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25-6770 Heath W. Gray v. Pennsylvania Department of State Pennsylvania 2026-02-10 Pending first-amendment government-redress suffrage supreme-court-certiorari taxation-without-representation voting-rights Would this Honorable High Court please REMAND this suffrage rights appeal to the Pennyslvania Supreme Court to adjudicate my 'No Taxation Without Repr…
25-889 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when determi…
25A780 Celeste M. Gonsalves v. Stuart B. Glauberman, by His Managing Agent, KFG Properties, Inc. Hawaii 2026-01-06 Application extension-request hawaii-probate-court indigency pro-se trust-property writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension to file a writ of certiorari due to indigency and ongoing state court litigation presents extraor…
25-692 Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2025-12-12 Pending due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline Whether a state may impose professional discipline on attorneys for out-of-court criticism of a judge without clear and convincing proof of false stat…
25A586 Jonathan Harrelson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-11-18 Application affirmative-defense age-of-consent criminal-intent minor-victim prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-rape Whether a defendant can be convicted of statutory rape when he claims to have been misled about the victim's age and believed the minor was over the a…
25A551 Michael Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment-benefits Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a state court decision involving federal CARES Act unemployment benefits under the Pandemic Unemp…
25A550 Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog…
25A548 Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog…
25-532 Diana Snow, et al. v. Dennis Wiertella, as Father and Administrator of the Estate of Randy Wiertella, Deceased Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan by improperly denying qualified immunity to Petitioners based on insuffic…
25-6011 John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. California 2025-10-31 Denied appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer Whether a state court violates due process by issuing preemptive rulings before an appeal concludes, thereby denying a meaningful hearing
25-477 Aaron Jacob Mindiola v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied claim-construction eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-credit-reporting-act pro-se title-ii-ada Whether a federal court may dismiss a pro se complaint and deny leave to amend as 'futile' without liberally construing the allegations and performing…
25A403 Antonio Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete cares-act emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua state-court unemployment-benefits Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) bene…
25-413 Jean Dominique Morancy, Father of L.M., a Minor v. Sabrina Alex Salomon, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied appellate-review civil-rights-injunction due-process merits-inquiry procedural-standard younger-abstention Whether Munaf v. Geren requirement that courts consider underlying merits before abstaining applies to civil rights injunctions under Younger, and whe…
25A364 Jwan L. Hardin v. Indiana Indiana 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete attorney-client constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's withholding of trial strategy information from a client violates the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments by rendering a guil…
25-5750 Gary David Green v. Texas Texas 2025-09-29 Pending None Question not identified.
25-278 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Suwannee River Water Management District Florida 2025-09-10 Denied administrative-law due-process eminent-domain government-overreach property-rights takings-clause Whether the government violated the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause by leveraging a permitting monopoly to foreclose on private property
25A263 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete actual-innocence civil-rights heck-doctrine judicial-review section-1983 wrongful-detention Whether a state court's dismissal of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the Heck doctrine improperly prevents an actually innocent …
25-230 Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied child-custody constitutional-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion school-access videotaping-rights Whether a State Judge can constitutionally ban a parent from videotaping public interactions during child custody exchanges and school-related matters
25-5453 George T. Rodgers, aka Gary Adams, aka Jeffrey Reid, aka Jim Johnson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-08-22 Denied body-worn-camera exculpatory-evidence grand-jury identification-error perjury search-warrant Whether the court will revisit a motion to suppress evidence based on newly discovered perjured testimony by a detective in obtaining a search warrant…
25-152 Paul Mula, Jr. v. Alan Mula, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice-doctrine rico-statute-of-limitations trust-law Does the inquiry notice doctrine allow a court to start the RICO limitations period before discovery of any actual injury?
