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25A918 Deon D. Colvin v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-13 Application None Question not identified.
25-961 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale QUESTIONS PRESENTED On October 3, 2025 this Court granted the petition for certiorari in Pung v. Isabella Cty., Mich. Case No. 25-95 ("Pung ") where …
25-951 Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-10 Pending anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court 1. May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congress's command (co…
25A889 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2026-02-05 Application None Question not identified.
25-6735 May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-05 Pending appellate-procedure default-judgment judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct procedural-rules writ-of-certiorari 1. Supreme Court Rule 20 and Rules of Judicial Conduct Rule 1.1, "a judge(s) shall comply with the law, including the Code of Judicial Conduct ". In r…
25-6733 May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-05 Pending appellate-procedure default-judgment emergency-motions judicial-conduct summons-and-complaints supreme-court-rule 1. Supreme Court Rule 20 and Rules of Judicial Conduct Rule 1.1, "a judge(s) shall comply with the law, including the Code of Judicial Conduct ". For …
25-872 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibits possession of firearms in its public parks, which consist of almost 24,000 acres of mostly wooded land across 420 …
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-21 Pending circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding…
25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25A738 Gerald Kemondre Taylor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-22 Application arms-bearing-conduct bruen-test burden-of-proof historical-tradition machinegun-ban second-amendment Question not identified.
25-699 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-17 Pending arbitral-award circuit-split foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver international-arbitration new-york-convention When a foreign sovereign that is a party to the New York Convention agrees to arbitrate a dispute governed by the Convention, does it impliedly waive …
25A686 Demetrius Green v. United States District of Columbia 2025-12-11 Application fourth-amendment law-enforcement pole-camera privacy search-and-seizure surveillance Question not identified.
25A667 Nicole Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper Publishing Company, LLC District of Columbia 2025-12-08 Application certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
25-6256 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-11-26 Pending appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause In Artis v. District of Columbia, 138 S. Ct. 594 (2018), this Court held that states may not dismiss 28 U.S.C. § 1332 claims denied supplemental jur…
25-564 Scott Meyer v. Gayla Rahn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion qualified-immunity second-amendment sovereign-immunity 1. Whether the grant of the motion to dismiss was an abuse of discretion, not based upon the undisputed facts presented, and supported by only the e…
25-6031 Michael McAfee v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF A HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDING IS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT A MAN IS NOT UNJUSTEY IMPISONED; AND IF FOR SOME UNJUSTIFIABLE REASONS AS IN…
25-483 Edward Jacob Lang, et al. v. Daniel Thau, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-20 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rules incarceration-rights judicial-discretion service-of-process The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—reciting its awareness that the Petitioners /Plaintiffs were incarcerated and even some in soli…
25A437 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-10-16 Presumed Complete artis-tolling certiorari-extension federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court should apply the tolling provision under 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) to preserve state law claims dismissed due to statute of limita…
25-460 Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-16 Denied covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale 1. Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the decision of its lower court to ratify the sale of Petitioner 's real property and the su…
25-5856 Cheryl Steele v. Micah Salb District of Columbia 2025-10-10 Rehearing constitutional-notice due-process judicial-procedure personal-service property-rights writ-of-execution In the ruling of MENNONITE BOARD OF MISSIONS, Appellant v. Richard C. ADAMS, the Supreme Court of the United States held that knowledge of a pending s…
25-421 National Association for Gun Rights, et al. v. Ned Lamont, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-07 Pending common-use-test constitutional-interpretation firearms-regulation gun-rights heller-precedent second-amendment Whether a ban on the possession of AR-15-style rifles and firearm magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds—both of which are possessed by mil…
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…
25-5713 Emanuel Leyton Picon v. United States District of Columbia 2025-09-24 Pending age-restriction constitutional-rights due-process firearms-regulation right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms applies fully to 18-20-year-olds.
