| 25A876 |
Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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 |
1. Whether the "materiality " prong of Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154
(1978), is satisfied when a search warrant affidavit recklessly omits a confid… |
| 25A848 |
Mohamed Ahmed Hassan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-23 |
Application |
case-load criminal-conviction federal-defenders ninth-circuit sentencing-review writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25-846 |
Reed Christensen v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
amendment-violations constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment eighth-circuit federal-jurisdiction jan6-misconduct |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in agreeing that a federal district court does not have jurisdiction to judge unconstitutional actions … |
| 25-6528 |
Victor Shelton v. Department of Justice |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
agency-discretion civil-rights-act department-of-justice federal-financial-assistance judicial-review nondiscretionary-duty |
1. Does the U.S. Department of Justice have a nondiscretionary duty to investigate civil rights complaints submitted by complainants who allege discri… |
| 25A783 |
Crystal Greenlaw v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Application |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process sentence-reduction |
Question not identified. |
| 25A781 |
Joquetta Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Application |
conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability |
Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil… |
| 25A758 |
Sean Paul Baker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Application |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-rule-412 sexual-abuse witness-credibility |
Question not identified. |
| 25A743 |
Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A731 |
Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 25-722 |
Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
administrative-law agency-disclosure foia-exemptions government-transparency national-security records-search |
In response to requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding potential domestic surveillance abuse, the respondent agenci… |
| 25-697 |
Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Pending |
antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, under the NPA, an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA JOA needs another Attorney General written consent to be lawful or to be en… |
| 25-649 |
Tamim Shansab v. Nasir Shansab, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
continuing-violations-doctrine due-process evidence-tampering rule-12b6 statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
1. On October 16, 2025, the United States Department of Justice disclosed its indictment of previous National Security Advisor (N-SA) to President Don… |
| 25A661 |
Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 25-621 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
attempted-kidnapping attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-act |
Can the Federal Government's get away with attempt kidnaping, multiple attempted murder, terrorist act and Human Rights violations on an American Citi… |
| 25-6251 |
Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of
right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the
opportu… |
| 25A623 |
Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud |
Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud |
| 25-612 |
Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice |
Wisconsin |
2025-11-25 |
Pending |
criminal-record expungement federal-law firearms-prohibition state-law statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the word "expunged" in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B)(ii) apply to all expungements under state law, or does an expungement under state law have to… |
| 25-6147 |
Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
administrative-remedies freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review pro-se-petition summary-dismissal |
Whether the court of Appeals may summarily dismiss a Petitioner's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) claim on the ground that "any issues which could b… |
| 25-572 |
James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity |
1. Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias
and procedural disregard toward pro se litigants,
resulting in dismissal despite detailed factual … |
| 25-567 |
Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Granted |
article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment |
Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa… |
| 25A435 |
The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
internal-revenue-service nominee-theory property-rights religious-organization tax-levy tax-lien |
Whether the IRS may impose a tax lien and levy on a religious organization's property based on the theory that the organization is a nominee for taxpa… |
| 25A412 |
Jamaur Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
certiorari legal-preparation petition-filing professional-obligations supreme-court time-extension |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on counsel's professional obligations an… |
| 25A393 |
Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-secrecy agency-action foia glomar-response public-scrutiny records-search |
Whether an agency can issue a 'Glomar response' to a FOIA request without conducting any search for potentially releasable records |
| 25A392 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error equitable-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Whether 38 U.S.C. § 503 permits equitable relief for veterans when a VA Regional Office commits clear and unmistakable error in adjudicating a benefit… |
| 25A385 |
Carter Page v. Kash Patel, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights fbi fourth-amendment statute-of-limitations surveillance time-barred |
Whether a plaintiff can pursue civil claims for alleged Fourth Amendment violations arising from purported surveillance misconduct when the claims are… |
| 25-5769 |
Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 25A337 |
Jeffrey Andrews v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
clean-water-act environmental-regulation permit-violation sackett-precedent waters-of-united-states wetlands |
Whether the Second Circuit's test for determining 'waters of the United States' under the Clean Water Act conflicts with the Supreme Court's interpret… |
| 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 a rule for its members can immunize the rule, and members' adherence to it, from being considered a cons… |
| 25A313 |
Lairon Graham v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit |
Whether an appellate court's sua sponte reliance on an unargued theory violates the party presentation principle and due process rights of a criminal … |
| 25-329 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
attempted-murder court-influence fbi-liability federal-government human-rights terrorist-acts |
Can the Federal Government get away with attempted murder, terrorist acts, and Human Rights violations on an American Citizen and use the Federal Gove… |
| 25-5638 |
Okechukwu Amadi v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process judicial-review mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner Okechukwu Amadi's motion to compel the Department of Justice ("DOJ") to investigate allegati… |
| 25A265 |
Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Presumed Complete |
asset-seizure due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction receivership securities-law |
Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can obtain a prejudgment receivership seizing entire companies without demonstrating clear necessity an… |
| 25A262 |
Vincent Cannady v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge |
Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n… |
| 25A245 |
Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice |
Wisconsin |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
domestic-violence expungement federal-statute firearm-possession misdemeanor-conviction restoration-of-rights |
Whether a state court expungement that does not completely negate a prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction qualifies as an 'expungement' under… |
| 25-5473 |
Samreen Riaz v. Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2025-08-26 |
Dismissed |
administrative-law court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-obstruction material-errors |
B: Did 5th district court was in error, bias or abuse discretion when it gave opinion on appeal in a case No: F0870504 and posted Incorrect Date on Op… |
| 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. |
| 25-5307 |
In Re Sara Murray |
|
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
ada-compliance civil-rights disability-rights due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus |
I. Structural Conflict of Interest
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S… |
| 25-5295 |
David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Dismissed |
appeal-duration constitutional-procedure jurisdictional-timing notice-of-appeal prisoner-mailbox-rule procedural-prejudice |