25A143 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance no-contest-plea plea-bargain prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant's no-contest plea precludes challenging a conviction based on undisclosed impeachment evidence about a key witness under United St…
25-5251 Shahriar Behnamian v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied court-clerk deficiency-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se service-of-process summons Whether a pro se plaintiff has properly served a defendant when the plaintiff serves the defendant himself at the advice of the court's clerk and then…
25A114 Scott Breimeister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete double-jeopardy fifth-amendment governmental-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal retrial when a mistrial was sua sponte declared due to government misconduct over the defendant's o…
25-78 Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick Assocs. Ltd. P'ship reg…
25-5145 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel In the extraordinary circumstances of this death penalty case, was it unreasonable for the state court to conclude that the defense attorney did not h…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia 2025-07-16 Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require pre-deprivation due process before a court enters a child custody order that infringes fundamental libe…
25-36 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. California 2025-07-10 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection parental-rights restraining-order Should United States Constitution Civil Rights including 14th Amendment Equal Protection and Due Process under Law guarantees be applicable to Civil H…
25-11 Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-07-02 Denied abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance Whether the systemic failure of judicial and medical professionals to address domestic violence and child custody issues constitutes a violation of co…
24-7482 Raphael Stein, Acting on Behalf of His Minor Children J. S., Z. N., and A. Z. v. Adeena Kohn Second Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied child-abduction custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-law one-year-exception Whether an actual breach of custody rights must occur to establish wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, or if mere notice of an intended fut…
24-7397 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-11 Denied brady-violation capital-murder diligence-standard evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether a court may impose a diligence standard rendering evidence inadmissible despite prosecutorial suppression under Brady v. Maryland, and whether…
24A1191 Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2025-06-04 Presumed Complete en-banc-review firearms-regulation magazine-capacity second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny Whether a state law prohibiting possession of commonly used firearms magazines with more than ten rounds violates the Second Amendment right to keep a…
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…
24-7302 Sterling Atkins, Jr. v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance strickland-standard trial-counsel Can a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel be denied on the basis of an alleged failure to show what trial counsel did rather than what they fai…
24-7196 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan Colorado 2025-05-13 Denied constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus rule-60b suspension-clause void-judgments Whether the Suspension Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2248, and Rule 8(d) require courts to accept habeas allegations when respondents fail to traverse or deny, …
24-7195 Jacob Bellinsky v. Colorado Colorado 2025-05-13 Denied constitutional-liberties due-process habeas-corpus parent-child-relationships rule-60b void-judgments Whether courts must independently scrutinize claims of void civil protection orders due to fraud and religious discrimination under Loper Bright Enter…
24A1075 Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Andrew Turner, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-07 Presumed Complete administrative-removal americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-disability medicaid-act Whether the Due Process Clause protects intellectually disabled individuals from administrative removal from their homes without notice or legal repre…
24-1133 M. P., By and Through Her Parent, Natural Guardian, and Next Friend, Jennifer Pin v. Meta Platforms Inc., fka Facebook, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied algorithmic-bias common-law-tort content-recommendation racial-violence section-230 social-media-liability Do M.P.'s state common law tort claims adequately plead conduct by Facebook in recommending content and groups to Dylann Roof that fall outside of Sec…
24A1050 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, By Their Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Virginia Virginia 2025-04-30 Presumed Complete None
24-6971 D. R. v. T. R. Hawaii 2025-04-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law family-court-dispute federal-criminal-law judicial-corruption mental-incompetence Whether a mentally incompetent father can challenge the Hawaii state judiciary's alleged constitutional and civil rights violations through a Supreme …
24-6957 Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-04-11 Denied civil-suit evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity trial-court-error witness-testimony Whether the trial court erred by precluding Addie Brice's civil suit statement from evidence and improperly withholding crucial testimony
24-6847 Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri Missouri 2025-03-25 Denied death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting …
24-6317 James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-01-15 Denied alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a …
24-6303 Javarus T. Leach v. Illinois Illinois 2025-01-14 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
24-664 Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued Minnesota 2024-12-19 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion Do state courts have discretion to misapply judicial doctrine in supersession of clear Constitutional requirements under U.S. Const. Amend. XIV §1, re…
24-663 Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued Minnesota 2024-12-19 Denied child-welfare constitutional-rights custody-rights due-process judicial-discretion state-action Do state courts have discretion to take state action to willfully sustain deprivations of protected rights in violation of requirements under U.S. Con…
24-6139 Alexis Carberry Benson, Individually and on Behalf of K. C. J., et al. v. Lancaster County School District, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied civil-rights due-process education-law in-forma-pauperis parental-rights pro-se-litigation Can a court deny in forma pauperis status after previously granting it in related cases, and should parents be accorded appointed counsel when filing …
24-641 Gavin de Becker, et al. v. UHS of Delaware, Inc., dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center Nevada 2024-12-12 Denied covered-countermeasure healthcare-immunity medical-liability medical-negligence prep-act treatment-standards Does the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 provide immunity to medical providers for acts and omissions not directly related to …
24-6076 Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings Did the false information and improper jurisdiction in a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional due process and civil rights?
