| 25A860 |
Ruth Torres v. Veretta Frazier, Judge, 44th Civil District Court, Dallas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
constitutional-violations declaratory-relief due-process judicial-conduct judicial-immunity state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-663 |
Alan Headman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-servitude trial-by-jury unconstitutional-avoidance |
IL CONSTITUTIONAL RIPENESS
Whether the Supreme Court, in this age of
equality, should consider gender-based servitude ripe for correction.
II. UNCONS… |
| 25-5497 |
Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5855 |
Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-appeal ineffective-counsel legal-procedure trial-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5488 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
GVR |
criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-5298 |
Jose Rosado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen |
| 23-5365 |
Marcus Roosevelt Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-proceeds drug-trafficking due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act restitution restitution-order |
Whether the $228,304 restitution order infringes upon Marcus Taylor's constitutional rights |
| 23A74 |
Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights-damages former-inmate habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey section-1983 sentence-reduction-credits |
Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to § 1983 actions applies when a plaintiff seeks damages for the denial of sentence-reduction credits but can no long… |
| 22-1143 |
Renee Sweet v. Douglas County Board of Commissioners |
Colorado |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-rights colorado-revised-statutes constitutional-rights courtroom-security douglas-county-colorado-zoning-resolutions due-process property-rights property-taking zoning zoning-resolution |
Is a zoning resolution a policy or the equivalent of a zoning ordinance? |
| 22-6685 |
Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption |
Can a District Court remand a State Court action timely removed under 28 U.S. Code § 1442 without allowing the removing party rights to defend the rem… |
| 22-6502 |
Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States … |
| 22-137 |
BYD Company Ltd. v. Alliance for American Manufacturing, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
actual-malice civil-rights defamation discovery first-amendment free-speech pleading-standard pleading-standards public-figure reckless-disregard |
Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog… |
| 22-5145 |
Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 189 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 54 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a civil… |
| 22-5129 |
V. V. v. E. V. |
Connecticut |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause |
Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Constitut… |
| 21-1518 |
BYD Company Ltd. v. Vice Media LLC |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
actual-malice defamation discovery-rights first-amendment iqbal pleading-standard public-figure twombly |
Whether Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal sub silentio overturned the balance struck in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its prog… |
| 21-1444 |
Dolgen California, LLC v. Tricia Galarsa |
California |
2022-05-16 |
GVR |
bilateral-arbitration employment-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims |
Does the FAA require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot assert representative claims, including under … |
| 21-5729 |
Frank R. Stevenson v. New York |
New York |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law |
| 21-5677 |
Randolph Armstead v. Keith Deville, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Did the state trial court, la. appellant, la. Supreme Court and US District Court, Eastern violate the petitioner's Constitutional Rights (1st Amendme… |
| 21-5616 |
Felix Antequera Rivera, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the court below erred in allowing the petitioner to bring a claim for a writ of mandamus |
| 21-5337 |
Garrett McElveen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics |
Whether the Sixth District Appellate Court of Illinois erred in finding that the defendant's original public defender became the victim's attorney, th… |
| 20-7261 |
Randell Joseph Redmond v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech just-compensation property-rights standing takings-clause tax-foreclosure |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a motion to dismiss a civil-rights, due-process, free-speech claim |
| 20-5834 |
Jose Rufino Garcia-Chicol v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial foreign-national language-rights standing translation-services |
Whether the Second Amendment's protections of a 'well-regulated Militia' under the Framers, Constitution, and Statutes of the United States of America… |
| 19-905 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order constitutional-protection defamation due-process malpractice standing |
Whether claims of malpractice, civil-conspiracy, or defamation would be irreparably lost if this appeal is not heard |
| 18-9548 |
Kevin Terrell Tatum v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence recantation sufficiency-of-evidence summary-judgment witness-recantation |
Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment against the appellant when there are material, unresolved facts in dispute |
| 18-1503 |
Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes |
Whether non-class counsel is entitled to an award of counsel fees and costs for pre-appointment work, whether a class action settlement agreement prov… |
| 18-9452 |
In Re Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. |
|
2019-05-31 |
Dismissed |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-authority clerk-discretion court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts filing-requirements habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority procedural-compliance standing title-28 title-28-usc-1915 |
Does the United States District Court have the authority to gather and review civil service records & complaints to determine whether the party is a p… |
| 18-1400 |
E. V. v. Eugene H. Robinson, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, in His Capacity as Military Judge |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
article-6b due-process inferior-tribunals inferior-tribunals-clause judicial-review military-justice military-sexual-assault military-tribunals psychotherapist-privilege sovereign-immunity ucmj uniform-code-of-military-justice victims-rights |
Whether Congress intended to bar judicial review of a victim's rights under Article 6b |
| 18-8966 |
Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the denial of a pro se litigant's right to access the courts through vexatious litigant laws and rulings violates the petitioner's constitutio… |
| 18A965 |
E. V. v. Eugene H. Robinson, Jr., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-7934 |
Seaun Llwellyn Farthing v. Dara Watson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense perjury prior-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-burglary witness-testimony |
Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to prevent prosecutorial misconduct? |
| 18A390 |
E. V. Drake v. Costume Armour, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-233 |
Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
28-usc-1927 act-of-state-doctrine congressional-intent due-process extraterritorial-application federal-sanctions inherent-powers rule-44.1 sanctions sovereign-immunity |
Did Congress intend the court's inherent powers and 28 U.S.C. § 1927 to apply extraterritorially, allowing Rule 44.1 analysis to be applied to oversea… |