25-338 Simon Ateba v. Karoline C. Leavitt, in Her Official Capacity as Press Secretary to the President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Denied content-neutrality first-amendment judicial-review press-access speech-licensing viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether the existence of unbridled discretion in a speech-licensing regime is per se viewpoint discrimination or merely assessed for constitutional…
25-299 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-15 Denied appellate-court collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-review revenue-impact 1. Whether the appellate court committed error by overturning Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U.S. 88 (2004) by holding that any constitutional claim arising di…
25-287 Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia v. United States District of Columbia 2025-09-11 Denied appellate-review interests-of-justice judicial-discretion remand-standards section-2106 statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2106, Congress granted this Court and the courts of appeals broad authority to act in the interests of justice. The issue here is wh…
25-281 Patrick Byrne v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-10 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice defamation due-process fifth-amendment protective-order 1. In a civil defamation case where a discovery protective order is filed to shelter evidence of crimes, does a District Court err in affirming the di…
25-265 Alexander Gallo v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-09-09 Denied contracts-clause eviction-moratorium lucas-test penn-central-test property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether an eviction moratorium is a physical taking or appropriation of property? 2. Whether Petitioner's challenge to the District's eviction mor…
25-5576 Nadege Auguste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud I. Do employment and its employee benefits constitute the "money or property" of the employer for the purpose of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.…
25-248 District of Columbia v. R.W. District of Columbia 2025-09-03 Pending fourth-amendment investigative-stop judicial-review law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances 1. Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude a fact known to the officer, or instead must…
25-206 Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. District of Columbia 2025-08-20 Rehearing anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction 1. The primary question presented is whether a criminal court in a state can renege on the dismissal of criminal cases when a prior judge and/or the…
25-198 Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Pending ammunition-ban common-use firearms-regulation property-rights second-amendment takings-clause 1. Whether a ban on the possession of exceedingly common ammunition feeding devices violates the Second Amendment. 2. Whether a law dispossessing cit…
25-177 Vito Manente v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation internal-revenue labor-taxation sixteenth-amendment sovereign-person The U.S. Const., art. 1, sec. 2, cl. 3 states that "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States ..." The U.S. Const…
25A163 Cheryl Steele v. Micah Salb District of Columbia 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete attorney-of-record en-banc-review judicial-procedure mandate-recall notice-requirements pro-se-representation Whether a pro se litigant can challenge a court of appeals mandate when not timely informed by counsel about potential en banc review options
25A147 Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. First Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association clarifies the standard for statutory preemption of stat…
25-131 David C. L. Walton v. Ashley Nehls Seventh Circuit 2025-08-04 Denied consent constitutional-rights eighth-amendment incarceration prison-official sexual-misconduct Whether the Eighth Amendment, which is interpreted according to "evolving standards of decency," permits a contrary rule that treats an incarcerated p…
25A63 District of Columbia v. R.W. District of Columbia 2025-07-16 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment investigative-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances Whether a reviewing court may consider all known facts, including a radio dispatch, when assessing the totality of circumstances for reasonable suspic…
25A39 Kevin Michael Jones v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Administration Fourth Circuit 2025-07-10 Presumed Complete administrative-law certiorari jurisdiction pro-se social-security supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a pro se litigant's multi-jurisdictional social security case involving alleged procedural errors…
25A38 Angela Powell v. Edmondson & Gallagher Property Services, LLC District of Columbia 2025-07-09 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
25-16 Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-03 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("DC Circuit") err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the Distri…
24-1298 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2025-06-24 Denied booz-allen-hamilton civil-rights discrimination fbi-collusion federal-government judicial-interference Can the Federal Government Judicial influence and the Courts interference to disregard all the rules of the Courts to protect a corporation from liabi…
24A1272 Benito M. Valdez v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete first-amendment husher jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the use of a white-noise machine during voir dire, without specific privacy concerns, violates a defendant's constitutional right to a public …
24-7480 Otis Ray Whitehead, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied constitutional-analysis felon-prohibition firearm-possession historical-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a court may uphold the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) based solely on Heller's presumptively lawful language without conducting hi…
24-7463 Mark Christian Wroblewski v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-18 Denied criminal-procedure executive-discretion mandamus-petition prosecutorial-discretion rule-48-dismissal standing-doctrine Whether a district judge has authority to deny a government motion to dismiss with prejudice and whether a criminal defendant has standing to challeng…
24-1258 Peter Judson v. Robert I. Friedman Massachusetts 2025-06-09 Denied 14th-amendment estate-planning fiduciary-duty irrevocable-trust property-rights uniform-principal-and-income-act Whether a Settlor of an irrevocable trust has a 14th Amendment right to set estate terms without fiduciary intervention and whether a national standar…
24-1257 Martin Akerman v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-06-09 Denied administrative-law automated-enforcement confrontation-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-irregularities Whether the use of automated systems like 'Speed Camera Doe' for issuing citations without human oversight violates procedural due process protections…
24-7312 Leavon Z. Reeves v. Oluchi Akunne Maryland 2025-05-29 Denied 14th-amendment adoption-fraud child-custody due-process social-worker-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case involving alleged adoption fraud and fraudulent testimony by a social worker that prevented th…
24-1213 In Re Bahig Bishay 2025-05-29 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief when sued in individual cap…
