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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-955 | Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Colorado | 2026-02-11 | Pending | constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar | Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise meritorious claims and syste… |
| 25-6778 | Jasim Mohammed Hassi Ramadon v. Colorado | Colorado | 2026-02-11 | Pending | constitutional-rights counsel-coercion defendant-testimony effective-assistance structural-error trial-procedure | When a defendant is prevented from testifying due to counsels' coercive actions, does structural error occur? Was Mr. Ramadon's constitutional right t… |
| 25-6769 | In Re David J. Gottorff | 2026-02-10 | Pending | collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment | Whether the arrest and prosecution of the Petitioner violated First Amendment rights and constitutional protections against Double Jeopardy, Collatera… | |
| 25-6755 | Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-law coroner-authority death-investigation district-attorney prosecutorial-discretion sub-delegation | Whether a district attorney may charge a person for causing a death that the coroner declines to find was a homicide, and whether this violates the su… |
| 25A871 | Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. David Schroeder, Judge | Ohio | 2026-02-03 | Application | double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-factfinding sixth-amendment suspension-clause | Whether a state court can maintain jurisdiction and continue proceedings against a defendant after a federal habeas writ has unconditionally vacated t… |
| 25-891 | Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado | Colorado | 2026-01-29 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-870 | In Re Delmart Vreeland | 2026-01-21 | Pending | constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari | Whether this Court's power to issue a writ of habeas corpus should be exercised when a state prisoner is confined by a court without jurisdiction and … | |
| 25-6611 | James E. Frantz v. Andre Stancil, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | actual-innocence aedpa-limitations constitutional-error habeas-corpus judicial-discretion substantive-claim | Whether the District Court erred by failing to recognize substantive actual innocence claims under habeas corpus and exercise its equitable authority … |
| 25-6588 | Derek Skellchock v. Laurie K. Dean, Judge, 8th Judicial District Court, Larimer County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits | Whether state judges are bound by federal law under the Supremacy Clause and can be sued for damages when exceeding jurisdictional limits |
| 25A812 | Jesus Herrera-Salazar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Application | court-appointed-counsel criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-appeal tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly applied federal criminal procedural standards in affirming the underlying criminal judgment against the defendant |
| 25-6534 | Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado | Colorado | 2026-01-09 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A790 | United States v. Cotter Corp., N.S.L. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Application | government-indemnification nuclear-liability price-anderson-act radioactive-materials third-party-beneficiary tucker-act | Whether a third-party entity that acquires radioactive materials after the original government contract can claim indemnification under the Price-Ande… |
| 25A751 | Jessica Sweeney, et al. v. University of Colorado Hospital Authority, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Application | None | Question not identified. |
| 25-758 | Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | cercla cost-recovery environmental-law national-contingency-plan private-party-cleanup substantial-compliance | Whether a private party whose cleanup is reviewed and approved by a State enjoys a presumption of substantial compliance with the National Contingency… |
| 25-6429 | Georgiy Chipunov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure facial-challenge first-amendment ninth-circuit true-threats | Must a criminal defendant bring a facial challenge to a statute under the First Amendment's true-threat doctrine? |
| 25-740 | Susan I. Heath, Proposed Representative of the Estate of Henry A. Hurst, III, Deceased v. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine negligence public-health research-liability strict-liability | Whether a federal court may determine negligence and strict liability claims in a diversity action involving novel claims of abnormally dangerous rese… |
| 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 | Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law |
| 25-702 | CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Pending | civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit | Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis… |
| 25A694 | Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-12-15 | Application | apprendi-line criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habitual-offender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause applies to habitual offender sentencing proceedings in light of the Court's evolving Sixth Amendment jurisprudence … |
| 25A641 | Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-12-02 | Application | colorado-supreme-court criminal-conviction due-process supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's affirmance of a criminal conviction violates the defendant's constitutional rights to due process or a fair trial |
| 25A612 | Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. | Texas | 2025-11-24 | Application | internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act | Whether the Wiretap Act preempts state procedural laws and jurisdictional doctrines under the Supremacy Clause when a privacy invasion claim involves … |
| 25-581 | St. Mary Catholic Parish, Littleton, Colorado, et al. v. Lisa Roy, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Pending | constitutional-law discretion employment-division-v-smith general-applicability religious-freedom secular-conduct | Whether proving a lack of general applicability under Employment Division v. Smith requires showing unfettered discretion or categorical exemptions fo… |
| 25A573 | Shane Stevens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-11-14 | Application | certiorari docket-fee extension-of-time pro-se rule-33.1 supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court will grant a procedural extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under Rule 33.1 |
| 25-557 | Donald T. Trinen v. Supreme Court of Colorado | Colorado | 2025-11-06 | Denied | cle-compliance due-process equal-protection judicial-review lawyer-discipline suspension-order | Does the Equal Protection Clause give an alleged cle-derelict lawyer the same right of judicial review for proposed suspension discipline that state l… |
