Caniglia v. Robert F. Strom, et al. Amici (15) 2020-08-13 Paid Judgment Issued community-caretaking constitutional-law fourth-amendment home home-search law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement
20A28 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Common Cause Rhode Island, et al. 2020-08-10 A Presumed Complete None
20-5300 Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States 2020-08-09 IFP Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure
20-126 Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. 2020-08-06 Paid Denied bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law creditor-liens municipal-finance property-rights secured-lending statutory-interpretation
20-5244 David Lopez v. United States 2020-08-03 IFP Denied application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
20-5233 Michael R. Burns v. United States 2020-07-31 IFP Rehearing civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-fabrication due-process evidence fingerprint-fabrication habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief
20-5228 United States, ex rel. Friedrich Lu v. Ramandeep Samra, et al. 2020-07-30 IFP Denied attorney-representation circuit-court civil-procedure false-claims-act jurisdiction legal-representation pro-se qui-tam standing
20-52 Yeitza Marie Aponte-Bermudez v. Eligio Colón, et al. 2020-07-22 Paid Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-courts judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-evaluation jury-trial law-of-the-case rule-50
20-5069 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico 2020-07-15 IFP Denied appellate-review civil-rights due-process evidence-disregard fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation public-interest standing supreme-court-rules
20-5075 Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States 2020-07-15 IFP Denied armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony
19-8912 Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States 2020-07-07 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness
19-8892 Edwin G. Perez-Cubertier v. United States 2020-07-02 IFP Denied collateral-proceeding collateral-proceedings counsel-rights first-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation withdrawal-from-conspiracy
19-8866 Yara Chum v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections 2020-06-30 IFP Denied federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard sixth-amendment state-court-review state-law-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
19-8783 Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States 2020-06-22 IFP Denied 21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness
19-1372 Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States 2020-06-12 Paid Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari
19-8563 Michael Lee v. United States 2020-05-29 IFP Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes
19-1310 Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission 2020-05-21 Paid Denied administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties
19-1305 Wanda Vázquez-Garced, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. 2020-05-20 Paid Denied democratic-governance democratic-representation elected-government fiscal-plan fund-reprogramming governance-of-territories oversight-board promesa promesa-section-202 promesa-section-204-c puerto-rico statutory-interpretation territorial-governance
19-8376 Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States 2020-04-28 IFP Denied conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy
19-8328 Adam Strege v. United States 2020-04-22 IFP Denied administrative-remedy civil-procedure discovery due-process forced-medication ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se standing
19-8329 Adam Strege v. United States 2020-04-22 IFP Denied access-to-courts civil-rights competency constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-procedure psychiatric-evaluation standing
19-8339 Juan M. Santiago v. United States 2020-04-22 IFP Denied appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver
19-8267 Jon Cascella v. United States 2020-04-15 IFP Denied brady-violation confidential-informant constitutional-error due-process fifth-amendment independent-inquiry testimony uniform-practice witness-testimony
19-8240 Richard Valentini v. United States 2020-04-10 IFP Denied conviction criminal-statute extortion hobbs-act personal-gain property-deprivation property-transfer statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-transfer
19-8218 Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States 2020-04-08 IFP Denied 21-usc-853 appeals controlled-substances criminal-forfeiture drug-trafficking due-process standing statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-interest
19-8158 Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States 2020-04-02 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure
19-8104 Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States 2020-03-26 IFP Denied circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment
19-8065 Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States 2020-03-23 IFP Denied appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release
19-8050 Cuwan Merritt v. United States 2020-03-20 IFP Denied 4th-amendment canine-sniff criminal-procedure de-facto-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-articulable-suspicion reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure
19-8040 Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. 2020-03-19 IFP Denied certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility
19-8027 Javier Gomez-Carrasquillo v. United States 2020-03-18 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing individualized-assessment plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness puerto-rico-crime sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness
19-8014 Michael Artis v. United States 2020-03-17 IFP Denied arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure
19-7956 Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs 2020-03-13 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review