24-1206 Daryao Khatri v. Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-05-27 Denied age-discrimination causation-standard civil-rights-act eeoc-complaint personnel-actions supreme-court-interpretation Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in not applying the Supreme Court's ruling on age discrimination in personnel actions as outli…
24-1199 Muntaha Tahar v. Creative Corner Early Learning Center, LLC District of Columbia 2025-05-23 Denied arbitration-award court-of-appeals d-c-code superior-court uncontested-counterclaim unpaid-rent Whether the District of Columbia Superior Court and Court of Appeals violated D.C. Code Section 16-4424 by failing to modify the arbitrator's award an…
24-1135 Sara González Flavell v. Jim Young Kim, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-05 Denied constitutional-rights due-process functional-immunity international-law judicial-discretion subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in determining subject-matter jurisdiction and creating a new absolute immunity for IBRD offic…
24-7075 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment Whether convicted felons retain Second Amendment rights under the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in Heller, and whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1)…
24-7066 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia 2025-04-23 Denied agency-proceeding constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process evidence-exclusion legal-standard Were due process Constitutional rights violated by respondent's agency proceeding and did the DC Court of Appeal unconstitutionally exclude petitioner…
24-6993 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-04-15 Denied disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the proc…
24-1029 Abram J. Harris v. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-27 Denied appellate-procedure district-court jurisdictional-requirements removal-jurisdiction state-court statutory-interpretation Whether an action may be removed to the district court after it has been dismissed in the state court and a notice of appeal filed; Whether the remova…
24-6858 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-03-26 Denied intrajudicial-claims judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus-relief objective-observer statutory-interpretation Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals applied an overly vague and undefined standard for determining judicial bias and mandamus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 4…
24-6846 Gayle George v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust District of Columbia 2025-03-25 Denied banking-regulations due-process federal-enforcement judicial-taking jurisdiction property-rights Whether District of Columbia courts have jurisdiction to adjudicate claims involving judicial taking of private property without due process and just …
24-6844 In Re Gayle George 2025-03-25 Denied administrative-law appellate-procedure congressional-oversight constitutional-authority dc-home-rule judicial-review Whether the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is an agency subject to congressional oversight under the DC Home Rule Act, and whether the DC …
24M73 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia 2025-03-21 Presumed Complete None
24-936 Andrew Hanson, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-02-28 Denied arms-ban common-use constitutional-rights dangerous-weapons second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment allows a categorical ban on common arms used for lawful purposes and self-defense
24-6613 Robert Atchinson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-21 Denied civil-disobedience climate-change constitutional-rights expert-testimony necessity-defense pre-trial-motion Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred by affirming the pre-trial denial of Mr. Atchinson's necessity defense in a nonviolent civil disobedience acti…
24-6606 Willie McCoy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights in light of the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in District of Columbia v. Heller, and do 18 U…
24A789 Deon Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-14 Presumed Complete None
24A788 Deon Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-14 Presumed Complete None
24-6512 In Re John David Stahlman 2025-02-10 Denied appellate-review circuit-split federal-statute judicial-conflict statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Appeals created a circuit conflict regarding the elements of a federal statute requiring proof or pleading of specific elements
24-6507 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether convicted felons have Second Amendment rights based on Supreme Court precedent interpreting 'the people' and 'law-abiding citizens'
24-6506 Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights in light of the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in District of Columbia v. Heller, and do 18 U…
24-6493 Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-06 Denied access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause an…
24-817 Edward Lasseville v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-01-31 Denied alien-registration federal-preemption homeland-security immigration-law national-security state-regulation Whether federal preemption bars California's Immigration Consultants Act from regulating practitioners and others assisting in alien registration
24A714 Andrew Hanson, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete bruen-test firearms-regulation historical-analogues large-capacity-magazines second-amendment text-and-history-test Whether the Second Amendment prohibits a state or local government from banning large-capacity magazines holding more than ten rounds based on histori…
24-6339 Mark Tomas Regan v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-01-17 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-possession licensure-requirement second-amendment Whether the right to keep and bear arms, due process, double jeopardy, and licensure requirements prohibit retrial of a defendant on firearms possessi…
24-6327 Onyinye Jideani v. Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court District of Columbia 2025-01-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-litigation Did the D.C. Circuit Court violate constitutional rights and improperly dismiss a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against a judge under 42 U.…
24A682 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification mandamus pro-se-litigation section-455 Whether a trial judge's repeated denial of motions for disqualification under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) constitutes a due process violation warranting mandam…
24-728 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce states a claim under Pike v. Bruce Church, and whether lower fe…
24M51 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete None
24-649 The Gun Range, LLC v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-12-16 Denied commercial-speech constitutional-rights gun-shop-regulation municipal-ordinance second-amendment zoning-restrictions Whether prohibiting a business that provides Second Amendment-protected goods and services from operating in substantially all of a city's land areas—…
24-640 Patricia A. Allen v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury District of Columbia 2024-12-12 Denied causation-standard due-process employment-discrimination jury-instructions retaliation-claim title-vii Whether a trial court abused its discretion by providing jury instructions that omitted Title VII discrimination claims and applied different causatio…