| 25A517 | Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | certiorari criminal-sentence federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit time-extension | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review due to counsel's professional scheduling constraints |
| 25A520 | Ethan West-Helmle v. Denver District Attorney's Office, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | ada-violation disability-discrimination medical-impairment professional-externship reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act protect law students with medical impairments from discriminatory treatment during … |
| 25A505 | Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | cercla cost-recovery environmental-cleanup national-contingency-plan state-regulators substantial-compliance | Whether a state's approval of a private environmental cleanup action is sufficient to establish substantial compliance with the National Contingency P… |
| 25A503 | William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias | Colorado | 2025-11-03 | Application | due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure | Whether a state court judge's secret, unilateral appointment of a successor judge without public record or independent oversight violates the Due Proc… |
| 25A496 | Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-10-30 | Application | cause-of-death executive-branch forensic-pathology legislative-branch separation-of-powers subdelegation | Whether the separation of powers doctrine precludes a county coroner from delegating or allowing testimony about the cause and manner of an unattended… |
| 25-486 | David Perez v. City and County of Denver, Colorado | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | administrative-remedies due-diligence eeoc-complaint fraud-of-court pro-se-litigation title-vii | Does a Pro Se Title VII Plaintiff show 'Due Diligence' when administrative remedies are mishandled by the EEOC, and should courts consider arguments i… |
| 25-442 | Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Pending | constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights | Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny or a deferential standard of review |
| 25A415 | Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether federal criminal statutes governing sexual abuse in Indian Country are unconstitutionally vague or overbroad in their application to specific … |
| 25-5797 | Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-10-03 | Denied | criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing | Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP sentence for felony murder under Senate Bill 21-124 is in the interest of justice despite non-retroactive amen… |
| 25-5714 | Abass Yaya Bamba v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion | Whether a federal court may constitutionally dismiss a civil rights complaint solely for inability to pay filing fees, in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 191… |
| 25-339 | Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 | Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing without explanat… |
| 25A325 | Delmart Edward Vreeland v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari-petition due-process extraordinary-circumstances illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect | Whether a state court's untimely and potentially jurisdictionally defective modification of a previously acknowledged illegal sentence violates a crim… |
| 25-5589 | Shane Stevens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-09-10 | Denied | due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default | Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by a sentence later declared void ab initio violates the Due Process … |
| 25-245 | Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law | When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t… |
| 25A194 | EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. | Missouri | 2025-08-19 | Presumed Complete | bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction | Whether a state court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants for a nationwide class action involving claims by predominantly … |
| 25A127 | Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit | Whether a law enforcement agency's policies and practices can constitute deliberate indifference in a civil rights claim alleging inadequate mental he… |
| 25A85 | Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-sentence extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Mr. Garcia's sentence warrants Supreme Court review under 28 U.S.C. § 1254(1) |
| 25-27 | Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. | Colorado | 2025-07-09 | Denied | antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 | Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendants failed to respond, violating due process … |
| 25A2 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-1254 criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Maurice Farris's sentence was legally sound and consistent with applicable federal criminal law standards |
| 24A1268 | Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction | Whether a state court's denial of a post-conviction petition raising claims of newly discovered evidence related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (F… |
| 24-1267 | Adam Douglas Densmore v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-06-12 | Denied | child-protection custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination | Is custodial interrogation by a child-protection caseworker subject to Miranda's requirements where the interrogation concerns matters that may trigge… |
| 24-7374 | Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-06-06 | Denied | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment particularity-clause search-and-seizure stare-decisis warrantless-search | Whether considerations of stare decisis impact the constitutional protections against warrantless searches under the Fourth Amendment's Particularity … |
| 24-1228 | Christopher Everett Stone v. Iryna Hermanova Stone nka Iryna Hermanova Mokhoshchokova | Colorado | 2025-06-03 | Denied | constitutional-amendments divorce-decree involuntary-servitude judicial-jurisdiction marriage-dissolution property-rights | Do the First, Fifth, Thirteenth, or Fourteenth Amendments bar a state from failing to issue, unilaterally revoking, or deferring reissue of a divorce … |
| 24-1220 | Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would be '… |
| 24-7305 | Francis F. Joseph v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | complete-defense corporate-practice-of-medicine financial-transactions medical-regulation sixth-amendment state-compliance | Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to present a complete defense is violated when a federal court excludes evidence that a physician… |
| 24-7239 | Ian R. Diaz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | circuit-split first-amendment obstruction-offense stalking-statute statutory-construction true-threats | Whether an intent to 'harass' or 'intimidate' under the federal stalking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, has an 'ordinary' broad meaning or is limited to … |
