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25A917 Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett Florida 2026-02-13 Application ability-to-pay child-support-enforcement civil-contempt due-process fraudulent-affidavits parental-rights Question not identified.
25A896 Homewood Associates Inc., et al. v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Georgia 2026-02-06 Application constitutional-challenge land-use-restriction municipal-ordinance property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause Question not identified.
25A890 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-05 Application at-large-elections eleventh-circuit public-service-commission racial-vote-dilution section-2 voting-rights-act Question not identified.
25-6700 Aita Gurung v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending constitutional-rights jury-selection peremptory-challenges public-trial sixth-amendment waller-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee applies to the cause and peremptory challenges phase of jury selection or may the court exclude t…
25-6695 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending appellate-procedure en-banc-review judicial-review mandate-issuance notice-requirements procedural-rules 1. Whether a court of appeals violates Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 40 and 41 when it issues a mandate after granting a motion to correct a pe…
25-894 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe…
25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness 1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione…
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 …
25-6517 Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending damages government-official individual-capacity religious-freedom rluipa statutory-interpretation The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq., like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 199…
25-6507 Derrick Nicholson v. Georgia Georgia 2026-01-07 Pending None Question not identified.
25A765 Karen L. MacElroy Zopatti v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-02 Application ada disability-rights due-process judicial-access reasonable-accommodation title-ii Whether the state trial court violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II by denying reasonable accommodations and effective communica…
25A748 RMS of Georgia, LLC, dba Choice Refrigerants v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-29 Application administrative-discretion agency-rulemaking hydrofluorocarbons legislative-power nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25A745 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 Question not identified.
25-728 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending circuit-split false-claims-act fraudulent-billing government-claims qui-tam rule-9b Whether a qui tam complaint satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) when it alleges detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme…
25A719 Pamela McKethan v. GSLS GA, LLC Georgia 2025-12-18 Application certiorari family-emergency good-cause pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's family emergencies and caregiving responsibilities constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for w…
25A706 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law
25-689 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-12-12 Pending autopsy confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence A forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on a homicide victim was unavailable for trial. In her place, the State of Georgia offered testimony b…
25-6291 Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. Ohio 2025-12-05 Pending equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul…
25A613 Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-24 Application appellate-litigation-clinic certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel jurisdictional-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a court-appointed counsel from an appellate litigation clinic may be granted an extension of time to file a certiorari petition due to personn…
25-585 SunTrust Bank v. Charles Daniel Bickerstaff, as Administrator of the Estate of Jeff Bickerstaff, Jr., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated Georgia 2025-11-18 Denied arbitration-agreement class-action federal-arbitration-act opt-out preemption state-court-rule Whether the FAA preempts a state court rule permitting a proposed class representative to effectively opt out of arbitration on behalf of all unnamed …
25-6135 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-11-17 Denied aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about…
25-583 Rodney Towe v. Georgia Georgia 2025-11-17 Denied criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte…
25A541 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-10 Application circuit-split false-claims-act medical-billing medicare-fraud pleading-standard rule-9b Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires False Claims Act plaintiffs to identify specific false claim submissions when pleading a fraudul…
25-6077 In Re Brian William Schumaker 2025-11-10 Dismissed constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution district-court federal-jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-discretion I. Unless and until, notice of acceptance of jurisdiction is given WHETHER federal courts are without jurisdiction to punish under criminal lews of th…
25A524 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application first-amendment free-speech hat-day school-regulation student-speech weapon-depiction Whether the First Amendment protects a public school student's right to wear clothing depicting a firearm when the message is not overtly threatening
25-546 Julia Mae Robinson v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-standards federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25-545 Julia M. Robinson v. FedEx Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25A486 Gabriel Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-28 Application certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender legal-briefing supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a federal defender may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and case complexity
25A467 Barry Kiya Daise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-23 Application certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a federal defender may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and complexity of cas…
25A460 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-10-22 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether a substitute expert witness's testimony based on an absent analyst's testimonial statements violates a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clau…
25A454 Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Application certiorari eleventh-circuit pro-bono supreme-court time-extension writ-petition Whether a pro bono counsel's personal scheduling constraints constitute good cause for a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of cer…
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 In an Arizona divorce, despite A.R.S. §25-403(5)'s best-interests standard addressing the mental health of all parties, the court compelled only the d…