1. For a notice of appeal it is sixty days from the notice to the petitioner?
2. Does the "prisioner mailbox rule" matter?
3. Does length of duratio… |
| 25A141 |
Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
Presumed Complete |
burden-shifting contributing-factor employment-discrimination retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection |
Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provision requires a plaintiff to prove that their protected activity was a substantial or m… |
| 25-5248 |
In Re Quay Phipps |
|
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
article-i-powers congressional-power constitutional-interpretation habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment |
1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including habeas corpus, due to the government's lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Article I, S… |
| 25A82 |
Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
ai-authorship copyright-office copyright-protection creative-works intellectual-property machine-generated-work |
Question not identified. |
| 25-40 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
attempted-murder fbi-liability federal-government human-rights-violations judicial-immunity terrorism |
Can the Federal Government's Judicial influence and the Courts' interference protect the Federal Bureau of Investigation from liability for a Terroris… |
| 24A1294 |
Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Presumed Complete |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment |
Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions, including non-violent offenses, violates the Se… |
| 24A1207 |
Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
americans-with-disabilities-act employment-discrimination pleading-standards retaliation supplemental-jurisdiction title-vii |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a heightened pleading standard to employment discrimination claims in contravention of Bell Atlantic Co… |
| 24-7296 |
Karen Hylton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge judicial-discretion legal-error pro-se-plaintiff sentencing-appeal victim-rights |
Whether a victim who is a plaintiff has the right to appeal a defendant's sentencing if they believe the trial court made a legal mistake or abused it… |
| 24-7247 |
Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights |
Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and … |
| 24A983 |
Delowar Mohammed Hossain v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
CIPA classified-information due-process material-support-terrorism need-to-know sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the government from denying defense counsel access to classified information used in the investigation… |
| 24-1059 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
bureau-of-investigations civil-rights conspiracy federal-government human-rights judicial-interference |
Can the Federal Government's judicial influence and courts' interference protect the Federal Bureau of Investigations from liability for alleged civil… |
| 24-1067 |
John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement |
Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t… |
| 24-6845 |
David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Dismissed |
case-transfer due-process false-evidence notice-clause plaintiff-amendment prosecutorial-immunity |
Does a plaintiff have a right to amend a case, and does a prosecutor have absolute immunity to create false evidence? |
| 24-6707 |
Eddie Turner v. Department of Justice, Office of Administration, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
access-to-courts filing-fees judicial-review mandamus procedural-technicalities sovereign-immunity |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court improperly dismissed a petition for mandamus based on sovereign immunity and procedural technical… |
| 24-6692 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access |
Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody… |
| 24A844 |
Elroy Wilkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Presumed Complete |
child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) requires that the depiction be made with intent to sexually arouse o… |
| 24-6599 |
William J. Trengove, Jr. v. Department of Justice |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
appellate-court-circuit-split discretionary-function-exemption federal-tort-claims-act government-negligence legal-duty statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Department of Justice can claim the discretionary function exemption (DFE) under 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) when demonstrating total negligence i… |
| 24-893 |
Eric Jamie Katz v. Department of Justice |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
administrative-judge due-process federal-circuit hostile-work-environment merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-retaliation |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying a rehearing en banc regarding a whistleblower's hostile work environment claim against the Department of … |
| 24-875 |
Lucas Sirois v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
appropriations-law compliance-standard criminal-prosecution federal-enforcement medical-marijuana state-authorization |
Whether the Department of Justice may criminally investigate and prosecute individuals licensed for medical marijuana under the Rohrabacher-Farr Amend… |
| 24-6432 |
Zemirah El v. Bernard Moore, dba Administrative Clerk |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
constitutional-authority diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity oath-of-office void-judgment |
Whether a judge refusing to take the oath of office loses judicial immunity and renders their orders void ab initio |
| 24-751 |
Giorgi Rtskhiladze v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure circuit-court damages-claim footnote-defamation forfeiture privacy-act |
Did Petitioner forfeit his Privacy Act damages claim where the damages issue was fully briefed and the decision finds no support in existing caselaw? |
| 24A674 |
Executive Office for Immigration Review, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-procedure-act asylum-seekers border-policy class-action-relief immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law |
Whether federal immigration officials may lawfully prevent noncitizens at the U.S.-Mexico border from applying for asylum through a 'metering' policy … |
| 24-6109 |
Kevin Lewis and Otis Ponds v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure department-of-justice evidence-standard statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-authorization |