| 24-7195 | Jacob Bellinsky v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-05-13 | Denied | constitutional-liberties due-process habeas-corpus parent-child-relationships rule-60b void-judgments | Whether courts must independently scrutinize claims of void civil protection orders due to fraud and religious discrimination under Loper Bright Enter… |
| 24-7196 | Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan | Colorado | 2025-05-13 | Denied | constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus rule-60b suspension-clause void-judgments | Whether the Suspension Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2248, and Rule 8(d) require courts to accept habeas allegations when respondents fail to traverse or deny, … |
| 24-7167 | Derek Rogers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a conviction under Colorado Revised Statute for a controlled substance offense can serve as a predicate for career offender designation under … |
| 24-1128 | Angelique Layton v. RBL Financial LLC, et al. | Colorado | 2025-05-02 | Denied | constitutional-rights contempt due-process governmental-immunity personal-jurisdiction rule-interpretation | Does Colorado's current expansive interpretation of C.R.C.P. Rule 107 violate constitutional rights of non-parties by interpreting the Rule to apply t… |
| 24A980 | Adam Douglas Densmore, et al. v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-04-15 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-6891 | Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-03-31 | Denied | custodial-interrogation due-process involuntary-confession mental-health-crisis right-to-counsel self-incrimination | Whether a statement to a corrections officer made by an individual who has just attempted suicide while in custody is 'voluntary' when the prison has … |
| 24-6866 | Adrian Lee Guzman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-03-26 | Denied | case-statement constitutional-provisions jurisdiction statutory-provisions supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. |
| 24-1015 | John Doe, et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Pending | civil-rights-act employment-discrimination religious-accommodation state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-vii | Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation for religious beliefs may serve … |
| 24-986 | Mendocino Railway, a California Corporation v. Kate Huckelbridge, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-14 | Denied | abstention-doctrine circuit-conflict federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion preemption-claims state-court-action | Whether the Court should abrogate or clarify the Colorado River abstention doctrine |
| 24-6748 | Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-03-11 | Denied | consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires consideration of aggregate, consecutive sentences amounting t… |
| 24-941 | Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-03-03 | Denied | diminished-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing penological-goals | Whether a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder, imposed on a defendant who did not kill or inte… |
| 24-921 | Kenneth Sorak v. Theresa Cisneros, former Judge, Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | 11th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-12b1-dismissal | Did the 10th Circuit err in its application of the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine and 11th Amendment when state agents acting under color of law allegedly vi… |
| 24-6585 | Patrick Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment mens-rea statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent | Whether the child pornography offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove a reckless mens rea as to the minor's age under First… |
| 24-842 | Adam Cole Shryock v. Colorado, ex rel. Philip J. Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado | Colorado | 2025-02-07 | Denied | contempt-proceedings due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance prior-restraint sentencing-consequences | Whether the permanent injunction issued against Petitioner violated his First Amendment rights by constituting an unconstitutional prior restraint on … |
| 24-799 | Hanh Ho Tran v. Parkway Condominiums I Homeowners Association, Inc. | Colorado | 2025-01-27 | Denied | assessment-collection civil-procedure due-process equal-protection foreclosure homeowners-association | Whether Parkway Condominiums I Homeowners Association violated Colorado law through improper foreclosure, legal document filing, and assessment collec… |
| 24-6374 | James Clifford Goodwin, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion congressional-intent constitutional-challenge ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance restitution | Whether it is an abuse of discretion to impose a judgment that does not adhere to congressional mandates or statutes when the defendant committed an o… |
| 24-778 | Billie Smith, et al. v. Tara Medina, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Denied | constitutional-conditions judicial-review permit-requirements property-rights state-sovereignty tenth-amendment | Whether federal judges violate the Tenth Amendment by obliterating Colorado law without finding it unconstitutional |
| 24-774 | Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-01-22 | Denied | for-cause-challenge fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion | Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it erroneously denies a for-cause challenge to a racially bias… |
| 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… |
| 24A679 | Adam Cole Shryock v. Colorado, ex rel. Phillip J. Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado | Colorado | 2025-01-13 | Presumed Complete | business-activity corporate-division due-process jurisdiction notice-requirements statute-of-limitations | Whether the state's failure to bring an action within the applicable statute of limitations violated due process and deprived the trial court of juris… |
| 24-6200 | Carlos Guadalupe Sanchez-Felix v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Must a court considering the reenactment of a provision that was originally adopted for a racially discriminatory purpose give meaningful consideratio… |
| 24M54 | Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-12-23 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24A595 | Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-12-17 | Presumed Complete | criminal-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole proportionality youth-sentencing | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a mandatory life sentence without parole for a felony murder defendant who did not kill or intend to kill and w… |
| 24-621 | National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-06 | Granted | campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure | Whether the limits on coordinated party expenditures in 52 U.S.C. § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spe… |
