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25-6753 Michael Sharpe v. Connecticut Connecticut 2026-02-06 Pending biological-material dna-analysis fourth-amendment identification-profiling probable-cause warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment allows the government, without a warrant or probable cause, to (1) extract and (2) analyze DNA from biological material i…
25-6333 Cameron Kemp v. Michael Powers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity municipal-liability self-help-eviction 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's statutory right to appeal, despite Judge Sims' knowledge of a self-help evi…
25A672 Michael Sharpe v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-12-09 Application dna-collection forensic-genealogy fourth-amendment privacy-expectation shed-dna warrantless-search Question not identified.
25-668 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-09 Pending clean-water-act environmental-enforcement epa-authority sackett-decision surface-water-connection wetlands-regulation Petitioner Jeffrey Andrews resides on his family farm in Connecticut. His farm contains a short reach of an unnamed tributary to the Farm River, but n…
25-605 James Maharg v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-11-24 Denied appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu…
25-601 Ralston Brown v. Mellekas, Police Officer, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied constitutional-rights due-process judicial-estoppel megan's-law plea-agreement retroactive-statute Weather the Respondent violated the Petitioner Constitutional Rights By acting under color of law? Whether the New York Court of Appeals, overlooked …
25A560 Jane Doe v. United States District Court for the District of Connecticut Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application alternative-remedy appellate-review extraordinary-writ judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se Whether a pro se litigant can obtain mandamus relief when alternative legal remedies exist and the right to extraordinary relief is not clearly establ…
25-566 Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. v. Ronnell Higgins, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Transportation, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Pending common-use constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-possession second-amendment semiautomatic-rifles Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common …
25-452 UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, et al. v. Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), Ltd., a Nevada Professional Corporation, et al. Nevada 2025-10-15 Denied erisa-preemption health-plan-administration out-of-network-care plan-reimbursement state-law-claims unjust-enrichment Whether ERISA § 514 preempts a claim asserting that the administrator of an ERISA-governed health plan was required by state law to reimburse out-of-n…
25-421 National Association for Gun Rights, et al. v. Ned Lamont, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-07 Pending common-use-test constitutional-interpretation firearms-regulation gun-rights heller-precedent second-amendment Whether a ban on the possession of AR-15-style rifles and firearm magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds—both of which are possessed by mil…
25-342 Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Denied article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation Whether the "best reading" of the Low Power Protection Act ("LPPA") mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial, as if the LPPA had not been enact…
25-298 Bi-Qem SA DE CV, et al. v. Trade Links, LLC Second Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-rules docket-notation local-rule order-entry 1. Whether an unsigned and uninitialed document entitled "Courtroom Minutes – Civil," hyperlinked to a "Minute Entry" in the docket constitutes an "…
25A270 James Maharg v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-09-08 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
25A251 Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure legal-filing summary-judgment supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a summary judgment record exceeding 3,800 pages warrants an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari
25A209 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias Whether an employment discrimination claim can proceed when a pro se plaintiff alleges workplace bias without meeting specific pleading requirements
25-206 Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. District of Columbia 2025-08-20 Rehearing anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction 1. The primary question presented is whether a criminal court in a state can renege on the dismissal of criminal cases when a prior judge and/or the…
25-185 Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California California 2025-08-15 Denied anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code The California judiciary participates in red-light running camera ticket projects because it collects court fees from alleged violators as do the gove…
25-5314 Theodore Justice v. McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-claims due-process judicial-admission procedural-limitations section-1983 I. Whether federal appellate courts may dismiss 42 U.S.C. § 1983 constitutional claims through procedural limitations when the underlying due process …
25A129 UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, et al. v. Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), Ltd., a Nevada Professional Corporation, et al. Nevada 2025-07-31 Presumed Complete contract-rights due-process insurance-billing medical-billing out-of-network supreme-court-interpretation Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state insurance law governing out-of-network medical billing disputes can raise federal constitution…
25-101 J. M. F. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2025-07-25 Denied conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant effective-counsel legal-malpractice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the threat of a civil action by a criminal defendant against his attorney is a per se denial of the right to the effective of counsel guarante…
25A32 Edwin Rojan v. Connecticut, et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete None
25-3 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada 2025-07-01 Denied financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen…
25-5001 Clarence Austin, III v. Connecticut Office of the Claims Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied None Question not identified.