24-575 Zachary Thomas Horton v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, et al. California 2024-11-26 Denied constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion property-rights right-to-counsel venue-transfer Whether a judge violated constitutional rights by failing to grant injunctive relief, denying right to counsel, and ordering venue transfer in a prope…
24-6004 In Re Aliyah Monroe 2024-11-20 Denied child-custody due-process emergency-order-of-protection jurisdiction parental-rights uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-enforcement-act Whether a state court's child custody determination violates due process and jurisdictional requirements when modifying an out-of-state emergency orde…
24-5911 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Medical University of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied constitutional-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction healthcare-protections judicial-oversight Whether the Constitution provides protective health care rights for elderly and disabled individuals and allows judicial relief for violations of thos…
24-5920 Robert Lee Wright, III v. Martin A. Fitzpatrick, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied civil-action constitutional-provisions federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-writ legal-citizenship pro-se Question not identified.
24-5807 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-10-22 Denied brady-violation cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State's failure to disclose impeachment evidence constitutes cause sufficient to excuse the petitioner's prior non-presentation of due pro…
24-441 A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin 2024-10-21 Denied adoption-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment second-parent-adoption Whether a State's categorical disqualification of unmarried people from adopting the children of their partners violates the Equal Protection Clause o…
24-410 L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied first-amendment ideological-speech personal-identity school-censorship student-speech tinker-standard Whether school officials may presume substantial disruption or a violation of the rights of others from a student's silent, passive, and untargeted id…
24-5665 Shari Lynn Oliver v. Julie A. McDonald, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights family-court-enterprise parent-child-rights racketeering title-iv-d Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged constitutional violations in a family court federal-state enter…
24-5634 Camille A. Abboud v. Iryna Abboud Florida 2024-09-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct parental-rights self-representation Whether a retired Army Colonel's constitutional and parental rights were systematically violated by Florida state and federal judges through prejudici…
24-315 Troy Pasulka v. Saraa Doris Lee California 2024-09-19 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights custody-order domestic-violence due-process equal-protection Whether a state appellate court violates constitutional due process and equal protection by disregarding mandatory custody procedures and evidence of …
24-5351 In Re Michael Toro El 2024-08-20 Denied 13th-amendment constitutional-rights denationalization jurisdiction racial-labeling slavery Whether the use of racial labels on arrest records constitutes a violation of constitutional rights and a form of denationalization under the 13th Ame…
24-176 Richard William Douglas, Jr., et al. v. William Joseph Kalanta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied court-procedure death-investigation organized-crime police-misconduct rico-violations statutory-standing Whether the Modesto Police Department can ignore evidence in a suspicious death investigation and potentially commit perjury in court proceedings
24-5319 Marlin Lee Gougher v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-colloquy self-representation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's lucid Faretta colloquy response can preclude their right to self-representation and understanding of charges against them
24-146 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-09 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-code restraining-order sex-trafficking Whether a male Catholic father can obtain a restraining order under equal protection and due process principles despite familial connections to allege…
24-145 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-09 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-code restraining-order sex-trafficking Whether a male Catholic father can obtain a civil restraining order under equal protection principles despite being an Air Force affiliate with allega…
24A161 L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard Whether a public school's disciplinary actions against a student for off-campus, online speech violate the First Amendment's protection of free speech…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal tha…
24-133 Justin G. Dart v. Katrina Ahrens, as Independent Executor of the Estate of Lorne Ahrens, Deceased Texas 2024-08-06 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection parentage-adjudication personal-jurisdiction posthumous-parentage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-uniform-parentage-act uniform-parentage-act Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause permit a court to deny a child the right to adjudicate his rights under the Texas Uniform Pare…
24-79 James W. A. Jackson v. Kelly K. Fitzgerald Rhode Island 2024-07-25 Denied child-custody due-process evidentiary-hearing hcch-1996 international-treaty personal-jurisdiction simultaneous-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction uccjea Does a defense of UCCJEA 'Simultaneous Proceedings' become moot when one and not all proceedings is dismissed?
24-74 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2024-07-25 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court Question not identified.
24-5070 Javaris Marquez Tubbs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied 14th-amendment birth-certificate citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-classification national-identity sentencing state-jurisdiction Was the sentence imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States?