25-5873 In Re Donald Bowers 2025-10-14 Denied None Whether, in a "Misconduct Petition " can the Chief Judge, and subsequent Judicial Counsel, "Dismiss " a "Complaint " regarding a violation of Petition…
25A405 Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender legal-complexity supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari due to the complexity of the underlying case and…
25-5826 Dover Davis, Jr. v. Officer Aaron Swann Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied circuit-court-conflict fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-facts section-1983 statute-of-limitations 1. WHETHER THERE WAS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ' DECISION AND THE NORTHERN DISTRICT COURT OF GEORGIA 'S DECISION REGARD…
25-408 Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii To Respondent Robin Shahar: Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S. 346 (2024) applies…
25-5769 Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal based on prior Georgia burglary convictions and a controlled substance offen…
25A351 James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete categorical-approach certiorari-petition circuit-split founding-era-practice historical-interpretation legal-doctrine Whether a circuit split exists regarding the proper categorical approach to interpreting a specific legal doctrine based on Founding-era historical pr…
25A350 Vincent Terry v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al. Georgia 2025-09-26 Application certiorari extension-of-time legal-complexity petition-for-relief pro-se supreme-court-rule Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition warrants extraordinary relief given the complexity of th…
25-5732 Jeremy Baum v. Missouri Missouri 2025-09-25 Denied appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and violates …
25-5729 Raylon Browning v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-25 Denied constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pretrial-incarceration pro-se-representation speedy-trial Whether a defendant's prolonged pretrial incarceration and denial of pro se representation constitute a violation of due process and speedy trial righ…
25-352 Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-24 Pending affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-discretion pleading-rules summary-judgment Whether a defendant may assert an affirmative defense in a summary judgment motion without previously pleading it in an answer, despite Rule 8(c)(1) a…
25A321 Eric Dennard Parker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete certiorari-deadline circuit-splits federal-defender legal-research petition-extension supreme-court-rules Whether a federal defender may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and complexity of…
25-330 Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 sui…
25-5665 Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas Texas 2025-09-17 Denied constitutional-rights equal-protection judicial-discretion jury-selection race-discrimination voir-dire Does the knowing judicial enforcement of defense counsel's explicitly race-based agreement to exclude a Black woman from the venire violate the Equal …
25A302 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow…
25-291 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied cercla-statute-of-limitations contribution-action declaratory-judgment environmental-cleanup-costs potentially-responsible-parties superfund-liability Whether a declaratory judgment without imposed costs or damages triggers CERCLA's three-year statute of limitations for contribution actions
25A286 Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete certiorari-deadline circuit-splits federal-defender legal-complexity petition-extension supreme-court-rules Whether a federal defender may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and complexity of…
25A284 Vincent Terry v. Teresa Bailey, et al. Georgia 2025-09-11 Application extension-of-time georgia-supreme-court legal-complexity pro-se-petition supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will grant a 30-day extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under Rule 13.1 when the petitioner demonstr…
25-5612 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied appellate-procedure ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law procedural-fairness Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 41(b) and due process by issuing a mandate during pending en banc rehearing …
25-270 Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing Whether the Federal Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment of non-infringement based on estoppel and constitutional standing in patent infringeme…
25-5532 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-03 Denied bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of new evidence pro…
25-5505 Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied civil-rights federal-jurisdiction first-amendment judicial-procedure removal-statute supreme-court-precedent Whether satisfying the second prong of Georgia v. Rachel requires a formal state statute or if systemic judicial practices and procedural barriers may…
25-5447 La'Shaun Clark v. Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC, as Assignee of One Main Financial Group, LLC Georgia 2025-08-22 Denied contract-law debt-buyer due-process equal-protection federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce Whether debt buyers are defined as Lenders and whether state courts violate due process by refusing to enforce federal arbitration agreements
25-5386 Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default Whether the Federal Court of Appeals properly reviewed the district court's procedural default ruling de novo and whether the state procedural rule wa…
25-5375 Arturs Spila v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) requires proof of knowledge that proceeds originated from a specific felony crime
25-183 Thomas Crowther, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Pending educational-institutions employment-discrimination federal-funding private-right-action sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title IX provides employees of federally funded educational institutions a private right of action to sue for sex discrimination in employment
25-175 In Re Andy Desty 2025-08-13 Denied administrative-law child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power separation-of-powers Whether the Georgia Department of Human Services/Child Support Services violated constitutional due process rights through administrative hearings and…
25A178 Michael Rene Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus post-judgment-motions pro-se-litigation section-2255 Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability (COA) for challenging a district court's denial of post-judgment motions in a 28 …
25A155 Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment Whether a defendant may raise an affirmative defense by motion for summary judgment without first amending a pleading that did not originally include …
25-5287 Andrew W. Bell v. Karli Swift, et al. Georgia 2025-08-06 Denied constitutional-guarantees due-process election-contest fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether Georgia courts may dismiss election-contest petitions for 'failure to perfect service' when statutory duty for service rests with clerks and s…
25-114 Evelyn-Natasha La Anyane v. Georgia Georgia 2025-07-30 Denied None Question not identified.