| 24-6027 | In Re Pierre Haobsh | 2024-11-25 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure | Whether the State of California violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner through unconstitutional search and seizure prac… | |
| 24A490 | Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-11-15 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias | Whether the denial of a defendant's challenge for cause to a prospective juror who openly expresses racial bias against the defendant constitutes stru… |
| 24-539 | Kaley Chiles v. Patty Salazar, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Granted | content-based-regulation counseling-restriction first-amendment free-speech gender-identity viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates … |
| 24-498 | Monaghan Farms, Inc. v. City and County of Denver, Colorado | Colorado | 2024-11-01 | Denied | constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain kelo-doctrine property-rights public-use | Whether the conversion of land originally condemned for airport purposes to private commercial use violates the constitutional public use requirement … |
| 24-436 | Robert James Rainey v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-10-18 | Denied | appointed-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees an indigent defendant the right to continued representation by appointed counsel equivalent to an affluent defe… |
| 24-372 | William Robert Taft v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-10-02 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause protective-sweep unreasonable-search warrant-requirement | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals reversibly erred by expanding the protective sweep exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement beyond … |
| 24-5460 | Troy L. Fields v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-09-05 | GVR | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-criminal prior-convictions sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when he was subjected to an increased maximum sentence based on the trial court's … |
| 24-5444 | Delano Medina v. Jennifer Murphy, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Dismissed | detention-challenge habeas-corpus judicial-remedy parole-eligibility section-1983 sentence-miscalculation | Whether a prisoner challenging parole eligibility procedures and sentence miscalculation must pursue relief through habeas corpus or 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 24-237 | Gabriel N. Schwartz v. Beauvallon Condominium Association, Inc. | Colorado | 2024-09-03 | Denied | attorney-fees fair-housing-act homeowners-association mask-mandate medical-privacy reasonable-accommodation | Whether an HOA may require intrusive medical record disclosure as a condition for a reasonable accommodation exemption from a mask mandate under the F… |
| 24-226 | Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | article-iii-standing constitutional-rights declaratory-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-analysis mootness | Whether plaintiffs seeking only declaratory relief lack Article III standing when alleging past constitutional injuries without ongoing or imminent de… |
| 24-216 | Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | ballot-measures first-amendment government-speech legislative-interference petition-rights tax-reduction | Does the government-speech doctrine immunize state efforts to compel false and pejorative language on ballot initiative petitions that undermine tax r… |
| 24A194 | Hector Acosta v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias | Whether racial bias in the jury selection process violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection in a capital murder case |
| 24-186 | Pamela Antosh, et al. v. Village of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-21 | Denied | colorado-river-doctrine constitutional-rights eminent-domain fifth-amendment judicial-abstention public-use-claim | Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's application of the Colorado River doctrine when the Village of Mount Pleasant use… |
| 24-5290 | Kevin Duane Stunes v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-08-09 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance postconviction-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication | When a state regulates a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, does due process require that a defendant be allowed the opportunity to dev… |
| 24-123 | Chunyi Xu, aka David Xu v. Denver Public Schools, School District No. 1 | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination judicial-bias procedural-irregularity racism retaliation workplace-harassment workplace-retaliation | Question not identified |
| 24-5173 | Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-07-30 | Denied | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination | Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an 'unpleasant experience' with police (namely, 'drivi… |
| 24A84 | Troy L. Fields v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-07-26 | Presumed Complete | criminal-episodes habitual-offender jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine whether a defendant's prior convictions arose from separate criminal ep… |
| 24-77 | GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine |
| 24A64 | Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Presumed Complete | covid-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise public-health religious-liberty state-action | Whether COVID-19 public health restrictions imposed by state officials violated the Free Exercise Clause by imposing more stringent limitations on rel… |
| 24-57 | Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-debate public-forum supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado |
| 24A63 | Robert James Rainey v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-07-18 | Presumed Complete | certiorari companion-case federal-jurisdiction state-court-judgment supreme-court-review time-extension | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's decision in a companion criminal case raises a substantial federal constitutional question warranting Supreme Cou… |
| 24-5081 | Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2024-07-15 | Denied | access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation | Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation parti… |
| 24A6 | Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Presumed Complete | ballot-initiative compelled-speech false-speech first-amendment government-speech petition-process | Whether a state law compelling citizens to include government-mandated language on ballot initiative petitions violates the First Amendment by compell… |
| 23A1126 | Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-06-20 | Presumed Complete | counsel-obligations legal-filing petition-for-certiorari professional-responsibilities supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari due to counsel's professional and personal responsibilit… |
