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25A909 William Hudson v. Delaware Delaware 2026-02-12 Application criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review postconviction-relief pro-se-litigant state-court-review Question not identified.
25-6694 Donny Ray Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant Whether the 'materiality' prong of Franks v. Delaware allows law enforcement to omit a confidential informant's credibility issues when corroborating …
25-838 Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending brady-violation civil-rights evidence-suppression excessive-force franks-challenge qualified-immunity Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly reversed a district court's denial of qualified immunity by relying on potentially false or suppressed evidenc…
25A820 Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application appellate-review copyright-infringement judicial-review rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm-precedent Whether a federal appellate court may review the sufficiency of evidence by purporting to review a preverdict Rule 50(a) motion when the appellant did…
25-797 Steven J. Hecke v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant Whether Franks v. Delaware applies to material omissions in a search warrant affidavit and how such omissions impact the credibility of the affiant
25-780 Leda Health Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment marketing-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Does a law that bans the sale of otherwise lawful items based exclusively on the content of the seller's truthful marketing burden speech protected by…
25A680 MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-09 Application agency-overreach erisa multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation can impose 'reasonable conditions' on multiemployer pension plans that deviate from the express statu…
25-632 Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether a court may independently determine the scope of claims in arbitral pleadings without deference to the arbitrator's determination under 9 U.S.…
25-6111 Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fisa-warrant fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny Whether FISA warrants obtained through systematic perjury and evidence fabrication violate constitutional due process and Fourth Amendment protections
25A565 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence rule-702 Whether federal district courts must apply the full rigor of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 at the class certification stage, or may conduct a more limi…
25A549 In Re Henry L. Klein Fifth Circuit 2025-11-12 Application business-qualification debt-collection debt-purchaser henson-v-santander special-purpose-vehicle supremacy-clause Whether the Supreme Court will enforce the Henson v. Santander ruling as the supreme law of the land regarding debt ownership and collection rights un…
25A519 Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-05 Application constitutional-challenge drug-pricing fifth-amendment first-amendment inflation-reduction-act medicare-drug-negotiation Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 violates the Fifth and First Amendments
25-490 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied asset-sale bankruptcy-code equitable-mootness nonconsensual-release reorganization-plan third-party-release Whether 11 U.S.C. §363(m) applies to asset sales under reorganization plans and whether 'equitable mootness' shields unauthorized practices
25-450 Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied adverse-employment burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence personnel-action protected-conduct whistleblower-protection Whether AIR 21's affirmative defense is satisfied where an employer proves protected activity played only a limited role along with non-protected cond…
25A386 Trendell Walker v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defects structural-error venue-challenge warrant-forgery Whether a criminal prosecution must be dismissed when jurisdictional defects are alleged, including forged warrants and improper venue establishment
25-5691 Bradford Allen Thompson v. Texas Texas 2025-09-19 Denied abstract-beliefs constitutional-law first-amendment non-capital-felony relevancy-standard sentencing-evidence Whether the First Amendment prohibition against using a defendant's 'abstract beliefs' applies to non-capital felony cases and whether the Court shoul…
25-326 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act Whether a business association that publishes an optional rule for its members can immunize the rule from being considered a conspiracy under Sherman …
25-5527 David Jewell v. Delaware Delaware 2025-09-03 Denied None Question not identified.
25A254 Michael Broomer v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete antiterrorism-act federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether a federal habeas petition filed by a state prisoner is timely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's statute of limitations
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
25-237 Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment Whether the State's failure to disclose a centerpiece witness's psychiatric hospital admission constitutes a Brady violation warranting relief under d…
25-208 Delaware Trust Company v. Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Noteholders, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied bankruptcy-code court-discretion estate-recovery monetary-judgment property-transfer value-compensation Whether Section 550(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code gives a bankruptcy court discretion both to order the return of transferred property to the estate …
25-5325 Robert W. Hassett, III v. Delaware Delaware 2025-08-12 Denied capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-instructions Whether the Eighth and 14th Amendments are violated when a court applies a capital sentencing statute to a non-capital offense and instructs the jury …
25-5320 Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction law-enforcement mental-health Question not identified.