19-7936 James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine 2020-03-10 IFP Denied administrative-law but-for-causation causation-standard chevron-deference civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interference jury-trial medical-leave motivating-factor reeves-v-sanderson retaliation standing summary-judgment
19-7946 Dirk Greineder v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2020-03-10 IFP Denied confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing expert-testimony laboratory-analysis scientific-evidence sixth-amendment substitute-analyst substitute-analysts targeted-accusation
19-1101 Canada v. Cynthia L. Merlini 2020-03-09 Paid Denied commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception consular-employees consular-employment consular-independence consular-sovereignty employment-conditions employment-terms foreign-sovereign-immunities-act legislative-decision sovereign-immunity state-law workers-compensation
19-7909 Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States 2020-03-09 IFP Denied assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation
19-7879 Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States 2020-03-05 IFP Denied 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering
19A977 Wanda Vázquez-Garced, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. 2020-03-04 A Presumed Complete None
19-7849 Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department 2020-03-03 IFP Denied aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power
19A954 Richard Valentini v. United States 2020-02-28 A Presumed Complete None
19-1055 Dustin Moss v. United States 2020-02-25 Paid Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number
19-1044 Romilson Batista Ferreira v. William P. Barr, Attorney General 2020-02-21 Paid Denied None
19-1031 Erin Capron, et al. v. Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. Amici (3) 2020-02-19 Paid Denied cultural-exchange federal-preemption federal-regulations foreign-policy immigration labor-laws state-regulation
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States 2020-02-19 IFP Denied circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver
19-1003 Isaac Gichuru Kinuthia v. Barbara Velarde, Acting Chief, Administrative Appeals Office, et al. 2020-02-11 Paid Denied None
19-7497 Richard Silvestri v. United States 2020-01-30 IFP Denied commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force
19-7479 Brian Price v. United States 2020-01-29 IFP Denied acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines
19-7460 David Wright v. United States 2020-01-28 IFP Denied attorney-general-discretion civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights-4th-amendment due-process fisa-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act national-security standing surveillance terrorism terrorism-conspiracy warrantless-search warrantless-surveillance
19A820 Jon Cascella v. United States 2020-01-23 A Presumed Complete None
19-7359 Danny Guzman-Correa v. United States 2020-01-22 IFP Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-consultant lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye prejudice public-trial public-trial-violation
19-7334 Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States 2020-01-17 IFP Denied 924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation
19-7234 Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States 2020-01-09 IFP Denied anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness
19A768 Canada v. Cynthia L. Merlini 2020-01-09 A Presumed Complete None
19-847 Jonathan Reisman v. Associated Faculties of the University of Maine, et al. Amici (11) 2020-01-06 Paid Denied associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States 2020-01-02 IFP Denied §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response
19-7112 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States 2019-12-31 IFP Denied confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver
19-828 Charles Garske, et al. v. United States 2019-12-31 Paid Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy government-misconduct manifest-necessity mistrial oregon-v-kennedy retrial united-states-v-perez
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States 2019-12-20 IFP Denied brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal
19-796 Michael Cowels, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. 2019-12-20 Paid Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights dna-profile due-process fbi-determination federal-bureau-of-investigation national-dna-index-system pretext pretextual-basis pretextual-determination
19A694 Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States 2019-12-20 A Presumed Complete None
19-6972 Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States 2019-12-19 IFP Denied circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation
19-7009 Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States 2019-12-19 IFP Denied appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction
19-6947 Reinaldo Rodriguez-Martinez v. United States 2019-12-16 IFP Denied appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions rico rico-conspiracy-statute rico-enterprise sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-turkette
19-6936 Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States 2019-12-13 IFP Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation
19-6941 Michael Collins v. United States 2019-12-13 IFP Denied armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony
19A669 Romilson Batista Ferreira v. William P. Barr, Attorney General 2019-12-13 A Presumed Complete None
19A636 Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States 2019-12-06 A Presumed Complete None
19-6820 Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States 2019-12-03 IFP Denied circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code
19-6666 Christopher Thornton v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections 2019-11-18 IFP Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court filing-fees habeas-corpus return-of-fees rule-60
19M76 Solomon Upshaw v. United States 2019-11-18 M Presumed Complete None
19A538 Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Carol Hulka, et al. 2019-11-14 A Presumed Complete None
19-6602 Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States 2019-11-13 IFP Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance
19-6549 Jose Laureano Salgado v. United States 2019-11-08 IFP Denied brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment ongoing-disclosure pending-appeal prosecutorial-misconduct
19-6557 Steven Nygren v. United States 2019-11-07 IFP Denied cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1
19A511 Michael Cowels, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. 2019-11-07 A Presumed Complete None
19-6509 William Gaudet v. United States 2019-11-06 IFP Denied 18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d
19-583 Estate of Robert Cunningham, et al. v. Mark McGuire 2019-11-05 Paid Denied facts-underlying false-claims-act first-to-file-bar judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-provision legal-standing pleadings procedural-analysis qui-tam statutory-interpretation
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States 2019-10-28 IFP Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation
19-6284 Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States 2019-10-17 IFP Denied acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts
19-6294 Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2019-10-17 IFP Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure
19-6253 Adam Strege v. United States 2019-10-11 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine
19-6202 Manuel Rodriguez-Santana v. United States 2019-10-10 IFP Denied affidavit constitutional-procedure criminal-complaint criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment magistrate magistrate-review probable-cause
19A405 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States 2019-10-10 A Presumed Complete None
19A391 BP P.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island 2019-10-08 A Presumed Complete None
19-6146 Hector Rosario-Rivera v. United States 2019-10-03 IFP Denied constitutional-rights due-process due-process,sixth-amendment,fifth-amendment,ineffe fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment
19A370 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States 2019-10-03 A Presumed Complete None
19-6098 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. 2019-10-01 IFP Denied appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review
19-404 David Seth Worman, et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. Amici (7) 2019-09-25 Paid Denied 2nd-amendment caetano civil-rights due-process firearms-ban heller heller-standard individual-right intermediate-scrutiny mcdonald second-amendment self-defense
19-387 Ambac Assurance Corporation v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. Amici (1) 2019-09-24 Paid Denied 11-usc-904 11-usc-922 48-usc-2165 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-debtors special-revenues statutory-interpretation
19-391 Assured Guaranty Corp., et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. Amici (1) 2019-09-24 Paid Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bond-debt debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-bond-market special-revenues
19-396 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. 2019-09-24 Paid Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-practices due-process employment first-amendment judicial-review preliminary-injunction standing unlawful-termination
19-6035 Luis R. Espinal-Rivera v. United States 2019-09-24 IFP Denied appellate-review bail bail-hearing criminal-procedure detention-review due-process federal-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention rebuttal statutory-presumption statutory-presumptions
19-6050 Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States 2019-09-24 IFP Denied 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis
19-6010 John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. 2019-09-20 IFP Closed citizenship civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process foreign-nationals jurisdiction residency standing state-treaties subject-of-foreign-nation
19-365 John Barth v. United States 2019-09-19 Paid Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause
19-5999 Natasha Delima v. YouTube, Inc., et al. 2019-09-19 IFP Denied antitrust censorship civil-procedure civil-rights digital-property due-process first-amendment platform-censorship retaliation standing virtual-property website-regulation
19-6007 Natasha DeLima v. Massachusetts, et al. 2019-09-19 IFP Denied abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fiduciary-duty judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing
19-5992 Demond Chatman v. Douglas Demoura 2019-09-18 IFP Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability competency competency-to-stand-trial due-process first-circuit first-circuit-court-of-appeals genuine-issue right-to-trial standing
19-347 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC 2019-09-17 Paid Denied annunzio-wylie-anti-money-laundering-act anti-money-laundering bank-secrecy-act choice-of-law civil-immunity criminal-disclosure diversity-jurisdiction federal-transfer financial-institutions forum-selection good-faith-reporting immunity immunity-defense
19-5975 Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States 2019-09-17 IFP Denied aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment
19-5888 David Tkhilaishvili v. United States 2019-09-10 IFP Denied circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extortion hobbs-act interstate-commerce legal-nexus property-rights property-transfer third-party
19-5853 Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States 2019-09-06 IFP Denied criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings
19-306 Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky 2019-09-05 Paid Denied civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts legal-standards punitive-damages standard-of-proof state-courts state-law state-law-certification subject-matter-jurisdiction
19M47 Gareth Evan Lomax v. Massachusetts, et al. 2019-09-05 M Presumed Complete None
19-295 Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. 2019-09-04 Paid Denied administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction
19-5825 Mario Garcia-Zavala v. United States 2019-09-04 IFP Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment booking-exception booking-information-exception constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-of-identity fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-crimes miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings stop-and-identify