24A1286 Dion Horton, et al. v. Jill Rangos, Administrative Judge, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Presumed Complete bail-hearing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty pretrial-detention Whether prolonged pretrial detention without individualized bail hearings violates the constitutional right to due process and equal protection
24-1275 Jo-Ann Connelly v. Connecticut, ex rel. Jeremiah Dunn, Chief State Animal Control Officer Connecticut 2025-06-13 Denied community-caretaking exclusionary-rule forfeiture-proceedings government-welfare home-search warrantless-search Whether the exclusionary rule applies to warrantless searches of the home conducted for community caretaking and in forfeiture proceedings where the g…
24-1269 Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G. Connecticut 2025-06-12 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech prior-restraint Whether the State of Connecticut violated the petitioner's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights through a no-contact order that allegedly chilled spe…
24-1250 Art Bullock, et al. v. R-Ranch Property Owners' Association, et al. California 2025-06-06 Denied appellate-rules constitutional-authority due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review stare-decisis Whether the California Supreme Court's no-stare-decisis rules violate the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing lower court review of rule constitutional…
24-7203 Michael Inzitari v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-05-14 Denied appellate-split child-pornography constitutional-review dost-factors lascivious-exhibition sexual-conduct When the six Dost factors are read to a jury to determine 'lascivious exhibition of the genitals' under a child pornography statute, is a conviction c…
24-7194 Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas Texas 2025-05-13 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing Whether ineffective assistance of counsel standards in capital cases apply equally to non-capital cases with severe sentencing ranges
24-1118 Dongmei Li v. Richard Peck, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal Whether a federal judge's refusal to recuse violates constitutional due process rights under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) and the Fourteenth Amendment
24A981 Michael Inzitari v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-04-15 Presumed Complete None
24A867 Jo-Ann Connelly v. Connecticut, ex rel. Jeremiah Dunn, Chief State Animal Control Officer Connecticut 2025-03-11 Presumed Complete None
24-6493 Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-06 Denied access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause an…
24A578 The Good Foundation, Inc., et al. v. Matthew Vertefeuille, Director, Town of Windham Code Enforcement Connecticut 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete blight-lien due-process foreclosure municipal-enforcement property-rights taking Whether the Due Process Clause protects property owners from municipal blight lien foreclosure actions that potentially constitute an unconstitutional…
24-5863 Andres C. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2024-10-30 Denied brady-material constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review prosecutorial-discretion Whether prosecutors may delegate Brady material review to a nonlawyer staff member or must personally review potential exculpatory evidence
24-459 Gordon Alexander Clark v. Santander Bank, N.A. Connecticut 2024-10-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigation state-constitution Whether the 7th, 5th, and 14th Amendments and Connecticut state constitutional provisions remain in effect for pro se litigants, specifically regardin…
24-456 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Beth Bacher, Representative for Paul Bacher, Deceased, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied class-action-fairness-act federal-removal mass-action statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-consolidation Whether plaintiffs' intent matters in assessing if plaintiffs have 'proposed' a joint trial of the claims of 100 or more persons pursuant to 28 U.S.C.…
24-5637 Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas Kansas 2024-09-26 Denied custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights objective-inquiry self-incrimination During a custodial interrogation, may police ignore an individual's repeated and unambiguous demands to 'cut off questioning'?
24-314 Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Connecticut 2024-09-19 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-procedure procedural-due-process Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's appeal petition violates due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments by uphold…
24-243 Michael Grant v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech public-forum religious-expression solicitation Whether a public preacher can be arrested for preaching in a public park with a religious sign and collection plate without violating First Amendment …
24-5185 George Gaio Mano v. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment bank-secrecy bank-secrecy-act constitutional-privacy data-collection foreign-bank-account-report fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights Does the US government's mass collection of private banking data violate the 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments?
23-1301 Ben Brinkmann, et al. v. Town of Southold, New York Second Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied bad-faith bad-faith-taking constitutional-protection pretext property-rights public-use section-1983 state-federal-split takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause is violated when a property is taken for a public amenity as a pretext for defeating an owner's plans for another use
23-1234 Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals act with bias in failing to reverse the District court's ruling on the Petitioner's civil-rights complaint?