25-5217 William R. Jackson v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied constitutional-safeguards due-process extradition-clause illegal-confinement state-proceedings warrant-requirements Whether the Extradition Clause and UCEA procedural safeguards protect an individual from extradition by a private company without proper state proceed…
25A106 Nelson Mickens, Jr. v. William Danforth Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies civil-rights exhaustion-requirement prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-complaint section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires a prisoner to exhaust all available administrative remedies before filing a civil rights lawsuit und…
25A104 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2025-07-24 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a defendant whose death sentences were imposed by bare majority jury votes and judicia…
25-92 Isaac Mulamba v. Board of Education of Baltimore County Maryland 2025-07-23 Denied civil-rights federal-rules forum-selection pleading-standards supremacy-clause title-vii Whether a state court's application of heightened pleading standards to federal Title VII claims, beyond those required under Federal Rule of Civil Pr…
25A84 Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, et al. v. International Paper Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
25-79 Ton Ton Aquino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Pending appellate-waiver circuit-split sentencing-conditions sex-offender-registration supervised-release unlawful-sentencing Whether it is unlawful for a court to impose sex offender registration as a condition of supervised release for a non-qualifying offense, and to enfor…
25A5 Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix Whether Title IX provides an implied private right of action for employees to sue for sex discrimination in educational institutions
24-1315 Andy Desty v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied corporate-powers due-process equal-protection promissory-note takings-clause truth-in-lending Whether Supreme Court precedents permit Santander Consumer USA Inc.'s actions involving deprivation of rights without due process of law
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 …
24-1286 Jeffrey Buford v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-17 Denied constitutional-authority due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure original-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Supreme Court has original jurisdiction when a state is a party to the case and a citizen of another state is involved
24-7427 Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden Georgia 2025-06-16 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar Whether Georgia's Habeas Corpus Act violates constitutional protections when procedural bars prevent meaningful review of a potentially wrongful convi…
24-7382 Issac Jermale Fisher v. Missouri Missouri 2025-06-09 Denied constitutional-significance courtroom-closure public-access structural-error trial-court-standards waller-v-georgia When do intentional actions designed to restrict the public's entry to the courtroom constitute a closure of constitutional significance that, unless …
24A1198 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence capital-punishment constitutional-due-process death-penalty new-trial recantation Whether the recantation of bitemark evidence used to convict a death row inmate warrants a new trial under federal constitutional due process standard…
24A1188 Evelyn-Natasha La Anyane v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete None
24-7248 Tamika Seay v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l…
24-7176 Miriam Pope v. Chetan Patel, fka Hitesh Patel Alabama 2025-05-12 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-law discovery-rights due-process immigration-status undocumented-persons Whether a statutory rule of civil procedure denying discovery to a defendant violates the Constitution's due process clause, and whether due process a…
24A1076 MaChelle Joseph v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-07 Presumed Complete None
24-7139 David Little v. Georgia Georgia 2025-05-06 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana Court violated the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation by admitting deceased witness's hearsay statements without affording pet…
24-7064 Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied accrual-date breach-of-contract cause-of-action eleventh-circuit oral-contract statute-of-limitations Whether a cause of action accrual date for a breach of oral contract claim can be definitively determined under Georgia law when the specific date of …
24A924 Brandon Lionel Johnson v. Georgia Georgia 2025-03-26 Presumed Complete None
24-6859 Cecil Ray v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. Georgia 2025-03-26 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel state-courts Whether the Georgia State Courts violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by denying access to case records for direct appeal…
24-6851 Irving A. Harned, Jr. v. Office of the Clerk, Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied absolute-immunity court-order georgia-law interested-parties judicial-immunity legal-jurisdiction Can Georgia law grant 'ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY' to any party other than a judge without a court order?