19-5798 Lonnie Bernard Davis v. John Hancock Mutual Funds Accounts 2019-09-03 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing
19-5738 Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States 2019-08-29 IFP Denied acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1
19-5757 Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States 2019-08-29 IFP Denied aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement
19A234 Carey Ackies aka Boyd v. United States 2019-08-29 A Presumed Complete None
19-5700 Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States 2019-08-23 IFP Denied client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment
19-229 C. D., By and Through Her Parents, M. D. and P. D., et al. v. Natick Public School District, et al. 2019-08-21 Paid Denied circuit-split due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act least-restrictive-environment mainstreaming mainstreaming-mandate regular-classes special-education supplementary-aids-and-services supplementary-aids-services
19-5667 John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center 2019-08-21 IFP Denied actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus
19A209 Louis Talley v. J. Starkey 2019-08-21 A Presumed Complete None
19A189 Estate of Robert Cunningham, et al. v. Mark McGuire 2019-08-19 A Presumed Complete None
19-5610 Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution 2019-08-16 IFP Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia
19-5533 Juliet Baird Alexander Aubain de Sabrevois v. Alan J. Perry, et al. 2019-08-09 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district free-speech judicial-conduct legal-issue libel libel-law maine maine-jurisdiction standing
19-5452 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico 2019-08-06 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-weighing fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing
19-5403 Randy Charriez-Rolon v. United States 2019-07-31 IFP Denied appeal appellate-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-silence due-process due-process,self-incrimination,plain-error,ineffec first-circuit-review free-speech plain-error prosecutorial-commentary rule-29-motion silence
19-142 Timothy C. Harry, et al. v. American Brokers Conduit, et al. 2019-07-30 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights document-fabrication due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment lending-transaction property-rights standing takings
19-5393 Joanna M. Eiermann v. Lawrence R. Bowers, et al. 2019-07-30 IFP Denied 9th-amendment civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process inheritance inheritance-dispute judicial-review ninth-amendment remains standing trust trust-litigation
19-5396 Vincent Anzalone v. United States 2019-07-30 IFP Denied criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application
19A126 Frank Staples v. Richard Gerry, Warden, et al. 2019-07-30 A Presumed Complete None
19-105 Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States 2019-07-22 Paid Denied 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
19-5249 George E. Kersey v. Herb Chambers 1186, Inc., et al. 2019-07-22 IFP Dismissed appeal appeals civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals district-court due-process filing-fee frivolous in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation sanctions screening standing
19-5268 Thomas Bois v. United States 2019-07-22 IFP Denied assault-with-dangerous-weapon crime-of-violence enumerated-offenses federal-sentencing force-clause massachusetts-assault massachusetts-assault-with-dangerous-weapon massachusetts-law sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
19-5220 Hernardo Medina-Villegas v. United States 2019-07-19 IFP Denied constitutional-claims due-process prejudice reasonableness sixth-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard prejudice reasonableness-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-reasonableness
19-5198 Robert Rang v. United States 2019-07-17 IFP Denied attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation
19-82 Paul V. Cannon v. Bank of America, National Association, et al. 2019-07-16 Paid Denied borrower-rights breach-of-contract civil-rights contractual-obligations due-process failure-to-state-claim loan-disclosure mortgage-securitization securitization standing unjust-enrichment
19-5158 John Higgins, Jr. v. Federal National Mortgage Association 2019-07-12 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings
19-50 John DeRaffele v. United States 2019-07-09 Paid Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari
19-5107 James C. Karahalios, Jr. v. United States 2019-07-09 IFP Denied 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 bank-robbery categorical crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-v-united-states pharmacy-robbery statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states
19-5111 Avery Blodgett v. United States 2019-07-09 IFP Denied 18-U.S.C.-§2113 18-U.S.C.-§924(c)(3) 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3 crime-of-violence federal-bank-robbery force-clause johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states
19-5116 Tasheena V. Stewart v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital 2019-07-09 IFP Denied civil-rights due-process employee-protection employment employment-discrimination human-resources-liability institutional-accountability retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination
19-5124 Arthur Durham v. United States 2019-07-09 IFP Denied 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process economic-harm federal-sentencing force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation violent-crime welch-v-united-states
19M14 Phillip Rawnsley v. United States 2019-07-09 M Presumed Complete None
19M15 Brian DeCoito v. United States 2019-07-09 M Presumed Complete None
19-5100 Matthew Karahalios v. United States 2019-07-08 IFP Denied 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation
19A35 AER Advisors, Inc., et al. v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC 2019-07-08 A Presumed Complete None
19-5081 David Morel, Jr. v. United States 2019-07-05 IFP Denied 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search