23-1146 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-04-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info…
23-1083 Shula Waxwoman, fka Shlomit Ruttkamp v. The Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Connecticut 2024-04-04 Denied constitutional-protection covid-19 due-process equal-protection eviction-stay foreclosure foreclosure-moratorium fraud-misrepresentation judicial-procedure property-rights state-of-emergency Whether the lifting of COVID-19 foreclosure moratoriums deprives individuals of due process and equal protection
23-7082 Christopher A. Selke v. Retained Realty, Inc. Connecticut 2024-03-27 Denied 11-Sep 9-11 9-11-attacks act-of-1871 civil-rights constitutional-law due-process mortgage-debt nesara sec-whistleblower standing whistleblower Dismissal of whistleblower case
23-899 Iftikar Ahmed v. Oak Management Corporation Connecticut 2024-02-21 Denied arbitration arbitration-doctrine civil-procedure court-proceedings damages-award degen-v-united-states federal-arbitration-act fugitive-disentitlement inherent-powers judicial-power Whether an arbitrator may apply the fugitive disentitlement doctrine
23-856 Urve Maggitti v. Victor J. Maggitti, Jr. Pennsylvania 2024-02-08 Denied access-to-courts administrative-process civil-rights collateral-damage constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-review legal-remedy remedy standing Whether there is a remedy when the courts have failed to perform their duty and the state's highest court is party to the failure during the administr…
23A651 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete clean-air-act climate-change federal-common-law interstate-emissions personal-jurisdiction state-law-claims Whether federal common law or state law governs climate-change tort claims seeking redress for interstate greenhouse gas emissions after the Clean Air…
23-6429 Jan M. Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied administrative-remedies due-process free-exercise free-exercise-clause mailbox-rule property-rights religious-exercise rluipa summary-judgment Whether the Connecticut district court improperly applied the 'mailbox rule' in dismissing the plaintiff's timely administrative remedies/exhaustion c…
23A560 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts removal-jurisdiction state-law well-pleaded-complaint Whether federal district courts have removal jurisdiction over state-law claims that necessarily arise under federal common law but are artfully plead…
23-643 We The Patriots USA, Inc., et al. v. Connecticut Office of Early Childhood Development, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied civil-rights free-exercise generally-applicable legacy-exemptions neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-law rational-basis religious-exemption smith-precedent smith-v-employment-division vaccination-mandate Whether a mandate that does not exempt religious conduct is neutral and generally applicable if it exempts secular conduct that similarly frustrates t…
23-6239 Christopher Everson v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court independent-action judicial-procedure mandate-rule rule-60 timing timing-limitations Is the filing of an independent action under FRCP 60(d)(1) for fraud on the court distinguishable from FRCP 60(b)(3) fraud?
23A495 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete 18-usc-3142 detention-hearing due-process fair-hearing judicial-discretion risk-of-flight Whether a district court judge's arbitrary time limitation on a detention hearing violates a defendant's due process rights to a full and fair hearing…
23-5993 Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial …
23-5968 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-11-07 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc…
23A403 Electric Power Supply Association, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete capacity-market federal-power-act ferc market-design public-utility rate-setting Whether capacity market offers constitute 'rates' under Section 205 of the Federal Power Act, such that public utilities retain the primary right to s…
23A135 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of conduct for which a defendant was acquitted violates the defendant's rights under the Six…
23-104 Granville S. Watson v. Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied 18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act fraudulent-concealment sovereign-immunity wrongful-incarceration When is it appropriate to seek compensation for wrongful incarceration?
23-5087 Michael R. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-07-12 Denied child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-interpretation dost-factors due-process first-amendment free-speech miller-standard obscenity obscenity-test Should the Dost factors be modified to prevent unconstitutional restrictions on First Amendment freedom of expression?
22-1252 Dongmei Li v. Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied has so far departed from the accepted and usual c anti-asian-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings standing Whether it is Unconstitutional
22A1031 John Doe v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Florida 2023-05-30 Presumed Complete None
22-7491 Orlando Ocasio v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence trial-strategy Was Mr.Ocasio deprived of his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel?