24-989 Cedrick Frazier, et al. v. Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied due-process electronic-stored-information fraud-upon-court inherent-authority sanctions seventh-amendment Whether a federal court can impose case-ending sanctions based on inherent authority for alleged ESI fabrication when a colorable medical malpractice …
24-6656 Derek Burns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-02-26 Denied attorney-client-privilege evidence-intrusion legal-communications procedural-matters sixth-amendment state-actors Does characterizing attorney client communications about bond strategy and hearing preparation as merely 'procedural scheduling matters' defeat Sixth …
24-887 Johnny Moats, Sheriff, Polk County, Georgia, et al. v. Stephen Jarrard Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied first-amendment jail-ministry pickering-garcetti-framework qualified-immunity unbridled-discretion volunteer-religious-work Whether the Court's Pickering-Garcetti framework applies to a First Amendment claim by an applicant for volunteer religious work in a local jail's pro…
24-881 Georgia Association of Club Executives, Inc. v. Georgia, et al. Georgia 2025-02-18 Denied content-based-regulation first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny reed-v-gilbert strict-scrutiny tax-law Whether a tax targeting businesses based on expressive content is subject to strict or intermediate First Amendment scrutiny
24-6430 Maurice Fleming v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-30 Denied accomplice-testimony criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court's failure to provide a requested jury instruction on an accomplice's testimony requires reversal of a criminal conviction when…
24-6318 Marcus Crowder v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-16 Denied acquittal constitutional-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment malice-murder Whether the state of Georgia violates the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause when indicting in multiplicity offenses arising from a single act o…
24A691 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension Whether the Eleventh Circuit's ruling in a complex criminal case involving potential circuit splits warrants Supreme Court review
24-6275 Johnny Hamilton v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-13 Denied brady-violation constitutional-protection due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-emergency reckless-conduct Does Georgia's reckless conduct statute provide adequate notice of prohibited conduct and raise constitutional concerns under due process and Brady v.…
24-677 Victor Hill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied correctional-officer excessive-force fourth-amendment jail-security pretrial-detainees restraint-chairs Whether any broad principle of law gives fair warning that it constitutes 'excessive force' in violation of the Fourth Amendment for a correctional of…
24-6095 William Lematty v. Georgia Georgia 2024-12-09 Denied None Question not identified.
24-5992 Andrew W. Bell v. Fulton County, Georgia, et al. Georgia 2024-11-19 Denied appeal-procedure ejectment-claim georgia-supreme-court procedural-due-process property-dispute statutory-interpretation Did the Supreme Court of Georgia improperly reject Petitioner's appeal under O.C.G.A. § 5-6-35(j) and violate procedural due process?
24-5989 Douglas Flournoy v. Georgia Georgia 2024-11-19 Denied None Question not identified.
24-5947 Ismail Salaam v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied courtroom-closure judicial-review plain-error sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure Whether a structural error during trial automatically warrants reversal even without a contemporaneous objection under plain error review
24-5930 Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia Georgia 2024-11-07 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing Whether a criminal defendant's sentence violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when the trial court refuses to correct merger errors a…
24-5899 Michael Anthony Glover v. Georgia Georgia 2024-11-04 Denied constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination Whether the Court of Appeals of Georgia erred in not finding that the objective circumstances required that petitioner Glover was in custody for purpo…
24-5906 John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-11-04 Denied capital-punishment constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-fact-finding jury-misconduct Does the Due Process Clause require a more rigorous standard of review for judicial fact-finding beyond Georgia's 'any evidence' standard?
