| 25-6766 |
Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause |
Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented as a valid arrest warrant, violates the… |
| 25-6757 |
Jwan L. Hardin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25A877 |
Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a federal death row inmate can obtain judicial relief through a writ of mandamus seeking a trial judge's recusal in post-conviction proceeding… |
| 25-6655 |
Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-01-23 |
Pending |
circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in conflict with Seventh Circuit and Supreme Court precedent |
| 25-844 |
Chicago Wine Company, et al. v. Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
alcohol-regulation commerce-clause constitutional-law interstate-commerce physical-presence twenty-first-amendment |
Whether a physical-presence requirement that forbids out-of-state retailers from shipping alcohol directly to in-state consumers unless they establish… |
| 25-822 |
Thomas DeCola v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides congressional consent for asserting individual rights acknowledged in the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment in… |
| 25A795 |
Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Application |
fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement police-power property-damage takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause requires compensation when government damages private property during law enforcement actions under its police power |
| 25-6497 |
Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo waived his post-conviction claim due to insufficient Record citations repr… |
| 25A684 |
Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Application |
capital-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated by sustained conflicts between lead and co-counsel… |
| 25-662 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Did the Seventh Circuit lack jurisdiction to deny qualified immunity by rewriting the factual record and creating an emergency exception to investigat… |
| 25-6230 |
McKinley Kelly v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation sentencing-procedure |
Whether Indiana's sentencing procedure for Kelly violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 25A620 |
Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
arbitrary-action due-process hill-standard medical-expenses prison-disciplinary-board restitution |
Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide 'some evidence' of the actual or estimated loss before imposing a restitution sanc… |
| 25A593 |
Chicago Wine Company, et al. v. Mike Braun, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Application |
alcohol-regulation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce physical-presence three-tier-system twenty-first-amendment |
Whether a state's requirement that wine retailers establish an in-state physical presence before shipping alcoholic beverages to consumers discriminat… |
| 25-6015 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process and violates the Equal Protection Clause by summarily disposing of appellate iss… |
| 25A481 |
Steven J. Hecke v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Application |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty extension-of-time supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court's ruling in Sockwell v. Hamm improperly applied constitutional protections in a criminal proceeding |
| 25A475 |
Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
certiorari death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction supreme-court |
Whether the state of Nebraska provides an adequate post-conviction process for death row inmates consistent with federal constitutional standards |
| 25A449 |
Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-10-17 |
Application |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure indiana-supreme-court legal-standards post-conviction-relief retroactive-law |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly applied retroactive legal standards in denying a post-conviction relief petition by failing to adhere … |
| 25A427 |
Indiana, ex rel. Freddie L. Byers, III v. Superior Court of Indiana, St. Joseph County, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
attorney-client due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel property-rights state-court |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to provide a full and fair opportunity for a client to litigate a mo… |
| 25-5780 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall |
Indiana |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived the petitioner of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 25A363 |
Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Presumed Complete |
americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation |
Whether an attorney's advocacy in opposing disability accommodations can constitute discrimination or retaliation under the Americans with Disabilitie… |
| 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… |
| 25-5646 |
John C. Miller v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment state-constitution |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's decision on March 13, 2025 was in error regarding constitutional protections under Terry v. Ohio |
| 25A295 |
Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Application |
bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act |
Whether a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seizures of property by federal officers in joint task-force operations when al… |
| 25A281 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
collateral-review due-diligence federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2255 successive-petition |
Whether a federal prisoner may file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 without demonstrating new evidence or a retroactive constituti… |
| 25A282 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack due-diligence habeas-corpus innocence-claim successive-petition |
Whether a federal prisoner may file a successive habeas petition challenging a criminal conviction without presenting new and decisive proof of innoce… |
| 25-5557 |
Indiana, ex rel. Danny W. Howell v. Circuit Court of Indiana, Wells County, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-09-04 |
Dismissed |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5520 |