24-5035 In Re Lionel Bailey 2024-07-10 Denied adoption adoption-rights child-custody civil-rights court-procedure due-process family-law illegitimate-child parental-notice parental-rights putative-father standing Whether the superior court of Brooks County limited the scope of the putative father's right to notice, hearing, and consent in the adoption of his il…
24-5025 Delbert W. Hargis, Jr. v. Victoria A. Pritty-Pitcher New York 2024-07-09 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause-14th-amendment family-law non-parent-custody parental-rights standing Whether the decision of the lower courts, which awarded full custody of a child to a nonparent due to the existence of a strong bond, violates the fun…
24-5009 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied antitrust antitrust-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud financial-services fraud judicial-oversight jury-trial Question not identified
23-7757 Pacita D. Whatley, et al. v. Oakbrook Health and Rehabilitation Center Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction health-care healthcare-protections protective-measures Does the Constitution provide protected elder citizen rights for health care?
23-7756 Samuel T. Whatley v. Elmore County Probate Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied bill-of-rights constitution constitutional-property-rights declaration-of-independence due-process founding-fathers-intent governmental-limitations individual-property-ownership jury-trial-rights property-rights takings Does the Founding Father's documentation of individual rights, such as the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution, provide prot…
23-7712 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-06-13 Denied balancing-test bright-line-rule constitutional-protection due-process fundamental-right fundamental-rights government-intervention parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights Whether the fundamental right to conceive and raise children without government interference requires a more objective, bright-line protection similar…
23-1295 Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner Louisiana 2024-06-12 Denied child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence Due-process-clause-violation
23A1083 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-04 Presumed Complete custody-rights equal-protection gender-discrimination parental-rights social-services welfare-benefits Whether California's CalWORKs welfare regulations violate the Equal Protection Clause by creating disparate eligibility criteria for fathers and mothe…
23-1251 Paula Bourne, et vir v. Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, LLC Arizona 2024-05-30 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias medical-malpractice standing vexatious-litigant Did the Arizona Court of Appeals errantly affirm and allow Arizona Superior Court to designate Bourne's vexatious litigants and dismiss their case?
23-1219 Colton Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-05-16 Denied chambers-precedent chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial gun-evidence right-to-present-defense self-defense Constitutional right to present a defense
23-7434 Samuel T. Whatley, II v. Waffle House, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied agency-oversight civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights declaration-of-independence due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction wage-payment wages Does the Founding Father's documentation of individual rights provide protective measures against lack or delayal of employment wage payment(s)
23-1199 Joanne Moskovic v. City of New Buffalo, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied civil-rights due-process michigan-zoning-enabling-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings short-term-rental substantive-due-process zoning zoning-ordinance Whether the Appellate Court erred in finding that Petitioner's use of her home as a short-term rental is not a residential use
23-7325 In Re Linda Ann Wright 2024-04-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion property-rights standing veterans-affairs Whether Judge Ranjan Abused his discretion in § 1915(2)
23-7326 Erik Johnson v. Patrick Griffin Second Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied civil-procedure confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence missing-witness missing-witness-instruction testimonial-statement Whether the admission into evidence of hearsay statements violated petitioner's Confrontation Clause rights
23-1090 Scott D. Pitta v. Dina Medeiros, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Administrator of Special Education for the Bridgewater Raynham Regional School District, et al. First Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied citizen-rights civil-rights expressive-activity first-amendment free-speech government-employee inherently-expressive public-interest public-space recording-rights Whether the act of recording a government employee engaged in his or her duties is inherently expressive activity entitled to First Amendment protecti…
23A879 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-04-03 Presumed Complete child-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights procedural-safeguards termination-of-rights Whether the Due Process Clause requires states to provide parents with an opportunity to challenge hearsay evidence and cross-examine witnesses before…
23A835 Alif Jan Adil v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-12 Presumed Complete age-of-consent criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jurisdictional-element sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Whether knowledge of a minor's age is an essential element of criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) for persuading or enticing a minor to engag…
23-986 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied access-to-venue association child-welfare children's-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment natural-parents rooker-feldman unlawful-confinement Did the Eighth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's Order and denying Petitioners' petition for rehearing en banc?
23-6947 B. Nicholas Velarde v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Sixth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied civil-rights colonial-revolution debt-restructuring due-process geopolitics standing Was the 2020 US presidential election legitimate?
23-6765 Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o…
23A750 E.R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S.M. and E.M., Children Colorado 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete dependency-and-neglect domestic-violence mental-health parental-rights substance-abuse termination Whether a state court can terminate parental rights based on historical substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health concerns without providi…
23-6630 Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi…
23-6469 Eric Kimble v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction rehabilitation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel's failure to conduct any investigation or seek any expert assistance, including mental health expertise, at Kimble's 1981 death …
23-6322 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2023-12-21 Denied dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape Whether petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair parole hearing
23-6296 Charles Andre Bailey v. Dennis Bley Oregon 2023-12-18 Denied ada-violation civil-rights death-certificate fraud government-violation health-insurance medical-fraud medical-records physician-patient-relationship qui-tam Why did Dr. Bley sign my father's death certificate if he claims he's not his doctor?