What evidence must the government present in a wiretap application to establish that an authorized official approved the application, and what is the … |
| 24A552 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-appeals federal-agencies foia information-request public-records statutory-exemptions |
Whether the Freedom of Information Act permits federal agencies to withhold records based on statutory exemptions when requested by a paralegal seekin… |
| 24-603 |
Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment overtime-claims title-vii |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's decision regarding DEA employment discrimination claims under Title VII and discover… |
| 24-5999 |
Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review |
Whether a criminal conviction can be invalidated when the Solicitor General resigns and the Department of Justice waives its right to defend the convi… |
| 24-5965 |
David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
access-to-justice administrative-law court-filing judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules |
Whether a judge can improperly restrict court filings and impede access to judicial process |
| 24A449 |
Carla Davis, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-records national-security patient-privacy |
Whether the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments protect citizens' medical records from being classified under national security without access or… |
| 24A442 |
Dale Scott Heineman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing |
Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a sentencing hearing proceeds despite allegations of procedural defects and claims… |
| 24-479 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
case-caption circuit-court defendant-naming district-court judicial-procedure jurisdictional-issue |
Whether the Circuit Judges erred in changing the defendants' case caption and failing to detect a purported jurisdictional 'key' in a district court p… |
| 24-430 |
In Re Gregory Stenstrom, et al. |
|
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
due-process election-fraud equal-protection first-amendment prosecutorial-discretion take-care-clause |
Does the Department of Justice's policy of deferring election fraud investigations violate constitutional duties and warrant judicial intervention to … |
| 24-5655 |
Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board |
Puerto Rico |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver |
Whether a waiver by the US Department of Justice under Supreme Court Rule 15 constitutes an admission of the illegality of a criminal conviction |
| 24A300 |
Esther Darnell v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
burden-shifting discovery-compliance employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas personal-knowledge summary-judgment |
Whether an attorney's conclusory declaration without personal knowledge can be used to support summary judgment in an employment discrimination case |
| 24-5531 |
Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction postal-accountability procedural-law sovereign-immunity |
Whether 39 U.S.C. §409(d) & (e) waive sovereign immunity for judicial officers and federal agencies acting on behalf of the USPS in violation of feder… |
| 24-237 |
Gabriel N. Schwartz v. Beauvallon Condominium Association, Inc. |
Colorado |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
attorney-fees fair-housing-act homeowners-association mask-mandate medical-privacy reasonable-accommodation |
Whether an HOA may require intrusive medical record disclosure as a condition for a reasonable accommodation exemption from a mask mandate under the F… |
| 24-105 |
Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards |
In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d… |
| 23A1115 |
Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-testimony department-of-justice federal-jurisdiction safety-threat supreme-court-review witness-protection |
Whether the Attorney General's discretionary authority under 18 U.S.C. § 3521 to provide witness protection can be compelled by the Supreme Court when… |
| 23-7466 |
Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi |
California |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Whether state court judges can defy orders of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| 23-7399 |
In Re Gilbert Martinez |
|
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure due-process enlargement-of-time judicial-discretion recusal recusal-standard rule-60-relief social-security-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Circuit court abused its discretion |
| 23-7279 |
Charles K. Wallace v. Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Dismissed |
authentication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-filings fraud habeas-corpus jury-trial standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the U.S. Department of Justice under a duty to enforce accurate federal court filings therein federal district courts to comply with 18 U.S.C. §102… |
| 23A929 |
Arkansas State Conference NAACP, et al. v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
political-process private-plaintiffs racial-discrimination redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act |
Whether private citizens can sue to challenge political processes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when alleging unequal racial access to the … |
| 23-7186 |
Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment in-camera-review judicial-system legal-proceeding meet-and-confer preliminary-injunction summary-judgment |
Whether permitted by Due Process shall a ruling and proceeding take place without a 'Meet and Confer'? |
| 23-7159 |
Thomas Joseph Buck v. Janice J. Compton |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
circuit-court circuit-court-rulings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements judicial-review legal-remedy standing |
What is the Supreme Court's duty when a Circuit Court introduces false statements into the facts of a case? |
| 23-7063 |
Ryan P. Givey v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause standing |
Can the Department of Justice refuse to take a criminal complaint of federal crimes from Givey? |
| 23A797 |
Marvin H. Johnson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Presumed Complete |
board-of-veterans-appeals disability-compensation effective-date jurisdiction pro-se veterans-benefits |
Whether the Veterans Court properly dismissed a pro se veteran's appeal for lack of jurisdiction when the appeal raised claims not previously presente… |
| 23A757 |