Dennis Wilson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether the predicted outcome and potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement whe… |
| 25A251 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure legal-filing summary-judgment supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a summary judgment record exceeding 3,800 pages warrants an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 25-5431 |
Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance |
Whether a brief, unverified proximity of a drug dealer to a citizen's residence, without any observed interaction, constitutes sufficient probable cau… |
| 25A205 |
Stephen Buyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-limitation electronic-trading insider-trading sixth-amendment stock-exchange venue |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's venue provision requires venue for insider trading prosecutions to be determined by the location of the actual electroni… |
| 25A60 |
Charles Bennett, ex rel. v. Bayer Corporation, an Indiana Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 25-37 |
Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor |
Whether Indiana courts violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring a common law cause of action against third-party tortf… |
| 25-38 |
Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly |
Indiana |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts |
Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the parties… |
| 25-31 |
Benjamin Adams v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
disciplinary-segregation due-process incarceration liberty-deprivation wilkinson-v-austin wolff-v-mcdonnell |
Whether incarcerated individuals facing disciplinary segregation are entitled to adversarial or non-adversarial due process protections |
| 24A1287 |
Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2025-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
alcohol-transportation dry-village eighth-amendment excessive-fines forfeiture mandatory-seizure |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment prohibits the mandatory forfeiture of an aircraft used to transport a small quantity of alc… |
| 24-1304 |
FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation |
Whether a federal agency acts arbitrarily or capriciously in determining a post-settlement change of law, and whether federal law applies to utility t… |
| 24-1291 |
Ariel Dalton v. Edgewood Police Department, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
case-dismissal due-process judicial-procedure plaintiff-rights pretrial-compliance trial-court-discretion |
Does a trial court violate a plaintiff's due process rights by dismissing a case for inactivity when a trial date has already been set and the plainti… |
| 24-7345 |
Anita Sue Bryant v. Estate of Laura J. Bryant |
Indiana |
2025-06-03 |
Rehearing |
appellate-procedure case-dismissal court-of-appeals in-forma-pauperis notice-requirement procedural-due-process |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly closed Appellant's case without addressing pending motions and without providing notice |
| 24-7283 |
James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misapplying procedural default rules and violating due process in … |
| 24-7223 |
Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
corruption discrimination judicial-system justice prejudice supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1084 |
K. C., et al. v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-7157 |
Benjamin Ritchie v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
collateral-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule post-conviction-relief state-court-procedure |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court is violating due process by foreclosing both State and Federal review by failing to allow the development of an inef… |
| 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… |
| 24-1112 |
Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-foundation fourteenth-amendment officer-testimony |
Does a state deprive a defendant of their Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law when it admits adverse evidence not on the basis of a prope… |
| 24-7061 |
David Michael Jones v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7005 |
Alsham M. Laster v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless seizure of a phone during a murder investigation violated the Fourth Amendment when police lacked probable cause, failed to li… |
| 24-1050 |
Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Whether a theory of liability under the Fourteenth Amendment based on 'state-created danger' is incompatible with the purpose of the Due Process Claus… |
| 24-6735 |
Nikolas Malachie Jordan v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24M68 |
Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-815 |
Franciscan Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
constitutional-law eminent-domain government-taking just-compensation land-use property-rights |
When the government undisputedly takes a real property right, is a landowner entitled to just compensation from the imposition of a project as a whole… |
| 24-6383 |
Christian Ricker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state appellate court's ruling on a criminal defendant's post-conviction claims of prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of … |
| 24-6247 |
Christopher Stephen Beckman v. Lloyd Arnold, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment mail-restrictions prison-regulations publication-censorship |
Whether the Indiana Department of Corrections' confiscation of publications violates an inmate's First Amendment rights to receive printed materials w… |
| 24-6164 |
Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
capital-punishment due-process execution-standards incompetency-claim mental-competency state-court-review |
May a state court dispose of an evidentiarily-supported incompetency to be executed claim under Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman despite f… |
| 24A576 |
Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements |
Whether Indiana's ballot access statutory scheme imposing substantial financial burdens on new political parties violates the First and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 24-6031 |
Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
