| 25-6336 |
Joshua J. Lewandowski v. Jefferey Perkins, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
constitutional-rights effective-assistance-counsel fetal-alcohol-syndrome guilty-plea mental-disability sixth-amendment |
A. Does the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution require Defense Counsel to ensure A mentally disabled defendants guilty plea tod of Congr… |
| 25-6049 |
Richard Vandale Clowney v. Greenville County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement neutral-detached-magistrate search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether a Magistrate who holds office at the law enforcement center investigating crimes is subject to and why law enforcement on easily passes, i.e. … |
| 25-550 |
Michael Fernandez, D.D.S., LTD., a Division of Atlantic Dental Care, PLC, et al. v. Stephen C. Brich, P.E., Commissioner of Highways, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
class-of-one comparator-analysis constitutional-claim equal-protection pleading-standard zoning-law |
Is Appellants' non-zoning related equal protection claim based upon a "class-of-one theory" subject to the heightened pleading standard for similarly … |
| 25A243 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata |
Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance… |
| 24A1270 |
Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling |
| 24-1162 |
Gina Robinson v. Fashion District Dental, et al. |
New York |
2025-05-14 |
Denied |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights court-of-appeals jurisdiction-refusal |
Whether the New York Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights by improperly refusing jurisdiction and dismissing a case involving alleged 13th … |
| 24A923 |
Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal |
Whether a pro se prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging constitutional violations can survive sua sponte dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A wit… |
| 24-6680 |
Victor Charles Rogers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Dismissed |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus |
Whether a court can deny a certificate of appealability (COA) when filing actual innocence claims and whether DNA evidence showing the petitioner is n… |
| 24A25 |
B.S. v. D.S. |
California |
2024-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process evidence-threshold preponderance-standard protection-order |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a heightened evidentiary standard beyond preponderance of the evidence for domestic violence protection orders… |
| 23-133 |
Arlen Foster v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
GVR |
administrative-law agency-review agriculture chevron-deference environmental-law statutory-interpretation swampbuster-provision wetlands wetlands-certification |
Whether a statute that provides that a wetlands certification 'remain[s] valid and in effect ... until such time as the person affected by the certifi… |
| 21-6997 |
Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright |
Whether deliberate indifference should be analyzed under the balancing framework of the substantial risk of harm test announced by this Court rather t… |
| 21-503 |
Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. |
California |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Whether a court's judgment is void if it lacked jurisdiction over the subject matter or parties, or acted inconsistently with due process |
| 20-8311 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Berrien County Treasurer |
Michigan |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-upon-court property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-judgment |
Whether the foreclosure judgment obtained by fraud and unauthorized practice of law is void |
| 20-6846 |
Tyrone Campbell v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment standing supreme-court |
Whether the arbitrariness of a death sentence under Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S. Ct. 1112 (2019), entitles the petitioner to relief |
| 20-6136 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
14th-amendment collateral-attack due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-ab-initio void-judgment |
Validity of void judgment and order |
| 19-6255 |
Kunta Kenta Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-sentencing criminal-justice-reform due-process first-step-act retroactivity section-404 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to relief from denial of a 404 motion at the district court level in light of the First Step Act |
| 19-311 |
Al Cannon, Sheriff, Charleston County, South Carolina v. Broderick William Seay, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
appellate-review deference double-jeopardy fact-finding federal-habeas manifest-necessity mistrial strict-scrutiny trial-court-deference trial-court-discretion |
Whether the required strict scrutiny applied to the legal determination of manifest necessity constrains the deference accorded a trial court's fact-f… |
| 18-7322 |
Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Jason Bryant, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
appeal confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness federal-appeal indigent-defense sixth-amendment tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court erred in holding that the District Court of Tulsa County's refusal to permit a unique expert defense witness to presen… |
| 18-6230 |
Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte |
Can a post-conviction court find plain error in the movant's guilty plea or sentence record and 'sua sponte' order relief when the movant never raised… |
| 18-6110 |
Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M… |