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25-6810 Terence Edward Manning, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2026-02-13 Pending None Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
25A792 Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly Reynolds, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-08 Application clemency felony-conviction firearm-rights fourteenth-amendment restoration-of-rights second-amendment 1. Iowa Code § 914.7 (2025) entitled "Rights not restorable" infringes the Petitioner's right to keep and bear arms enshrined by the Second and Fourte…
25-6485 Michelle Renee Morton v. Iowa Iowa 2026-01-06 Pending criminal-proceedings due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-defect structural-error void-ab-initio 1. Whether a conviction initiated by a warrant issued by a magistrate who is later adjudicated not neutral and detached, constitutes a structural juri…
25A706 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law
25-660 Nicole Klum, Estate of Bobby Jo Klum, et al. v. City of Davenport, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment police-action second-amendment use-of-force The decision below contravenes the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms," and the Fourth Amendment prohibition "against unreasonable searches…
25-6190 Steven Dale Bradley v. Iowa Iowa 2025-11-20 Denied appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing I. D& Aw 4 On4)Wlwl k invfrf ie^ $ pwhlons 4vd" hw 4o 4V^C SevWAC^5 ? 3, Do cnw\4U$ kw 4 6an^WW^h4 rtaW 4t> ex^cV pnmke^ AncWl^ ™udn^/ 5 ft w'HW ^re^…
25-6162 Terrell Onterial Lobley v. Don Harris, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied constitutional-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-interpretation state-law trial-procedure Are the Courts (state and otherwise) required to uphold Laws that are in violation of State and Federal Constitutions? Is an individual, incarcerated…
25-6110 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied district-court due-process habeas-proceeding judicial-review rule-60b writ-of-mandamus I. DID THE DISTRICT COUNT'S NOTICE TO SUMMARILY DENY ANY RULE 60(b) MOTION WITHOUT THE PERMISSION FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS AMOUNT TO NO ADEQUATE MEA…
25A518 John T. Hardee v. Jeff Vergakis, Individually and as Superintendent, Hampton Roads Regional Jail, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-05 Application constitutional-rights court-access document-preparation legal-access prison-conditions pro-se-litigation Whether a state corrections facility's restrictions on legal research access and document preparation violate an incarcerated individual's constitutio…
25-5955 Jarred Javon Ford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-inquiry waiver-of-counsel Whether the Court should prescribe more specific requirements to ensure consistency and that defendants' waivers are knowing, voluntary, and intellige…
25A465 Christopher Wuchter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Application circuit-conflict constitutional-question controlled-substances criminal-justice firearms-possession second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment permits individuals who are unlawful users of controlled substances to possess firearms
25-5942 Ky Tan Le v. Stephen H. Locher, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-statement federal-crime judicial-misconduct 1. While presided the case in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Respondent in a particular Order knowingly, willfully made,…
25A410 United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-09 Presumed Complete 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment Whether a federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances is facially or as-applied unconstitutional under…
25-419 Shelby County, Iowa, et al. v. William Couser, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied circuit-conflict federal-preemption interstate-pipeline pipeline-safety-act safety-standard state-local-regulation Whether a state or local law regulating the location or routing of an interstate pipeline is a preempted "safety standard" under the Pipeline Safety A…
25-5805 Will Earnest Young, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-10-06 Denied constitutional-law criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Whether Iowa Code § 814.7 violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
25-5746 Kevin Dwayne Woods, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-09-26 Pending constitutional-rights firearm-possession individual-dangerousness marijuana-possession second-amendment state-law Whether a state may criminalize possessing a firearm while possessing a user quantity of marijuana without an individualized showing of dangerousness
25-5702 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2025-09-23 Denied constitutional-rights extraordinary-writ federal-intelligence injunctive-relief odni-operations religious-freedom Whether the Supreme Court should grant extraordinary writ relief against alleged ODNI covert operations within the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's…
25-331 Patrick Wayman Scullark, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-09-22 Denied arrestee-bag evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment categorically permits warrantless searches of bags carried by arrestees at the time of arrest but inaccessible to them at…
25A253 Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a criminal conviction and sentence when the petitioner claims inadequate legal representation and limite…
25A210 Samuel Peter McElmeel v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights email-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance pro-se Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional right to access to courts and preservation of potentially exculpatory evidence is violated by the impending…
25A201 Michael Donell Glover v. Texas Texas 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code Whether a pocketknife can categorically qualify as a 'deadly weapon' under Texas law when its potential for causing serious bodily injury depends on t…
25A116 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library Whether the First Amendment protects a right to receive information from a public library and how the government speech doctrine applies to library co…
25-5086 Jimmy Jacoby Carr v. Iowa Iowa 2025-07-11 Denied None Question not identified.