24-645 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied article-iii cheney-standard declaratory-judgment mandamus redressability standing When plaintiffs have established ongoing injuries traceable to defendants' policies, does Article III require a particularized factual determination o…
24-6086 Curtis James McGarvey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lasciviousness-standard sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment Whether the application of the Dost factors is appropriate in determining the lasciviousness standard for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor und…
24A525 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties Whether a state's ballot access requirements that impose substantial financial burdens on minor political parties violate the First and Fourteenth Ame…
24-6046 Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied constitutional-prohibition government-power right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense weapons-regulation Does the unqualified constitutional prohibition established by the Second Amendment delegate to government a free-floating power to infringe upon the …
24-514 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-06 Denied circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus-relief military-detention whistleblower-protection Whether the D.C. Circuit improperly bifurcated the petitioner's joint submissions and restricted access to judicial review for a military detainee's h…
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…
24A395 Onyinye Jideani v. Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court District of Columbia 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation federal-jurisdiction judicial-capacity judicial-immunity section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 permits civil rights claims against judicial officers who allegedly act outside their judicial capacity or breach judicial ob…
24-451 Peter K. Navarro v. United States District of Columbia 2024-10-22 Denied documentary-materials executive-office presidential-records-act remedial-action replevin-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the United States may avail itself of unrelated state replevin statutes to seek the return of Presidential records
24A259 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete federal-grants fiscal-recovery spending-clause state-sovereignty statutory-conditions tax-policy Whether the Spending Clause permits Congress to impose conditions on federal grants that restrict a state's ability to modify its tax policy through a…
24-5478 Rifat Shafique v. Equity Residential Management, LLC District of Columbia 2024-09-06 Denied civil-death constitutional-rights due-process ejectment-dispute judicial-access property-rights Whether forced removal from a residence constitutes a de facto capital case due to significant deprivation of court access and constitutional rights
24-239 Kenneth Chloe v. George Washington University District of Columbia 2024-09-03 Denied administrative-procedure chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers Whether the United States District Court and Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights through administrative rulemaking and potential breach of…
24-5329 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old qualifies as 'abusive sexual conduct in…
24A141 Mohammed Jibril, Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y.J. and O.J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-deference article-three-standing civil-rights dhs-trip terrorist-screening-dataset Whether individuals challenging government travel restrictions have Article III standing to pursue claims under the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Progr…
24-131 Ocean State Tactical, LLC, dba Big Bear Hunting and Fishing Supply, et al. v. Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied 2nd-amendment ammunition-feeding-devices civil-rights common-use constitutional-protection due-process property-rights retrospective-ban second-amendment takings takings-clause Whether a retrospective and confiscatory ban on the possession of ammunition feeding devices that are in common use violates the Second Amendment
24A109 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar Whether a notice of appeal filed beyond the 60-day period established in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(1)(B) can be deemed timely when the …
23-7835 Yueseyuan Cruel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied 14th-amendment birth-certificate-citizenship citizenship-status civil-privileges-immunities civil-rights congress-legislation consent-governance constitution-rights-citizenship constitutional-jurisdiction legislative-power personal-jurisdiction Whether the United States and the Several States are Artificial Persons
23-1322 James W. Tindall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied administrative-record agency-record discovery judicial-precedent standard-of-review stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-review whistleblower whistleblower-claim Whether this dispute is even ripe for review by the Supreme Court
23-7735 Maria M. Faust v. Michael T. Faust District of Columbia 2024-06-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction domestic-violence due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure military-spousal-abuse Question not identified
23-7633 Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III Maryland 2024-06-04 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights Have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the rights of this Mother and Child under the United States Constitution?
23-1254 Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-31 Denied bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, painful-and-medically-unnecessary-procedures-of-their-child-will-not-be-undertaken-for-investigativ…
23-7526 Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Program Director, Haskins Residential Care Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-witness judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings motion-timing standards-of-review Whether the lower court erred in allowing the defendant to introduce a crucial piece of evidence, an expert witness's report, after the closing of mot…
23-1187 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Judgment Issued administrative-law circuit-court civil-procedure fda fda-authorization federal-courts judicial-review product-distribution standing statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation Whether a manufacturer may file a petition for review in a circuit (other than the D.C. Circuit) where it neither resides nor has its principal place …
23-1140 In Re William B. Jolley 2024-04-22 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure age-discrimination disability-discrimination due-process equal-employment equal-employment-opportunity federal-agencies judicial-review Is 29 C.F.R. § 1614 constitutional?
23-1120 DaBeth Manns v. U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Banc of America Funding Corporation for Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates 2007-03 District of Columbia 2024-04-16 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-claim foreclosure-debt-claim pro-se-litigant stare-decisis Should the District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision be upheld in part or whole, reversed and/or the case remanded?