22-7193 Rafael Trevino v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied civil-rights consumer-protection due-process fair-lending fraud judicial-review mortgage-lending mortgage-underwriting payment-accounting predatory-lending standing Whether predatory mortgage lending practices are allowed in Connecticut
22-7197 Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer and armed law enforcement is custodial for Miranda purposes
22-7080 James A. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-23 Denied actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-rights malicious-prosecution state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether an innocent petitioner should be granted relief when the state convicted against exonerating evidence with malice and indifference
22-839 Daniel Greer v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-03 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions propensity propensity-evidence sex-crimes sexual-misconduct Is the Due Process Clause violated when a jury is instructed that evidence of uncharged sexual misconduct is admissible to prove propensity, even thou…
22-6742 Jan M. Gawlik v. Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut, et al. Connecticut 2023-02-10 Denied conditions-of-confinement discrimination due-process first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom rluipa symbolic-expression Whether the Connecticut Department of Corrections' policy of prohibiting incarcerated Catholics/Christians from openly displaying religious articles s…
22-525 Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review Whether a habeas petitioner fairly presents his federal claim in state court
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…
22-6028 John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. Connecticut 2022-11-08 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Superior Court Judge Aurigemma err in not finding subject matter jurisdiction to enforce a Court Settlement Agreement
22-345 Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Connecticut 2022-10-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-action judicial-procedure procedural-fairness standing trial Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's Order Denying Petitioner's Petition for Certification to Appeal to that Court upholding the Connecticut Appell…
22-5506 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-09-02 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings Whether the petitioner was deprived of his rights to a fair trial
22-155 Hiral M. Patel v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-18 Denied bourjaily-v-united-states confrontation-clause confrontation-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington due-process dutton-v-evans evidence-admission michigan-v-bryant penal-interest testimonial-statement Whether a statement against penal interest made by an inmate/declarant can qualify as a 'testimonial' statement under Crawford v. Washington
22-125 Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. Connecticut 2022-08-09 Denied due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes violates the Fourteenth Amendment due-process rights of intestate-distributees
22-116 Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1 violates the Contracts Clause
22-5304 Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-08 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Constitution requires a canvass on the right to testify
22-5129 V. V. v. E. V. Connecticut 2022-07-19 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Constitut…
22-5086 Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut Connecticut 2022-07-13 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure Whether the plaintiff's 14th-amendment-due-process rights were violated by the trial court's alleged unequal treatment of the parties
21-8194 Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Second Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley Whether a state administrative agency can deny access to publications protected by the First Amendment based on incarceration status
21-7636 Ramon Lopez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-04-18 Denied brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence material-evidence material-favorable-evidence prosecuting-authority prosecutorial-evidence Does the rule set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requiring that the government disclose material favorable evidence to a criminal def…
21A595 Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Second Circuit 2022-04-11 Presumed Complete None
21-1290 Joseph Ferrari v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine immunity intentional-misconduct scope-of-employment Is lying by a US employee to undermine the boss outside the scope of employment and therefore prevents US substitution into a suit for the liar and th…
21-7328 Glen S. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-03-09 Denied circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants about their right to testify?
21-7161 Deja Paschal v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-02-18 Denied criminal-procedure due-process equivocal-request right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment waiver Whether the defendant's request for self-representation was unequivocal, despite being made in the context of a request for new counsel
21-6974 Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-01-27 Denied accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process?
21-6935 Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado Colorado 2022-01-21 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free-speech, free-assembly on January 4, 2020 wh…
21-973 John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase Second Circuit 2022-01-06 Dismissed civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether the officers were entitled to qualified immunity where the law was not clearly established that a charge of making a false statement could be …
21-6502 Bobby Griffin v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-12-03 Denied coerced-confession coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-confession fourth-amendment interrogation-tactics probable-cause warrantless-search Whether Griffin's constitutional rights were violated by the admission of his statement to police and the rifle and ammunition obtained from his home
21-6503 Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
21-765 In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company 2021-11-23 Denied access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss…
21-6147 Joshua Komisarjevsky v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-11-02 Denied actual-prejudice actual-prejudice-analysis emotional-nature-of-case guilty-verdict jury-selection presumed-prejudice-analysis presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity venue-change voir-dire What consideration must courts give to (a) a guilty verdict, (b) the disruption to proceedings from pretrial publicity, and (c) the jury selection pro…
21A112 Daniel Greer v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-10-27 Presumed Complete None
21-509 James Lawrence v. Altice USA Second Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied arrest-warrant civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation media-defamation media-reporting standing substantial-truth Can a media lawfully portray a ONE TIME One Count of Second Degree Breach of Peace arrest as 'ARRESTED FOR STALKING SEVERAL WOMEN?