24-1093 Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa Iowa 2025-04-21 Denied dog-sniff fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether a dog sniff of the interior of a lawfully stopped vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment absent consent to the sniff or probable cause to belie…
24-6936 Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-07 Denied constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac…
24-939 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining reasonable-jurists sentencing-guidelines Is the 'reasonable jurists' test being administered faithfully and consistently across federal circuits, and do Lafler, Frye, and Padilla precedents r…
24-6671 Isaac Doyle Koch v. Iowa Iowa 2025-02-27 Denied criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement official-act resistance statutory-interpretation What is the difference between interfering with an official act and refusing an official crime? What is the effect, when statute disallows all physica…
24A827 Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa Iowa 2025-02-26 Presumed Complete None
24-845 Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied circuit-split false-claims-act fraud-allegation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act requires an express allegation of fraud
24A752 Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied constitutional standards in reviewing a law enforcement use of force claim involving pote…
24-746 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied cross-examination due-process mixed-motive procedural-fairness sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title VII's mixed-motive analysis applies to Title IX claims when a decision-maker explicitly admits to using 'sex' as a factor in determining…
24-728 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce states a claim under Pike v. Bruce Church, and whether lower fe…
24-6231 Emmanuel Zleh Totaye, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-01-03 Denied criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-verdict reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does an inconsistent verdict in a criminal case violate a defendant's right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment and their right to be found guil…
24-6202 Kayne Russell Donath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement ussg-guideline Whether a statute that does not require the affirmative use of force has, as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force
24A594 Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-17 Presumed Complete audit-letter billing-codes false-claims-act public-disclosure-bar qui-tam scienter Whether the False Claims Act's public disclosure bar precludes a qui tam action when an audit letter does not explicitly allege intentional fraud but …
24M47 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete None
24-6043 Patrick Michael Hackett v. Iowa Iowa 2024-11-26 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission misdemeanor-appeal public-safety sovereign-immunity Whether a simple misdemeanor involving an allegedly defective cement mixer warrants Supreme Court review to address potential public safety issues and…
24-6034 David Lee Hering v. Iowa District Court, Muscatine County Iowa 2024-11-26 Denied criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-mandate Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process of law guarantee apply to criminal sentencing when a district court refuses to impose a legislat…
24-549 Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa v. Steven Zorn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause false-claims-act qui-tam statutory-damages Whether the False Claims Act's statutory civil penalty must be limited to a single-digit multiplier of actual damages under the Eighth Amendment's Exc…
24-5924 Elliot Morales v. New York New York 2024-11-06 Denied criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing-exposure trial-court-procedure waiver Does a criminal trial court violate Iowa v. Tovar in failing to advise a defendant of his potential sentencing exposure before waiving right to trial …
24A400 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete agricultural-regulation ballot-measure dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce ninth-circuit state-law Whether a state ballot measure regulating agricultural production methods imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce in violation of the dormant C…
24-5630 Ernie Sacoman v. David Cole, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-09-25 Denied correctional-facility criminal-procedure good-time-credits habeas-corpus parole-modification sentencing-discretion Can a Court of Correctional Facility change petitioner's parole from 31-21-10 to 15 years when petitioner was originally sentenced to 30 years with tw…
24-5510 Dawayne Rolin Walker v. Michigan Michigan 2024-09-10 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure witness-testimony Question not identified.