19-21 Gregory Owens v. United States 2019-07-03 Paid Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement
19-5060 Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction 2019-07-03 IFP Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing
19-5013 Hugo Santana-Dones v. United States 2019-07-02 IFP Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-circuit-review intercept-standard necessity standard-of-review statutory-burden statutory-rights warrant-necessity wire-communications wiretap
19-5028 Osvaldo Vasquez v. United States 2019-07-01 IFP Denied due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fundamental-fairness gps-tracking gps-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-challenge wiretap-warrant
19-2 Jackie Hosang Lawson v. FMR LLC, dba Fidelity Investments, et al. 2019-06-28 Paid Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness-testimony federal-securities-law federal-securities-laws fraud fraud-allegations jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standards sarbanes-oxley-act securities
19-5003 Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States 2019-06-28 IFP Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release
19A11 David Seth Worman, et al. v. Maura T. Healey, et al. 2019-06-28 A Presumed Complete None
19A3 Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Yury Rinsky 2019-06-28 A Presumed Complete None
18-9840 Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. 2019-06-27 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement
18-9819 Jose Francisco Rodriguez-Reyes v. United States 2019-06-26 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion arrest-consideration arrests-without-convictions criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence procedural-error sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology substantive-error substantive-review
18-9799 Benito Rivera v. United States 2019-06-25 IFP Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof
18A1336 Robert Rang v. United States 2019-06-19 A Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation
18-9708 Brad Smith v. United States 2019-06-18 IFP Denied attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois consent-search consent-to-search curtilage exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause
18-1521 Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. Amici (1) 2019-06-07 Paid Judgment Issued administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law de-facto-officer de-facto-officer-doctrine ongoing-injury oversight-board principal-officers puerto-rico relief uncon-stitutional-appointments united-states-constitution
18-1514 United States v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. Amici (1) 2019-06-06 Paid Judgment Issued appointments appointments-clause constitutional-law officers-of-the-united-states promesa public-officers puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-government territorial-officers
18A1267 Juliet Baird Alexander Aubain de Sabrevois v. Alan J. Perry, et al. 2019-06-05 A Presumed Complete None
18-9529 Anibal Del Valle-Hiraldo v. United States 2019-06-04 IFP Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining rosemond-v-united-states sixth-amendment
18A1250 John Deraffele v. United States 2019-06-03 A Presumed Complete None
18-1496 Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of All Title III Debtors Other Than COFINA v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. Amici (1) 2019-05-31 Paid Judgment Issued administrative-law appointments-clause article-ii article-iv constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight financial-oversight-and-management-board financial-oversight-board oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-clause territorial-governance
18-1475 Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. Amici (1) 2019-05-28 Paid Judgment Issued appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation de-facto-officer-doctrine meaningful-relief ongoing-injury principal-officers separation-of-powers standing
18A1194 Lonnie Bernard Davis v. John Hancock, Mutual Funds Accounts 2019-05-20 A Presumed Complete None
18-9306 Shawn Sayer v. United States 2019-05-16 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance
18-1411 Jeffrey Isaacs v. Trustees of Dartmouth College, et al. 2019-05-09 Paid Denied abuse-of-discretion administrative-law due-process evidence evidence-spoliation medical-license medical-licensing protected-conduct rehabilitation-act retaliation section-1983 title-ix
18-1407 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. 2019-05-08 Paid Denied civil-rights civil-rights-act congressional-intent constitutional-violation discrimination due-process equitable-tolling fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant
18A1144 Tasheena V. Stewart v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital 2019-05-06 A Presumed Complete None
18-1389 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. Amici (1) 2019-05-03 Paid Denied bankruptcy civil-rights commercial-law constitutional-violations debtor-name due-process law-enforcement-misconduct official-immunity perfection property-rights public-record registered-organization secured-lending secured-transactions uniform-commercial-code Whether public officials can maintain immunity des
18-9049 Jackie Madore v. United States 2019-04-30 IFP Denied appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity
18-1334 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. Amici (2) 2019-04-24 Paid Judgment Issued appointments-clause article-iv constitutional-law exceptional-importance federal-government-structure federal-officers financial-oversight-and-management-board merits-review oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers supreme-court territorial-government
18-8948 Angel Morales De-Jesus v. United States 2019-04-23 IFP Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment conspiracy due-process leadership-enhancement mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment
18A1073 Fernando Bento de Souza v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. 2019-04-18 A Presumed Complete None
18-8769 Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States 2019-04-11 IFP Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review