23-7234 Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-15 Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict Whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality when the judge allowed an AUSA who became a witness in the proceedi…
23-1104 In Re Robert M. Miller 2024-04-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion bias-prejudice civil-procedure court-discretion federal-defendant judicial-bias judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation writ-of-mandamus Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus to reassign cases due to judge's bias
23-7189 A. R. P. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-10 Denied baker-act civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandamus representation Did Florida's Supreme Court err in denying the application for a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus without first dealing with the constitutional i…
23-1087 Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process federal-judges federal-law federal-offenses free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether federal law or the U.S. Constitution authorize federal judges to penalize persons for stating federal judges violated rights
23-7069 Jesse R. Redmond, Jr. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-03-25 Denied 4th-amendment constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction precedent rule-4 rule-4a Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals fails to apply the law in the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to Criminal …
23-1042 Sean Gaskin, et al. v. Stephen May, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-20 Denied common-law-powers district-court-powers district-of-columbia-court-reorganization-act federal-actors federal-tort-claims-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation westfall-amendment Whether FTCA's 1988 'Westfall' amendment created immunity that did not previously exist, thus displacing non-FTCA actions that do not rely on the FTCA…
23-7018 Julian Ash v. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied administrative-law civil-rights consolidation-of-cases constitutional-challenge due-process federal-agency government-oversight personnel-management title-v-exemption whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the Title V Exemption extended to the Federal Aviation Administration from the Office of Personnel Management be considered Unconstitutional?
23-981 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-07 Denied agency-abuses agency-report article-iii-standing constitutional-right-of-access-to-the-courts constitutional-rights havens-realty-corp-v-coleman informational-standing judicial-oversight organizational-standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erroneously nullify the doctrine of organizational-standing,by-conflating-…
23A805 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Valancourt Books, LLC District of Columbia 2024-03-01 Presumed Complete copyright-deposit copyright-protection fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation library-of-congress Whether the mandatory deposit requirement for copyrighted works constitutes an unconstitutional taking of private property under the Fifth Amendment's…
23A803 Khan Mohammed v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement Whether the Due Process Clause requires a heightened standard of proof for sentencing enhancements that substantially increase a defendant's sentence …
23-936 Anne Davis, on Behalf of Braeden Davis v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-27 Denied administrative-proceedings appeals civil-procedure due-process due-process-rights educational-placement idea-dispute individuals-with-disabilities-education-act special-education-law stay-put-provision Whether and to what extent Section 1415(j) imposes obligations on school officials when a child's exact pre-dispute educational placement is no longer…
23-878 Javier Herrera v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied 2nd-amendment arms-protection civil-rights due-process free-speech historical-tradition second-amendment self-defense semiautomatic-rifles standard-magazines standing takings Whether semiautomatic rifles and standard magazines are protected 'Arms' under the Second Amendment
23-6710 Martin Akerman v. Sherri Doiron District of Columbia 2024-02-09 Denied 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-authority habeas-corpus jurisdiction military-custody military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus procedural-standards Does the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when the petitioner's…
23A731 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action capacity-auctions ferc judicial-review state-subsidies Whether a federal agency's deadlocked vote constitutes final agency action subject to judicial review and, if so, how courts should evaluate and resol…
23-6653 Mark Marvin v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-speech habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus standing Whether petitioner has standing to file a habeas and mandamus petition
23-762 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied appellate-discretion constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-revenues subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-assessment tax-assessments Whether the exclusive jurisdiction to shield local tax assessments from constitutional challenges in a federal court to protect state revenues can be …
23A604 Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete foreign-sovereign-immunities holocaust-survivors international-law jurisdiction property-seizure world-war-two Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act permits Holocaust survivors to bring claims against a foreign state for property seizures during World Wa…
23A600 Ali Hamza Al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete constitutional-jurisdiction due-process guantanamo-bay inchoate-crimes military-commission war-crimes Whether a military commission's prosecution of a Guantanamo Bay detainee for inchoate war crimes violates constitutional due process protections and t…
23-6382 Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli…
23A592 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception requires plaintiffs to trace property exchanged for expropriated assets to esta…
23-658 Medical Transportation Management, Inc. v. Isaac Harris, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-19 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification commonality federal-rules-of-civil-procedure policy-uniformity rule-23 significant-proof uniform-policy Where class certification is based on allegations that a defendant's policy or practice has injured class members, what constitutes 'significant proof…
23A561 Anne Davis, on Behalf of Braeden Davis v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete circuit-split disabilities-education idea individualized-education-program placement stay-put Whether a school district has an affirmative obligation under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's stay-put provision to implement a stud…
23-646 Devon Tinius, et al. v. Luke Choi, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-14 Denied civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights curfew curfew-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the District of Columbia's curfew law is unconstitutional because it violates fundamental rights and because it is overbroad and void for vagu…