24-5503 Raekwon Malik Patton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied criminal-enterprise jury-instructions purpose-element racketeering underlying-offense violent-crimes Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) requires a minimum finding by the jury that the underlying crime was committed as a substantial purpose or integral aspect…
24-5374 Latressa Railback v. City of Des Moines, Iowa, et al. Iowa 2024-08-22 Denied constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Iowa District Court had proper subject matter jurisdiction and authority to preside over a case involving alleged constitutional rights vi…
24-5219 Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied 28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation Whether the district court's denial of petitioner's timely filed 2255(h) motion was erroneous and deprived petitioner of due process of law and an opp…
24-5151 Tyrone Scott Cameron v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied 2nd-amendment bruen-decision constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearms-regulation new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment united-states-v-jackson united-states-v-rahimi Petitioner's conviction violates his Second Amendment rights to bear arms and possess ammunition as expanded by the Court in New York State Rifle & Pi…
24-33 Reuben Neff v. Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board Iowa 2024-07-12 Denied attorney-disciplinary-rules attorney-speech civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-conduct sexual-harassment workplace-speech First Amendment-protection
24-5067 Stephen Mark Picart v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied 28-usc-2254 constitutional-claim due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hypothetical-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-record state-court-review tactical-choices Whether the federal court can 'hypothesize' about possible 'tactical choices' trial counsel might have made on the basis of facts that were unreasonab…
23-7842 Lateshia Patillo v. Iowa District Court for Scott County Iowa 2024-07-02 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief state-court-procedure substantive-harm Whether the Superior Court's procedures deprived the Citizen's constitutional rights of due process, equal protection, and injunctive relief
23-7715 Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation Whether Substubal Evidence Supports the District Court's Holding beyond a reasonable doubt that Noel Berd and Boyle Banks were Cohabiting at the time …
23-7676 Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a '…
23A1014 Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-15 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process federal-habeas habitual-offender ineffective-assistance sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Due Process Clause requires reversal of a criminal conviction where the state court's adjudication was allegedly contrary to or involved a…
23-7417 Nersius Adonliel Artisani, aka Roger Joseph Hoffert, Jr. v. Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment heat-exposure prison-conditions Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment protects prisoners from being subjected to extreme heat and inadequate cool…
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
23-7048 Justin L. Dalcollo v. Anthony Wills, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review legal-standing mental-health standing Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a higher level of procedural protections for individuals faci…
23-6885 Joseph Rendon v. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied certificate-of-appealibility circuit-split due-process expert-testimony fair-trial law-enforcement police-expert pro-se pro-se-petitioner Whether the Sixth Circuit or the Eighth Circuit made the correct ruling regarding denial of due process and fair trial concerning the use of a police …
23-860 Brandon Holtan, et al. v. Mark Edward Nieters Eighth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity unlawful-assembly warrantless-arrest Whether probable cause existed to arrest for unlawful assembly
23A728 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete mixed-motives procedural-due-process section-1983 sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Whether a university's sexual misconduct proceeding can constitute sex discrimination under Title IX when mixed motives are present and procedural due…
23-6654 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Terry Quisenberry, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied civil-rights comanche-tribe due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-recognition legal-liability pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether an enrolled member of the Comanche Tribe is liable for wrongs under a treaty
23-518 In Re Henry Klein 2023-11-16 Denied contract-interpretation filed-rate-doctrine group-life-precedent group-life-vs-royal-drug insurance-regulation louisiana-insurance-code risk-spreading state-law-preemption supremacy-clause title-insurance Did the Louisiana district court violate the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution
23-508 Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the United States District Court For the District of Iowa erred in denying Petitioner Matthews a Certificate of Appealability