21-458 L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
21-387 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. Connecticut 2021-09-09 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure blight-citation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-law property-rights Did the subject, February 14th, 2018 Blight Citation that the Defendant City had issued to the Plaintiff, violate many of the Plaintiff's important co…
21-356 Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-09-07 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal defendant's retrial after the government has had a fair opportunity to prove its …
21-279 Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd. v. Mark Boughton Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied dormant-commerce-clause due-process extraterritorial-effect extraterritorial-regulation federal-preemption indian-commerce private-business-data private-data state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause Whether Connecticut impermissibly regulates or controls conduct beyond the boundaries of the State in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause
21-5279 Ernest Francis v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-08-03 Denied civil-rights due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred in affirming the denial of the petitioner's motion to correct an illegal sentence based on the court's int…
20-8437 Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-06-29 Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause Whether the Connecticut Department of Correction violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments by denying the plaintiff and his infirm mother visits wi…
20-1778 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the 'hazardous a…
20-1766 In Re John H. Todd 2021-06-21 Denied civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants provide the same level of constitutional safeguards for suspects in a criminal investigation?
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2021-05-26 Denied 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure Does the intentional use of the *67 feature create a justifiable expectation of privacy?
20-1482 Cheri Lynne Melchione v. Timothy Temple Florida 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-review district-court-power due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court supreme-court-access Did the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's unchecked power to withhold or strip jurisdiction from the Florida Supreme Court to hear cases involv…
20-7478 Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendme…
20-1135 Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. Connecticut 2021-02-19 Denied civil-rights contempt due-process free-speech judicial-authority party-presentation Whether a litigant's extra-judicial statements can be sanctioned when the First Amendment otherwise protects his speech and where there was no order p…
20-7108 Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-02-10 Denied due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights Where the Connecticut Department of Correction violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, denying used books from publishers without inspection, de…
20-1045 David G. Liebenguth v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-02-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech hate-speech law-enforcement racial-epithet Whether Referring To A Law Enforcement Officer By A Racial Epithet While Protesting An Enforcement Action Constitutes Fighting Words Unprotected By Th…
20-991 Stevie L. England v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-standard miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona objective-inquiry right-to-counsel subjective-factors Whether the 'objective inquiry' required by Davis may be based on subjective factors
20-6689 Matthew J. Kwong v. Cheswold (TL), LLC, et al. Connecticut 2020-12-23 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-principles due-process foreclosure judicial-order legal-precedent property-rights republic-design statutory-interpretation Whether the Connecticut Superior Court's Order of Judgment of Foreclosure by Sale would promulgate construction of statutory interpretation repugnant …
20-844 Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. Connecticut 2020-12-23 Denied 7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Seventh Amendment require a jury trial in a civil eviction case?
20-834 James A. Widtfeldt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied biological-weapons civil-rights constitutional-rights lyme-disease medical-care medical-malpractice pre-trial-testing stevia Question not identified
20-824 Edward F. Taupier v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-12-17 Denied civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-protection intent intent-standard reckless-speech recklessness true-threats virginia-v-black Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing …
20-764 Mark E. O'Brien v. U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust Connecticut 2020-12-03 Denied due-process foreclosure foreclosure-procedure judicial-notice loan-servicer mortgage-note new-evidence procedural-defect standing standing-challenge testimony Were the Defendants' due-process rights violated?
20-549 John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a detainee's first appearance in court a 'critical stage' of the proceedings?