Breon Hicks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance due-process firearm-possession second-amendment unlawful-user |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(3), which criminalizes firearm possession by unlawful drug users, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 23A730 |
Darron Henderson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-work extension-of-time federal-defender good-cause supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the federal defender's supervisory responsibilities and pending appellate work constitute good cause for a 30-day extension to file a petition… |
| 23-837 |
Casey Campbell v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
de-novo-review federal-employee first-amendment judicial-admissions qualified-immunity religious-discrimination title-vii workplace |
Are employer statements on religious discrimination binding judicial admissions in a Title VII de novo review? |
| 23A704 |
Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review |
Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Ruan v. United States requires a different standard of review for criminal convictions involving controlled s… |
| 23-782 |
Kent Thomas Warren v. Department of Education |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights department-of-education discrimination due-process federal-financial-assistance legal-mandate loan-default non-discrimination student-loans |
Is the U.S. Department of Education lawfully permitted to mandate payment on student loans taken by a student when non-discriminatory conditions for f… |
| 23-6291 |
Pietro P. A. Sgromo, aka Peter Anthony Sgromo v. Leonard Gregory Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
arbitration arbitration-clause contract criminal-reference federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce lease-agreement public-policy waiver |
Does the residential lease agreement involve interstate commerce such that it falls within the Federal Arbitration Act? |
| 23-603 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. California Department of Justice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-taxation fraud free-speech judicial-misconduct rooker-feldman state-court-sanctions taxation |
Does Rooker-Feldman cutoff Petitioner's attack on fraudulent inducement to the state courts to enter fraudulent orders of sanctions against him, based… |
| 23A504 |
Fernando Diaz Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-statute hobbs-act section-924(c) supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery remains valid in light of the Supreme Court's vagueness and … |
| 23A497 |
KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference mine-safety national-cement-doctrine statutory-ambiguity |
Whether the National Cement doctrine of judicial remand for agency reinterpretation is unconstitutional and whether Chevron deference should be overru… |
| 23A500 |
Michael W. Bohannan v. Erica Redic, Texas Department of Justice-CID Law Library Supervisor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights court-sanctions in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's failure to strictly comply with Prison Litigation Reform Act procedural requirements warrants dismissal of a civil rights … |
| 23A478 |
Rufus E. Dennis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor |
Whether a circuit split exists regarding the proper interpretation of the elements of criminal attempt that conflicts with the Supreme Court's holding… |
| 23-549 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd… |
| 23-533 |
Jack Jordan v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure due-process federal-appeals fraud judicial-misconduct misconduct rule-60-motion standing summary-action summary-affirmance |
Whether a U.S. Court of Appeals may preclude appellant's filing of any brief and presentation of any oral argument |
| 23-429 |
Brett C. Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
civil-rights dna-evidence fraud-based-discovery heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey official-corruption section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a civil rights suit against officials who corruptly concealed evidence until time for appeal expired |
| 23A360 |
Michael S. Barth v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-intervention first-amendment judicial-records public-access search-warrant special-counsel |
Whether the First Amendment and common law right of public access requires judicial review of search warrant proceedings involving a former president'… |
| 23-379 |
John S. Barth v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process executive-discretion grand-jury political-corruption racketeering rico sovereign-immunity |
Do federal agencies have discretion to collude in racketeering crime? |
| 23-5737 |
Roger Wilson v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights history-and-tradition obergefell-v-hodges originalist-interpretation same-sex-marriage substantive-due-process unenumerated-rights |
Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson apply to same-sex marriage rights? |
| 23A313 |
Jack Jordan v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A306 |
Jenny Schieber, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5694 |
Orlando Peay v. Michael Burgess, Warden |
Michigan |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge malfeasance obstruction-of-justice res-judicata |
Did homicide detectives violate court order to discharge from confinement? |
| 23-5550 |
Joseph Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing |
Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was… |
| 23-5543 |
Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process federal-courts forgery hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation un-charter |
Did the United States Federal Government violate the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations when the corrupt Chief Judge of … |
| 23A216 |
Brett Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights-action declaratory-relief DNA-testing heck-bar innocence-claim section-1983 |
Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies when a plaintiff seeks declaratory relief and DNA testing to p… |
| 23-103 |
Bruce Ellis, et al. v. City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
attorney-general-certification civil-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction due-process federal-question federal-rule-civil-procedure solicitor-general takings vagueness-doctrine |
whether-federal-rule-civil-procedure-5.1(b)-requires-court-certification-of-unconstitutional-act |
| 23A97 |
Maxwell Rangel Joelson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5179 |
Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 23A34 |
Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
