| 25-931 |
BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property? |
| 25-6726 |
William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error |
1. Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante req… |
| 25-6683 |
Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
due-diligence evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence-claim schlup-standard |
1. Over thirteen years after Roderick LeShun Rankin was convicted of three murders and sentenced to death, the pastor of his deceased brother Rodney d… |
| 25A854 |
Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
constitutional-violation excessive-force jury-verdict municipal-liability section-1983 supervisory-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-890 |
Arkansas United, et al. v. John Thurston, in His Official Capacity as the Secretary of State of Arkansas et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
declaratory-relief injunctive-relief preemption private-plaintiffs state-actors voting-rights-act |
1. Whether private plaintiffs may maintain a suit in
equity for declaratory and injunctive relief against
state actors to prevent the continued enfo… |
| 25M59 |
Mark T. Stinson v. James M. Moody, Jr., Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 25A744 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. San Diego County Employees Retirement Association, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
basic-presumption class-certification corrective-disclosure market-efficiency price-impact securities-fraud |
1. This case warrants the Court's review because it presents an ideal vehicle for the Court to resolve two related splits of authority about the prope… |
| 25A706 |
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6216 |
Fred Lee Williams v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
None |
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| 25A614 |
Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Application |
employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's summary judgment ruling contravenes Supreme Court precedents governing employment discrimination claims under Title VII a… |
| 25A554 |
BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
civil-rights fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Whether states can assert sovereign immunity to bar federal civil rights claims seeking just compensation for a taking of private property under the F… |
| 25A534 |
Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying habeas corpus relief for a death-row inmate challenging the constitutiona… |
| 25-535 |
Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III |
Arkansas |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
administrative-law arbitration-agreements federal-funding medicare-medicaid spending-clause statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power makes private conduct illegal absent a clear statement that Congress intended to do more… |
| 25-529 |
Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Pending |
constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court |
1. Do th is Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence "clearly establish," under § 2254(d)(1) , that a sta… |
| 25-5885 |
Vasquez D. Hayes v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
amendment-principles constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction |
(1) Isn't it true and/or fact, the due process embodied in the Constitution is guaranteed to criminal defendants?
(2) Isn't it true and/or fact, no j… |
| 25-5864 |
Rodney E. Barnett v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
abuse-of-writ brady-violation confrontation-rights due-process ends-of-justice witness-perjury |
1. Does the "ends of justice " doctrine warrant abuse of writ defense by state be excused in
this Sept. 4,2025 Arkansas Supreme Court Order?
2. Did … |
| 25-5818 |
Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-counsel postconviction-relief procedural-bar simultaneous-representation state-court-jurisdiction |
Petitioner and his brother were adversely situated codefendants in two separate felony cases over which the same judge presided. That judge appointed … |
| 25-5799 |
Eric Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
claim-preclusion constitutional-rights due-process non-existent-offense res-judicata separation-of-powers |
1. Under Arkansas law, Mr. Burgie had a right to have his illegal sentences corrected but the Arkansas state courts denied his petition and post-convi… |
| 25-5767 |
Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error |
1) Did the United States District Court error in ruling that Mr. Draft 's petition for writ of
Habeas Corpus was untimely?