23-6173 Akosua Aaebo Akhan v. Kwesi Akhan District of Columbia 2023-12-06 Denied anti-stalking-order civil-rights dna-testing forced-agreement human-trafficking legal-standing necessity-defense power-of-attorney restitution standing Was Petitioner legally bound by the Anti-Stalking Order
23A502 Department of Treasury, et al. v. West Virginia, By and Through Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of the State of West Virginia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete congressional-conditions federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause state-sovereignty tax-offset Whether the offset provision in the American Rescue Plan Act violates the Spending Clause by imposing an unconstitutionally ambiguous condition on fed…
23A494 West Flagler Associates, Ltd., a Florida Limited Partnership, dba Magic City Casino, et al. v. Debra A. Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete equal-protection indian-gaming-regulatory-act jurisdiction-allocation online-gambling sports-betting tribal-lands Whether the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) permits a state to authorize a Native American tribe to conduct online sports betting off tribal lands…
23A473 Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete ballot-access campaign-finance equal-protection minor-party presidential-election public-funding Whether Section 9032(6) of the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account Act violates the Equal Protection Clause by arbitrarily terminating minor…
23A448 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state court can assert subject matter jurisdiction over a foreign marriage dissolution that has already been validly dissolved by a court in…
23A411 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete attorney-client-privilege confidential-communication criminal-procedure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment work-product-doctrine Whether the Sixth Amendment protects a criminal defendant's handwritten notes prepared for attorney consultation from being seized and used as evidenc…
23-5957 Khadijah Bronson v. District of Columbia Department of Buildings District of Columbia 2023-11-03 Denied access-to-judicial-process administrative-review civil-procedure court-dismissal default-judgments due-process judicial-access notice-of-infractions procedural-deficiency service-of-process appropriateness-of-dismissing-appeal-petition
23A365 United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D.K., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete administrative-record benefits-denial erisa medical-providers substantial-evidence tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly imposed a heightened explanation requirement on ERISA plan administrators when denying health benefits claims, co…
23A322 Medical Transportation Management, Inc. v. Isaac Harris, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete class-certification commonality-requirement fair-labor-standards-act general-contractor joint-employer wage-and-hour-laws Whether a class of employees can satisfy Rule 23(a)(2)'s commonality requirement by alleging violations of the same wage-and-hour laws against a contr…
23A313 Jack Jordan v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A310 Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W.Y. and S.Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete dashcam-footage excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment taser-threat Whether Scott v. Harris's narrow exception to the summary judgment standard—permitting courts to resolve disputed facts when video evidence is blatant…
23-5715 Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consular-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice national-identity sovereign-status standing state-law treaty-rights Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the court's judicial notice of certain facts under Federal Rule of Evidence 201 and Florida Statute §…
23-5704 Gregory D. Jones v. Dustin Bayler Seventh Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied 2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the District of Columbia's ban on the possession of stun guns violates the Second Amendment
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 …
23-5668 Maurice Bellamy v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-28 Denied appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment
23A226 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-09-11 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-212 Amos N. Jones v. Catholic University of America District of Columbia 2023-09-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process procedural-fairness stare-decisis substantive-due-process tortious-interference Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in its failure to apply its very own intervening and controlling authority
23-5542 Stephen James Hood v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-07 Denied actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation Whether Virginia's ruling as to Va. Code § 19.2-327.10 violates the rights of Hood, and those similarly situated, under the Due Process, Equal Protect…
23-5501 May Chen v. Metropolitan Police Department, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-31 Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process eeoc-enforcement employment employment-discrimination federal-agency federal-agency-compliance regulatory-action standing Can federal agencies comply with EEOC's appeal decision and employment discrimination laws?
23A190 Thomas Massie, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. v. Nancy Pelosi, in Her Official Capacity, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete congressional-discipline justiciability member-pay separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-immunity twenty-seventh-amendment Whether Congress may impose fines on individual members enforced through salary reduction for violations of House rules enacted without an intervening…
23A129 Cuhuatemoc Peraita v. Alabama Alabama 2023-08-16 Presumed Complete capital-punishment extraneous-prejudicial-information jury-impartiality mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights Whether a capital defendant's waiver of mitigation evidence is knowing and voluntary under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the defendant suff…
23A69 James Owens, et al. v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete forum-non-conveniens judicial-deference piper-aircraft plaintiff-choice-of-forum second-circuit terrorism-victims Whether the strong presumption in favor of a plaintiff's choice of forum under Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno applies with equal force when a suit includ…
23-59 Larry Eugene Clark v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2023-07-21 Denied civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-machines federal-law standing state-law voting voting-rights Whether injured voters have standing to challenge the use of uncertified voting machines that may have compromised the 2020 election
23A53 Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Presumed Complete american-rescue-plan-act coercion-doctrine conditional-federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause tax-offset-provision Whether the offset provision of the American Rescue Plan Act's Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund, which restricts States from using federal funds…
22-1225 Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-21 GVR administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.