commandeering-states federal-preemption horseracing-integrity-and-safety-act private-entity-delegation tenth-amendment |
Whether Congress violates the non-delegation doctrine and the Tenth Amendment by delegating the creation and enforcement of federal regulations to a p… |
| 22-7838 |
Tori Smith v. Jehovah's Witnesses Organization, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
civil-rights defamation due-process hate-crimes judicial-bias racial-discrimination religious-persecution standing |
Whether the plaintiff, a Black woman, was unlawfully barred from filing a lawsuit against a White women's organization due to racial discrimination |
| 22-1176 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction rule-of-law standing |
Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia |
| 22-1152 |
Najam Azmat v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
28-usc-535 criminal-activity criminal-liability department-of-justice equal-justice immunity misprision-of-felony official-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the Department of Justice have an obligation to charge prosecutors and Federal Agents for criminal activity during investigations or prosecutions… |
| 22-1124 |
Christian Gilbert Tony Nadal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
civil-rights coram-nobis declaratory-judgment due-process federal-question fraud habeas-corpus machine-gun-regulation machine-guns second-amendment silencers |
Are catalogues advertising illegal machineguns and silencers fraudulent? |
| 22-7394 |
Mike Webb v. Department of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
administrative-law administrative-remedies agency-discretion agency-response civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment foia foia-request privacy-act pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether the failure of an agency to respond to a FOIA request violates due process |
| 22-7328 |
Carroll Wayne Haynes v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights consent-decree department-of-justice due-process federal-court prosecution |
Whether the U.S. Department of Justice and the federal court violated the Consent Decree by taking further steps in the prosecution under Art. 5(b), S… |
| 22-7332 |
In Re Michael Paul Martin |
|
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-findings constitutional-authority due-process economic-impact fair-notice federal-criminal-offense gonzales-v-raich interstate-commerce |
Whether there is proper Fair Notice under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) |
| 22-995 |
Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing |
Whether a harm to an intangible property interest is a sufficient injury to a business or property interest under RICO |
| 22-954 |
Justin Marcus Zinman v. California |
California |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech homeland-defense political-ideology second-amendment state-secrets takings |
Whether allowing a Progressive political ideology to influence the law violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment? |
| 22-876 |
Daniel L. Pohle v. Michael Pence, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process international-treaty presidential-powers supremacy-clause treaty-violation united-nations-convention |
Whether the President is bound by the Supremacy Clause to seek injunction against a state governor violating the CISG |
| 22-836 |
Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing |
Whether a Federal Court in a claim filed under Section 1983 can void a disbarment judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in which the disbarred … |
| 22-6911 |
In Re Bradley M. Cunningham |
|
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-defendant due-process extraordinary-circumstances pretrial-detainee standing state-law void-judgment |
Is the Petitioner entitled to benefit from existing state law and state supreme court decisions that all clearly provide for a finding of VOID JUDGMEN… |
| 22-774 |
Adam Delgado v. Department of Justice |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
breach-of-contract false-documentation foia government-liability official-misconduct perjury |
Whether the Federal government can breach a contract without justification and subsequently submit allegedly false documentation, evidence, and affida… |
| 22-6482 |
David John Thistle v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
article-v article-v-violation civil-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment domestic-terrorism due-process election-tampering federal-officers |
When Federal Elected or Appointed Officers of Federal or State Governments within the United States are aware of the unauthorized illegal changes to A… |
| 22-6469 |
In Re Kenneth Crawford, Jr. |
|
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
bill-of-rights civil-rights constitution constitutional-limits due-process enumerated-powers federal-government jurisdictional-elements legislative-power legislative-powers territorial-jurisdiction |
Does the Constitution limit the federal government and define the powers of the legislature? |
| 22-6338 |
Lucas Michael McNulty-Snodgrass v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
commerce-clause congressional-intent contraband drug-possession federal-preemption federalism jurisdictional-conflict Question not identified. separation-of-powers state-sovereignty |
Whether the United States Department of Justice and Federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute illicit drug possession crimes committed solely with… |
| 22-6322 |
Jaame Amun Re El v. FNU Melanson, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech inmate-rights prison-regulations special-mail standing statutory-law |
Is the constitution the law of the land? |
| 22-6293 |
Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay |
Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle? |
| 22-6283 |
James R. Turner v. Federal Aviation Administration, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction-dismissal psychiatric-disability standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals was justified by DISMISSING Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction |
| 22-6147 |
Eric Lee Porterfield v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights contract due-process standing takings |
Whether the petitioner has the same protections as an independent contractor |
| 22-433 |
The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court Whe… |
| 22-5901 |
William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Dismissed |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency |
Should a bankruptcy judge be obligated to grant due process to a debtor? |
| 22-364 |
Ryan Noah Shapiro v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