25A162 Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete affirmative-defense burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence de-novo-review federal-railroad-safety-act protected-activity Whether a district court's determination of an employer's affirmative defense under the Federal Railroad Safety Act involves a mixed question of law a…
25A150 Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Whether a state court's denial of a criminal defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim constitutes an unreasonable application of clearly es…
25-121 Kera Morgan, as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of Phillip Raymond Morgan v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation Iowa 2025-07-31 Denied employee-suicide federal-employers-liability-act negligence workplace-harassment wrongful-death zone-of-danger Whether the 'zone of danger' test from Gottshall applies to FELA wrongful death claims involving employee suicide, and whether workplace harassment-in…
25A105 Ismael Bimbow v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through a warrantless search lacking exigent circumstances and potentially b…
25-74 Sullivan Equity Partners, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-law due-process england-reservation pullman-abstention takings-clause Whether a property owner can pursue a 42 USC §1983 claim and constitutional takings claim in federal court after state court proceedings involving all…
25A35 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-09 Presumed Complete antitrust enforcement-delegation market-competition no-commingling-rule sherman-act trade-association Whether a dominant national trade association may avoid antitrust liability under Section 1 of the Sherman Act by promulgating a facially anticompetit…
24-1302 MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC, a Delaware Series Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lundbeck LLC, a Delaware Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied civil-rico drug-manufacturer foreseeability prescribing-decisions proximate-cause rico-statute Whether physicians' prescribing decisions constitute an intervening cause in a civil RICO action against a drug manufacturer for overpayment of drugs,…
24-1299 Planet Green Cartridges, Inc., a California Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-platforms product-misrepresentation section-230 third-party-content Does Section 230 confer immunity on internet platforms when they knowingly permit, facilitate, and profit from third-party promotion and sale of misre…
24-7144 Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does the narrow 'cause' requirement announced by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan preclude prisoners from establishing 'cause' for purposes of excusing …
24-1020 Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law Whether federal courts can predict changes in state law under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
24-1011 Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act; Whether co…
24-6787 Ralph Reed v. Delaware Delaware 2025-03-18 Denied constitutional-claims criminal-rule-61 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief Whether the Superior Court's denial of Reed's postconviction relief motion under Delaware Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 was an abuse of discretion v…
24-984 Ross Horsey v. American Finance, LLC Delaware 2025-03-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-upon-court judicial-delay judicial-procedure Whether a 105-day delay by a judge in responding to a court letter constitutes a failure of due process
24-6746 In Re Flora Hoi 2025-03-11 Denied brady-material court-records due-process ethical-obligations judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct What standard or procedure should the Supreme Court establish to ensure judicial compliance with Brady Rules material disclosure and prevent judicial …
24A838 Phillip Frazier v. American Airlines, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-03 Presumed Complete age-discrimination fair-employment-and-housing-act pretext prima-facie-case reduction-in-force summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied summary judgment standards in rejecting an employee's prima facie case of age discrimination under the Fair…
24-6628 Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde…
24-906 Lexington Insurance Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Martin A. Mueller, Judge, Cabazon Reservation Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied civil-procedure jurisdictional-limits nonmember-rights off-reservation-conduct sovereign-immunity tribal-jurisdiction Whether a tribal court can exercise jurisdiction over nonmembers of the tribe based on off-reservation conduct
24-870 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p…
24-851 Paul S. Osterman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied affidavit-challenge franks-challenge law-enforcement-procedure omissions probable-cause search-warrant In the context of a Franks challenge, when evaluating whether an alleged omission was necessary to a finding of probable cause, may a court supplement…
24-6443 Davion Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied fourth-amendment franks-hearing government-misconduct judicial-review search-and-seizure warrant-falsity Whether the Second Circuit erred in denying Petitioner a Franks hearing when confronted with evidence of government representatives lying to four succ…
24-807 David Stanley v. Scott Morgan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied civil-service delaware-state-college-v-ricks employment-discrimination finality-of-action grievance-procedure statute-of-limitations Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Delaware State College v. Ricks applies to grievance procedures that constitute 'direct review' and impact the …
24-733 Daniel Snyder v. Arconic, Corp., a Delaware Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied abercrombie-standard accommodation employment-law prima-facie-case religious-discrimination title-vii Whether a sincerely motivated religious expression establishes a prima facie case of religious discrimination under Title VII without additional showi…
24-732 Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied content-moderation first-amendment government-collaboration interactive-platform speech-suppression state-action Does an interactive computer service provider become a state actor when it collaborates with government officials to suppress specific viewpoints, the…
24-724 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Granted appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred by d…