competency-determination criminal-procedure due-process insanity-defense-reform-act jackson-v-indiana statutory-interpretation |
Whether the four-month period for determining competency under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(1) begins at commitment or upon arrival at a Bureau of Prisons hosp… |
| 24-5803 |
Sharif A. Eltawil v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
administrative-law constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5747 |
Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment harmless-error non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether a State violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by upholding a criminal conviction obtained through non-unanimous jury verdicts and claim… |
| 24-405 |
Indiana, ex rel. Deborah Walton v. Superior Court 6 of Indiana, Hamilton County, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
dodd-frank foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-servicing respa state-law supremacy-clause |
Whether State Laws are bound by Dodd Frank Regulation X section 1024.41(f)(1) when pending RESPA complaints show foreclosure is preempted by the Supre… |
| 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… |
| 24-329 |
Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court |
Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw… |
| 24-290 |
Rahul Manchanda v. Abigail Reardon, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
civil-rights discrimination ethnic-discrimination legal-complaint minority-rights racial-bias |
Whether a racial, ethnic, and religious minority can file civil rights lawsuits alleging discrimination without being labeled as racist or antisemitic |
| 24-272 |
Thomas DeCola v. Matt H. Sheafer, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
due-process property-rights service-of-process statutory-compliance tax-deed void-judgment |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in failing to uphold precedents regarding void tax deeds due to non-compliance with service of process and att… |
| 24-5420 |
Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing |
Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 24-88 |
John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pseudonym retaliation standing summary-judgment title-ix |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits a p… |
| 24-5100 |
Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
due-process fair-trial Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process juror-misconduct jury-bias pre-trial-publicity sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Sixth-Amendment-right-to-fair-trial |
| 24-44 |
West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix |
What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority? |
| 24-21 |
Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
42-u.s.c-1983 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation federal-conflict just-compensation personal-capacity personal-capacity-suit sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Whether a state's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation when taking property waives its sovereign immunity from a claim seeking damages f… |
| 24-5031 |
Keith White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 |
Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of 'controlled substance offenses' for purposes of sentenc… |
| 24-5017 |
Aaron Abadi v. Indiana Civil Rights Commission, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
ada-standing civil-rights civil-rights-law congress covid-19-mandate damages damages-claim due-process judicial-resolution mootness mootness-doctrine standing |
Does denial-of-standing-and-mootness-claim-remain-appropriate-in-ADA-and-Indiana-Civil-Rights-Law-violations-case-seeking-damages |
| 23-1369 |
John Rust v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State, et al. |
Indiana |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-association primary-election primary-elections state-election-laws voter-registration voting-rights |
Whether the Affiliation Statute violates Indiana citizens' right to freely associate with the political party of their choosing pursuant to the First … |
| 23-7799 |
Esther Martin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment |
Whether counsel performed deficiently by failing to investigate and challenge an intellectually disabled defendant's competency based on known red fla… |
| 23-7659 |
Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights contract-rights due-process equal-justice intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case procedural-due-process section-1981 summary-judgment trial |
Must a plaintiff prove intentional discrimination as an element of the prima facie case in a 42 U.S.C § 1981 claim? |
| 23-7549 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure |
Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j… |
| 23-7550 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction |
Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay about actions prohibited by state statute in secret … |
| 23-7518 |
Kelly McGoffney v. Matthew Kincaid, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
7th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-closure federal-appellate-review rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-transfer |
Can the Court exercise jurisdiction to remedy violations of the petitioner's constitutional rights? |
| 23-7414 |
Mark A. VandenBoom v. Robert Strohmeyer |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
access-to-courts appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-precedent precedent pro-se pro-se-litigation |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judgement conflict with this court's precedents resulting in a limitation of access to the court due to the p… |
| 23A995 |
Tina Gerlach v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Presumed Complete |
eleventh-amendment individual-capacity just-compensation section-1983 sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Whether state officials can be sued in their individual capacities for alleged violations of the Takings Clause under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and whether sta… |
| 23-1133 |
Rick Sasso, dba Indiana Spine Group v. Marc Harding, dba Harding Law Firm |
Iowa |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
civil-procedure conflict-of-laws due-process interstate-commerce interstate-litigation jurisdiction-analysis legal-consultation medical-malpractice personal-jurisdiction |