2) Did the United States … |
| 25-5732 |
Jeremy Baum v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent |
Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with this Court's holdings in Cole v. Arka… |
| 25-5735 |
Cheyenne Fink v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
None |
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| 25-5606 |
Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
ada-title-ii ada-title-v administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment university-discipline |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a 13-day interim suspension —without notice or an exigency claim —that merged into an eight month suspension… |
| 25-5525 |
Teresa Lynette Bloodman v. Robert Brech, Executive Director,
Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct |
Arkansas |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment interim-suspension liberty-interest procedural-fairness |
I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to impose a imposes an interim suspension of an attorney '… |
| 25-5509 |
Parnell R. May v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25A226 |
Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-murder claim-preclusion criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge res-judicata underlying-felony |
Whether claim preclusion (res judicata) bars a criminal defendant from repeatedly challenging the jurisdictional basis of a capital murder conviction … |
| 25-10 |
Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure |
Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals this Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, even criminal context. |
| 24A1292 |
Terry Duane Qualls v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-appeal district-court eighth-circuit motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal rehearing |
Whether a criminal defendant's appeal can be dismissed for procedural reasons without addressing the underlying merits of the case |
| 24-1304 |
FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation |
Whether a federal agency acts arbitrarily or capriciously in determining a post-settlement change of law, and whether federal law applies to utility t… |
| 24-1207 |
Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct |
Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai… |
| 24A1047 |
Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Presumed Complete |
ada-title-ii disability-discrimination due-process essential-eligibility psychiatric-exam rehabilitation-act |
Whether a state university may impose a mandatory psychiatric examination as a condition of continued enrollment without violating a student's constit… |
| 24-7063 |
Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in deferring to lower court findings regarding trial counsel's failure to remove a potentially biased juror who serve… |
| 24-1074 |
Entergy Arkansas, LLC v. Doyle Webb, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-order federal-preemption judicial-review regulatory-interpretation wholesale-tariff |
Whether the preemptive effect of a federal agency's order is an issue for courts to decide and cannot be controlled by the agency's opinion, or lack o… |
| 24A928 |
Michael Lavern Boyd v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-6798 |
Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication |
Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an… |
| 24-6662 |
Fred Lee Williams v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6647 |
Oscar Stilley v. Cole Jester, Arkansas Secretary of State, et al. |
Arkansas |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-judgment peaceful-petition voting-registration |
Is a void criminal judgment taken contrary to the 6th Amendment right to assistance of counsel legally sufficient to criminally punish the convicted p… |
| 24-6421 |
Richard Leon Strong v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2025-01-29 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6315 |
Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of White v. Pauly to a 2016 shooting under Qualified Immunity constitutes a permissible legal interpretation o… |
| 24A698 |
Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Whether a state corrections director's denial of a prisoner's request for a specific method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition o… |
| 24-6259 |
Kenneth Wayne Gilmore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Whether the isolated smell of marijuana is sufficient probable cause for a search warrant; Whether Petitioner's conviction should be reversed due to a… |
| 24A659 |
Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate after a significant delay in seeking federal habeas review |
| 24-681 |
Konstadin Bitzas v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
due-process emergency-caretaker fourth-amendment pro-se-representation probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether defects in a search warrant application process, including failure to satisfy the oath requirement, omitting key facts about witnesses' intoxi… |
| 24-6054 |
Joshua Matthew Stockton v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-interpretation legal-standards procedural-challenge supreme-court |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's decision regarding a civil matter involving procedu… |
| 24A492 |
Oscar Stilley v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State, et al. |
Arkansas |
2024-11-18 |
Presumed Complete |
abortion-rights election-law initiative-petition signature-verification standing-doctrine state-constitutional-amendment |
Whether a legal voter has standing to challenge the Arkansas Secretary of State's decision to reject signatures on a proposed state constitutional ame… |
| 24-424 |
Raymond N. Bailey, Jr. v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
criminal-supervision fourth-amendment probable-cause residency-verification search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless search violates the Fourth Amendment where government lacks probable cause to believe the place searched is the person's actual … |
| 24-5526 |
Terry Dean Birts v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
campaign-finance constitutional-rights donation-regulation first-amendment free-speech political-speech |
Whether state-level political donations can be considered a form of protected First Amendment speech and whether campaign finance regulations impermis… |
| 24-5522 |