18-8780 John T. Higgins v. Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance 2019-04-10 IFP Denied affordable-care-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care individual-mandate standing
18-8714 Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States 2019-04-05 IFP Denied Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent
18-8715 Quillie Merle Spray v. Kelly A. Ryan, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Shirley 2019-04-05 IFP Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure effective-counsel fair-trial insanity-defense mental-evaluation sixth-amendment
18A1030 Teamsters Union 25 Health Services & Insurance Plan, et al. v. Warner Chilcott Limited, et al. 2019-04-05 A Presumed Complete None
18-1272 Michael Gould, et al. v. Andrew Lipson, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Brookline Police Department, et al. 2019-04-04 Paid Denied 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-restrictions good-reason intermediate-scrutiny right-to-bear-arms right-to-carry second-amendment self-defense standing takings
18A1015 Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. 2019-04-02 A Presumed Complete None
18-8602 Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States 2019-03-29 IFP Denied civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing
18-8633 James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. 2019-03-29 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights data discovery discrimination disparate-impact due-process expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff standing statistical-significance statistics
18-8582 Malvin Nater-Ayala v. United States 2019-03-27 IFP Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing
18-8526 Marcel Henderson v. United States 2019-03-22 IFP Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure dixon-standard due-process fifth-amendment imminent-threat justification-defense sixth-amendment
18-8494 Alberto Sostre-Cintron v. United States 2019-03-21 IFP Denied 18-USC-371 18-usc-641 conspiracy conspiracy-18-usc-371 criminal-conspiracy criminal-law district-court-proceedings morissette-standard morissette-v-united-states parties-to-the-proceedings statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence theft-of-government-property theft-of-government-property-18-usc-641
18-8443 James F. Oliveira v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, et al. 2019-03-19 IFP Denied constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-procedure
18-8392 Obinna Obiora v. United States 2019-03-13 IFP Denied constitutional-law controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence
18-8373 Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States 2019-03-11 IFP Denied court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction
18-8236 Robert L. Bianchi v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2019-03-04 IFP Denied 10th-amendment 28-usc-2244(d)(2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure filing-requirements habeas-corpus mass-rule-25(b)(2) motion-for-new-trial motion-for-reduction-in-verdict new-trial state-court state-court-requirements statutory-interpretation
18A882 Anita M. Barrow v. B. Grant Willis, et al. 2019-02-28 A Presumed Complete None
18-8150 Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. 2019-02-27 IFP Denied access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court
18-8137 Tanya Steele v. John Pedro, Jr., et al. 2019-02-26 IFP Denied anti-harassment civil-rights due-process fair-housing-act jurisdiction sovereign-immunity standing sua-sponte
18-8033 Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2019-02-20 IFP Denied criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony
18-7991 George E. Kersey v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States 2019-02-15 IFP Denied 28-usc-1915 appeal appeal-certification civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals dismissal district-court frivolous immunity in-forma-pauperis standing
18-7974 Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States 2019-02-14 IFP Denied criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation
18-7896 Ricardo Montanez-Quinones v. United States 2019-02-13 IFP Denied child-pornography distribution evidence knowingly-distributed knowledge plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines
18-7904 Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden 2019-02-12 IFP Denied criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment
18-1051 James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department 2019-02-11 Paid Denied 28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation
18-7886 Akeen Ocean v. United States 2019-02-11 IFP Denied 6th-amendment criminal-procedure deliberate-elicitation government-informant informant-testimony massiah-doctrine massiah-v-united-states post-indictment-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment
18A811 James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. 2019-02-06 A Presumed Complete None
18-7752 Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. 2019-02-05 IFP Denied 28-usc-1915 appointment-of-counsel circuit-panel-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process judicial-recusal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-complexity pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation recusal standing
18-7746 Joseph Davis v. United States 2019-02-04 IFP Denied thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure
18-7668 Patricio Paladin v. United States 2019-01-30 IFP Denied almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements
18-7642 Kirk Lassend v. United States 2019-01-29 IFP Denied acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony
18-7613 David Ackell v. United States 2019-01-28 IFP Denied circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens
18-967 Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. 2019-01-25 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power
18-7511 Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States 2019-01-24 IFP Denied 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation
18-7484 Nimon Naphaeng v. United States 2019-01-18 IFP Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing
18-7487 Kevin Hokenstrom v. New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. 2019-01-18 IFP Denied None