23-5998 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-code dangerous-weapon due-process innocence sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapons-statute Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability when the petitioner showed that reasonable jurists could deb…
23-5989 In Re Kevin McKenna 2023-11-09 Denied case-history civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court voting-rights Should this Court find that the First Amendment prohibits the government from interfering with a person's right to vote or 'adel vsti o liberally ares…
23-5706 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution can-the-courts-prosecute-indigent-companies-without-legal-representation
23-206 Jerry Lynn Burns v. Iowa Iowa 2023-09-06 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-collection fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Does the State's warrantless search of a person's unavoidably shed DNA violate the Fourth Amendment where the individual has never been arrested or co…
23-5403 Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in…
23-5146 Santos Rosales Martinez v. Iowa Iowa 2023-07-20 Denied abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence constitutional-rule habeas-corpus iowa-constitution iowa-courts judicial-discretion new-rule-of-law schlup-test schlup-v-delo schmidt-v-state Whether the Iowa Courts have failed to properly adjudicate the Petitioner's actual-innocence claims
23A39 Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
22-1243 Hieu Minh Le v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied 4th-amendment 8th-circuit administrative-search constitutional-search due-process eighth-circuit inspection-level motion-to-suppress north-american-standard-inspection warrant-requirement Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding a North American Standard Inspection Level II inspection is an adequate substitute for the warrant require…
22A1079 Jerry Lynn Burns v. Iowa Iowa 2023-06-14 Presumed Complete None
22-7138 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming that Ali's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were not violated under the Speedy Trial Act
22-7125 Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied constitutional-rights critical-stage federal-law pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standby-counsel waiver-of-counsel Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded there was no clearly established Federal law from the Supreme Court holding that the Sixth Amendment is …
22-7091 David Lee Hering v. Iowa Iowa 2023-03-24 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the start …
22-7105 Jimmy Allen Roberts v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-access prison-library statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Circuit's bright-line rule denying equitable tolling to North Carolina prisoners who lack access to legal resources violates the co…
22-6884 Pradheep Chhalliyil v. Foodchain ID Group, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination employment employment-discrimination evidence evidence-gathering national-origin-discrimination prima-facie-case termination title-vii Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination as to all terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, including denial to g…
22-6806 Torrey Dewayne Walker v. Micha Neal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied appeals circuit-court-conflict civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-appellate-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
22-6763 Cecil Wallace Williamson, Jr. v. Mike Heinricy, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied capital-case civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-confession habeas-corpus organized-crime prosecutorial-misconduct racketeering witness-tampering Whether the State of Iowa's actions in allowing Jasper Conry to kidnap the petitioner through racketeering, criminal organized torture, and abuse, and…
22-6709 Chad Michael Vice v. Lee County Correctional Medical Provider, et al. Iowa 2023-02-06 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection incarcerated-individuals judicial-discretion right-to-petition Whether an Iowa 8' District Court in North Lee County at Fort Madison ' abused its discretion in its Order denying a motion to reconsider as [not time…
22-6486 Atiq Weston v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied constitutional-claims constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process extraordinary-relief false-evidence false-testimony guilty-plea new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the post-conviction, due process violations exposed by false DNA testing on the petitioner's case warrant a new trial
22-6159 Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional rights in post-conviction proceedings for full development, presenta…
22-6138 Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, South on Piswier of Iowa, abused its discretion by violating the Cera Feendeg guidelines, which t…
22-5837 Micah S. Matthews v. Iowa Iowa 2022-10-14 Denied 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions post-conviction-relief state-appellate-court successive-petition summary-judgment unmitigated-claim Is a state appellate court's refusal to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for Post-Conviction Relief on an unmitigated, meritorious cla…