24-480 Kimberly K. Sisia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied diversity-jurisdiction eleventh-circuit insurance-coverage medical-payments state-law substantive-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly applied state substantive law in a diversity jurisdiction case involving medical payments coverage by State Fa…
24-431 Danny Ray Dunn v. Caryn Alissa Dunn Georgia 2024-10-17 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal-motion Whether the lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism in Georgia state courts violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
24-5729 Jerome Coast v. Georgia Georgia 2024-10-09 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5734 In Re Abdur-Rahim Dib Dudar 2024-10-09 Denied appellate-procedure default-judgment district-court judicial-discretion procedural-motion venue-transfer Whether the transfer of a case from District 1 to District 2 under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) was proper and whether the defendant is entitled to a default j…
24-5711 Jesse Regalado v. Town of Trion, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied contract-rights copyright-law eminent-domain federal-rules governmental-immunity judicial-procedure Whether federal rules 60(b) and 60(d)(3) protect petitioners from fraudulent judgments and whether the government can deny citizens contracts and use …
24-5692 Jamie Patrick Hahn v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-10-02 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure false-evidence habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Georgia Supreme Court improperly denied the petitioner's habeas corpus petition by failing to review false evidence and potential Sixth Am…
24-362 Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G. W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-01 Judgment Issued federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement-proviso negligent-act sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause wrong-house-raid Whether the Constitution's Supremacy Clause and the FTCA's exception bar tort claims for negligent federal law enforcement actions during a wrong-hous…
24-323 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment Does a federal court's unconditional deference to a state supreme court's purported findings on an essential element of a crime violate a habeas petit…
24-305 Justin Savage v. Georgia Office of Administrative Hearings Georgia 2024-09-18 Denied commission-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence Whether the failure of the Commission and subsequent courts to duly consider and address material evidence constitutes a violation of the Petitioner's…
24-5551 Samuel Arnold v. Georgia Georgia 2024-09-16 Denied constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-representation prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-error Whether a pro se prisoner's petition was improperly denied due to procedural errors and lack of proper legal representation
24-5386 Christopher M. Hunt, Sr. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Georgia 2024-08-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-breach judicial-discretion jurisdiction-conflict supersedeas-bond Whether a state court's denial of a jury trial and imposition of an excessive supersedeas bond without an appeal or review mechanism violates constitu…
24-157 Roy C. Derksen v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction sovereign-citizen Whether the district court and 7th Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se litigant's constitutional challenges to administrative law proceedings withou…
24-149 Kai Hansjurgens v. Donald Bailey Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied 11th-circuit bankruptcy-procedure due-process erie-doctrine federal-common-law state-law Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals improperly interpreted state law, federal bankruptcy rules, and Erie doctrine principles in its decision
24-5276 Rhoda Stahmann v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Seventh Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement official-misconduct statutory-violation Whether the Director of the FBI violated his duties to enforce the law and protect civil rights under 18 U.S.C. sections 242 and 1001
24A135 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split eleventh-circuit federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in Eric Robert Rudolph's case involves a significant legal issue warranting Supreme Court review due to potent…
24-5225 Nidal M. Hasan v. United States Armed Forces 2024-08-05 Denied appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue…
24-5191 Quentin Veneno, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied constitutional-authority courtroom-closure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure intratribal-conduct presley-v-georgia public-trial rule-51(b) rule-51b tribal-sovereignty Does the constitutional mandate to consider alternatives to courtroom closure apply to audio/video streaming?
24-5192 Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-31 Denied arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the…
24-97 Mark Randall Meadows v. Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied causal-nexus federal-defense federal-forum federal-immunity federal-officer-removal statutory-right Whether the right to remove an action against 'any officer ... for or relating to any act under color of such office,' 28 U.S.C. §1442(a)(1), evaporat…
24-5148 Alexander Harvin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied access-to-courts assignment-of-security-deed civil-rights-violation due-process equal-protection foreclosure-challenge pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing Could the Petitioner have raised the issue of wrongful/illegal foreclosure in the 2014 court proceedings?
24M8 Jesse Regalado v. Town of Trion, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete None
24-5068 Frankie Wayne Pope v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus judicial-process post-conviction-relief state-court transcripts trial-fraud Question not identified.