Whether Iowa courts have specific personal jurisdiction over an Indiana doctor |
| 23-7168 |
Robert J. Plato, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
4th-amendment airport-screening civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing tsa-procedures unreasonable-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's cell phone data from a third-party service provider |
| 23A906 |
Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawenceburg |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law appellate-review federal-jurisdiction gaming-commission pro-se standard-of-review |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state gaming commission's decision can overcome the deferential standard of review in federal a… |
| 23-7057 |
Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-03-22 |
Dismissed |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether the admission of evidence that is not supported by the record deprives a defendant of their Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair tri… |
| 23-6959 |
Lionel Scott Ellison v. Peter Bludworth, Warden, et al. |
Montana |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 23-6732 |
Seth Conner Wells v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration is an unconstitutionally excessive fine |
| 23-6704 |
Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-851 |
John Doe v. Purdue University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
appeal appellate-review bias civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-adjudication due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias recusal recusal-standard standing |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory authority to preserve the appearance and fact of justice by requiring review now of a denial of recusal for… |
| 23-6611 |
Morice Ervin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony fair-trial favorable-evidence fourteenth-amendment lack-of-evidence post-autopsy prejudicial-questioning |
whether-petitioner's-due-process-rights-were-violated |
| 23-735 |
Stuart J. Shicks v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
child-services civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agency jurisdictional-dispute legal-persecution prejudice pro-se psychological-persecution state-agency |
Whether psychological persecution, deprivation of constitutional rights and prejudices against pro se litigants is allowed in any court of law or gove… |
| 23-6423 |
Jasper Frazier v. Christina Reagle, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Did the United States District Court err in law by failing to consider exculpatory evidence in the record |
| 23-665 |
Tina Goede v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, et al. |
Minnesota |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process employment-policy first-amendment free-speech philosophical-choice religious-beliefs religious-sincerity state-court-review thomas-v-review-board unemployment-benefits |
Can a state deny unemployment benefits to an applicant whose religious beliefs are independently sufficient to cause her refusal to follow an employer… |
| 23-6292 |
Ray O. Crowell, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law counsel-claim due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard |
Whether the state courts resolution of Crowell's ineffective assistance of counsel claim for failing to advise of an affirmative defense was contrary … |
| 23-6271 |
Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting Tyrone Maddox's 20-year-old prior conviction for delivery of narcotics on the issue of intent, where the pr… |
| 23A516 |
Ronald D. Houston, aka Hassan Blue, aka Ron Reezy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
borden-precedent crime-of-violence eighth-circuit force-clause resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state law criminalizing resisting arrest constitutes a 'crime of violence' under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when the statute encompasses… |
| 23A520 |
Andrew U. D. Straw v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process law-license supreme-court takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause permits compensation when a state supreme court suspends a law license without good cause or due process |
| 23-545 |
Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd Ngola Mbandi, et al. v. Pangea Adventures LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
alien-tort-statute civil-rights federal-question first-amendment free-speech human-rights international-law retaliation self-determination standing |
Whether aliens of the Hebrew Israelite Kingdom/Nation self-determination, self-governing and autonomy, expressive-first-amendment, retaliatory-tort, 4… |
| 23-529 |
Matthew Hayko v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility… |
| 23A419 |
Anita Bryant v.Delaware County Treasurer, et al. |
Indiana |
2023-11-09 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process indiana-code notice-requirements probate-jurisdiction property-rights tax-sale |
Whether due process and statutory notice requirements under Indiana law mandate invalidation of a tax sale when a county auditor fails to follow prope… |
| 23-450 |
M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a prior restraint barring a religious parent's speech about the topic of sex and gender with their child while allowing and even requiring spe… |
| 23-5874 |
In Re L. E. Pauli Coffey |
|
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment mandamus sovereign-immunity standing timely-response |
Do the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure (Fed R. Civ. P 12) and the Federal Laws of Appellate Procedure (31) set a time limit for a respondent to respon… |
| 23-5803 |
Robert K. Decker v. Edwin Baez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect federal-question shackling spoliation |
Did the United States District Court, Magistrate Judge err in the decision to have the Plaintiff, Robert K. Decker be hand cuffed, (left wrist) and sh… |
| 23-392 |
Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix |
Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause prohibit schools from maintaining separate bathrooms on the basis of students' biological sex |
| 23-5726 |
John Holden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