22-5753 Phillip Scott, Jr. v. District Court of Iowa, Scott County Iowa 2022-10-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the state denied the petitioner due process, whether the state denied the petitioner equal protection
22A268 Chad M. Vice v. District Court of Iowa, North Lee County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Presumed Complete None
22-5537 Joseph William Rendon v. Iowa Iowa 2022-09-08 Denied appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner Was Provided Trefrecive Assistance of Counse
22-5517 Christopher Lee Cungtion, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2022-09-07 Denied criminal-jurisdiction deferred-judgments indian-law iowa-code-1-15a jurisdictional-transfer legislative-intent meskwaki-settlement pub-l-115-301 state-prosecution Whether the State of Iowa erred by continuing to prosecute criminal offenses involving Indians on the Meskwaki Settlement during the period between Io…
22-5266 Elizabeth Downing, as Administrator of the Estate of Linda Berry v. Paul Grossman, et al. Iowa 2022-08-02 Denied civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment informed-consent kidney-tumor medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose Whether the care received by the plaintiff constitutes fraudulent concealment
22-70 Tyson Foods, Inc., et al. v. Hus Hari Buljic, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied covid-19-pandemic emergency-response federal-direction federal-officer-removal federal-supervision food-supply national-emergency national-food-supply state-law-duties Whether a private actor that assists the federal government in securing the national food supply during a national emergency, under extensive federal …
21-8184 Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality whether-effective-assistance-of-counsel-was-denied
21-8155 Chad M. Vice v. City of Fort Madison, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-8077 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2022-06-07 Denied constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay
21-1497 Scott Louis YoungBear v. Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint religious-speech viewpoint-discrimination Whether prior restraint, content-based or viewpoint discrimination was applied when religious speech in a civil complaint was censored per the 'forbid…
21-1432 K. S., Father v. Iowa Department of Human Services, et al. Iowa 2022-05-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-court parental-rights procedural-hearing standing termination-of-rights Does the consolidated hearing violate petitioner's rights to procedural-due-process, substantive-due-process, equal-protection
21-1400 Estate of Anthony J. Zdroik, Deceased, by Trishann W. Zdroik, Personal Respresentative v. Iowa Southern Railway Company, et al. Iowa 2022-05-02 Denied 49-usc-20106 administrative-interpretation contractor-employees federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations on-track-safety preemption railroad-safety roadway-workers state-law-action Whether the FRA's Federal Register preamble can eviscerate the plain language of regulations requiring railroads to provide on-track safety to all roa…
21A669 Chad M. Vice v. City of Fort Madison, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-02 Presumed Complete None
21-7573 Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa Iowa 2022-04-08 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-abuse judicial-discretion motion-to-continue standing takings trial-continuance witness-availability Whether the state government's alleged deceptive or fraudulent practices to obtain monies from American citizens, including through the use of predato…
21-7465 Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa Iowa 2022-03-25 Denied abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process harassment local-government sheriff-liability standing takings Whether a local government can demand money from an American citizen to avoid jail
21-7389 John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-03-16 Dismissed civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Whether a financially solvent prisoner has a constitutional right to receive in forma pauperis status to file a meritorious petition for writ of certi…
21-7320 Devin Marques Carter v. Iowa Iowa 2022-03-08 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rights irrational jury-verdict privileges-and-immunities reasonable-doubt Did the state of Iowa violate petitioner's federal privileges and immunities and due process rights when it upheld an irrational jury verdict?
21-6790 Timothy Ryan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Ryan's § 2255 habeas corpus petition without holding an evidentiary hearing
21-882 Esteban Gaspar-Felipe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether acquitted-conduct sentencing violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or the Sixth Amendment's right to jury trial
21-6550 Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing Whether the execution protocol used by the State of Oklahoma violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
21-6553 Chad L. Enderle v. Iowa Iowa 2021-12-07 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process heemstra legal-retroactivity pending-appeals retroactive-application retroactive-availability statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent Do the federal Supreme Court cases require Iowa law to apply full retroactive availability to pending appeals?