Billie R. James v. Southland Casino |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
age-discrimination civil-rights employment-law prima-facie-case procedural-fairness summary-judgment |
Did the District Court's and the Court of Appeals' failure to address James' allegations allow Southland to escape from proving a non-discriminatory r… |
| 24-5466 |
Jarell Davis Terry v. William Straughn, Deputy Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force pro-se-prisoner |
Whether the use of force against a handcuffed and compliant individual violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment |
| 24-232 |
Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
administrative-law constitutional-delegation executive-power federal-contractors minimum-wage procurement-act |
Whether the Procurement Act authorizes the President to require federal permittees to pay their employees a minimum wage and whether such delegation v… |
| 24A222 |
Oscar Stilley v. John Thurston, Secretary of State of Arkansas, et al. |
Arkansas |
2024-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
ballot-access ballot-initiative constitutional-challenge election-law supreme-court-review voter-standing |
Whether a state supreme court can deny a voter's standing to challenge a ballot initiative without a full evidentiary hearing on the voter's registrat… |
| 24-5265 |
Fred Lee Williams v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-118 |
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Alan McClain, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
340b-drug-pricing-program administrative-enforcement administrative-law contract-pharmacies contract-pharmacy drug-pricing federal-preemption federal-regulation healthcare-policy state-preemption state-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits and this Court—that a State may strip manufacturers of th… |
| 24-5180 |
Lemuel S. Whiteside v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
aedpa criminal-procedure cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-review strategic-decision-making strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Arkansas courts applied an incorrect standard for resolving petitioner Whiteside's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in sentenci… |
| 24-5163 |
Thomas Leo Springs v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
aedpa-deference capital-punishment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasoned-state-court-opinion state-court-review strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
Whether a federal court applying AEDPA deference to a reasoned state court opinion may ignore the explanation provided by the state court and instead … |
| 24A72 |
Raymond N. Bailey, Jr. v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-waiver warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause, rather than reasonable suspicion, to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's residence u… |
| 23-1213 |
Glen Mulready, in His Official Capacity as Insurance Commissioner of Oklahoma, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process erisa-preemption medicare-part-d network-participation pharmacy-benefit-managers pharmacy-choice preemption rural-patient-access rutledge-v-pcma state-regulation |
Whether ERISA preempts state laws regulating PBMs |
| 23-7368 |
Denise J. Johnson v. Mark Witcher |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights employment employment-termination first-amendment religious-discrimination retaliation sabbath-observance title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether the respondent's termination of the petitioner for observing the Seventh-Day Adventist Sabbath day (Saturday) constitutes religious-discrimina… |
| 23A929 |
Arkansas State Conference NAACP, et al. v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
political-process private-plaintiffs racial-discrimination redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act |
Whether private citizens can sue to challenge political processes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when alleging unequal racial access to the … |
| 23A934 |
Damien Ford v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus indigent-status procedural-error successive-petition supreme-court-rules |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant a certificate of appealability for a second successive habeas corpus petition when the petitioner claims indige… |
| 23-7210 |
Marqese Lynn Payne v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
civil-jurisdiction civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-civil-rights-act indian-law reservation-boundaries self-governance statutory-interpretation territorial-law |
Did Congress pass the Organic Act of May 2, 1890, for State laws in Oklahoma, or did Congress pass the Territory Certain general laws of Arkansas (C. … |
| 23-7196 |
Adam Carson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights first-impression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment |
Whether the panel's opinion violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right by failing to accept the government's plea proposal |
| 23-7149 |
Deterrius Wilson v. Randy F. Philhours, Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Crittenden County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
civil-rights compensation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process retaliation sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to vindictive prosecution, illegal sentencing, and denial of due process |
| 23-7072 |
Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
accountability administrative-law civil-rights data-integrity due-process federal-employees federal-jurisdiction judicial-review transparency whistleblower-protection |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court's consolidation of appeals and selective review exacerbate the case's complexity, undermining the principles of thorough … |
| 23-7008 |
Lawrence Martin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court new-trial relief trial-rights |
Was Martin entitled to production of documents, did a Brady violation occur when favorable material evidence was withheld/discarded, was Martin entitl… |
| 23-6930 |
Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-claim standing supreme-court |
Whether Supreme Court precedent demands review of this claim where the lower court did not grant the writ of certiorari? |
| 23A825 |