23-6216 Daniel E. Hall v. Devon Brochu-Reynolds New Hampshire 2023-12-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law standing Did the NHSC apply Rule 20(2) unconstitutionally and violate Father's due-process rights-to-a-meaningful-appeal?
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-510 Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-11-14 Denied campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment Does a self-evaluative review by a state court justice challenged for disqualification deny the due process right to a fair hearing under the Fourteen…
23A424 Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether a state court's denial of a successive habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction and death sentence comports with due process a…
23-5991 Samuel T. Whatley v. Richland County Family Court, Columbia, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-court fifth-amendment governmental-immunity immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing Does the Constitution allow judicial misconduct and obstruction of justice?
23-5969 Semaan Makdissi v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
23-451 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-10-30 Denied can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention Whether a court can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical treatment without finding that the treatme…
23-5891 Luis Alonso Hidalgo, III v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder joint-trial sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying Petitioner Hidalgo's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, improper joinder, and improper convictions?
23A358 Ohio v. William Johnson Ohio 2023-10-20 Presumed Complete 911-call confrontation-clause domestic-violence emergency-exception hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement Whether a 911 call describing a past domestic violence incident constitutes a 'testimonial statement' under the Confrontation Clause when the caller i…
23A323 Robert Perkel, et al. v. Jane (Canella) Perkel, et al. New Jersey 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete discovery-rights due-process-clause equal-protection notice-and-hearing probate-procedure will-contest Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a state probate court from denying an heir notice and an opp…
23-358 Keith Andrews v. Jarred Brandon Kinnett, et al. Louisiana 2023-10-04 Denied biological-paternity deception due-process family-law filiation-petition fundamental-rights marital-presumption notice parental-rights paternity Does a biological father have a right to notice of paternity before prescription or peremption extinguishes his right to avow paternity?
23-299 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege
23-300 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common law e…
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia impeded the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia and/or the Supreme Court of the United St…
23-5625 Gale L. Davis v. Chester James Walker, Jr., Father Second Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
23-5536 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine First Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing Whether a state trial court can open a child protection case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, set bail/bond conditions…
23-5411 Thomas DeMartino v. Roger Alderin, et al. Oregon 2023-08-22 Denied 2nd-amendment alarming-contact civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial oregon-appellate-court reckless-driving stalking stalking-statute standing Whether the Oregon Appellate court erred in denying separate alarming contacts of live gunfire within 100' of Plaintiff under Oregon's Stalking statut…
23-161 Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton Georgia 2023-08-18 Denied 14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights?
23A118 Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-98 Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied first-amendment fraud free-speech market-speech material-misstatement rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation Whether the First Amendment protects a securities market participant from being punished and enjoined by the government for intentionally or recklessl…
23-5217 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine Maine 2023-07-26 Denied bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute Can a judge in a child protective custody case base a decision solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, then set bail/bond condition…
23A46 Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. California 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement Whether the First Amendment protects the use of a person's likeness in a commercial film from liability under the Lanham Act and state right of public…
23-33 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. California 2023-07-11 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law corporate-influence familial-status housing-discrimination political-influence standing Should the U.S. Constitution and federal/state civil-rights, housing, antitrust laws trump the defendants' political-financial influence in dodging li…
22-7813 Toby Ray A. McKenzie v. Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Kentucky 2023-06-16 Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process fair-housing family-status housing-discrimination judicial-misconduct landlord-tenant retaliation Is unfair housing now legal in the state of Kentucky where single fathers can be singled out and discriminated against by their landlords due to their…
22-1204 William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell Colorado 2023-06-13 Denied child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud…
22-1205 Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy Maine 2023-06-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case?
22-7625 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-05-24 Denied brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who …
22-7611 George Cunningham v. Maria Quinn, et vir Sixth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied 14th-amendment becker-v-montgomery child-custody civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure icara material-evidence notice-of-appeal standing Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have accepted a corrected notice of appeal involving failure to sign, in conflict with…
22A1006 Gregory Lemelson, aka Father Emmanuel Lemelson, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2023-05-19 Presumed Complete None
22-7174 James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony Due-process
22-7163 In Re Marcus Marko Bachmayer 2023-03-30 Denied bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process familial-rights family-law federal-common-law habeas-corpus standing state-applicability whether-a-child's-familial-relationships-are-protected
22-6920 Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri Missouri 2023-03-03 Denied civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction of the defendant for violating a court order when the defendant had not seen and was no…
22-6781 Samuel Adkins v. Texas Texas 2023-02-14 Denied attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings sexual-abuse sixth-amendment trial Did the state court err in holding that the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was not violated?