21-745 Robert L. Alexander, et al. v. PSFS 3 Corporation Iowa 2021-11-19 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forum-selection full-faith-and-credit judicial-procedure res-judicata state-court Was it a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause and Statute for the Supreme Court of Iowa to refuse to give effect to the ruling of the federal…
21-6332 Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony issue-being-raised
21-6236 L. B. Joseph v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-10 Denied constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt testimony Was the defendant given a fair trial?
21-6172 Justin Paul Sulzner v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied 8th-circuit civil-rights covert-operations due-process emergency-relief injunctive-relief judicial-review national-security odni standing Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs against an ODNI covert community operating inside the CCJW, w…
21-6184 Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then denies the Petition for…
21-6192 Benjamin Joseph Langford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied due-process habeas-relief iowa-robbery-statute johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation three-strikes united-states-v-johnson Whether Mr. Langford was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his mandatory life sentence
21-6017 Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-19 Rehearing actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas Questions presented
21-5929 Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa Iowa 2021-10-08 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing takings Can a state violate the Constitution of the United States and arbitrarily trample on the constitutional rights of individual innocent American citizen…
21-374 Steven Edward Struve v. Iowa Iowa 2021-09-08 Denied cellphone-use civil-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion texting-while-driving traffic-stop Whether police officers have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate a traffic stop for briefly holding a cellphone
21-380 Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Judgment Issued adoption-preferences child-custody child-placement congress-authority congressional-authority federalism indian-child-welfare-act racial-discrimination state-law state-sovereignty Whether ICWA's placement preferences violate the U.S. Constitution by disadvantaging non-Indian adoptive families on the basis of race
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
21-5529 Amando Martinez Montealvo v. Iowa Iowa 2021-08-30 Denied criminal-procedure juror-bias new-trial presumed-bias sex-abuse trial-rights voir-dire Does the presumed bias doctrine require a new trial when a juror who was a victim of sex abuse lies during voir dire to serve in a criminal sex abuse …
21-5337 Garrett McElveen v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-10 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics Whether the Sixth District Appellate Court of Illinois erred in finding that the defendant's original public defender became the victim's attorney, th…
21-128 Roger Waldner, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied criminal-procedure due-process enforcement-order garnishment recoupment restitution statute-of-limitations takings-clause Whether the USA's garnishment of $80,000 from Glenn Ambort was timely and proper under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(m)(1)(A) and 18 U.S.C. § 3613
21-5027 Shane LaGrange v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment permits reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop based on facts the officers did not believe created reasonable suspicion
20-8393 Robert Steven McDaniel v. Georgia Georgia 2021-06-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies right-to-appeal Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated by the denial of his right to appeal an out-of-time appeal
20-8225 John Anderson v. The University of Iowa, et al. Iowa 2021-06-04 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure covid-impact disability due-process first-amendment notice-of-appeal procedural-rules tolling-statutes Is a Notice of Appeal, although with the trial court's designation, but filed with the Appellate Court automatic grounds for dismissal?
20-8053 William Leroy Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence
20-7711 Scott Dwayne Chatman v. Iowa Iowa 2021-04-12 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process incompetency incompetent-defendant iowa-court-of-appeals iowa-courts judicial-review mental-competency Did the Iowa court of appeals deny an incompetent defendant due process?
20-1354 City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of 'effect of prohibiting' in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting standa…
20-1275 Vesuvius USA Corporation, et al. v. Royston Phillips Ohio 2021-03-15 Denied blocking-statutes comity comity-principles data-privacy foreign-discovery gdpr hague-convention international-discovery privacy u.s.-discovery When compliance with discovery obligations in an American court is prohibited by the General Data Privacy Regulation, whether principles of comity req…
20-1228 Chris Ann Jaye v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied 42-usc-1983 all-writs-act civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-immunity legal-remedies void-orders What legal authority did this Court have to impair the rights of the governed?