agency-bad-faith civil-procedure discovery discovery-standard federal-civil-procedure foia foia-request motion-for-summary-judgment rule-56(d) rule-56d standing summary-judgment |
Must a plaintiff facing a motion for summary judgment provide evidence that the movant has acted in bad faith before obtaining discovery under Rule 56… |
| 22-5861 |
Brent Evan Webster v. Oregon Division of Child Support |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
administrative-closure bankruptcy bankruptcy-dismissal child-support civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process standing trafficking trafficking-allegations |
Did the United States Bankruptcy Court error in dismissing the bankruptcy case of Brent Evan Webster? |
| 22-351 |
Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious civil-rights due-process inmate-compensation judicial-review standing |
Whether the Lower Courts' unconstitutional procedural departure conflicts with the prerequisite demand pursuant several holding of United States Appea… |
| 22-326 |
In Re Adam Bruzzese |
|
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process employment employment-action federal-agency government-employment mandamus-writ property-rights |
Did the ATF deprive Bruzzese of his property without due process? |
| 22-5770 |
Julian Okeayainneh v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-10-05 |
Dismissed |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies attestation-requirement civil-action disclosure-requirements foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review records-disclosure |
Whether the records provided to the petitioner through the FOIA process sufficiently complied with the FOIA's disclosure requirements and whether thos… |
| 22-5683 |
Gregory Scott Savoy v. Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
9th-amendment antipsychotics brain-integrity brain-shrinkage civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process government-tyranny medical-intervention ninth-amendment unenumerated-rights whistleblower |
Do Americans have an unenumerated right to retain a full-sized brain? |
| 22-5611 |
William A. White v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions disclosure due-process freedom-of-information-act judicial-review legal-jurisdiction public-interest standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the Seven Circus eXia Riding, Phe ony perseas' FOIA disclosure obstructions 'greatly Comfounded' under 5 USC 552(a)(4)(B) could be justified b… |
| 22-5578 |
Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review |
Whether a civil access-to-justice crisis exists |
| 22-91 |
Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav… |
| 22-43 |
Program Administrator of the New Hampshire Controlled Drug Prescription Health and Safety Program v. Department of Justice |
First Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
administrative-subpoena anti-commandeering commandeering drug-enforcement federalism healthcare-program prescription-drug-monitoring state-data state-official state-sovereignty |
Whether an administrative investigative subpoena issued under 21 U.S.C. §876 to a state official commanding her to act in her official capacity to obt… |
| 22-5063 |
Michael A. Tulipat v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
7th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment military-discharge military-justice rule-42b standing |
Does Rule 42(b) of the Rules of the Court of Federal Claims, 'Failure to Prosecute' overrule the 7th Amendment? |
| 22-5009 |
Larry Welenc v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exemptions foia foia-exemption freedom-of-information-act investigative-procedure judicial-review standing statute-of-limitations |
Can a US District Court Judge determine that an excised document released under FOIA consists only of a blank sheet and page number falls under a FOIA… |
| 21-8246 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process |
Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act are unconstitutional |
| 21-8200 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance kimmelman-v-morrison privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure standing strickland-v-washington warrant-particularity |
whether-counsel-provided-ineffective-assistance-for-failing-to-file-a-meritorious-motion-to-suppress |
| 21-1570 |
Randall L. Spade v. Department of Justice |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
administrative-review exclusive-liability federal-employees-compensation-act labor-secretary-decision statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction work-related-injuries |
Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to address what injuries fall within the scope of FECA's statutory scheme |
| 21-8064 |
Antonio D. Shannon v. Randall Hepp, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
counsel-obligations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment |
whether-the-defendant-has-the-right-to-testify |
| 21-7968 |
Thurman Jerome Brown v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Dismissed |
13th-amendment binding-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extrajudicial-proceedings judicial-discretion personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
What is the full legal effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to grant certiorari? |
| 21-1415 |
John Doe v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-right-to-informational-privacy constitutional-rights freedom-of-information-act government-records informational-privacy privacy-act relevance single-publication-rule statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Does the single publication rule deprive citizens of their statutory right to timely Privacy Act relief? |
| 21A675 |
Randall L. Spade v. Department of Justice |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1389 |
Jeremy Bates v. Donald J. Trump, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Rehearing |
article-iii-standing attorney-general citizen-taxpayer-suit civil-rights derivative-standing due-process executive-power presidential-misconduct separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a citizen may have standing to sue the President derivatively on behalf of the United States |
| 21-1364 |
Mordechai Korf, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure department-of-justice filter-team government-attorneys judicial-review search search-and-seizure work-product-protection |
Whether filter-team procedures like the ones in this case are invalid because they undermine the attorney-client-privilege |
| 21-1320 |
Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution |
Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications |
| 21-7304 |
Wilfredo Torres v. New York City Police Department, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Dismissed |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct presidential-power standing torture-allegations warrantless-search warrantless-surveillance |
Whether United States Judge Ronnie Abrams and United States Magistrate-Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox violated rules of ethics and my right to due process … |
| 21-1175 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-order default-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure human-rights judicial-review state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether the DC Appeal Court can ignore inexcusable neglect by the Superior Court for failure to apply Default Judgement |
| 21-1042 |
David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the 'reasonableness' standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland-v-Washington,-Hill-v-Lockhart permits a … |
| 21A358 |
Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1017 |
Carolyn Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
civil-rights classified-evidence electronic-surveillance in-camera-review mass-surveillance national-security nonjusticiable standing standing-doctrine state-secrets-privilege |
Whether the state-secrets privilege can be used to exclude public evidence establishing standing and dismiss a case as nonjusticiable |
| 21-6853 |
Charles N. Belssner v. Linda Gittings |
Nevada |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
ada-accommodations ada-section-504 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-tempore section-504 standing transcript |
Should the pro tempore have scheduled a hearing with only 3 day notice after being cancelled 3 times? |
| 21-925 |
Adolfo Sandor Montero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-limitations due-process fraud government-fraud government-overreach standing statutory-interpretation tax-regulations |
Whether the US government can circumvent constitutional limitations and defraud ~320 million American citizens |
| 21-6665 |
Steven William DeLia v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 21-827 |
Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof discriminatory-animus employee-rights employment-discrimination employment-rights federal-employment military-service protected-status reemployment-rights userra |
Whether the employee must prove that protected status or activity was a motivating factor or prove that the employer had hostility to military service… |
| 21-6267 |
Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Potomac Concrete Company, Inc., et al. |
Maryland |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection j-e-b-v-alabama jury-selection |
Whether the use of peremptory challenges removing available potential jurors of both the same race and same gender (White Men, White Women, also Black… |
| 21M45 |
Darek J. Kitlinski, et ux. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-6181 |
Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
abuse-of-power bribery civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation |
Did the United States District Court — Central District of California's Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez violate the United States Constitution when he… |
| 21-6062 |
Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission's comments take precedent over the plain, statutorily construed language of the United States Sentencing Guidelines |
| 21-6022 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
|
2021-10-21 |
Dismissed |
access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing |
Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)? |
| 21-6019 |
James Paul Arlotta v. His Holiness Pope Francis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Dismissed |
appearances-of-impropriety bankruptcy-court civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-questions court-jurisdiction due-process establishment-clause judicial-proceedings legal-review recusal |
Whether the court will adhere to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in light of the apparent conflicts of interest and impropriety involv… |
| 21-5974 |
Eduviges Ayala-Bello and Walter Velez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-policy alienage alienage-classification citizenship-distinction due-process equal-protection immigration rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
Whether agency policies that distinguish on the basis of citizenship automatically receive rational-basis-review |
| 21-5802 |
David A. Bridgewater v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
brooklyn-savings-bank compassionate-release contractual-principle department-of-justice first-step-act plea-agreement public-interest statutory-right statutory-waiver |
Does the rule of United States v. Mezzanatto preclude application of the contractual principle expressed in Brooklyn Savings Bank v. O'Neil? |
| 21-5697 |
Shawn Mayreis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial right-to-counsel strickland voir-dire |
Whether prejudice can be presumed when counsel's defective advice results in an unlawful and total closure of the courtroom to a defendant's family me… |
| 21-412 |
Samantha V. Roussell v. Bank of New York Mellon |
Florida |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud impartiality judicial-review mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protections of the 5th and 14th Amendmen… |
| 21-276 |
Safehouse v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
commerce-clause controlled-substances-act federalism felony-statute medical-supervision opioid-crisis overdose-prevention public-health public-health-intervention |
Does 21 U.S.C. § 856(a) make it a felony to offer medically supervised consumption services for the purpose of preventing opioid overdose deaths? |
| 21-239 |
Daniel Loring v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-misconduct legal-malpractice obstruction-of-justice public-record |
Whether Petitioners' filing was improperly removed and deleted from the public record |
| 21-227 |
Venus Y. Springs v. North Carolina State Bar |
North Carolina |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-litigation due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline north-carolina standing |
Whether the posting of a deposition video to educate pro se litigants is protected by the First Amendment |
| 21-5381 |
Lou Tyler v. PHH Mortgage Corporation, dba PHH Mortgage Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process foreclosure homeowner-rights loan-modification mortgage mortgage-foreclosure predatory-lending standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Texas statute of limitations has expired on the defendants' ability to pursue foreclosure proceedings against the plaintiff |