24-6219 Carla Cowan v. James Furlow Delaware 2024-12-31 Denied chancery-court color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration jurisdictional-challenge Did the lower courts violate the Estate of Alvin David Smith's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. …
24-681 Konstadin Bitzas v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-12-26 Denied due-process emergency-caretaker fourth-amendment pro-se-representation probable-cause search-warrant Whether defects in a search warrant application process, including failure to satisfy the oath requirement, omitting key facts about witnesses' intoxi…
24A610 AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete attorney-fees fee-calculation hensley-standard legal-misconduct summary-judgment trademark-dispute Whether attorney fees awarded in a trademark dispute can be reduced when the prevailing party's fraud or misconduct artificially inflated legal time u…
24-641 Gavin de Becker, et al. v. UHS of Delaware, Inc., dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center Nevada 2024-12-12 Denied covered-countermeasure healthcare-immunity medical-liability medical-negligence prep-act treatment-standards Does the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 provide immunity to medical providers for acts and omissions not directly related to …
24-643 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-6092 Russell M. Grimes v. Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-630 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-6073 Earlando Samuel v. Delaware County Housing Authority, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied disability-rights fair-housing-act judicial-discretion motion-to-alter-judgment procedural-due-process retaliation-clause Whether the lower court erred in denying appointment of counsel under the Fair Housing Act's retaliation clause and whether the Third Circuit Court of…
24-6030 Kenneth R. Talley, et al. v. Darren Horn, et al. Delaware 2024-11-25 Denied constitutional-rights due-process indigent-rights judicial-authority legal-representation state-jurisdiction Whether state law can usurp the United States Constitution in a case involving an indigent and illiterate citizen's legal representation
24-5868 William J. Webb, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2024-10-30 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure faretta-hearing pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Delaware Supreme Court correctly determined that a criminal defendant forfeited his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when proceeding pro s…
24-440 Harold R. Berk v. Wilson C. Choy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Judgment Issued affidavit-of-merit circuit-split expert-testimony federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction state-procedural-rules Whether a state law providing that a complaint must be dismissed unless it is accompanied by an expert affidavit may be applied in federal court
24-5771 Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment regarding probable cause for arrest and the constitutional implications of …
24-5757 Damian Cortez v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant Whether a circuit split exists regarding the standard for presenting an offer of proof under Franks v. Delaware and the Fourth Amendment requirements …
24-5738 Corloyd Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied affiant-misconduct bad-faith criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant-clause Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly-discovered evidence establishes that a law enforcement affiant concealed prior felonious conduc…
24-309 Gabriel Gray, et al. v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied civil-liberties constitutional-rights irreparable-injury judicial-review legal-standing second-amendment Whether the infringement of Second Amendment rights constitutes per se irreparable injury
24-5387 Justin Erskine v. Delaware Delaware 2024-08-23 Denied appointed-counsel due-process initial-review-collateral-proceeding legal-abandonment procedural-right state-obligation Whether a criminal defendant on initial-review collateral proceeding is entitled to appointed counsel when the state creates a procedural right and hi…
24-5344 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors Whether reviewing courts must consider the cumulative effect of counsel's errors in determining Strickland prejudice and weigh Van Arsdall factors for…
24-5300 Shakeen Davis, Jamal Lockley, and Dante D. Bailey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied bad-faith fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrants warrant-clause wiretap-orders Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly discovered evidence establishes that an affiant who applied for wiretap orders and search warra…
24A115 Justin Erskine v. Delaware Delaware 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction right-to-counsel Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to appointed counsel for a third post-conviction motion when no new evidence of actual innocen…
24-5174 Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa…
23-1343 Darwin Quinones-Pimentel, et al. v. Nicholas W. Cannon, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-tort federal-agents fourth-amendment frank-v-delaware monetary-damages search-warrant Whether a Bivens action can be maintained against federal agents and actors when a search warrant is obtained in violation of the doctrine established…
23-1331 William Christopher Schroeder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied congressional-apportionment constitutional-interpretation electoral-representation equal-representation-in-house political-question-doctrine population-based-apportionment standing standing-doctrine us-constitution-amendment-14-section-2 us-constitution-article-1-section-2 vote-dilution voting-power-dilution Do U.S. CONST. amend. XIV, § 2, and U.S. CONST. art. I, § 2, require that each Member of the House of Representatives be elected from constituencies c…
23-7713 Calvin K. Wilson v. Florida Florida 2024-06-13 Denied exclusionary-rule false-statements fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware judicial-integrity law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that was based in part on false stat…
23-7372 Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion professional-disciplinary-proceedings sixth-amendment standing Question not identified
23-7074 Venus Moore v. Delaware Merit Employee Relations Board, et al. Delaware 2024-03-28 Denied ada-accommodation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination interactive-process reasonable-accommodation veterans-readjustment-act vevraa Did the defendant have a legal obligation to engage in a flexible interactive process with the plaintiff under the Americans Disabilities Act?