18-usc-922 2nd-amendment bruen bruen-test constitutional-review felony-indictment firearm-prohibition material-false-statement materiality-standard second-amendment |
Is the criminal prohibition on the receipt of a firearm by a person under felony indictment (18 U.S.C. § 922(n)) constitutional under the Second Amend… |
| 23M30 |
M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2023-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 23A275 |
Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-09-28 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-case due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-roadblock insanity-verdict |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause require a trial court in a capital case to instruct the jury on the effect of a not guilty by reas… |
| 23-297 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York |
Indiana |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata |
Whether the Indiana courts' judgments violated Newman's Constitutional rights to due process by denying hearings, imposing punitive attorney fee award… |
| 23A248 |
Michael O'Bannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5545 |
Robert K. Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings pro-se-litigant |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing the case and denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint |
| 23-5387 |
James Frank Noel, Jr. v. Indiana Metro Police Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Petitioner's convictions for a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) are unconstitutional |
| 23-119 |
Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-criminal-distinction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process speeding-infraction speeding-infractions state-power |
Whether a state may deprive a citizen of his right to due process and ignore this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) by treating … |
| 23-48 |
Indiana Municipal Power Agency, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law contract contractual-intent government-contract government-obligations money-mandating money-mandating-statute payment-obligation sequestration statutory-interpretation |
Whether a payment obligation imposed by Congress on the federal government under a money-mandating statute and specifically exempted from later reduct… |
| 23A32 |
M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2023-07-13 |
Presumed Complete |
child-custody first-amendment free-speech fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a state court order removing a child from parental custody and enjoining parents from discussing transgenderism with their child violates the … |
| 23-5017 |
Jerry A. Smith v. Indiana Parole Board, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process government-misconduct parole public-importance sentencing |
Polatic Inporteace ; Queshons |
| 22-7800 |
Mac Truong v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech intellectual-property pro-se-litigation standing standing-doctrine |
Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating his copyrighted intellectual property and constitutional rights? |
| 22-1196 |
GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance |
Can a governmental entity escape 42 US.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after bein… |
| 22A979 |
Indiana Municipal Power Agency, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-1075 |
James E. Hinkle v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-precedent impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether the right to confrontation was denied |
| 22-7447 |
In Re Antonio D. McCaster |
|
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations timeliness writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely |
| 22-7411 |
Mario Sims v. Pete Buttigieg, et al. |
Indiana |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights deliberate-framing due-process evidence-planting federalism law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct state-constitutional-rights state-court-review wrongful-conviction |
Can the Indiana Supreme Court make an exception to the U.S. Constitution, Illinois Supreme Court, and 1st Circuit Court of Appeals decisions regarding… |
| 22-951 |
Jane Doe No. 1, et al. v. Todd Rokita, Attorney General of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
abortion abortion-rights constitutional-law dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson first-amendment free-exercise free-speech medical-protocols religious-beliefs |
Whether Indiana's laws prohibiting standard medical disposition of embryonic tissue from lawful abortion procedures violate the Free Exercise and Free… |
| 22-7123 |
Kenneth Chambers v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 22-940 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
administrative-law bill-of-rights due-process liberty-right medical-license medical-licensing professional-practice professional-regulation rational-basis state-board |
Is the taking of a physician's medical license a violation of the Bill of Rights to our Nation's scheme of ordered liberty? |
| 22-7071 |
Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction |
Is it a denial of due process when a state imports a due process right and then acquiesces the defendant was denied this right and then arbitrarily ta… |
| 22-7007 |
Axel Domingo Diego v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process jdb-v-north-carolina law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody-rule miranda-rights reasonable-officer reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard translated-interrogation translation-context |
When law enforcement officers use a translator during an interrogation, does Miranda's custody rule consider the unique circumstances presented by the… |
| 22-876 |
Daniel L. Pohle v. Michael Pence, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process international-treaty presidential-powers supremacy-clause treaty-violation united-nations-convention |
Whether the President is bound by the Supremacy Clause to seek injunction against a state governor violating the CISG |
| 22-6931 |
In Re DeAnn Graham |
|
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights court-administrative-errors covid-19 covid-19-leave due-process federal-law ffcra postal-service-interference unemployment unemployment-discrimination writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued directing the court of appeals and or the district court without delay to change the dismissal |