24-5060 Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania 2024-07-12 Denied constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes Whether Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes for second-degree murder, which provide for a mandatory maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a requir…
23-7800 Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Supermarket, Inc., et al. Georgia 2024-06-25 Denied administrative-law appellate-review compensable-injury medical-evidence ttd-benefits workers-compensation workers-compensation,administrative-law-judge,comp Whether the Administrative Law Judge made correct judgments regarding the compensability of the claimant's injuries, the award of TTD benefits, and th…
23A1118 Darryl Scott Stinski v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete aedpa capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference Whether, under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), a federal court must apply double deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(1) and…
23-1302 Kevin Hardaway v. Dwight Hamilton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied 42-usc-1983 eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights eleventh-amendment-immunity monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services official-capacity section-1983 use-of-force Whether existing Eleventh Circuit precedent of Manders v. Lee, 338 F.3d 1304 (11th Cir. 2003), holding that a Georgia sheriff is an 'arm of the state'…
23-7684 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification Should-the-Rooker-Feldman-doctrine-apply-to-moot-decisions-by-state-courts
23-7576 Solomon A. Jones v. Georgia Department of Labor, et al. Georgia 2024-05-28 Denied civil-rights due-process employment-law in-forma-pauperis minimum-wage pandemic service-of-process sovereign-immunity unemployment-benefits unemployment-insurance Can unemployment insurance benefits be denied to persons whose employment is terminated through no fault of their own?
23-1245 David Timothy Johnson, Sr. v. Urvashi Foster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-power jurisdiction pro-se-litigation procedural-defect shotgun-pleading Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit's questioned Orders amount to an unlawful denial of due process, an oppressive exe…
23A1029 Mark Randall Meadows v. Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension federal-officer-removal immunity-defense official-duties state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether the federal-officer removal statute permits a former federal officer to remove a state criminal prosecution to federal court for adjudication …
23-7432 Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Torrieo Corker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied civil-rights corporate-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge land-use multi-defendant-case ninth-circuit-interpretation state-jurisdiction What are the acceptance and recordation dates for which the Federal Government accepted concurrent legislative jurisdiction from the State of Georgia …
23-1205 Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened…
23-7412 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-08 Denied 5th-amendment compulsory-testimony constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief privilege-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination state-court-review Does Cronaias' testimony violate the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination?
23-7351 Rolandas Milinavicuus v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied constitutional-claim constitutional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability (COA)…
23-1185 In Re W. A. Griffin 2024-05-02 Denied 11th-circuit-interpretation assignment-of-benefits civil-rights erisa erisa-rights georgia-law georgia-state-law medical-benefit-assignment preemption standing statute-of-limitations statutory-penalties Whether the 11th Circuit's case law has improperly voided assignments of benefits and rights permitted under Georgia state law and ERISA
23-1172 Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights Whether the granting of the defense of sovereign or official immunity for employees or officials that are acting outside of the authority of their off…
23-7356 Jonathan Burnett v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied child-molestation crime-victims criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection voir-dire Whether trial counsel's failure during voir dire in a child molestation case to explore and investigate whether jurors had been crime victims (directl…
23-7173 John Lee Barlow v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court Whether the Court of Appeals erred in categorically ruling that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted …
23-7153 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-07 Denied capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica…
23A890 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-07 Denied capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced individual who has demonstrated full rehabilitation and for whom the penolog…
23-1060 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied at-large-elections electoral-model policy-interests section-2 state-interests thornburg-v-gingles vote-dilution voting-rights-act Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires a plaintiff challenging at-large elections to propose a remedy that does not alter the State's cho…
23-7041 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may …
23-7042 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Can the State under Atkins v. Virginia execute a person who is intellectually disabled by all clinical standards?
23A855 Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte Whether a federal court may sua sponte raise a procedural affirmative defense to deny preliminary injunctive relief without considering the movant's l…
23-994 Marcus Marchman v. Amerihome Mortgage Co. Georgia 2024-03-12 Denied bills-of-exchange bonds commerce-clause discharge foreclosure mortgage-debt securitized-debt standing title-48-cfr treasury-bonds u-c-c Can the identified 'Holder' of the Securitized mortgage debt avoid discharge of said debt when bonds are issued in accord with Title 48 C.F.R. Ch. 1, …
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte…
23-6852 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case?