23A850 Benjamin F. Whiteman v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual due-process habitual-offender mandatory-minimum sentencing-statute Whether a state sentencing statute that mandates consecutive sentences for habitual offenders without judicial discretion violates due process and con…
23A819 Sidikatu Raji v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal preliminary-injunction Whether a district court abuses its discretion in denying a motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction when reviewing the underlying factual findings…
23-6852 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case?
23-864 Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, aka Bobby Henon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain standing takings Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying the plaintiff's motion to defer ruling on summary judgment to allow for the deposition of …
23-855 Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. Delaware 2024-02-08 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure Whether a pro se defendant in a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding has full 1st Amendment rights
23A637 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete 401k-plan erisa fiduciary-duty prohibited-transactions service-providers third-party-services Whether Section 406(a) of ERISA prohibits employee benefit plans from entering into arms-length service contracts with third-party providers that are …
23-6444 David D. Madriz, Jr. v. Adam Aron, et al. Delaware 2024-01-09 Denied chancery-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances interlocutory-appeal standing stockholder-litigation supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Delaware failed to follow Delaware Chancery Court's procedures
23A612 Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference
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…
23-6369 Joseph R. Cyr v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied burden-of-proof conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions malice-aforethought sandstrom-standard sandstrom-v-montana Whether the trial court's jury charge violated the defendant's due process rights by creating an impermissible conclusive presumption that relieved th…
23-6344 Michael Broomer v. Delaware Delaware 2023-12-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment trial-counsel Questions Presented
23-6306 Devon Austin Earl v. Brandon Harris, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied civil-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process false-arrest forma-pauperis jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations university-police issue being raised
23-595 Peter R. Hall v. Michael J. Geoffrey Fulton, et al. Delaware 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights due-process foreign-corrupt-practices-act fraud fraudulent-concealment misrepresentation state-sponsored-fraud sua-sponte treaty-obligations When a Delaware court has ruled that a Delaware company committed 'a clear act of fraudulent concealment' on a foreign court and has also ruled there …
23A493 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion Whether federal courts must distinguish between 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' when evaluating untimely filing of a notice of appeal during extr…
23-6047 Ralph Reed v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure state-court state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the State of Delaware's denial of Petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus violated his due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendm…
23A419 Anita Bryant v.Delaware County Treasurer, et al. Indiana 2023-11-09 Presumed Complete due-process indiana-code notice-requirements probate-jurisdiction property-rights tax-sale Whether due process and statutory notice requirements under Indiana law mandate invalidation of a tax sale when a county auditor fails to follow prope…
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…
23A404 Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 Whether absolute prosecutorial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence and defiance of a…
23-5867 Anita Bryant v. Delaware County Treasurer, et al. Indiana 2023-10-24 Denied beneficiary-standing civil-procedure constitutional-notice due-process estate-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice probate probate-court property-interest standing tax-sale-notice Whether one trial court can assume jurisdiction of an estate property in the possession and jurisdiction of a separate trial probate court without a c…
23A279 Steven M. Greenbaum, on Behalf of Himself Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-29 Presumed Complete judgment-execution section-1610 sovereign-immunity statutory-waiver terrorism-risk-insurance-act terrorist-assets Whether the United States' assertion of sovereign immunity under the common law sovereign immunity canon can override an unambiguous statutory waiver …
23-258 Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied business-of-insurance civil-rights federal-law federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-authority statutory-interpretation summons-power Whether the three statutory factors set forth in the first clause of § 1012(b) are the only proper factors to consider when determining whether a stat…
23-5585 Scott David Creech v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus rule-60-motion statute-of-limitations stone-v-powell Can a 60(b)(6) motion be considered a 60(b)(3) claim if it does not assert relief from judgment due to fraud, misrepresentation, or misconduct by an o…
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware 2023-09-12 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner When a state court of last resort denies a prisoner's attempt to obtain discovery and other hypotheses from evasive defendants, does the prisoner's in…
23M22 Anita Bryant v. Delaware County Treasurer, et al. Indiana 2023-08-28 Presumed Complete None
23-5260 Mary Beth Harcrow v. Clyde Harcrow, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied civil-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit interstate-enforcement judicial-notice protective-order vawa Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to recognize and enforce a Delaware domestic violence order under the Violence Against Wom…
23A85 Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. California 2023-07-28 Presumed Complete arbitration arbitrator-reserved-issues confirmation-of-award federal-arbitration-act finality-requirement partial-arbitration-award Whether a court may confirm a partial arbitration award that is not immediately final because the arbitrator has expressly reserved unresolved issues …
23A60 Delaware Department of Insurance v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5157 In Re Tracy Whitaker 2023-07-20 Denied constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-authority Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Mr. Whitaker authorization to file a second habeas corpus petition when his incarce…
23-5015 Jeffrey Kent v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified
22A1025 Wyatt Waldrop v. Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, Division of Family Services Delaware 2023-05-31 Presumed Complete None
22-7370 Donte Lamont Dingle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied criminal-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rule-16 fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware franks-violation jencks-material probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision conflicts with prior decisions of this Court and another United States Court of Appeals, including its own, on t…
22-7275 Matthew Jones v. Delaware Delaware 2023-04-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hate-crime judicial-branch law-enforcement police-misconduct standing takings Are the police in race, in business, in government authority, and in mass support still able to attempt to murder me decades later?