22-701 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal-constitutional-v…
22-702 Joseph D. Rued v. Catrina M. Rued Minnesota 2023-01-27 Denied child-abuse child-custody due-process evidence family-law judicial-discretion sexual-abuse standard-of-review therapist-testimony Whether the District Court's affirmative conclusion that sexual abuse did not occur denied due process to the father and child
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…
22-6431 Philip Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment
22-6398 Deon Lewis Duke v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights conspiracy corruption criminal-record delusion due-process law-enforcement property-rights standing telecommunications Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the alleged conspiracy to prevent the petitioner from completing a writ of certiorari …
22-6333 N. P. v. Vermont, et al. Vermont 2022-12-19 Denied best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness Whether Vermont's parental rights termination standards violate the Fourteenth Amendment
22-6299 Judith Yigal, et vir, on Behalf of Their Minor Child, R. Y. v. Julia A. Butler, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied administrative-discrimination brandenburg-v-ohio child-trafficking civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process family-separation free-speech government-speech racketeering Does the targeting of a specific child, mother, father, and Jewish family and manipulating government authority to harm the well-adjusted child (with …
22-530 Daniel A. Bench v. United States Armed Forces 2022-12-08 Denied child-witness confrontation confrontation-right court-martial plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remote-testimony sixth-amendment Does a prosecutor's in-court lie to secure a witness's testimony constitute misconduct that materially prejudices an accused's' Sixth Amendment right …
22-6232 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California 2022-12-06 Denied due-process evidence hearsay other-acts other-acts-evidence procedural-error procedure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel waiver Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
22-6167 Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that …
22-6158 L. Powers v. Unclaimed Property, et al. Florida 2022-11-29 Denied abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process guardianship-dispute inheritance inheritance-rights judicial-impartiality judicial-technicality standing state-funds Shall we send the wrong message to public that judges use illogical technicalities over interests of justice to cover for Florida Governor?
22-421 D. A.. v. Portage County, Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-11-04 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment children-in-need-of-protection civil-rights cross-examination due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing witness-testimony Whether a natural father is entitled to basic Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process during Wisconsin Children in Need of Protection or Services p…
22-311 Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order Does the Due Process Clause require a finding of child abuse or unfitness to terminate all parent-child contact?
22-281 Peter Kruithoff v. Catholic Charities of West Michigan, et al. Michigan 2022-09-26 Denied child-welfare due-process equal-protection marital-status parental-rights standing state-interest statutory-interpretation Does Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law comply with Due Process requirements?
22-5536 Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t…
22-5272 J. R. v. North Dakota North Dakota 2022-08-03 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-findings juvenile-court standing Did the Juvenile Court's record contain substantial evidence to support the court's jurisdictional findings as to the father
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?
21-1549 Isaac D. Koch v. Andela S. Koch, et al. Nebraska 2022-06-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights communication-restriction constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech injunction standing state-court-jurisdiction Shall any State, by her Legislature, heedlessly dictate with equity's injunction — that any one person is not protected by state and federal Constitut…
21-8039 George Munoz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied appellate-review criminal-homicide criminal-procedure different-outcome evidence-limitation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial prejudice reasonable-likelihood trial Whether a defendant is required to show a reasonable likelihood of a different outcome at trial to establish prejudice from ineffective assistance of …
21-1498 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional-violation…
21-1467 Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. Hawaii 2022-05-23 Denied constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require further efforts by the government to locate an absent father before permitting constructive…
21-7936 Jeffrey E. Akard v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied benefits civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus incarceration retroactive-rule section-2255 special-appointment standing substantive-law Whether a disabled veteran has personal stake, interest, or standing to seek that his withheld 2021 benefit, due to his incarceration, receive a 'spec…
21-1432 K. S., Father v. Iowa Department of Human Services, et al. Iowa 2022-05-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-court parental-rights procedural-hearing standing termination-of-rights Does the consolidated hearing violate petitioner's rights to procedural-due-process, substantive-due-process, equal-protection
21-1367 Amy Nichols-Stuart v. County of Amador, California, et al. California 2022-04-21 Denied child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights dependency-proceeding dependency-proceedings drunk-driving due-process familial-association jurisdictional-report standing waiver-of-rights Does a parent who in a state court dependency proceeding submitted to jurisdiction on a staff prepared jurisdictional report and did not submit on a d…
21-7515 Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. Louisiana 2022-03-31 Denied bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal Did the family court judge commit human-trafficking,violate-equal-protection,violate-due-process,find-grandmother-guilty-of-contempt,issue-bench-warra…
21-7374 William A. Noguera v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied conflict-of-interest constitutional-right counsel-representation cuyler-v-sullivan holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-representation Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with relevant decisions of this Court in concluding that Sullivan's standard applies only when a def…
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…
21-1221 S. U. v. C. J. West Virginia 2022-03-08 Denied biological-parenthood civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law family-separation fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy maternity-presumption reproductive-rights standing surrogacy Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires equal protection of biological parents, and their resulting children, who utilize gestational surrogacy to p…
21-1205 Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-03-03 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action Whether a parent has a constitutional right to a jury trial in a child custody proceeding initiated by the state
21-1152 Michael A. Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem New York 2022-02-22 Denied attorney-for-children constitutional-violation court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel custody-dispute due-process free-speech parental-rights takings-clause Does appointment of an attorney for the children over a fit father's objection violate his right to parental-relations?