Larry Muldrow v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation |
Whether the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause protect a pro se litigant from alleged judicial misconduct and government harassment in a c… |
| 23-6873 |
Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty |
Did Congress pass the Organic act for Oklahoma on May 2,1890, to establish State laws, or did Congress pass Certain general laws of Arkansas on May 2 … |
| 23-937 |
Joshua James Duggar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
alternative-perpetrator complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion trial-court trial-court-discretion |
Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator based on a trial court's conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal def… |
| 23A788 |
Glen Mulready, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Presumed Complete |
erisa-preemption health-care-access insurance-law patient-rights pharmacy-benefit-managers state-regulation |
Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts state regulations of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that govern plan administra… |
| 23-893 |
Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to open a digital file flagged by a private company's algorithm as potentially illegal? |
| 23-6649 |
Larry David Davis v. Barry Sims, Judge, 7th Division, Pulaski County Circuit Court, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Dismissed |
4th-amendment adverse-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fingerprinting investigative-procedures law-enforcement legal-standing probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment by fingerprinting the petitioner without probable cause or a warrant |
| 23A590 |
Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
ineffective-assistance plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when multiple attorneys fail to adequately challenge plea a… |
| 23-6281 |
Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-6283 |
Stacy Anthony Mitchell v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
choice-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion |
Does a trial court's denial of an indigent criminal defendant's choice of privately retained counsel, who is ready, willing, and able to proceed to tr… |
| 23A554 |
Joshua James Duggar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Presumed Complete |
complete-defense constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process eighth-circuit federal-criminal |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a complete defense was improperly restricted during trial proceedings |
| 23-6095 |
Jerome McGoy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
civil-rights confidential-informant controlled-buy criminal-procedure drug-investigation due-process law-enforcement search-and-seizure undercover-operation |
Is Arkansas state authorized to use a confidential informant in an undercover operation to make controlled buys? |
| 23-6102 |
Rolandis Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-deprivation court-procedure due-process federal-rights federalism judicial-power standing state-government takings |
Can Constitutional depravations be justified by some remote administrative benefit to the State such as an Administrative Plan? |
| 23A446 |
Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2023-11-17 |
Presumed Complete |
digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether law enforcement's warrantless viewing of an unopened digital file reported by a private platform through an automated hash value match constit… |
| 23-6015 |
Kwame Ali Askia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
brady-rule constitutional-law continuing-offense exculpatory-evidence federal-rules federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-protocol statute-of-limitations |
Whether the court of appeals has discretion to correct an error only if there is 'an error' that is 'plain' and that 'affects substantial rights' |
| 23-5897 |
Cedric Mack v. J.M. Smuckers Co., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
civil-rights discovery-sanctions discrimination due-process employment-discrimination retaliation standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
Whether the United States District Court of Kansas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit misused FED. R. CIV. P. 56 (c)(1)(a) i… |
| 23-435 |
Minor Lee McNeil v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
5th-amendment apportionment bill-of-attainder constitutional-apportionment direct-tax direct-taxation due-process fifth-amendment legislative-powers property-rights |
Whether a State can lay a direct tax that is vested in Congress, or operates differently from the apportioned direct tax defined in the Constitution? |
| 23-5778 |
Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement self-incrimination standing takings voluntary-confession |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 23-5683 |
Mary Louise Smith, et al. v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
14th-amendment child-removal civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection race racial-discrimination state-immunity |
Did a conspiracy exist to deny due process and equal protection based on race? |
| 23-5655 |
Christopher T. Mallett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause |
| 23-5400 |
Nathan Leon Branham v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
compulsory-process curriculum-vitae defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
When can a defense expert be excluded for failure to timely file curriculum vitae? |
| 23-138 |
Jackie Williams Simpson, et al., Appellants v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State |
Arkansas |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 23-5212 |
DeAndra Stephenson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence notice-requirement standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's motion for rehearing en banc, which sought review of the district court's de… |
| 23-5070 |
Samuel Tobin McKaig v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-issue precedent prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police threatened him with prosecution for exercising his right to remain silent… |
| 23M6 |
Mary Louise Smith, et al. v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-7726 |
Gary Leon Webster v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated |
| 22-7685 |