22-7246 Mikequale Miller v. Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack of Delaware, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process gideon-v-wainwright pro-se-litigant products-liability standing strict-liability Should a Pro Se Litigant in a products-liability case be given the same or similar Constitutional protection and liberties as Pro Se criminal defendan…
22-975 Debra-Ann Wellman v. HEB Grocery Company Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity sex-discrimination sexual-orientation title-vii Whether discrimination against an employee because of gender identity, sexual orientation, sex constitutes prohibited employment discrimination 'becau…
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure Whether the Court of appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is contrary to the decision of this Court
22-6862 Benjamin Young v. Alabama Alabama 2023-02-24 Denied capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the introduction of gang membership evidence in the culpability phase of a capital trial
22-6783 Meghan M. Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-15 Dismissed access-to-courts bar-dues civil-rights disciplinary-action due-process first-amendment free-speech reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom Whether the Third Circuit abused its discretion by denying a stay of civil-rights proceedings
22-6671 Rodney P. Mazzulla v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process franks-hearing Franks-v-Delaware ineffective-assistance reasonable-performance search-warrant Strickland-v-Washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-6584 Meghan M. Kelly v. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Third Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection reciprocal-discipline religious-beliefs self-incrimination standing whether-the-third-circuit's-rule-r.a-d-e.-16-violates-equal-protections
22-6440 Damian Thomas v. Delaware Delaware 2023-01-03 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and …
22-503 Gregory Stenstrom, et al. v. Delaware County Board of Elections Pennsylvania 2022-11-30 Denied civil-rights due-process election-fraud election-law election-law-violation judicial-review poll-watcher-standing spoliation spoliation-of-evidence standing Is the spoliation of election materials and evidence evidence of election fraud?
22-505 Tamika J. Pledger v. Gloria Geither, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment affidavit arrest-warrant auto-accident civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process frank-v-delaware no-fault-auto-insurance probable-cause toxicology Does Affidavit for Application for Arrest Warrant include false-statements-knowingly-and-intentionally, probable-cause, due-process, frank-v-delaware,…
22A476 Meghan M. Kelly v. Delaware Office of Disciplinary Counsel Delaware 2022-11-30 Presumed Complete None
22-6146 In Re Maria Navarro-Martin 2022-11-23 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing state-action Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's civil rights claims against state officials for lack of standing
22-426 Transperfect Global, Inc., et al. v. Robert Pincus Delaware 2022-11-07 Denied contempt contempt-power corporate-litigation declaratory-judgment delaware-law due-process first-amendment judicial-declaration petition-clause Whether holding TPG in contempt because it filed a lawsuit in Nevada unconstitutionally burdened TPG's First-Amendment-right-to-petition
22-5888 Manolo Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus probable-cause Whether Petitioner was denied his U.S. Constitutional rights to due process
22A316 Robert Saunders v. Bethany A. Hall-Long, Lieutenant Governor, Delaware Board of Pardons, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-14 Presumed Complete None
22-5758 Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2022-10-04 Dismissed appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings Does the Louisiana statute banning the sale of petrol-based motor vehicles violate the dormant Commerce Clause?