| 23-1292 | Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. | Colorado | 2024-06-11 | Denied | administrative-procedure-act antitrust charter-school-regulation constitutional-review domestic-terrorism due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure injunctive-relief school-district-authority whistle-blower | civil-rights |
| 23-7631 | Julie C. Abril v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-06-04 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act colorado constitutional-protections crime-victim-act crime-victims crime-victims-rights due-process justice-system mental-health mental-health-justice-system public-law-98-473 victim-accommodations | Do crime victims have the right to full participation in the confidential mental health justice system proceedings within the State of Colorado, as th… |
| 23-1232 | Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory app… |
| 23-7503 | Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-17 | Denied | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7467 | Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment | Question not identified |
| 23-7473 | Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard | Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of 'subjective intent to threaten,' as articu… |
| 23-7457 | E. R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S. M. and E. M., Children | Colorado | 2024-05-13 | Denied | constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection judicial-bias parent-child-rights racial-bias racial-prejudice standard-of-review termination-of-parental-rights | Whether this Court's precedents on judicial racial bias bind the Colorado Supreme Court |
| 23A1007 | Judy Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. | Colorado | 2024-05-13 | Presumed Complete | antitrust-violations charter-schools civil-rights employment-discrimination school-district state-board | Whether state education authorities can constitutionally deny charter school applications through allegedly discriminatory and anti-competitive practi… |
| 23-1189 | Jeryl Turco v. City of Englewood, New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | abortion-clinic buffer-zones civil-rights content-neutrality due-process first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado public-forum sidewalk-counseling speech-suppression standing | Whether the City of Englewood's speech-free buffer zones, including zones outside an abortion clinic, violate the First Amendment |
| 23-7341 | Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-04-30 | Denied | appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error |
| 23-7271 | Arthur Lomax v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-04-19 | Denied | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment preliminary-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a state's 'Bill of Rights' requiring felony prosecution only by indictment is consistent with the state's 'uniformity of laws clause' and the … |
| 23M91 | E.R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S.M. and E.M., Children | Colorado | 2024-04-17 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 23-1096 | William Allen Davis v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-04-09 | Denied | affluent-defendants appointed-counsel constitutional-rights continuity-of-representation criminal-procedure indigent-defendant indigent-defendants lower-court-split right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether indigent defendants have the same Sixth Amendment right to continuity of counsel as affluent defendants |
| 23-1092 | Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-04-08 | Denied | civil-rights counsel counsel-representation direct-appeal due-process hobsons-choice nunc-pro-tunc post-conviction post-conviction-relief unitary-review | Does Pennsylvania's allowance of unitary review require a grant of relief nunc-pro-tunc to individuals whose counsel wrongly imposed a Hobson's-choice |
| 23A893 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-extension criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment supreme-court-review | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutionally overbroad or violates a defendant's Second Amendment rights in its prohibition of firearm possessi… |
| 23-7015 | Colby Jerome Hale-El v. Gene R. Claps, Sheriff, Adams County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | 14th-amendment ballot-disqualification candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus notice-of-removal standing | Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted, and whether he was properly denied notice and an opportunity to prove … |
| 23-6996 | Brian Anderson v. Jeff Long, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Denied | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation court-order due-process inmate-rights prison-warden qualified-immunity standing state-prisons | If a State Prison Warden refuses to obey a Court Order & refuses to obey the Governor & refuses to obey the Executive Director Of Colorado Prisons, do… |
| 23A837 | Centura Health Corporation, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Barbara Morris, M.D. | Colorado | 2024-03-12 | Presumed Complete | church-autonomy declaratory-judgment employment-termination first-amendment pretext religious-organization | Whether the church-autonomy doctrine precludes a jury from determining whether a religious employer's stated reason for terminating an employee is pre… |
| 23A830 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-statute supreme-court-review tenth-circuit | Whether a conviction for felon in possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is constitutionally valid or requires further judicial review |
| 23-975 | Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-03-06 | Judgment Issued | administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority | Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which … |
| 23-6847 | Tyrone Anthony Bell v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech grievance-process prisoner-rights sixth-circuit-interpretation standing threat true-threat | Whether the state of mind of the author should be considered when the receiver understood the threat or intimidation to be true |
| 23-6840 | Suzanne Ellen Kaye v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | constitutional-law counterman-v-colorado first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions political-speech true-threats watts-v-united-states | In threat prosecutions where the defendant mounts a political-speech defense, may trial courts—consistent with the First Amendment—instruct the jury o… |
| 23-6833 | Jason Matthew Karr v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-02-26 | Denied | appointment-of-counsel clearly-established-federal-law colorado-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-law-application ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | whether-the-colorado-supreme-court-held-the-petitioner-to-a-higher-standard-for-pleading-ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 23-914 | Diane Zilka v. City of Philadelphia, Tax Review Board | Pennsylvania | 2024-02-23 | Denied | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation interstate-taxation out-of-state-tax state-tax tax-burden tax-credit tax-scheme taxpayer-burden | Whether the Commerce Clause requires states to consider a taxpayer's burden in light of the state tax scheme as a whole when crediting a taxpayer's ou… |