21-1045 I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent…
21-986 Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order directly conflicts with Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970)
21-6831 Albert L. Richardson, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied certificate-of-appealability drug-effects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment taped-interrogation Could reasonable jurists find ineffective an attorney's failure to investigate the identity and effects of a drug administered to an accused at the ti…
21-965 Arthur Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-statutes constitutional-deprivation emotional-distress federal-tort-claims-act governmental-liability property-taking property-takings title-42-usc-1983 title-42-usc-1985 Should the U.S. government be held liable for persecution of a religious Catholic Christian, Mexican-Heritage U.S. born male father causing personal i…
21-6734 Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-12-28 Denied constitutional-law counsel-concession criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process factual-innocence right-to-counsel trial-strategy Does McCoy apply where the defendant made clear to counsel the objective of the defense is to maintain innocence, only for counsel to then concede gui…
21-6696 L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-22 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401
21-6672 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California 2021-12-20 Denied due-process evidence-code-section-1109 federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance other-acts-evidence procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
21-824 Cecelia F. Abadie v. Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board Louisiana 2021-12-03 Denied attorney-discipline civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct legal-paternity Whether suspending respondent for a year and a day, after ignoring evidence that supported her allegation, violated due-process, free-speech
21-804 Philippe Zogbe Zatta v. Steven Charles Eldred, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied child-support civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud immunity parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine state-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner can be prosecuted for not providing support to his child
21-6330 S. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2021-11-18 Denied administrative-procedure child-welfare civil-rights custody-requirements department-of-children-services due-process family-law judicial-procedure judicial-review Whether the requirements for placing children in foster care were properly followed in this case, including whether background checks were conducted o…
21-6296 James Paul Desper v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association parental-rights prison-regulations prison-visitation Whether a prison's indefinite ban on visitation between a minor child and her parent without any particularized justification violates the right of fa…
21-6248 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-10 Dismissed civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws
21-680 Lawrence Salisbury v. City of Santa Monica, California Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied consideration disability-accommodation disability-rights fair-housing-act fair-housing-amendments-act federal-common-law housing-discrimination landlord-tenant landlord-tenant-law procedural-requirements reasonable-accommodation rental-housing Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires landlords to accommodate the disabilities of individuals who occupy rental housing, even where the re…
21-6151 Gary DuBose Terry v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-review summary-judgment trial-counsel Whether a federal habeas court may summarily dismiss a petition alleging a substantial but defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel …
21-5765 Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial for attempted murder after acquittal for murder in self-defense
21-5753 James Allyson Lee v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing childhood-trauma habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief ptsd ptsd-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether new mitigating evidence of a capital defendant's horrific childhood abuse and PTSD diagnosis can be considered cumulative and inconsequential …
21-5733 Eric Westry v. Victor Leon Second Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical-assault, threatening-behavior, physical-resistance, false-na…
21-5740 Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz California 2021-09-21 Denied child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish his…
21-5371 James Roland Henderson v. California California 2021-08-13 Denied criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances Whether the trial court improperly instructed the jury with a pinpoint instruction on imperfect self-defense
21-141 Jaimee Carole Finley v. Jon Mark Finley California 2021-08-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-court parental-rights state-discretion Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires that parents have an automatic 50/50 share in parental time and responsibility abse…
21-5197 T. A. S., Father of R. A. S., a Minor Child v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2021-07-26 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process ex-parte family-association no-contact-order parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights termination-of-rights Is there any way possible that a permanent 'No Contact Order' sanctioned against BOTH my son and I since Sept. 2015 coupled with the maternal half sis…
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 …