22-7816 Onyinye Jideani v. Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. District of Columbia 2023-06-20 Denied abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process discriminatory-practice due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing want-of-prosecution Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals violate existing laws and breach its duty to protect the substantive rights of a pro se litigant
22-7798 Rifat Shafique v. Equity Residential Management, L.L.C. District of Columbia 2023-06-15 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment due-process eviction-proceedings free-speech landlord-tenant remote-hearings standing takings Whether an initial order declaring default against party who does not consent to remote hearings constitute violation of a person's natural rights, Ar…
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
22-7594 Gary V. Jenkins v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-05-18 Denied civil-procedure dismissal district-court district-court-order docket federal-docket judicial-review motion-to-strike related-cases standing supreme-court-procedure Will this UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT effectuate the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ORDER NO. 22-3757
22-7472 Raj K. Patel v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied 14th-amendment big-tucker-act bounty-clause civil-rights contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion patel-v-united-states poindexter-v-greenhow religious-liberty whether-the-judiciary-must-reverse-and-allow-trial-of-bounty-clause-contract
22-1072 Lori A. Saxon v. Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation District of Columbia 2023-05-04 Denied 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights debt-collection due-process homestead-law judicial-foreclosure Were Lori Saxon's fundamental guaranteed rights to Due Process and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Ist, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments violated?
22-938 George Washington University v. Jabari Stafford District of Columbia 2023-03-27 Dismissed civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process federal-statute personal-injury personal-injury-claims state-law statute-of-limitations title-vi Whether courts should reflexively borrow the state-law general limitations period applicable to all personal-injury claims to govern any claim allegin…
22-923 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. District of Columbia 2023-03-22 Denied civil-rights discrimination-claims due-process first-amendment judicial-error right-to-petition summary-affirmance title-vii Whether inexcusable error by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an unclear Order with judicial errors that is confusing…
22-6729 Darlene Bennett v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce Fourth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence judicial-process standing Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the case without allowing the plaintiff to present evidence, in violation of the plaintiff's constitution…
22-6617 Winsloe Duhaney v. United States District of Columbia 2023-01-24 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Does an appellate court violate Double Jeopardy when it remands a case for the trial court to enter alternative findings of fact and conclusions of la…
22-677 Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board New Mexico 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination judicial-review nmsa-1978-30-16-10 section-1983 standing title-42-usc-1983 Whether the courts of New Mexico have so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-665 Gordon M. Price v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-19 Denied commercial-speech content-based-restriction first-amendment permit-requirement prior-restraint public-forum Whether filmmaking is communicative activity protected by the First Amendment
22-6552 Sergio Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied ammunition-possession bill-of-rights fourth-amendment lawful-materials probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment warrantless-arrest Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is consistent with this Court's precedents on the Fourth Amendment's probable cause standard when suspicion is ba…
22-637 In Re Larry Elliot Klayman 2023-01-11 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights court-intervention due-process injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus new-trial standing Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the District Court to conduct a new trial in the JW Case
22-619 In Re Larry E. Klayman 2023-01-06 Denied attorney-discipline bar-discipline civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process legal-ethics legal-suspension professional-conduct temporary-suspension time-served writ-of-mandamus Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in suspending Larry Klayman from the practice of law?
22-615 Estate of Eric Jack Logan v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied circuit-split civil-rights credibility credibility-challenge due-process legal-procedure police-shooting summary-judgment witness witness-testimony Whether a party may successfully oppose summary judgment by challenging the credibility of the movant, especially when the movant is the only living w…
22-543 Altagracia Sanchez, et al. v. District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2022-12-14 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law due-process economic-liberty individual-rights judicial-deference nondelegation-doctrine occupational-licensing regulatory-authority Does the Due Process Clause require complete and total judicial deference to these regulations?
22-517 Jenna Dickenson v. Charles T. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied attorney-fees common-fund equitable-fund johnson-factors judicial-discretion lodestar-method percentage-fee percentage-of-fund perdue-v-kenny Whether district courts may be required to use the inherently subjective and effectively unreviewable Johnson factors to determine common-fund fee awa…
22-476 Fraternal Order of Police, Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, D.C. Police Union v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-18 Denied civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-law contract-clause due-process impairment-of-contract police police-discipline takings Whether the removal of police officers' disciplinary rights contained in their collective bargaining agreement substantially impairs that agreement in…
22-6068 Anthony Braxton v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-11-16 Denied appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court-rules Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for granting a writ of certiorari
22-6033 Daniel A. Schillinger v. Josh Kiley, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied allow complaint amendment and exclude witnesses violates a prisoner's due p administrative-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process institutional-safety prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings witness witness-testimony Whether the DOC prison failed to provide the petitioner with a copy of the video tape of the assault, whether the petitioner was denied the opportunit…
22-6000 Norman Clement v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia 2022-11-07 Denied 21-cfr-1306.04(a) administrative-deference controlled-substances corresponding-responsibility dea-registration medical-purpose pharmacy-responsibility prescription-legitimacy Whether a pharmacy violates its corresponding responsibility under 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) by being required to operate beyond licensing requirement an…
22-5971 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-02 Dismissed access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing Denial of meaningful access to prison law library due to COVID-19 restrictions