| 23-6772 | Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. District Court | Colorado | 2024-02-16 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights confidentiality defendant-rights discovery due-process federal-litigation jurisdiction service-of-process standing | Did the Supreme Court err when it failed to issue a writ of prohibition to preclude the District Court of El Paso County, Colorado from compelling the… |
| 23-882 | David Emick v. Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2024-02-16 | Denied | civil-rights conservation-easement constructive-trust due-process takings tax-credits | Did the Colorado Supreme Court err declining to review and rectify the decisions of the lower courts that ignored the very important equitable princip… |
| 23A750 | E.R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S.M. and E.M., Children | Colorado | 2024-02-15 | Presumed Complete | dependency-and-neglect domestic-violence mental-health parental-rights substance-abuse termination | Whether a state court can terminate parental rights based on historical substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health concerns without providi… |
| 23-6731 | Carina M. Gonzalez v. Englewood Lock and Safe, Inc. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | civil-rights employment-discrimination family-owned-business hostile-work-environment judicial-bias pay-equity procedural-technicalities retaliation sworn-testimony | Defendant's-admission-of-guilt-overridden |
| 23-6666 | Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-02-05 | Denied | 6th-amendment civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure procedural-fairness speedy-trial standing | Did the Col. Jyp. Cr err in holding my right to a speedy trial has been violated? |
| 23-831 | Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-02-02 | Denied | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense that … |
| 23-754 | Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment | Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully? |
| 23-6435 | Norman Williams v. Colorado Department of Corrections Time Computation Department, et al. | Colorado | 2024-01-08 | Denied | colorado-dept-of-corrections conviction-classification criminal-procedure due-process non-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement time-computation violent-crime | Does § 17-22.5-403 C.R.S. violate due-process, sentence-enhancement, time-computation, non-categorical-approach, colorado-dept-of-corrections, prior-c… |
| 23-719 | Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. | Colorado | 2024-01-04 | Judgment Issued | 14th-amendment ballot-access constitutional-interpretation disqualification election-law insurrection insurrection-clause oath-of-office presidential-election presidential-eligibility state-election-law | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot |
| 23-696 | Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. | Colorado | 2023-12-28 | Dismissed | 14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority | Whether the President falls within the list of officials subject to the disqualification provision of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 23A596 | Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights disciplinary-action first-amendment freedom-of-religion professional-license religious-speech | Whether a state disciplinary board can constitutionally sanction an attorney for religious speech and biblical references in legal filings without vio… |
| 23A571 | Craig Alan Morrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-sentencing federal-appeal federal-public-defender supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review under standards for certiorari |
| 23-6229 | Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Denied | 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water | Did CDOC violate Cary's due-process, equal-protection, 8th-amendment, toxic-water, medical-care, legal-materials |
| 23-618 | Delano Marco Medina v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-12-08 | Denied | burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standard | whether-it-is-consistent-with-due-process-to-convict-a-criminal-defendant-without-finding-the-defendant-is-guilty |
| 23-6191 | In Re Colby Jerome Hale | 2023-12-07 | Denied | civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation | What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an appeal from the U.S. District Court | |
| 23-596 | Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-59 rule-59-motion spoliation-of-evidence | Whether the Lower Courts violated Supreme Court precedents governing pro se pleading |
| 23-6154 | Jennifer Lynn Dees v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-12-04 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering sixth-amendment trial-integrity | Whether a trial's verdict validity is impacted by a judge's jury tampering |
| 23A447 | Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-11-17 | Presumed Complete | apprendi-rule elements-of-offense jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that a prior misdemeanor conviction can be used to elevate a subsequent … |
| 23-519 | Stephanie Lynn Soondar v. Supreme Court of Colorado | Colorado | 2023-11-16 | Denied | attorney-admission attorney-regulation colorado-supreme-court constitutional-jurisdiction due-process exclusive-jurisdiction federal-constitution federal-precedent state-court-authority supreme-court-rules | Is the Colorado Supreme Court's attorney admission rules constitutional? |
| 23-6010 | James Woo v. Jose Angel Baez, et al. | Colorado | 2023-11-14 | Denied | certificate-of-review civil-rights colorado-statute constitutional-challenge due-process expert-review expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff negligence-claims professional-conduct standing | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in holding that the certificate of review requirement pursuant to Colorado's Revised Statute (C.R.S.) § 13… |
| 23-5902 | Kaleb J. Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech retaliation speech-protection worldview-perception worldviews | Whether the First Amendment, Post Counterman v. Colorado permits a criminal conviction for retaliatory speech which is inherently threatening not on t… |
| 23-5904 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-10-27 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated… |
| 23A365 | United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D.K., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | administrative-record benefits-denial erisa medical-providers substantial-evidence tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly imposed a heightened explanation requirement on ERISA plan administrators when denying health benefits claims, co… |
| 23A363 | Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-extension tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review based on counsel's workload and need for additional prepar… |