Satish Kartan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
compelled-testimony-withdrawal court-precedent due-process forced-labor griffin-v-california prosecutor-comments right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court violated Kastan's right to testify and the subsequent prosecutor's comments, 'The defendants don't like answering questions… |
| 22-7591 |
In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. |
|
2023-05-18 |
Dismissed |
28-usc-1361 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas Judge violate Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4(c)(3), and 28 U.S.C. §1915(d)? |
| 22-7368 |
Parnell R. May v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
actual-innocence brady-violation due-process forensic-testimony new-scientific-evidence reasonable-doubt |
Whether the new scientific evidence of Parnell May's actual innocence of causing the death of Marvin Meeks is sufficient to establish that no reasonab… |
| 22-7305 |
Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or ver… |
| 22-7222 |
Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment |
Whether preclusion of cross-examination about an informant's propensity for bias violates the Confrontation Clause |
| 22-7124 |
Ricky Lee Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions life-imprisonment state-procedural-default trial-error waiver |
Whether petitioner's right to due process was violated |
| 22-7051 |
William Todd Lewallen v. Scott Crow |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process evidence jury-trial right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing sentencing-procedure state-evidence-law |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' rule that deems the accused's version of events irrelevant as a matter of law during sentencing procee… |
| 22-7028 |
John L. Dickerson, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jane Matlock, Deceased v. Emmanuel Noel Cruz Tancinco, et al. |
Arkansas |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-administration judicial-procedure medical-malpractice procedural-rights standing substantive-rights wrongful-death |
Whether the petitioner's substantive and procedural due process rights were violated when the Circuit Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed th… |
| 22-6951 |
Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers |
Whether cause exists to excuse procedural default when state officials made misleading statements that hindered counsel's compliance with state's proc… |
| 22-6892 |
In Re Willie Thomas |
|
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation right-to-testify trial-procedure |
whether the District Court Approach to 2254 petition asserting a loss of a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to testify in his own de… |
| 22A721 |
Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6619 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Donshue's motion for a new trial |
| 22A659 |
Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6607 |
Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of lack… |
| 22-6417 |
Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Dismissed |
civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Burgie's Rule 60(b) motion and appointment of counsel |
| 22A547 |
Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6177 |
Sanders McDaniel Carter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
aedpa brady-vs-maryland certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus rule-60 |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard |
| 22-379 |
Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip, as Trustee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
boycott boycott-speech civil-rights constitutional-law content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech government-contractors viewpoint-discrimination |
Is a state law requiring government contractors to certify that they are not participating in, and will not participate in, boycotts of Israel or Isra… |
| 22-5881 |
Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether Tirencie Oliver's sentence imposed is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitutio… |
| 22A194 |
Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip, as Trustee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5380 |
Wallace A. Gardner v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings |
Question not identified |
| 22-5304 |
Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Constitution requires a canvass on the right to testify |
| 22-5279 |
Abdulhakim Muhammad v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
civil-rights congressmen-letter due-process federal-jurisdiction foreign-terrorist-organization habeas-corpus national-defense-authorization-act new-evidence standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the petitioner's claims are exempt from the time bar of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)'s one-year statute of limitation, even though the evidence is e… |
| 22-5197 |
Leonard Noble v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 22-5174 |
Lester Waters, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process exclusionary-rule miranda-rights self-incrimination substance-influence voluntary-waiver |
Whether Lester Waters, Jr. could waive his rights 'knowingly and intelligently' while under the influence of alcohol |
| 22A63 |
Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5108 |
Zachery Keesee v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
arkansas-statute arkansas-supreme-court capital-murder conviction due-process first-impression nonjurisdictional-argument separation-of-powers |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court violated due process |
| 22-40 |
Isiah Dozier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
18-usc-1791 criminal-defendant criminal-defense evidentiary-standard knowledge-requirement prohibited-object rock-v-arkansas rock-v-armenia sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Can a Trial Court prohibit a criminal Defendant from calling a witness in his own defense, by weighing the probative value of the expected witness tes… |
| 21-8279 |
Randy William Gay v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are viola… |
| 21-8235 |
Joshua Dicks v. Natasha Davis |
Arkansas |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
attorney-diligence civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Arkansas Court's application of 'attorney diligence' waiver of right to appeal rules to pro se litigants in private termination of parenta… |