22-286 Frieda Mae Rogers, fka Frieda Rogers Roen, et al. v. Wilmington Trust Company, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure erie-doctrine factual-stipulations federalism forum-selection judicial-admissions state-law statutes-of-limitations statutory-interpretation May-the-court-of-appeals-override-the-parties'-factual-stipulation
22-5676 Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where …
22-222 Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 Whether Franks authorizes federal courts to disregard a finding of probable cause made by a properly constituted state grand jury
22-224 Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 Questions Presented
22-5502 In Re Artis Carroll 2022-09-02 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment legal-representation mental-health right-to-counsel Whether the involuntary commitment of a defendant to a psychiatric hospital without the assistance of counsel violates the defendant's constitutional …
22A165 James L. Martin v. Superior Court of Delaware Delaware 2022-08-23 Presumed Complete None
22-5231 Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague-and-overbroad
21-8104 Frederick Williams v. Toll Brothers Builders, et al. Delaware 2022-06-09 Denied civil-procedure complaint-response default-judgment failure-to-answer judicial-discretion motion-for-default relief-demanded service-of-process time-limitation time-to-answer Is there something called a default judgment and how does it come into play?
21-8036 Jason Slaughter v. Delaware Delaware 2022-06-02 Denied constitutional-rights guilty-plea IAD-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default speedy-trial waiver Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default
21-1466 Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied 4th-amendment affidavit civil-rights damages-claim franks-v-delaware law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrant-affidavit Whether a law enforcement officer violates clearly established law under Franks v. Delaware if the officer does not include information in an affidavi…
21-7868 Lee Michael Pederson v. Phillip Frost, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied calder-v-jones civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction intentional-interference personal-jurisdiction venue-transfer witness-tampering Does Minnesota have the power to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Phillip Frost and CoCrystal Pharma, Inc. under Calder v Jones, where the…
21-7753 Levi Miller v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant Whether the proper remedy for a Franks v. Delaware violation is to purge misleading statements or supplement the affidavit with omitted information
21-1262 TitleMax of Delaware, Inc., dba TitleMax, et al. v. Richard Vague, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities Third Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied brick-and-mortar-stores conflict-with-scotus constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-lending legal-jurisdiction lending-laws out-of-state-lenders state-borders Whether the dormant Commerce Clause prohibits Pennsylvania from extending its lending laws beyond its borders
21-1188 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. North Carolina 2022-02-28 Denied arbitration-rights assignee-rights assignees contract-law discrimination-against-arbitration evidentiary-burden federal-arbitration-act preemption third-party-beneficiary Whether the FAA preempts a state rule of contract law that requires assignees seeking to enforce arbitration rights to meet a higher evidentiary burde…
21-1085 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied convenience convenience-standard forum-non-conveniens judicial-discretion mandamus patent-rights statutory-venue transfer venue venue-transfer Can a district court transfer a matter to a statutorily proscribed district based on expressly disregarding undisputed facts creating the proscription
21-947 Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss Fifth Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment Franks-v-Delaware-violation
21-6721 Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware Delaware 2021-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel Does it constitute ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to object to a state's chief witness's testimony that a non-testifying declarant stated t…
21-704 Oklahoma v. Samantha Ann Perales Oklahoma 2021-11-15 Denied 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled
21-6237 Glenn C. Damond v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-11-10 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-offenders life-without-parole non-homicide-offenses Whether the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits the imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of parole for …
21-6175 Shaun Short v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure disabled-car franks-hearing parked-car probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement extend to a parked and disabled car, or is it limited to its original justifications?
21-5662 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied 5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's constitutional rights departed from accepted judicial standards
21-308 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2021-08-31 Denied constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces…
21-5522 Meghan Kelly v. Donald J. Trump Delaware 2021-08-30 Denied civil-procedure establishment-clause executive-order free-exercise-of-religion government-religion mootness religious-freedom-restoration-act ripeness service-of-process standing substitution-of-parties Whether failure to serve the brief was fatal error
21-5416 Donnell Bledsoe v. Facebook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petition-government social-media viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment protects the right of individuals to petition the government for redress of grievances against social media platforms that…
21-5357 Sandra Harmon v. Department of Finance, Sussex County, Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied administrative-closure appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court-order due-process final-order judicial-misconduct jurisdiction notice-of-appeal third-circuit-court Whether the Third Circuit Court can create a reason unsupported by the District Court Judge that the docket was mistakenly marked closed and rule admi…
21-5339 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant-evidence slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising claims of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal …
21-113 UJ-Eighty Corporation v. City of Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals Indiana 2021-07-27 Denied constitutional-law due-process economic-self-interest municipal-regulation regulatory-power rivals self-interested-entity standing zoning zoning-ordinance Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the government from vesting an economically self-interested entity with regulatory power over its rivals
21-5167 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights under the Bill of Rights departed from accepted judicial standards
21-5150 John B. Freitas v. Bank of America Ninth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation court-officer-accountability due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct racketeering real-estate-dispute res-judicata void-altered-defective-deeds Whether local-state-federal-court-officers should be held accountable for criminal-conduct-through-racketeering
20-1796 Justin Strolis v. Lucas Heise Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied civil-rights co-defendant-identification fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment witness-identification Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a presumption of credibility to a co-defendant's identification of the plaintiff in a malicious prosecu…
20-8349 Thomas Gordon v. Delaware Delaware 2021-06-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
20-1761 Jennifer Berrier, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry v. Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission Third Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied compact-clause constitutional-law delaware-river-commission delaware-river-joint-toll-bridge-commission interstate-compact sovereign-authority state-sovereignty third-circuit-court-of-appeals Do compacting States, simply by creating an interstate compact, relinquish all sovereign authority over that compact entity unless expressly reserved?