| 22-6945 |
Derrick Owens v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err in finding Mr. Owens a Career Offender under the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 22-6711 |
Antonio Walton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process fair-trial national-emergency |
whether-mr-walton-was-denied-his-constitutional-rights-to-a-fair-trial-and-due-process-of-law |
| 22-615 |
Estate of Eric Jack Logan v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights credibility credibility-challenge due-process legal-procedure police-shooting summary-judgment witness witness-testimony |
Whether a party may successfully oppose summary judgment by challenging the credibility of the movant, especially when the movant is the only living w… |
| 22-6404 |
Paul Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
competency constitutional-rights fair-trial indiana-v-edwards mental-illness pro-se-representation self-representation trial-competency |
Whether a defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial imposes upon trial courts a duty of inquiry to determine whether a defendant is competent t… |
| 22-6260 |
Paula Williams v. Conduent Human Services LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-practices due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified |
| 22-6200 |
In Re Terry Lopez |
|
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus innocent-owner-doctrine standing supreme-court-jurisdiction takings |
Whether the abuse of discretion and mistake of law perpetuated by The Fifth Circuit runs afoul of the Supreme Court's holding in Timbs v. Indiana, Feb… |
| 22A477 |
Larry Warren v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2022-11-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6114 |
Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz |
Indiana |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing |
Should respondent benefit from a conspiracy to commit a felony crime? |
| 22-468 |
Daniel James Altstatt v. City of Sacramento, California |
California |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
bajakajian-factors civil-penalty civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether a state court erred by failing to apply the factors set out in United States v. Bajakajian in evaluating whether a civil penalty is unconstitu… |
| 22-440 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction |
whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts that occur after a judgment, because of an … |
| 22-5688 |
Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Dismissed |
abortion civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-relief due-process free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-interpretation legal-standing procedural-law standing |
Whether the courts below erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of a state statute that… |
| 22-287 |
Gail Lewis Hicks, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. |
Indiana |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fifth-and-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-procedure summary-judgment |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the Indiana Court of Appeals granting Respondent a summary judgme… |
| 22-282 |
Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings |
Whether a 'judicial taking' under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action |
| 22-5665 |
Geoffrie Dill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act? |
| 22M15 |
Paul Moore v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A118 |
Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5227 |
In Re Eric Krieg |
|
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights national-security separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the government's surveillance program |
| 22A29 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5091 |
Tyre Bradbury v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
all-or-nothing-strategy criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-consultation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy lesser-included-offenses performance-deficiency strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
Is the decision not to tender available lesser included offense instructions an 'important decision' under Strickland v. Washington? |
| 22-4 |
Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the Davis-Hatton Procedure is unconstitutional as-applied |
| 21-7972 |
Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in affirming the post-conviction court's denial of my post-conviction petition for relief |
| 21-7952 |
Steven P. Grados v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
2255-motion constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-assignment magistrate-judge procedural-error recusal retaliation third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
Whether a trial judge can assign a non-consent magistrate judge to hear a 2255 motion involving the trial judge's own actions |
| 21-7953 |
Antonio D. McCaster v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-dismissal procedural-error related-cases standing time-bar |
Whether the United States District Court Northern District of Indiana South Bend Division's judge abused his discretion in dismissing the petitioner's… |
| 21-7886 |
Leona Stack, et vir v. Menard, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate due-process judicial-procedure mandate pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process rehearing standing summary-judgment |
Did the construal by the Seventh Circuit amount to a mis-construal in presuming the petition for en banc rehearing was a motion to recall the mandate? |
| 21A721 |
Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2022-05-13 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A664 |
Tyre Bradbury v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2022-04-29 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7600 |
Christopher Hibshman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release |
Whether the imposition of a 24-month sentence consecutive to a 2-year Indiana prison term for violation of supervised release is unreasonable and at o… |
| 21-1265 |
Clarence Lowe v. Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District |
Indiana |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
federal-employers-liability-act indiana-tort-claims-act municipal-corporation notice-of-claim-statute political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-procedural-law tort-claims-act |