| 21-8185 |
Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiffs' claims for lack of standing |
| 21-8154 |
Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
bulk-data-collection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections surveillance-techniques unreasonable-searches-and-seizures |
Whether the FBI's use of bulk data collection and surveillance techniques violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches an… |
| 21-7998 |
Lamar Daniel Ron Wilson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
charging-instrument constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-information indictment ineffective-counsel plea-agreement |
Plea-agreement-as-sole-evidence-for-conviction |
| 21-1493 |
James Joseph Knochel v. Amy Fackrell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud-on-court habeas-corpus next-friend standing vexatious vexatious-litigant whitmore-standard |
Does Whitmore v. Arkansas require an evidentiary hearing before dismissing a next friend's petition for writ of habeas corpus? |
| 21A765 |
Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1455 |
Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC, dba Springdale Health and Rehabilitation Center, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
administrative-law arbitration-agreements chevron-deference disfavored-treatment federal-arbitration-act health-and-safety long-term-care-facilities medicaid-act medicare-act medicare-and-medicaid-acts |
Whether the FAA allows states and federal agencies to penalize the use of arbitration agreements |
| 21-7752 |
William Edward Gray v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether trial counsel's failure to properly preserve error for appellate review constituted ineffective assistance |
| 21-7689 |
Deverick Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-25 |
Dismissed |
civil-rights discovery due-process eighth-amendment failure-to-protect prisoner-rights retaliation screening-process section-1983 |
Did Defendants violate Scott's right to be protected from assault by another inmate? |
| 21-7684 |
Ernest DeWayne Jones v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
complete-defense constitutional-analysis constitutional-restriction criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense due-process expert-testimony right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to testify is violated when prevented from testifying to facts within his personal knowledge without expert testi… |
| 21-7553 |
Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the delayed issuance of an arrest warrant and probable cause affidavits |
| 21-7374 |
William A. Noguera v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-right counsel-representation cuyler-v-sullivan holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-representation |
Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with relevant decisions of this Court in concluding that Sullivan's standard applies only when a def… |
| 21-7288 |
Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force inmate-treatment prison prison-policy standing |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit created a harmful precedent that would establish that an officer/prison guard could give a citize… |
| 21-7213 |
Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief speedy-trial |
When does the direct appeal of a jury trial conviction of six (6) different criminal offenses and sentence become final? |
| 21A453 |
Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC, dba Springdale Health and Rehabilitation Center, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7066 |
Kevin Brewer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration |
Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has no… |
| 21-7039 |
Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application |
Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S.C.… |
| 21-1021 |
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty |
| 21-6832 |
Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Arkansas |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review |
whether-the-supreme-court-overruled-boykin-v-alabama |
| 21-6804 |
Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation cone-v-bell criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the October 7, 2021 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, finding that Timothy Kemp was not prejudiced under Brady v. Maryland, was in confl… |
| 21M62 |
Vernell Conley v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-862 |
Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
§2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction |
Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion… |
| 21A134 |
Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-6174 |
Antonio Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the Arkansas Code's application of Ark. Code Ann. § 16-49-101 et seq. deprive necessary parties of due process and equal protection under the Fou… |
| 21-6035 |
Anesha Dexter v. University of Central Arkansas, Music Department |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 21-5946 |
Corelanius Phillips v. Andrea Culclager, Warden |
Arkansas |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel separation-of-powers sixth-amendment structural-defect subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether criminal defendants denied Due Process of Law entitle them to remedy |
| 21-5911 |
Michael Herman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
complete-defense compulsory-process due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standards mens-rea right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
Can a defendant's right to present a complete defense be violated by the arbitrary and disproportionate application of a general evidentiary standard … |
| 21-5890 |
Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness |
Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the crime… |
| 21-5900 |
Justin Anderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence |
Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant is b… |
| 21-5838 |
Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
administrative-negligence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process failure-to-protect inmate-violence prison-safety prisoner-rights prisoner-vulnerability protective-custody standing |