20-530 Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Connecticut 2020-10-21 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline
20-505 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-10-19 Denied 14th-amendment bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process foreclosure property-rights real-property standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether subject matter jurisdiction should be waived
20-473 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-10-13 Denied child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom Whether prolonged 'temporary' foster placement violated federal law and the Petitioner's constitutional rights
20-5832 Damon Graham v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused its discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appealability
20M27 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-09-21 Presumed Complete None
20-5743 Johnny Melendez v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether counsel rendered ineffective assistance by allowing the court to rely on a prior conviction for sentencing purposes absent court documents to …
20-339 Jason Winer v. Coralys Negron, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied civil-procedure consumer-protection creditor-definition creditor-status de-facto-dealer district-court-jurisdiction state-law-claims Supplemental-jurisdiction unfair-trade-practices No question identified
20-329 Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine apply to interlocutory orders that are entered in state court proceedings that end after the federal court action is …
20-5357 Anthony Collymore v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-08-14 Denied compulsory-process due-process fair-trial immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination statutory-immunity witness-immunity Whether the petitioner's rights to due process of law, compulsory process and fair trial were violated
20-5364 John S. Kaminski v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied civil-rights class-action cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions standing Whether the conditions of confinement and deliberate obstruction of due process by prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on crue…
20A25 Connecticut Commissioner of Correction v. Jamie R. Gomez Connecticut 2020-08-05 Presumed Complete None
20-7 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-remedies appeal-instructions blight-citation civil-procedure due-process fair-notice local-government municipal-law notice-requirements subject-matter-jurisdiction Should appeal instructions have been included with the blight citation?
19-1469 Eric Hasbrouck v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada 2020-07-08 Denied abuse administrative-procedure bar-admission bar-exam due-process fraud judicial-review nevada-state-bar state-bar-practices Does Petitioner have the right to judicial review of the practices of the Nevada State Bar, regarding the administering and grading of the bar exam, a…
19-8307 Jose Lopez v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2020-04-19 Denied civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-tampering habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct Was due process followed per the Connecticut constitution?
19-8189 Jose E. Ramos v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-04-06 Denied burden-of-proof civil-procedure dispute-resolution due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-compliance ripeness-doctrine standing Whether the jurisdiction of the trial court to decide the issue is called into question, and whether the party seeking the exercise of jurisdiction ha…
19-8037 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-03-18 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-litigation fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-allegations jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of Connecticut has acted unreasonably and in clear abuse of its discretion when it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to due process …
19-1118 Jeffrey Todd Palumbo v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-03-12 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-testimony doyle-v-ohio due-process exculpatory-evidence first-time-account impeachment miranda-rights Miranda-warnings prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure uncharged-misconduct Whether a prosecutor violates Doyle v. Ohio by eliciting the fact that an exculpatory story is being told for the 'first time' at trial
19-1113 Peter R. Rumbin v. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process equitable-estoppel government-seizure plaut-v-spendthrift-farms property-rights standing takings u.s.-government-v.-espinosa Whether the courts should overrule the decision of the District Court of Connecticut
19-7941 Jane Doe v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process pro-se pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the Second Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing the appeal without ruling on the reasonable accommodation reques…
19-1010 Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery claw-back discovery discovery-scope document-production federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus mandamus-review proportionality relevance relevance-standard rule-26 scope-of-discovery Whether a district court may compel a party that has not engaged in discovery-related misconduct to produce documents that are neither relevant nor re…
19A906 Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-13 Presumed Complete None
19-7499 Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Second Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacle(d)…
19-7109 J'Veil Outing v. Miguel A. Cardona, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-12-31 Denied appeal appellate-record due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether assigned counsel violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and his right to due process
19-735 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied federal-aviation-act federal-preemption political-subdivision preemption runway-length standing standing-to-sue state-regulation state-sovereignty supremacy-clause Does a political subdivision of a State have standing to sue its creator State under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution?