20-7293 Willie Safford v. Florida Florida 2021-03-02 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation defense-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing-phase standard-of-review Whether the defendant has a right to a jury instruction on a lesser-included offense when requested by defense counsel at the end of the defendant's t…
20-7215 Sunni Askari Newell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit has misconstrued U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), contrary to every other circuit, resulting in defendants convicted of firearms …
20-7094 Kenneth Ray Sheffey v. Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illiterate indigent-status legal-representation prisoner-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both legal a…
20-1083 Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving Title IX discrimination in college and university disciplinary decisions present important fede…
20-7002 Ryan C. Lander v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search Is it constitutional to prosecute citizens for cybercrime under the interstate-commerce clause
20-5920 Richard Cortez v. Iowa Iowa 2020-10-05 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disclosure due-process sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated when the State's primary eyewitness to the exchange testified under a false …
20-321 Walter D. Barnette v. HBI, L.L.C., et al. Nebraska 2020-09-10 Denied administrative-foreclosure constitutional-rights due-process notice notice-requirements property-notice property-rights reasonable-steps takings windfall windfall-incentive Did the Nebraska Supreme Court err in holding that the due process requirements announced in Jones v. Flowers apply only to land containing homes?
20-249 Doug Ommen, in His Capacity as Liquidator of CoOportunity Health, et al. v. Milliman, Inc., et al. Iowa 2020-09-01 Denied arbitration-clause contract-defense contract-defenses equal-footing federal-arbitration-act insurance-liquidation mccarran-ferguson mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-law-preemption Whether the FAA preempts the generally applicable disavowal defense codified in Iowa's Liquidation Act
20-5454 Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings Whether a specified § 333.7 C1 stage-1, Cig bl Le Review' initial hearing' can be considered a actual product for a mandated judicial individualized P…
20-5326 Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment
20-78 In Re Scott Louis YoungBear 2020-07-27 Denied civil-rights due-process fiswick-v-united-states habeas-corpus sex-offender-registry united-states-v-morgan Whether the SOR violation of civil rights via an expired sentence provides a subject matter for a habeas court
20-5074 Robert Banks, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination?
19-8357 Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana Montana 2020-04-27 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by failing to address Louis's claims of …
19-8224 James William Neuman v. Nathan Callahan, et al. Iowa 2020-04-08 Denied civil-rights clerk-conspiracy court-records document-tampering due-process fraud fraud-allegations judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity retaliation theft Do the Black Hawk County Clerks have qualified immunity when they conspired to delete or erase a payment and not follow court orders
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa 2019-12-05 Denied claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state district-court judge violated the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
19-6777 Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS…
19-6791 Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli…
19-6650 Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied 18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set…
19-6381 Anthony Tyrone Brown v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-24 Denied abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-activity-evidence witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel were violated
19-447 Keith Puntenney, et al. v. Iowa Utilities Board, et al. Iowa 2019-10-03 Denied common-carrier eminent-domain fifth-amendment incidental-benefits kelo-precedent kelo-v-city-of-new-london public-purpose public-use takings takings-clause Does a state's exercise of eminent domain satisfy the 'public use' requirement of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause if the only benefits experience…
19-5902 Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-09-12 Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause Whether the actions taken by law enforcement, including arrest and detention without a judicial determination of probable cause, violate the petitione…
19A193 Keith Puntenney, et al. v. Iowa Utilities Board, et al. Iowa 2019-08-19 Presumed Complete None
19-5582 Tuan Duc Lam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search Can a warrantless search of a person be 'incident to arrest' where, at the time of the search, no arrest has occurred, and the objective evidence fail…
19-169 Jane Doe v. Iowa Iowa 2019-08-08 Denied court-fees criminal-record due-process equal-protection expungement indigent-rights poverty Whether Iowa violates the Equal Protection Clause by denying expungement to people who have not been convicted of any offense, solely because they are…
19-5181 Lamar Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 GVR arrest-procedure circuit-split custodial-arrest felon-in-possession fourth-amendment probable-cause rehaif-v-united-states search-incident-exception search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search may be upheld under the search-incident-to-arrest exception when the search precedes the arrest
18-9580 Bobby Ray Devers v. Iowa Iowa 2019-06-07 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-procedure post-conviction-relief pro-se-claims procedural-due-process state-public-defender-system statutory-rights summary-judgment uniform-procedure Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process are violated by the denial of participation in the statutory right to a uniform post …
18-1504 Bruce Giles v. Salvador A. Godinez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied civil-cases civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-appointment court-discretion due-process inherent-authority judicial-power legal-representation mallard-v-us-district-court standing statutory-authority Do federal courts have the inherent authority to make coercive appointments of counsel in civil cases?