Why did A.D.C. officials 'Wendy Kelly' and Byron Brown' fail to protect me from a stabbing? |
| 21-263 |
Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. |
Arkansas |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing |
Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time |
| 21-174 |
David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
amended-complaint civil-procedure constitutional-rights fraud fraud-on-court judicial-conflict mandamus pecuniary-interest recusal rule-15 rule-15a standing |
whether-writ-of-mandamus-should-have-been-granted |
| 21-5119 |
Billy Wolfe v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
cherokee-nation criminal-jurisdiction extradition extradition-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law state-criminal-law state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights |
Whether the provisions of treaties between the Cherokee Nation and the United States reserve jurisdiction for crimes committed by a Cherokee Nation ci… |
| 21-5067 |
Lonnie Ray Wiseman v. Patti Wachtendorf, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
circuit-court-procedure complex-legal-issues counsel-appointment custody-transfer federal-custody habeas-corpus legal-representation primary-jurisdiction writ-of-custody writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in refusing to order the government to produce a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum |
| 21-10 |
Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability |
Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving |
| 20-8451 |
J. P. v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process motion-for-directed-verdict preservation-of-error procedural-due-process state-criminal-procedure trial-preservation |
Does the State of Arkansas's strict interpretation and enforcement of a procedural rule which requires criminal defendants to identify the specific fl… |
| 20-8304 |
Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Question not identified |
| 20-8269 |
Kenneth Ray Marshall v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-review due-process-rights federal-habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the state court failed to apply the correct standard of 'reasonableness' under Strickland v. Washington |
| 20-1698 |
Philip Palade, et al. v. Board of Trustees University of Arkansas System, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
academic-freedom contract-rights declaratory-judgment due-process employment-contract property-rights retroactive-application standing standing-doctrine tenure-rights |
Whether the lower courts erred in holding that Petitioners lacked standing to seek declaratory relief concerning the retroactive application of newly-… |
| 20M100 |
David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-8124 |
Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause by excluding defendants in plea agreements from mandatory sentencing procedures? |
| 20-1626 |
Robert L. Schulz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-response historical-practice judicial-review petition-clause right-to-petition |
Whether the forerunners to this case were fully, fairly and completely litigated |
| 20-7787 |
Lee Charles Millsap v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
constitutional-error fair-opportunity federal-habeas federal-review full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus post-conviction-process post-conviction-review procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction state-court-ruling |
state-court-jurisdiction,federal-habeas,constitutional-error,post-conviction-process,full-and-fair-litigation,fair-opportunity |
| 20-7770 |
In Re Sakima Iban Salih El Bey |
|
2021-04-15 |
Dismissed |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act article-4-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process jurisdictional-authority law-enforcement-conduct privileges-and-immunities state-law-interpretation state-trust |
Does the Constitution of Arkansas make provision to deny a person that is exempt from a 'driver's license' in Arkansas who is in compliance with state… |
| 20-7759 |
Roderick Williams v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-relief |
Whether the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence results in a Brady violation warranting the grant of habeas relief? |
| 20-1434 |
Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas, et al. v. Little Rock Family Planning Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
GVR |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights disability down-syndrome due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-ethics prenatal-diagnosis selective-abortion state-prohibition |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars States from prohibiting abortions that are sought solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome |
| 20-7480 |
Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard |
Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte raise a habeas defense that a state abandons on appeal |
| 20-1226 |
Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development |
Whether a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely privileged even when the counseling is used to develop the accuse… |
| 20-7133 |
Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects |
Whether the Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause by allowing prosecution by information rat… |
| 20-7057 |
Romario Waller v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the Trial Judge violate Petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 20-7019 |
Kourtney Williams v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error |
Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n… |
| 20-993 |
Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer may extend a traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff |
| 20-6818 |
Roy Russell, Sr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
arkansas-constitution arkansas-supreme-court due-process elected-judge fundamental-fairness judicial-assignment |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice failed to comply with the Arkansas Constitution and Arkansas Supreme Court's Administrative Order No.… |
| 20-6764 |
James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, Circuit Court of Arkansas, St. Francis County, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
Question not identified |
| 20-6722 |