19-727 Keepers, Inc. v. City of Milford, Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert rule-60(b) rule-60b strict-scrutiny summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant Petitioner relief from summary judgment
19-710 Connecticut Fine Wine and Spirits, LLC, dba Total Wine & More v. Michelle H. Seagull, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied antitrust antitrust-law commerce-clause market-competition preemption price-fixing sherman-act state-action-doctrine state-regulation wholesale-pricing Whether Section 1 of the Sherman Act preempts state laws facilitating such unsupervised private price-fixing
19-6724 Lorie Anne Gunderson Zarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore Lee Gunderson v. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, et al. California 2019-11-22 Denied civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty harmless-error Question not identified. statute-of-limitations constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-rules fiduciary-duty judicial-review state-judiciary statute-of-limitations united-states-v-throckmorton Where through breach of the fiduciary; no cause has ever been tried on the merits, no adversary trial has ever been provided, no decision has ever bee…
19-6571 Francisco Illarramendi v. John J. Carney, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations-sec-28-usc- collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process pdvsa-venezuela sec sec-enforcement sec-receiver-parallel-criminal-proceedings statute-of-limitations summary-judgment summary-judgment-collateral-estoppel summary-judgment-standard-tolan-v-cotton supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
19-535 Patricia A. Flowers v. Connecticut Light and Power Company Second Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1981 42-usc-2000e civil-rights eeoc employment-discrimination employment-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-retaliation-claims retaliation-claim standard-of-review summary-judgment title-vii Whether Flowers proffered sufficient evidence in support of her prima facie case of racial-discrimination,retaliation,title-vii,42-usc-1981
19-448 Glen Plourde v. Jane Doe Maine 2019-10-03 Denied assassination-attempts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-surveillance harassment international-law standing surveillance torture Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to harassment, surveillance, and alleged torture by government agents
19-6080 Marcus H. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-09-26 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion Was the indigent petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to have appointed counsel represent him at his criminal jury trial violated when the trial court f…
19A347 William Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut v. Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-26 Presumed Complete None
19-299 G. D. P. v. N. G. P. Maine 2019-09-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-due-process domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction government-surveillance international-law protection-from-abuse standing takings torture torture-allegations torture. Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to alleged torture, surveillance, and lack of government protection
19-5677 In Re Alonzo May 2019-08-22 Denied 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power Whether the State of Texas lawfully overrode the petitioner's final judgment and order of commitment, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause, Double…
19-5629 Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-133 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the force clause of the Armed Career …
19-5584 Christopher Isaac Simmons v. Grissom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-waiver due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-rights standing vexatious-litigant Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly revoke Appellant's In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g) where a 'high risk' prisoner clearly mad…
19-168 Remington Arms Co., LLC, et al. v. Donna L. Soto, Administratrix of the Estate of Victoria L. Soto, et al. Connecticut 2019-08-05 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process firearms-immunity firearms-industry-regulation free-speech plcaa plcaa-immunity predicate-exception statutory-interpretation unfair-trade-practices Whether the PLCAA's predicate exception encompasses alleged violations of broad, generally applicable state statutes
19-111 Fernando I. v. Margarita O. Connecticut 2019-07-23 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-restraining-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment parental-rights property-rights second-amendment Is it constitutional for the State of Connecticut to issue a civil restraining order with nationwide reach and under federal punishment, including an …
19-84 Lawrence Mulligan v. Bruce Jalbert, et ux. Second Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process full-faith-and-credit state-court-record summary-judgment Whether the United States Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the granting of summary judgment based on collateral-estoppel without reference …
19-5092 Joseph Stephenson v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied actual-innocence court-of-appeals district-court gateway-claims habeas-corpus house-v-bell Did the district court and the court of appeals misapply this Court's holdings concerning habeas petitioners' gateway claims of actual innocence as de…
18-9516 Starquineshia Palmer v. Florida Florida 2019-06-05 Rehearing 12-person-jury 6-person-jury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida Was Petitioner denied her right to a trial by jury as contemplated by the Sixth Amendment
18A1253 Niraj Prabhakar Patel v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete co-conspirator-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the admission of an out-of-court inculpatory statement made by a non-testifying co-conspirator in a prison re…
18-1470 Jim Feehan v. Rick Marcone, et al. Connecticut 2019-05-24 Denied bush-v-gore constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection equal-protection-clause retroactive-standard right-to-vote voting-rights Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred in disregarding the equal protection principles applied in Bush v. Gore and requiring proof of intentional…
18-9385 Cargil Nicholson v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-05-23 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certification-of-appeal criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred by denying the petitioner certification to appeal from the Appellate Court?