| 23A359 | Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker | Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Walker improperly interpreted or applied a federal criminal law or constitutional standard |
| 23-389 | Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech monell monell-liability rule-30b6-testimony speech-restriction standing viewpoint-based viewpoint-discrimination | whether-the-test-for-content-neutrality-should-be-overruled |
| 23-5731 | Rebekah Panzlau v. Adams County Housing Authority, dba Maiker Housing Partners | Colorado | 2023-10-06 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-trial relocation-act seventh-amendment uniform-relocation-act | Did Ms. Panzlau receive a fair and unbiased trial free from even the appearance of Impropriety in her case? |
| 23A293 | Richard Plishka v. William Skurla, et al. | Ohio | 2023-10-04 | Presumed Complete | ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment religious-organizations secular-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction watson-v-jones | Whether the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention under the First Amendment operates to deprive secular courts of subject-matter jurisdiction over dis… |
| 23A269 | Nathan Russell Cates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23-308 | Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights | Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States is permissible |
| 23-5645 | Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) requires proof of intent to make a reasonably believable threat |
| 23-229 | Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation final-policymaking-authority first-amendment monell-liability public-school-district public-school-speech section-1983 true-threat | Does Monell liability exist for a public school district when an official with final policymaking authority relied on a policy to cause a constitution… |
| 23A189 | Aaron Lee Porter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23-5417 | Ari Misha Liggett v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-08-23 | Denied | constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harris-v-new-york impeachment-exception insanity-defense james-v-illinois supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's expansion of the impeachment exception to the exclusionary rule is consistent with this Court's prior rulings |
| 23A162 | Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-08-22 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23-152 | Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-08-16 | 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 | Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… |
| 23-92 | James Edwin Hoganson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-08-01 | Denied | aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the existence of 'extraordinary aggravating circumstances' to be submitted to the jury and found beyond a reasona… |
| 23A86 | Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23-74 | Debra A. Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, New York | Second Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | abortion abortion-clinic-protests constitutional-law content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech precedent public-forum stare-decisis | Whether the Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado |
| 22-1242 | Jon McClelland v. Dr. Jack Chapman, M.D. | Colorado | 2023-06-27 | Denied | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract due-process judicial-immunity property property-interest state-law | Is a Complaint a cognizable 'three-party' Contract |
| 22-1204 | William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell | Colorado | 2023-06-13 | Denied | child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights | Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud… |
| 22-7778 | Kenneth Ueding v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-remedy speedy-trial state-convictions | Did Mr. Ueding hold the right to challenge his state convictions in a habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254? |
| 22-7666 | Bayardo R. Sandy v. The Baca Grande Property Owners Association | Colorado | 2023-05-30 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cover-up due-process equal-protection legal-jurisdiction petitioner-rights state-misconduct | Did Colorado violate Petitioner Bayardo Sandy's Civil Rights? |
| 22-1142 | Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia | Georgia | 2023-05-24 | Denied | brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct | Did the trial court err in holding the Prosecution did not have possession of the 'it was placed' note ultimately produced by the FBI? |
| 22-1143 | Renee Sweet v. Douglas County Board of Commissioners | Colorado | 2023-05-24 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-rights colorado-revised-statutes constitutional-rights courtroom-security douglas-county-colorado-zoning-resolutions due-process property-rights property-taking zoning zoning-resolution | Is a zoning resolution a policy or the equivalent of a zoning ordinance? |
| 22-7612 | Bayardo R. Sandy v. The Baca Grande Property Owners Association | Colorado | 2023-05-22 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-violation cover-up due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-remedy standing state-misconduct | Did Colorado violate Petitioner Bayardo Sandy's Civil Rights? |
| 22-1116 | Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | civil-procedure federal-agency federal-government native-american-tribes sovereign-immunity state-adjudication water-rights | Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an action challenging a federal agency's use of water subject to state-adjudicated wa… |
| 22-1106 | Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Colorado State Board of Education, et al. | Colorado | 2023-05-12 | Denied | administrative-procedure-act charter-school-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review obstruction-of-justice retaliation school-safety state-board-decision | whether-the-last-sentence-of-section-colorado-revised-statutes-applies-to-all-state-board-decisions |
| 22-1087 | Douglas Bruce v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review procedural-due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine preclude the District Court from recognizing subject matter jurisdiction over the claims filed by Mr. Bruce in federa… |
| 22-1091 | David Zook v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena civil-procedure due-process epa federal-agency official-curiosity reasonable-suspicion rule-6a | Must the issuance and/or enforcement of an administrative subpoena (EPA) to a private individual be supported by something beyond 'official curiosity'… |
| 22-7302 | Derek Skellchock v. Alora-Ann Volz | Colorado | 2023-04-17 | Denied | collateral-estoppel disability-compensation federal-preemption judicial-review res-judicata state-court-jurisdiction state-domestic-relations supremacy-clause veterans-benefits | Where a state court can contradict a federal agency's final and conclusive decision on veterans' disability benefits |