18-946 Abigail Arroyo v. Angel M. Torres-Sanchez, et al. 2019-01-18 Paid Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment judicial-discretion property property-rights public-interest standing takings
18-926 Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. CVSG Amici (4) 2019-01-16 Paid Denied active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation
18-7433 Hamid R. Ardaneh v. Massachusetts, et al. 2019-01-15 IFP Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review pro-se-petition refugee-rights refugee-status
18-7391 Gadiel Romero v. United States 2019-01-14 IFP Denied 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines
18-7331 Ishmael Douglas v. United States 2019-01-09 IFP GVR categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine
18A700 Behzad A. Samimi v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs 2019-01-04 A Presumed Complete None
18-835 Mario R. Lozano v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, et al. 2019-01-03 Paid Denied 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-enforcement-clause 42-usc-1985-conspiracy 7th-amendment-jury-trial civil-rights congress due-process enforcement-clause fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity
18-7176 Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States 2018-12-27 IFP Denied 18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation
18A660 Michael Gould, et al. v. Mark Morgan, et al. 2018-12-21 A Presumed Complete None
18-7144 Rodney Russell v. United States 2018-12-20 IFP Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing
18-7104 Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States 2018-12-19 IFP Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation
18-7128 Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk 2018-12-19 IFP Denied 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review
18-7079 Franklyn Morillo v. United States 2018-12-18 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted
18-7039 Alexander Ndaula v. United States 2018-12-17 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation
18-7010 Jermaine Mitchell v. United States 2018-12-12 IFP Denied confrontation-clause expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence lab-reports law-enforcement-testimony lay-testimony narcotics narcotics-testimony scientific-evidence sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence
18A581 Jermaine Mitchell v. United States 2018-12-10 A Presumed Complete None
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC 2018-12-07 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing
18A585 Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. 2018-12-04 A Presumed Complete None
18A565 Akeen Ocean v. United States 2018-11-29 A Presumed Complete None
18-6861 John Wilborn v. Kelly Ryan, Warden 2018-11-28 IFP Denied actual-innocence actual-innocence-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding probable-cause probable-cause-transcript prosecutorial-misconduct
18-6796 Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. 2018-11-27 IFP Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing
18A554 Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. 2018-11-27 A Presumed Complete None
18-659 Mostafa Masomi v. Mehrandokht Madadi 2018-11-21 Paid Denied alimony civil-procedure civil-rights divorce divorce-law due-process fifth-amendment human-rights procedural-due-process religious-divorce
18-6772 Donovan Grant v. United States 2018-11-21 IFP Denied appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court
18A523 Gerard D. Grandoit v. Arbella Mutual Insurance Company, et al. 2018-11-19 A Presumed Complete None
18-6717 Lei Yin v. Thermo Fisher Scientific 2018-11-16 IFP Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court-rules federal-courts judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-rights standing summons summons-issuance
18-6693 Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States 2018-11-14 IFP Denied appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error
18-6660 Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States 2018-11-13 IFP Denied 15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud
18A493 Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. 2018-11-07 A Presumed Complete None
18-6563 Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States 2018-11-06 IFP Denied criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation
18-574 Joseph Rachal v. United States 2018-11-02 Paid Denied 6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence
18-6505 Brian Powell v. United States 2018-11-01 IFP Denied 4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen
18-560 Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. 2018-10-30 Paid Denied agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien
18-6468 Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States 2018-10-29 IFP Denied constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden
18-530 Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel Amici (2) 2018-10-24 Paid Denied charitable-trusts diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine establishment-clause evidence federalism free-exercise free-exercise-clause personal-property property property-dispute religious-liberty secular-evidence trust trust-law
18-6421 Alexis D. Negron-Cruz v. United States 2018-10-24 IFP Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel internet-access internet-restrictions plea-agreement plea-bargaining pornography-ban sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-conditions
18-6366 John A. Barbosa v. United States 2018-10-17 IFP Denied armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo carachuri-rosendo-v-holder charging-decision charging-document circuit-split judgment maximum-sentence plea-colloquy prosecutorial-discretion record-of-conviction rodriguez-precedent serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense
18-6347 Adam Brake v. United States 2018-10-16 IFP Denied burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1
18-446 City of Taunton, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency Amici (2) 2018-10-10 Paid Denied agency-deference causation causation-standard chevron-deference clean-water-act due-process effluent-limitations narrative-criteria npdes npdes-permit
18-6229 Josh A. Wairi v. United States 2018-10-09 IFP Denied appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-josh-wairi