22-5937 Prince Jones v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-28 Denied article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-power due-process government-accountability judicial-jurisdiction standing statutory-jurisdiction Can D.C. Superior Court Judges exercise Statutory Jurisdiction under the color of Article III judicial Power, when Article III does not provide a Stat…
22-5915 Charlesworth Rae v. Children's National Medical Center, et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-26 Denied burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test retaliation standard-of-review supervisor-misconduct vicarious-liability Whether the United States Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test
22-359 Roda T. Gidey v. Settlement Corp., et al. District of Columbia 2022-10-18 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection interpleader racial-discrimination real-estate summary-judgment Whether the decision of the D.C. Court of Appeals should be reversed and the case remanded because the due process and equal protection rights of Peti…
22A240 Altagracia Sanchez, et al. v. District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-20 Presumed Complete None
22-185 Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-08-30 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Proced…
22-151 Lasean Dejong Houston v. Estate of Lasean Dejong Houston, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied barbary-treaties civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equitable-claims fiduciary-duty fiduciary-relations indigenous-status standing treaty treaty-rights trust Whether petitioners' equitable primary rights are destroyed by denying their status as Moors, Americas' aboriginal Illinoisan nationals and subjects o…
22-67 Robert "Bob" King v. Specialty Hospital of Washington, et al. District of Columbia 2022-07-26 Denied anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expedited-hearing free-speech fundamental-rights pro-se-litigant procedural-rights special-motion-to-dismiss standing Whether the mandatory expedited hearing on a special motion to dismiss under an anti-SLAPP law is necessary to prevent a deprivation of fundamental pr…
22-5141 Jodie Louise Byrne v. Maryland, et al. First Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied 1983-civil-action civil-rights constitutional-violation consular-notification due-process equal-protection human-rights state-actor-liability victim-protection Failure to apply U.S. laws and protect crime victims' rights
22-5117 Wade Robertson v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-07-18 Denied administrative-proceedings confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process professional-license professional-licensing quasi-criminal witness-testimony Does the Federal Constitution secure to the holder of a professional license, such as an attorney, the right to confront and cross-examine adverse wit…
22-5040 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Dismissed article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process extradition indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Right-to-counsel
21-1545 Allen Whitaker v. District of Columbia Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board District of Columbia 2022-06-09 Denied 2nd-amendment administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process gun-rights license-revocation standing vagueness Can the government render moot a fully briefed appeal challenging the denial of a license to carry a pistol by granting the license — though not confe…
21-7938 Larry Wayne Kimes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion rule-52 Should federal appeals courts require district courts to explain their opinions and orders in sufficient detail to aid in appeals?
21-7896 Margie E. Robertson v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-05-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-employment title-vii Question not identified.
21-7892 Abdul Samuels v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-17 Denied conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance remand representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the court of appeals err in denying Petitioner—whose trial counsel had a conflict of interest because his child was applying for a job at the U.S.…
21-7769 Lonnell Tucker v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-04 Denied appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in…
21-7740 Michael G. Peters v. Texas Children's Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Dismissed administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the United States District Court for the District of Columbia erred in dismissing petitioners' complaint for lack of standing and failure to s…
21-7633 Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication government-misconduct judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-treatment pro-se-representation self-representation Was the Supreme Court ruling in Faretta vs California violated or trampled
21-1348 Claudia A. Barber v. District of Columbia Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges District of Columbia 2022-04-13 Denied administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure due-process government-employment judicial-review presumption-of-review statutory-interpretation tenure Whether only an expressed prohibition against judicial review can clearly and conclusively overcome the presumption in favor of judicial review of an …
21-1308 J. Martin Robertson v. Larkspur Courts, et al. California 2022-03-31 Denied due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medicaid medicare medicare-reporting privacy settlement-disclosure social-security social-security-privacy Whether Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 requires settlement or judgment debtors to report the Social Security n…
21-1264 Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-03-18 Denied circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law Did the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the 'appreciable number of consumers' standard to the 'likel…
21-1242 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent Should the Supreme Court require the Eleventh Circuit to follow Supreme Court precedent and resolve challenges to Article III standing before resolvin…
21-7308 Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University District of Columbia 2022-03-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process by failing to consider all of the pet…
21-1206 John H. Page v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States District of Columbia 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights congress congressional-representation constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process ministerial-duty presidential-powers representation standing state-representation tenth-amendment Can a federal court dismiss a case based on lack of jurisdiction over relief that wasn't requested, despite it being empowered to order POTUS to corre…
21-1194 Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2022-03-02 GVR 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process magazine-ban property-rights scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing takings takings-clause Whether a blanket, retrospective, and confiscatory law prohibiting ordinary law-abiding citizens from possessing magazines in common use violates the …
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
21-7146 A. W. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-02-17 Denied civil-rights domestic-violence due-process religious-expression standing takings Question not identified
21-7026 Nehemias Samayoa v. United States District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied appeal appeal-withdrawal civil-rights coercion dual-sovereignty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant standing state-court-judgment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel to represent an indigent defendant who wi…
21-7031 Joseph D. Davis v. United States District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with oth…