Did the Indiana Supreme Court err in holding that the State of Indiana's sovereign immunity extends to the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation Di… |
| 21A357 |
A. F. v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2022-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-988 |
Marla Crawford v. Henrico County Public School Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process en-banc-review governmental-immunity procedural-severance rehearing-en-banc section-1983 severance standing supplemental-jurisdiction |
Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by refusal to pole the rehearing en bac and affirming the US District Court not to sever to Dr. Marl… |
| 21-922 |
James Combs v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
fourth-amendment open-view-doctrine plain-view-doctrine pre-textual-search private-property vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's plain view and/or open view doctrines permit a police officer, uninvited and without a warrant, to enter upon private p… |
| 21-924 |
Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping |
Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain… |
| 21-865 |
Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
60(b)-motion 7th-circuit-court appeals civil-procedure district-court due-process final-order jurisdiction procedural-due-process |
Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals neglected to apply procedural-due-process in accordance with the Fifth-and-Fourteenth-Amendments, by not acce… |
| 21-6393 |
Michael Lawrence Woodbury v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
competency-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-v-edwards mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court correctly held that the trial court's inquiry and determination under the lower standard of competency to waive coun… |
| 21-6308 |
Iona Sanders v. Christwood |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
amendment-seven civil-rights covid-19 due-process jury-trial medical-records-privacy pandemic-jury-trial race-discrimination recusal-motion standing summary-judgment |
Whether a pandemic overrides Amendment VII |
| 21-6292 |
Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by redactin… |
| 21-695 |
Bennie Anderson v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
constitutional-scrutiny eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause national-importance pension-seizure public-pensions punitive-forfeiture punitive-forfeitures state-action |
Can a state insulate its punitive forfeitures from federal constitutional scrutiny by limiting the definition of what constitutes a 'fine' for purpose… |
| 21-634 |
Zachariah Brian Wright v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process equivocal-invocation high-penalty-case intelligent-waiver judicial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether a defendant's otherwise clear invocation of his right to represent himself becomes equivocal when he prefers representation by an attorney who… |
| 21-586 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment |
Is the Seventh Circuit decision contrary to Supreme Court precedent on later claims and preclusion of later events? |
| 21-6041 |
Eric Benson Skeens v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-procedure witness-testimony |
Whether the state courts erred when they allowed the state and its agents to tamper with, suppress, and withhold evidence favorable to the petitioner,… |
| 21-538 |
Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic |
Did the Seventh Circuit misapply 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in holding that the failure to apply Cronic violated 'clearly established Federal law, as determined… |
| 21-540 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Indiana |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
claim-scope exclusive-jurisdiction federal-circuit federal-patent-law gunn-v-minton jurisdictional-split patent-jurisdiction patent-validity state-court-adjudication state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a dispute raises substantial issues of federal patent law when its resolution necessarily depends on patent-law determinations regarding claim… |
| 21M37 |
Zachariah Brian Wright v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-10-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-479 |
Nicole K., by Next Friend Linda R., et al. v. Terry J. Stigdon, Director, Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
abstention abstention-doctrine administrative-process circuit-court-ruling civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-court-discretion federalism judicial-proceeding procedural-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal court has discretion to put any federal proceeding on hold while a state works its way through an administrative process |
| 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 |
| 21-392 |
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause governmental-authority highway-tolling interstate-commerce market-participant-exception state-action state-discrimination |
Whether state conduct constitutes proprietary 'market participation' exempt from the dormant Commerce Clause |
| 21-304 |
Sharon Brown v. Cherokee County School District |
South Carolina |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
42-usca-1983 administrative-record agency-record due-process equal-protection judicial-review south-carolina teacher-termination |
Whether petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated under 42 USCA § 1983 |
| 21-5535 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
compulsory-process cronic due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Is the Indiana state appellate court's opinion that its trial court did not abuse its discretion when, over multiple objections, it permitted surprise… |
| 21-290 |
Joseph Chapo, et al. v. Jefferson County Plan Commission |
Indiana |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-oath constitutional-structure de-facto-officer due-process injunction jurisdiction standing state-law vacant-office |
Whether the de facto officer doctrine can be applied to individuals claiming to hold a vacant office of a political subdivision |
| 21-5390 |
Jeanette S. R. Lipinski v. Yolanda Castaneda, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-administration due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-disability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal |
Judicial-misconduct |
| 21-229 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York |
Indiana |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-review takings |
Whether the Indiana courts violated Newman's due process rights by awarding $167,437.50 in appellate attorney fees against him without affording him C… |
| 21-5385 |
Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana |
Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol… |
| 21A15 |
Ryan Klaassen, et al. v. Trustees of Indiana University |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-5305 |
Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion |
Whether a defendant's ability to pay a fine is a relevant consideration when determining if a fine is excessive under the Eighth Amendment |
| 21-113 |
UJ-Eighty Corporation v. City of Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals |
Indiana |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
constitutional-law due-process economic-self-interest municipal-regulation regulatory-power rivals self-interested-entity standing zoning zoning-ordinance |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the government from vesting an economically self-interested entity with regulatory power over its rivals |
| 20-8385 |
Samuel Lee Jackson v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-counsel |
Whether the Petitioner's due process rights were violated |
| 20-1665 |
William S. Palmer v. Harolyn Williams |
Indiana |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
cause-of-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-tribunal procedural-due-process property-rights standing tax-dispute |
Do I have a constitutional right to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful place in an impartial tribunal to dispute a case in controversy,… |
| 20-8044 |
In Re Annamalai Annamalai |
|
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights custody-release due-process habeas-corpus judicial-order privity-of-judgment specific-performance state-court warden-liability |
Whether Petitioner Annainalai is entitled to be released from custody pursuant to the specific performance (Execution) ordered & adjudicated by the In… |
| 20-8029 |
Steven D. Warren, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
brady-violation civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-application |
Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the … |
| 20-7729 |
Casey Rose v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
competency-hearing confrontation-clause cooperating-witness cross-examination due-process impeachment indiana-v-edwards self-representation witness-impeachment |
Whether the termination of cross-examination of a cooperating-witness-with-incentives-to-lie prior to being able to impeach the witness violated the c… |
| 20-1375 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
GVR |
abortion abortion-rights best-interests civil-rights constitutional-privacy constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-notification parental-rights |
Whether a state may require parental notice before a minor's abortion except where such notice would contravene her best interests |
| 20-7612 |
Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop |
May a court uphold a Terry frisk where the frisking officer did not actually suspect that the detainee was armed and dangerous? |
| 20-1284 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings |
Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a federal patent-law dispute may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over … |
| 20-1277 |
Richard Meyer v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeitability forfeiture kentucky kentucky-statutes timbs-precedent timbs-v-indiana |
Does the Kentucky Court of Appeals decision in this case stand in direct contradiction to this Court's decision in Timbs v. Indiana, 139 S.Ct. 682 (20… |
| 20-7453 |
Douglas D. Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue |
Whether the venue was proper in the Northern District of Indiana |
| 20-1244 |
Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights |
Whether Indiana violates the Twenty-Sixth Amendment by giving voters age 65 and older the right to cast an absentee ballot by mail while requiring oth… |
| 20-7331 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default |
Whether the state failed to provide the inmate with the necessary medical care and treatment as required, violating his constitutional rights |
| 20-1189 |
Brian E. Hardin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant vehicle-search |
Whether law-enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment by searching a person's vehicle when the person drives that vehicle up to his house whil… |
| 20-7227 |
Marcus Conner v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process prejudice-factor pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether lengthy pretrial incarceration can be sufficient to weigh the prejudice factor in the accused's favor under the Sixth Amendment speedy trial b… |
| 20-1134 |
John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-7152 |
Brian Hook v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-7050 |
Mustafa Muhammad v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process indiana-courts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the Indiana courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-6916 |
Stephen M. Patterson, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process edwards-standard indiana-v-edwards mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel |
Whether Edwards' heightened competency standards apply when a court grants a borderline competent and mentally ill defendant's request to represent hi… |
| 20-878 |
Michael Edwards v. Indiana University |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination |
Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University? |
| 20-6551 |
Andy Williams v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rehaif-v-united-states warrantless-search |
Was the second warrantless search of the car -which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-developed suspicion… |
| 20-6479 |
Genaro Garcia v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a State Appellate Court's unexplained failure to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for last-ditch chronological relief under Ru… |