18-6248 Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States 2018-10-09 IFP Denied congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission
18-6198 Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States 2018-10-04 IFP Denied 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation
18-6166 Syed K. Rafi v. Brigham and Women's Hospital, et al. 2018-10-02 IFP Denied 42-usc-1985-1986 circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process judicial-procedure mandate mandate-recall mandates motions-for-reconsideration pro-se-petition recall-mandate reconsideration standing supreme-court-rules time-frame
18-6150 Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States 2018-10-01 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release
18A337 Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States 2018-10-01 A Presumed Complete None
18-403 Bruce A. Shear v. MAZ Partners, LP, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Amici (1) 2018-09-28 Paid Denied civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement disgorgement-order district-court-power diversity-jurisdiction due-process equitable-power equitable-remedy erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-verdict
18-6083 Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States 2018-09-24 IFP Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct
18M55 Syed K. Rafi v. Brigham and Women's Hospital, et al. 2018-09-24 M Presumed Complete None
18-6057 Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States 2018-09-21 IFP Denied appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation
18-6008 Anibal Pagan-Romero v. United States 2018-09-17 IFP Denied criminal-trial dictionary dictionary-use due-process fifth-amendment first-circuit jury jury-instructions presumption-of-prejudice remmer-presumption remmer-v-united-states
18A281 Elena Rogers v. James Paikos, et al. 2018-09-17 A Presumed Complete None
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. Amici (1) 2018-09-13 Paid Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983
18-5973 Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States 2018-09-13 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release
18-5944 Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States 2018-09-12 IFP Denied 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc
18M43 Josh A. Wairi v. United States 2018-09-11 M Presumed Complete None
18-5811 Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States 2018-08-29 IFP Denied appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines
18-242 Samuel Gicharu, et al. v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General 2018-08-24 Paid Denied None
18A174 Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel 2018-08-16 A Presumed Complete None
18-202 Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States 2018-08-15 Paid Denied appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights
18-5554 Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States 2018-08-13 IFP Denied 18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation
18-186 Samuel David Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. 2018-08-10 Paid Denied agency-oversight civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-burden due-process false-claims-act legal-technicality materiality materiality-standard regulatory-compliance religious-freedom standing
18-5401 Melissa J. Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction 2018-08-01 IFP Denied administrative-review claim-preclusion employment-termination gender-discrimination right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter statute-of-limitations
18-5384 Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States 2018-07-30 IFP Denied 8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations
18-5380 Luis Lopez v. United States 2018-07-27 IFP Denied armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. 2018-07-26 IFP Denied 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal
18-5296 Todd Rasberry v. United States 2018-07-20 IFP Denied consent fourth-amendment home-privacy home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant-requirement warrantless-search
18-5245 Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States 2018-07-17 IFP Denied armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness
18M14 Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States 2018-07-17 M Presumed Complete None
18-5187 Verissimo Tavares v. United States 2018-07-10 IFP Denied beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony
18-5193 William Brown v. United States 2018-07-10 IFP Denied abuse-of-discretion beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing-law johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness
18-5120 Kenneth P. Nelson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security 2018-07-05 IFP Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent property-rights standing takings
18-5108 Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States 2018-07-03 IFP Denied burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations
18-5038 Neil Sweeney v. United States 2018-06-29 IFP Denied administrative-law child-pornography circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence-403 federal-rules-of-evidence-414 standing statutory-interpretation
18A99 New Prime Inc. v. Dominic Oliveira A Presumed Complete None
19A1009 James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine A Presumed Complete None
21A10 Calvary Chapel of Bangor v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine A Presumed Complete None
21A393 Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College A Presumed Complete None
21A91 Henry J. DuLaurence, III v. Douglas P. Woodlock, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts A Presumed Complete None
22A540 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. A Presumed Complete None
23A1060 Simon Chan v. Maura Tracy Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. A Presumed Complete certiorari-filing petition-extension pro-se procedural-relief rule-33.1 supreme-court
23A66 Bryan O'Brien v. Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, et al. A Presumed Complete None
24A955 Karen Read v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. A Presumed Complete None