Eddie A. Poindexter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 20-6678 |
Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-surveillance privacy standing |
Whether the government's seizure and retention of an individual's personal information without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment's protections a… |
| 20-6456 |
Maurice Trammel v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case for lack of jurisdiction despite the petitioner's showing of entitlement … |
| 20-6355 |
Randall Thomas McArty v. Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
ada ada-violations civil-action civil-rights declaratory-relief ex-parte-young injunctive-relief sovereign-immunity state-court |
Does the opinion of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in a State Court Civil Action for violations of A.D.A. make an exception in opposition to this Court… |
| 20-683 |
Dirk Wilke, Interim State Health Officer of North Dakota, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
GVR |
civil-rights eighth-circuit employee-benefits erisa erisa-preemption health-care-law pharmacy-benefit-managers plan-administration preemption state-regulation |
Whether ERISA preempts state laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers |
| 20-686 |
Michael Shock v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions |
| 20-6310 |
Dean Phillip Carter v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254d1 attorney-client-conflict due-process fetal-alcohol-syndrome fundamental-rights habeas-corpus holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a trial court has a duty to inquire into a conflict between a defendant and his attorney that implicates fundamental rights |
| 20-6325 |
Krystal Megan Delima v. Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct motion-for-new-trial preponderance-of-evidence transcript-irregularities |
Whether a Motion for a New Trial, FRCP Rule 59, should had been granted? |
| 20-6202 |
Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
18-usc-3005 capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process error-coram-nobis statutory-interpretation |
Did 18 U.S.C.A. 3005 apply to Petitioner in 1994 when he was charged with Capital Murder and the Death Penalty was sought? |
| 20-6138 |
Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process in his criminal trial |
| 20-5923 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
constitutional-fairness death-penalty due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial hypnosis investigative-hypnosis law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation |
Is the Constitution's guarantee of a fundamentally fair trial compromised when a conviction hinges on an in-court eyewitness identification obtained a… |
| 20-5916 |
Veronica Delph v. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law due-process issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court |
Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter… |
| 20-5874 |
Jerry Lard v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver |
Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of persons w… |
| 20-5834 |
Jose Rufino Garcia-Chicol v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial foreign-national language-rights standing translation-services |
Whether the Second Amendment's protections of a 'well-regulated Militia' under the Framers, Constitution, and Statutes of the United States of America… |
| 20-5722 |
Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law |
Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created li… |
| 20-5595 |
Joshua Glen Box v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5517 |
Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions |
Whether due process requires that every statutory element of an aggravating circumstance be proven beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 20-222 |
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., et al. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Judgment Issued |
basic-v-levinson burden-of-proof materiality price-impact reliance securities-class-action |
Whether a defendant in a securities class action may rebut the presumption of classwide reliance |
| 20-198 |
Tamatrice Williams v. City of Sherwood, Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
arkansas-supreme-court civil-rights court-reorganization legal-jurisdiction municipal-courts municipal-liability rehearing section-1983 state-actor state-court state-law |
Should the opinion below be vacated, and this case remanded, for reconsideration in light of City of Little Rock v. Nelson? |
| 20-5326 |
Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-5220 |
Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness |
Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a 'lewd exhibition' of child nudity in a … |
| 20-48 |
Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies |
Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con… |
| 20-37 |
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-16 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-rights demonstration-projects health-care-coverage medicaid medicaid-demonstration-projects statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the Secretary may authorize demonstration projects to test requirements designed to promote the provision of health-care coverage by facilitat… |
| 20-38 |
Arkansas v. Charles Gresham, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-16 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-law agency-discretion experimental-projects health-benefits health-policy medicaid medicaid-expansion secretary-of-health-and-human-services social-welfare statutory-interpretation work-requirements |
Whether the Secretary's approval of the Arkansas Works Amendment was lawful |
| 20-5089 |
William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas |
Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat… |
| 19-8930 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prison-conditions qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review the discretion of the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals in dismissing the petitioner's cl… |
| 19-8831 |
Eric Reid v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
capital-case capital-cases constitutional-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process jury-selection morgan-v-illinois voir-dire |
Whether the Arkansas' voir dire framework in capital cases conflicts with this Court's ruling in Morgan v. Illinois |