21-94 Lt. Colonel Patrick Schreiber v. Tracy Renaud, Acting Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied administrative-issue-exhaustion administrative-law carr-v-davis child-definition constitutional-claim federal-common-law immigration-law immigration-nationality-act legitimation state-law statutory-interpretation Definition of 'child' in Immigration and Nationality Act
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Whether a parent has a right to visitation and a case plan when there is no proof of life-threatening issues
21-5075 Elizabeth Shaw v. Derek Shaw Michigan 2021-07-12 Denied child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute icwa jurisdiction-challenge mifpa tribal-law Whether the Supreme Court will order the immediate return of the children to their mother, Elizabeth Shaw, in violation of court orders, ICWA, MIFPA, …
21-5063 Sammy Cano v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-09 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-seizure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the State failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
20-8397 Louis A. Banks v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied 5th-amendment civil-rights custodial-interrogation due-process edwards-violation fifth-amendment judicial-immunity law-enforcement rule-23 rule-60 Whether law enforcement violated Edwards v. Arizona by interrogating a minor who invoked the Fifth Amendment, and whether claims for declaratory and m…
20-8331 Charlene Walker Rosa v. Michael J. Satz, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-17 Dismissed attorney-client-confidentiality civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state attorney's opening statement at the prosecution's closing argument violated the accused's right to due process and a fair trial
20-8256 Terry Alonzo Wilson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied aiding-and-abetting civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act Whether the lower court clearly abused its discretion and prejudiced the petitioner by materially objecting to the charged Hobbs Act offense as a non-…
20-1687 Jules Dylan Stuer v. Susan Duesler Texas 2021-06-04 Denied amicus-attorney child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-provisions defamation due-process fraud standing victim-rights Whether an amicus attorney is allowed to side with someone who damages a child repeatedly, perjures themselves in civil court, and defrauds the opposi…
20-8198 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-06-02 Dismissed 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (negro, black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-1627 S. S., et al. v. S. B. Pennsylvania 2021-05-21 Denied child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness Is such a 'gag order' an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f…
20-7862 In Re Momolu V. S. Sirleaf, Jr. 2021-04-27 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-review due-process federal-courts immigration-law jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-provisions Does the AE DPA rescedoraly ar veld Sodgmer C8) dis
20-7827 Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia Maine 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe…
20-7770 In Re Sakima Iban Salih El Bey 2021-04-15 Dismissed administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act article-4-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-exemption due-process jurisdictional-authority law-enforcement-conduct privileges-and-immunities state-law-interpretation state-trust Does the Constitution of Arkansas make provision to deny a person that is exempt from a 'driver's license' in Arkansas who is in compliance with state…
20-7536 Timothy L. Coleman v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied brady-violation capital-habeas capital-punishment confessed-murderer due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase right-to-appeal right-to-due-process Whether a federal appellate court violates a capital habeas petitioner's rights by refusing to consider additional arguments and authorities in suppor…
20-7517 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-03-22 Dismissed 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments denationalization due-process ex-post-facto genocide jurisdiction slave-labels slavery What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-1306 Alan Dale Walker v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-03-19 Denied capital-case capital-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mitigation-evidence psychological-trauma sixth-amendment tactical-decisions trial-counsel Did the Mississippi Supreme Court fail to adhere to this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence requiring counsel in a capital case to conduct a thorou…
20-7514 Aimee Johnson v. St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied bias child-welfare civil-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-allegations ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias parental-rights recusal Can a judge preside over a case when he or she is biased? Or when they are friends with the parties involved? Can a person have a fair trial when they…
20-7450 Anthony A. Patel v. Regents of the University of California California 2021-03-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-diagnosis political-discrimination political-speech trump-presidency Does the U.S. Constitution permit the State of California to misdiagnose an American Citizen as Suffering from a Mental Disorder for supporting Presid…
20-7343 Justin David Williams v. Utah Utah 2021-03-05 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony Whether the court of appeals erred in its admission of the father's 911 call under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule
20-1155 Jonas David Nelson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-02-23 Denied cognitive-deficits cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mental-illness proportionality proportionality-review Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evidenc…
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in upholding the state court's finding of premeditation under Jackson v. Virginia