20-8129 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising certain claims on direct appeal constitutes a substantial den…
20-8083 Derrick Baer v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision …
20-7833 In Re Demarcus Wright 2021-04-22 Denied dna-evidence dna-match due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus inconclusive-evidence judicial-review perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Has prejudice been shown where the prosecuting attorney allowed false evidence and inaccurate information to go uncorrected?
20-7803 Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-19 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the federal and state laws predicated on the Constitutionally-questionable Gun Control Act of 1968 are unconstitutional or illegal, and whethe…
20-7744 Millard Price v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court Question not identified
20-7667 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied 5th-circuit falsified-evidence franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sentencing-guidelines wiretap wiretap-evidence When a law enforcement agent falsifies and misrepresents wiretap evidence to establish probable cause for a second wiretap, can a reviewing court rely…
20-7658 Johnny Rice v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance standing Was trial counsel ineffective when he failed to suppress the affidavit due to the insufficiency of Count I and Rape, and when counsel failed to seek a…
20-1181 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland Maryland 2021-02-25 Denied de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema…
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42-U.S.C-§1983?
20-7063 Pablo Damiani-Melendez v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied certiorari conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-challenge self-representation sixth-amendment supreme-court-review Whether the trial court violated Melendez's Sixth Amendment right under the United States and Delaware Constitution when it denied his verbal request …
20-1053 Ronald Dewayne Pitts v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-03 Denied affidavit credibility-reliability due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny probable-cause search-warrant undisclosed-sources Whether a Search Warrant Affidavit that failed to set forth probable cause can survive meaningful scrutiny
20-889 The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied article-iii-standing chilled-speech civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action standing Whether the Third Circuit violated clearly established precedent, in conflict with other Circuits, in denying Article III standing by considering the …
20-6697 Damon O’Neil v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the modified Franks v. Delaware 438 U.S. 154 (1978) rule announced by the Eighth Circuit allowing for deletion and retroactive replacement of …
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-6366 James W. Riley v. Delaware Delaware 2020-11-18 Dismissed 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation Whether the Delnusace Supceme Court's rule that alu lnoligent defendanct must accept his teal counsel's decision to plea coutty to ficst degcee capita…
20-6056 Matthew Jones v. Jose Capiro Delaware 2020-10-16 Dismissed 8th-amendment abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-psychiatrist due-process judicial-process legal-frivolity malicious-prosecution medical-misdiagnosis section-1983-claim standing Did the lower Courts correctly use the 10-delaware-code-subsection-8803
20-5987 William J. Truesdale v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-09 Denied batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection neil-challenge peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing Whether a state trial court's brief colloquy and abbreviated review of evidence relevant to a Batson challenge satisfied its obligation under step thr…
20-445 Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. Delaware 2020-10-07 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether a trial court can disregard the Whitley-factors in an Eighth-Amendment-excessive-force case
20-317 Dakai Chavis v. Delaware Delaware 2020-09-10 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant…
20-5425 Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York New York 2020-08-20 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Was defense counsel ineffective for consenting to the prosecutor's extremely untimely request for a DNA sample?
20-5107 Vernon Montgomery v. Delaware Delaware 2020-07-20 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review court-review due-process judicial-duty legal-argument perjury probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does a State's appellate court have to address the contentions of its appellant in its opinion?