23A774 Dexter Conrad Jackson v. Lavar Ham, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete appellate-filing-fee civil-procedure district-court-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's in forma pauperis appeal can be dismissed without explicit assessment of the required appellate filing fee
23A764 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot…
23-6721 Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address the petitioner's claims
23A740 Elbert Walker, Jr. v. Dismas Charities, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment home-confinement Whether a private contractor overseeing a federal prisoner's home confinement can be held liable under Bivens for alleged constitutional violations du…
23-838 Brian D. Swanson v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied 17th-amendment ballot-legality civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law elections equal-suffrage seventeenth-amendment standing statutory-violation Does petitioner suffer a concrete and particularized injury, for the purpose of establishing standing, when the Secretary of State issues an illegal b…
23-6648 Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error Does the plainly erroneous exclusion of the public from jury selection in a criminal trial seriously affect the fairness, integrity, and public reputa…
23A705 Sherman Lee Ridley v. Brian Chambers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state prisoner's constitutional claims
23-6590 Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia Georgia 2024-01-29 Denied due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence Did the Georgia Court of Appeals err in vacating the petitioner's void sentence and barring him by res judicata from attacking the void sentence in an…
23-6603 Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the defendants' actions, which allegedly caused him more than 30 minutes of delay in r…
23-6543 Odeiu Joy Powers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-service due-process federal-civil-service judicial-discretion preference-eligible pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness sua-sponte-dismissal unilateral-ban veteran Must rulings reflect material facts on the record?
23-6556 Robert Thrasher v. Georgia Georgia 2024-01-24 Denied court-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment legal-record statutory-oath subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction witness-testimony Where there is no record of any part of a court proceeding, the grand jury proceedings, this means there was never a grand jury proceeding, correct?
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials Whether state officials are subject to liability as employers in their individual capacity for violations of the FLSA
23A590 Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when multiple attorneys fail to adequately challenge plea a…
23-691 Samuel Ghee v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-immunity official-liability standing stare-decisis state-law willful-misconduct Whether qualified or judicial immunity immunizes willful misconduct and failure to perform duties
23-675 Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied 11-U.S.C-105(a) 28-U.S.C-1334(b) asbestos-liabilities bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction collusion-presumption non-debtor-injunction non-debtors related-to-jurisdiction section-105a section-1334b Whether transactions between related business entities are subject to a presumption of collusion in violation of 28-U.S.C-1359
23-673 In Re Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. 2023-12-21 Denied 5th-amendment civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment property-rights res-judicata rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings takings-clause Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal court from considering a takings claim under the Fifth Amendment when the state court proceedings d…
23-664 Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights constitutional-safeguards correspondence correspondence-interception due-process email prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Due Process Clause requires notice and opportunity to be heard when a prisoner's outgoing emails are intercepted
23-668 Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts
23A564 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-safeguards sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when counsel fails to adequately investigate guilt-phase evidence and secure appropriate jury instruc…
23-6246 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-12-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power impeachment impeachment-power presidential-election presidential-transition separation-of-powers Can a Peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate transfers Power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executive Order?
23-6247 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-12-13 Denied ai-governance civil-rights constitutional-transfer due-process executive-order executive-power impeachment presidential-election presidential-power separation-of-powers transfer-of-power white-house-authority Can a peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate employee, Donald Trump, transfers power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executiv…
23-6228 Barbara Burks Williams v. Fred Lane, et al. Alabama 2023-12-11 Denied alabama civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction default-judgment due-process failure-to-appear legal-notice procedural-rules standing takings Why wasn't the Due Process of the law applied?
23A517 Dewberry Group, Inc., f/k/a Dewberry Capital Corporation, a Georgia Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., a New York Corporation Fourth Circuit 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete corporate-separateness equity-principles lanham-act profit-disgorgement trademark-infringement trademark-law Whether a court may order a defendant to disgorge profits from non-party affiliated entities in a Lanham Act trademark infringement case without pierc…
23-591 Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts' adherence to issue preclusion doctrin…
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts Which court resolves an irreconcilable conflict of jurisdiction between the federal courts and state courts?
23-585 John Duncan Fordham v. Georgia Department of Administrative Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-victims-restitution-act money-had-and-received presidential-pardon restitution restitution-funds Do funds collected under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act vest in a claimant or are they subject to recoupment after a Presidential Pardon?