| 21-93 |
Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
9-11-transparency article-iii-standing attorney-general department-of-justice federal-judicial-disqualification-statute federal-procedure government-accountability judicial-disqualification legislative-history recusal supervisory-power |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings to such … |
| 21-86 |
Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Judgment Issued |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law federal-courts federal-trade-commission judicial-review jurisdiction removal-protections separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's structure… |
| 20-7975 |
Larry Welenc v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure district-court document-redaction foia-exemption freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review |
Can a US District Court Judge determine that an excised Document released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, consisting only of a b… |
| 20-7913 |
Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense |
Whether the First Step Act's amendment redefining 'serious drug offense' applies to the ACCA |
| 20-1527 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process effective-communication government-agency mental-disability reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification |
Is communication to facilitate understanding regarding procedure by one who suffers from a mental disability, such as anxiety disorder, a statutory re… |
| 20-7736 |
John H. Schoppe v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-claim due-process injunctive-relief pro-se standing |
Whether the petitioner has standing to bring claims against the defendants for alleged abuse, negligence, incompetence, conspiracy, malfeasance, and d… |
| 20-7689 |
Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misconstruction |
Does the court's misconstruction of the habeas corpus claim violate due process of law? |
| 20-1404 |
Kenyon J. Garrett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cumulative-error-doctrine due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud misconduct witness-tampering |
Whether the government can use direct evidence of threats, intimidation, coercion, fraud, and witness tampering to deprive a petitioner of his 5th and… |
| 20-7498 |
Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing |
Whether the court properly denied COA |
| 20-1282 |
In Re Kaysha F. N. Dery |
|
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus immigration immigration-law indigenous-rights terrorism torture |
Is it constitutional to detain someone who is fleeing torture and terrorism? |
| 20-1079 |
Richard E. Boggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights federal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review |
Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents? |
| 20-989 |
City of Newark, New Jersey v. Fraternal Order of Police, Newark Lodge No. 12 |
New Jersey |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process equal-protection municipal-authority police-oversight racial-discrimination |
Does a state supreme court violate the Equal Protection Clause by reading state statutes to preclude its largest city from protecting Black citizens f… |
| 20-835 |
Warren Rosenfeld v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable |
| 20-795 |
New York, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
administrative-law byrne-jag-program civil-rights federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-enforcement spending-clause statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Did Congress authorize DOJ to condition Byrne-JAG-funding on acceptance of DOJ's three new requirements? |
| 20-796 |
City of New York v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
administrative-law byrne-jag-grant civil-procedure federal-grants federal-immigration-enforcement government-funding immigration separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Do the three substantive conditions the DOJ has imposed on Byrne JAG program eligibility exceed its authority under the statute? |
| 20-6587 |
In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan |
|
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health |
Whether the petitioner should be released from federal custody due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the petitioner's underlying medical conditions |
| 20-791 |
Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
access-act civil-remedies civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act off-reservation-conduct religious-worship tribal-sovereign-immunity |
Is a Native American tribe sovereignly immune from a civil suit for damages caused by the off-reservation violations by its police officers of the 'pl… |
| 20-718 |
Mario Nelson Reyes-Romero v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
attorney-fees civil-rights criminal-procedure eaja equal-access-to-justice-act government-misconduct hyde-amendment standing united-states-position |
Does the Hyde Amendment inquiry into whether 'the position of the United States was vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith' encompass actions of non-pr… |
| 20-6304 |
Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
classified-information classified-information-procedures-act criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion national-security right-to-present-defense security-clearances |
Where the plain text of 18 U.S.C. app. 3 §4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) does not require that any motion be determined ex part… |
| 20-666 |
Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
byrne-jag-program civil-rights department-of-justice federal-funding federal-grants grant-conditions immigration immigration-compliance information-sharing state-and-local-government statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Department has statutory authority to impose the notice and access conditions on grantees that accept Byrne JAG awards |
| 20-529 |
Richard E. Boggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights enforcement-scope fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review standing |
Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents? |
| 20-6009 |
Lamar Thornton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-leave-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis petition-for-writ-of-certiorari pro-se-filing sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 20M32 |
Richard W. Rose v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-29 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|