19-8864 Calvin D. Williams v. Samson Resources Corporation Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied bivens bivens-action civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority federal-procedure judicial-authority judicial-conduct procedural-due-process Are judges bound by ABA-Rule-2.15, Judicial-Canons-1-5, and FRCP-Rule-46 while under color-of-federal-authority?
19-1394 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
19-1349 George L. Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee for the Estate of HomeBanc Corp. v. Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code collateral collateral-liquidation creditor-protection financial-crisis repurchase-agreements safe-harbor statutory-interpretation Whether the Bankruptcy Code's safe harbor language of limitation should be enforced as written or the statute interpreted as though the language of li…
19-8632 Sandra Rumanek v. Sherry R. Fallon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied 14th-amendment 15th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-amendments equal-protection fraud-on-the-court judges-liability judicial-immunity obstruction-of-justice pro-se-litigation Does the law shielding judges, officers of the court and state actors from personal liability in a civil rights suit facilitate and encourage bad acto…
19-1312 Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's 'Unfettered Discretion' standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' 'Rational Basis Test' s…
19-8423 Christopher Gies v. Ohio Ohio 2020-05-08 Denied fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause probation-search reasonable-suspicion statutory-compliance warrantless-search warrants-clause Does a warrantless probation search conducted outside the scope of an authorizing state regulation and not authorized by a condition of probation, and…
19-8350 Christopher R. Desmond v. Delaware Third Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied appointment-clause appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-law delaware-judges judicial-qualifications judicial-selection separation-of-powers standing state-judicial-appointments state-judiciary whether-delaware-judges-appointed-unconstitutionally
19-7988 Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p…
19-7964 Varis R. Aizupitis v. Delaware Delaware 2020-03-11 Denied attorney-client-privilege confidential-materials constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defect criminal-process defense-counsel due-process federal-judiciary federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strategic-intentions structural-defect structural-error Whether the release of confidential materials by defense counsel creates a structural defect in a criminal process where the release is contrary to th…
19-7938 In Re Aretha Townsend 2020-03-10 Denied all-writs-act bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-review government-officials judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge procedural-dismissal standing writ-of-certiorari Whether District Judge May erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint as frivolous
19-1083 Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. Delaware 2020-03-04 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection Whether the Delaware Supreme Court's application of sovereign immunity unconstitutionally places state financial interests above individual rights
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7728 Wayne English v. Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied chose-in-action civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights claims-transfer common-law contract corporate-securities damages mitigation mitigation-doctrine party-standing securities standing Whether creditors and debtors, plaintiffs and defendants, and parties in interest are allowed, required, or exempt from instituting the mitigation doc…
19-1014 Teresa Berry v. Delaware County Sheriff's Office Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process jail-conditions medical-care medical-policy medical-training municipal-liability policy training withdrawal Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in finding the municipality not liable under 42 USC §1983
19-6856 James W. Riley v. Delaware Delaware 2019-12-05 Denied capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion Should Abns courct extend Ts Hucsh wv. Florida cubug
19-6837 Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony Whether the state of Delaware can withhold exculpatory evidence relating to the state's office of medical examiners officials, denying true evidence f…
19-6766 Miles Barton Nichols v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant Whether a finding of recklessness should be inferred where omissions are critical to probable cause
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-6753 Benitez Auguarius Moody v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied affidavit-challenge deliberate-falsehood due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware intentional-falsehoods intentional-falsity probable-cause search-warrant Whether the characterization of deliberate falsehoods in a search warrant affidavit as mere imprecision eviscerates the right of a defendant as enunci…
19-5883 Richard Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a 'Substantial Preliminary Showing' That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing in …
19-309 John C. Carney, Governor of Delaware v. James R. Adams Third Circuit 2019-09-06 Judgment Issued civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-appointments judicial-independence judicial-qualifications judicial-selection party-affiliation political-balance political-party standing state-constitution state-sovereignty Does the First Amendment invalidate a longstanding state constitutional provision that limits judges affiliated with any one political party to no mor…
19-5488 Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. Delaware 2019-08-06 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S…
19-156 Diego Baldemar Islas v. Texas Texas 2019-08-02 Denied blood-seizure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware misleading-by-commission misleading-by-omission probable-cause schmerber-v-california search-and-seizure warrant-requirements Does the holding of Franks v. Delaware forbid misleading by omission as well as misleading by commission?
19-155 Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified…
19-5243 Larry Marvel v. Delaware Delaware 2019-07-19 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense
19A57 John C. Carney, Governor of Delaware v. James R. Adams Third Circuit 2019-07-15 Presumed Complete None