18-9387 Mary Elizabeth Schipke v. Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied 8th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-gideon civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process equal-protection extension-of-time homelessness inheritance inheritance-rights speedy-trial Whether the 2nd Circuit Court erred in refusing Petitioner's motion for assistance of counsel and an extension of time under the Americans with Disabi…
18-9335 Francisco Illarramendi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether lower courts should follow the Supreme Court's mandate in Tolan v. Cotton when ruling on a motion for summary affirmance
18-9224 Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights habeas-corpus sec securities-enforcement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
18A1077 Joseph Stephenson v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-04-19 Presumed Complete None
18-8880 M. A. Edwards, aka Michael Anthony Edwards v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Second Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fabricated-testimony fraud government-misconduct impeachment standing testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement Can the government tell the triers of fact that defendant confessed to murder
18-1216 R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. Florida 2019-03-20 Denied anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis Retaliation against pro se respondents, emolument manipulation, falsification of facts, lack of due process, election irregularities, anti-American bi…
18-8343 Jose Luis Mattes Baez Carmona Lopez Cordero v. Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied constitution constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection native-american-rights native-rights treaty-rights Did the lower court breach any treaties between the native Taino Indian tribe and the Government of the United States of America, pursuant to Article …
18-8223 Michael A. Young v. Vernon Oliver, Judge, Superior Court of Connecticut, Tolland Judicial District, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights mandamus self-recusal standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process premature-dismissal self-recusal standing Whether petitioner was wrongfully invoking self-executing Sections 1 and 4 of the 4th Amendment, becoming a named defendant in a civil-rights case, wi…
18-7806 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut 2019-02-07 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure due-process judicial-review notice notice-of-rights public-health-law state-law Did the Connecticut Department of Public Health act improperly, and deny the Petitioner his right to due process, by failing to inform him on how to p…
18-7745 Alrick A. Evans v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-02-04 Denied affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an 'affirmative defenses' rather tha…
18-7496 Nemiah Allan v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-01-18 Denied affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an 'affirmative defenses' rather tha…
18-7267 Mashawn Greene v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-01-07 Denied burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-rights cooperating-witness criminal-trial criminal-trials due-process false-testimony government-witnesses prosecutor-duty prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the due process clause requires prosecutors to bear the burden of preventing and correcting false or misleading testimony by cooperating gover…
18-818 Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration Whether the statutory requirement for compensation for wrongful incarceration equitably tolled the petitioner's civil rights claims
18A678 Stephen John Williams v. Connecticut Connecticut 2018-12-27 Presumed Complete None
18-752 Edward Taupier v. Connecticut Connecticut 2018-12-12 Denied civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats Whether in a prosecution for speech under the 'true threats' doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter re…
18-598 Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ Whether the Second Circuit erred in granting Appellees' motion for summary affirmance while denying Chien's motions as moot
18-6384 Michael A. Lanteri v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights divorce divorce-property-division due-process family-law judicial-discretion jurisdiction property-rights state-jurisdiction takings Can the state of Connecticut or any state take all your property from you (marital, premarital and inheritance) once you file for Divorce?
18-383 Jesse J. Davis, Jr., et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association Connecticut 2018-09-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process Due-process-of-law,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amen equal-protection Equal-protection-of-the-laws,fourteenth-amendment Excessive-fines,foreclosure free-speech impartial-court petition-clause Right-to-impartial-court,sixth-amendment,seventh-a right-to-petition Right-to-petition-government,first-amendment right-to-public-trial Right-to-public-trial,right-to-information,sixth-a sanctions Whether the sanctions imposed by the Connecticut Appellate Court violate the petitioners' constitutional rights, including their rights to due process…
18-5977 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply?
18-6004 Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution?
18-5875 John Vivo, III v. Connecticut Connecticut 2018-09-04 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation Whether the state court of last resort erred by declining to review the petitioner's request for review under the plain-error doctrine and the applica…
18-185 Connecticut v. Michael Skakel Connecticut 2018-08-10 Denied circuit-split constitutional-deficiency due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation overall-performance performance-evaluation single-error sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court must evaluate counsel's overall performance in determining whether a single error is sufficiently egregious to render counsel's repres…
18A103 Connecticut v. Michael Skakel Connecticut 2018-07-27 Presumed Complete None
18-65 David Aronstein, et al. v. Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure corporate-misrepresentation disclosure disclosure-requirements due-process investor-communications material-omission materiality sec sec-disclosure securities-law securities-regulation securities-regulation-sec united-states-v-ohagan Whether the SEC's regulatory framework under Item 303 should be given controlling weight or if lower courts can substitute their own judgment on the a…
18-46 City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney Second Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied 4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from …
18-5019 Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. Second Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection Why it was done Purposely?
18A1119 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut Presumed Complete None
18A1187 Michael A. Young v. Vernon Oliver, Judge, Superior Court of Connecticut, Tolland Judicial District, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None
25A231 Avon Capital, LLC, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company v. Universitas Education, LLC Tenth Circuit Presumed Complete dissolution judgment-enforcement personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-circuit Whether a federal district court can reacquire subject matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction over a dissolved entity without new claims or pro…