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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…