| 22-7282 | David William Linder v. Brian Lammer, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-statute federal-cases jury-instructions mens-rea standing supreme-court-rule-14.1(b) | Can the drug death statute, 21 § 841(b)(1)(c) be enlarged to include analogue drugs? |
| 22-967 | David Banks v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-06 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sealing sealing-order | Did the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violate the Petitioner's rights under the First Amendment when it sealed almost the entire transcript a… |
| 22A871 | Regina T. Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, Judge, District Court of Colorado, Denver County, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-7198 | Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-04 | Denied | civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness | Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly, 42-usc-1983 |
| 22-7165 | James Woo v. El Paso County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Colorado | 2023-03-31 | Denied | civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process governmental-immunity procedural-safeguards property-rights replevin takings | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in holding that the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act does not violate the petitioner's constitutional right… |
| 22-7110 | Derek Windell Cole v. Marcie R. McMinimee, as Trustee of the Derek Windell Cole Trust | Colorado | 2023-03-27 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process equitable-interest legal-standing marital-property probate standing testamentary-trust trust-beneficiary | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals committed reversible error by applying division-of-marital-property law to a testamentary-trust case |
| 22-895 | Murphy Creek, LLC, et al. v. Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 | Colorado | 2023-03-16 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 attorneys-fees civil-rights common-nucleus common-nucleus-of-operative-fact judicial-relief prevailing-party section-1983 substantial-claim substantiality | Whether the Colorado Courts erred in holding that the Petitioners were not 'prevailing parties' on their 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 claim |
| 22A807 | Gary Sanders, Jr. v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-03-14 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-6969 | Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-03-08 | Denied | criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments' right to due process require that the legislative si… |
| 22-834 | Harshad Shah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel | Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability categorically ignored the petitioner's habeas issues and conflicted with S… |
| 22-6753 | Andrew Mark Lamar v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-02-10 | Denied | constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment juror-misconduct mistrial sixth-amendment | Whether petitioner's right to a fair and impartial trial was violated due to juror misconduct |
| 22-6700 | Samuel Lucas Pinney v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-02-03 | Denied | application constitutional-provisions interpretation legal-issues lower-court-error statutory-provisions | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 22-6662 | Wesley Ruiz v. Texas | Texas | 2023-01-31 | Denied | constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection juror-misconduct jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment | Does Peria-Rodriguez apply to Petitioner's evidence that at least one juror relied on anti-Hispanic racial stereotypes and animus to find that he was … |
| 22-680 | Jun Li, et al. v. Colorado Regional Center I, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process erie-doctrine judicial-proceedings standard-of-review supervisory-power | May a court of appeals refuse to conduct any appellate review of attorney fees awarded under state law? |
| 22-635 | D. B. v. Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2023-01-09 | Denied | appellate-standing child-welfare civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-separation non-parent-rights standing | Can the Colorado appellate courts constitutionally deny such special respondents the right to appeal adverse judgments? |
| 22-6495 | Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-01-09 | Denied | colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga | Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply a new rule of substantive law retr… |
| 22-603 | Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure | Whether the refusal to return lawfully seized property implicates the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-6405 | David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-12-28 | Denied | appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings | Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous |
| 22-6383 | James T. Woo v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-12-22 | Denied | case-files civil-rights discovery discovery-access due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction post-conviction-claims pro-se pro-se-defendant protective-order | Whether the district court improperly misused a protective order to deprive a pro se defendant of access to materials outside the scope of the order a… |
| 22M59 | D. B. v. Colorado, In the Interest of L. B. and Concerning B. B. | Colorado | 2022-12-19 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-6321 | Perry Taylor Armstrong v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-12-16 | Denied | case-determination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fancrim-fabulet federal-courts legal-application mercer-test standing takings | Question not identified |
| 22A491 | Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-12-05 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-6201 | In Re Arthur James Lomax | 2022-12-01 | Denied | 14th-amendment bill-of-rights civil-rights due-process federalism grand-jury indictment state-constitution statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformity-of-laws | Whether the Colorado Constitution's requirement that all laws be enacted by the General Assembly is satisfied by the omission of the enacting clause f… | |
| 22-496 | Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-11-28 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia | Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of co… |
| 22-5839 | Daniel Mason v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-10-14 | Denied | batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the per… |
| 22A310 | Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-10-13 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-334 | Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government | Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appeal … |