23-6136 Shawn C. Leftwich v. State Farm Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Rehearing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process pleadings pro-se procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Honorable Court in the United States District of Georgia Harta Division Abused Plaintiff's Procedural Due Process Rights
23-6060 John Lacey Mulkey v. Georgia Georgia 2023-11-20 Denied confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence right-to-present-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the Court of Appeals violate the due process right to present a defense, in holding admissible, under O.C.G.A. § 24-4-403, (Rule403) extrinsic evi…
23-6028 Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia Georgia 2023-11-16 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution's misconduct, including reversing the burden of proof, violating the defendant's due process rights, and denying the defendant…
23A441 Trent Drexel Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights detention government-delay pro-se-petition sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Whether the Sixth Amendment and Speedy Trial Act permit a court to deny a motion to dismiss an indictment when the government deliberately delayed the…
23-5996 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied aedpa capital-sentencing constitutional-error death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance jury-argument jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence Whether the lower court was bound by Darden v. Wainwright under AEDPA
23-497 L. Lin Wood v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied attorney-ethics attorney-liability civil-procedure due-process federal-civil-procedure frivolous-pleading of-counsel rule-11 rule-11-sanctions safe-harbor-period sanctions standing Whether an attorney whose name is designated as 'Of Counsel' on the signature page of a frivolous pleading that the attorney did not sign, file, submi…
23-473 James E. Bachman, et al. v. John Q. Bachman, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-labor due-process employment employment-retaliation equitable-defenses fair-labor-standards-act labor-law retaliation standing wage-dispute Whether a case can be dismissed for plaintiffs' refusal to answer questions related to past and current employers in a deposition related to a wage an…
23-452 Michigan v. Anthony Joseph Veach Michigan 2023-10-30 Denied 6th-amendment child-rape child-victim courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment technicality trial-court trial-procedure victim waller-standard Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial require subjecting the child rape victim to an automatic retrial based on a technicality when there a…
23-442 Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force Does involuntary exposure to non-medical substances constitute unreasonable force?
23A376 Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Presumed Complete due-process email-censorship first-amendment prisoner-rights procedural-safeguards qualified-immunity Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires prison officials to provide notice and an opportunity to challenge the censorship …
23-5857 Jeremy Moody v. Georgia Georgia 2023-10-23 Denied autonomy-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process faretta-v-california guilty-plea mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-control-defense right-to-self-representation self-representation trial-court-discretion Whether a guilty plea waives claims that the trial court violated a defendant's autonomy-based rights
23-5825 Robert Robinson v. Savvy Ventures, LLC, c/o Gregory Real Estate, Inc., dba Gregory Property Management Fifth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-rebellion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-officials standing supreme-court-precedent Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constitution o…
23-5804 Joseph Alexander Clarke v. Kimberly M. Esmond Adams, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure maxims-of-law pleadings standing supreme-court-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to properly address the issues raised in the petition, including the failure to address the suffi…
23A327 Sohail M. Abdulla v. Southern Bank Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A326 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
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…
23A321 Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence due-process innocence-claim judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief recanted-expert-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to grant post-conviction relief based on recanted expert testimony t…
23A303 Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-06 Presumed Complete bankruptcy clearly-erroneous due-process fourteenth-amendment real-estate-fraud writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fourth Circuit violated due process and the Fourteenth Amendment by affirming dismissal of bankruptcy proceedings without addressing mater…
23-5687 Isaac Brunson v. DeKalb County Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment summary-judgment Will the Supreme Court continue to allow federal district and appellate courts to pervert the original intention of the summary judgement device and t…
23-302 Bryce Watkins v. Brian Wunderlich, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied co-occupant-rights consent consent-search domestic-violence express-refusal fourth-amendment home-entry shared-dwelling warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to enter a shared dwelling solely based on consent, when a physically present resident recently has ex…
23A250 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-18 Presumed Complete AEDPA death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Strickland-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly applied the Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 in affirming the denial of habeas corpus relief ba…
23A229 Richard Summerall v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-11 Presumed Complete access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-prisoner Whether a prisoner's right to adequate access to legal resources and law library facilities is violated when institutional lockdowns and heavy caseloa…
23-5550 Joseph Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was…
23-5363 Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia Georgia 2023-08-16 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing Whether the U.S. Constitution allows the conviction of a U.S. citizen without an indictment
23-5286 Frederick Dwight Green v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied administrative-procedure cell-phones civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gang-violence legal-materials prison-access prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing Does this Court consider widespread staff shortages in Georgia prisons that have led to prisoners being severely attacked by 'affiliated gang offender…
23A104 Jeremy Moody v. Georgia Georgia 2023-08-04 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A64 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment military-confinement sentence-appropriateness uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether military officials may constitutionally subject a service member to confinement conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment in vio…