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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 …