18-1463 Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University Eighth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the insti…
18-1445 Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. Iowa 2019-05-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
18-9314 Randall Pierce v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure clearly-established-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleadings sentencing-information standing supreme-court Was the District Court Judge's liberal construction of the pro se pleadings a denial of access to the courts?
18-8479 Alexander A. Fels v. Mitch McConnell, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-healthcare free-speech healthcare healthcare-policy insurance-regulation legislative-claims obamacare standing statutory-interpretation Were the claims by President Trump, former Speaker Paul Ryan, Senator Mitch McConnell and others, that Obamacare is bankrupting our healthcare industr…
18-8338 Anthony T. Jackson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-08 Denied appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,standing,criminal-procedure,evidence,p evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction wrongful-conviction Whether the Illinois state courts' refusal to allow a petitioner an evidentiary hearing on post-conviction claims despite the record containing facts …
18-8221 Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel by counsel's failure to adequately investigate the facts of the case, interview eyew…
18-8197 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)?
18-8122 Ralph Hall v. Darwin LaClair, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-selection newly-discovered-evidence public-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the voir dire process of jury selection
18-7895 Jerry Anderson, II v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-14 Denied coercion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sixth-amendment Was the defendant denied his state and federal constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel when his attorney failed to prepare for trial …
18-7781 Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden Ohio 2019-02-06 Denied age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts Whether a person's misrepresentation of his age at the time of arrest or the person's birth date in a court of law should be considered
18-7734 Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County Iowa 2019-02-04 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Iowa violate the petitioner's 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendment confrontation and due process rights to be present during a critical stage o…
18-7697 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2019-01-31 Dismissed civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io Whether inmates who file a postconviction under lowa Code 822 in the lowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and …
18-7705 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2019-01-31 Dismissed civil-procedure dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment mullane-precedent notice postconviction-action service service-of-process standing state-citizens Whether the Iowa Supreme Court has failed to properly apply the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure
18-7663 Randy Jason Ford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force Whether an Iowa 'assault' accompanied only by the 'display' of a dangerous weapon satisfies the 'force clause' to qualify as a predicate offense under…
18-7523 Charles James v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felony-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Iowa state court decision in State v. Heemstra, that it is an interpretation of the statute, is contrary to the decision in State v. Goosm…
18-7271 Richard Steven Johnson, Jr. v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied confrontation-clause coy-v-iowa criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fundamental-rights maryland-v-craig witness-testimony Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied this Court…
18-6900 Jacob Scott Watters v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions Is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause?
18-630 Charles Allen Richards v. City of Des Moines Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-clinic police-department retaliation standing Did Charles Richards exercise a right protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when he approached the legal clinic op…
18-531 Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa Iowa 2018-10-24 Denied cady-v-dombrowski cady-v-drombrowski community-caretaking constitutional-law exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment immediate-need objective-facts police-assistance probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-seizure Whether the Court's holding in Cady v. Dombrowski permits a warrantless seizure under the Fourth Amendment without objective facts establishing an imm…
18-499 Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. Iowa 2018-10-18 Denied alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci…
18-6311 Winston Ray Walters v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-10-12 Denied congress congressional-disestablishment criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-prosecution disestablishment federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus indian-reservation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-member tribal-membership Whether Congress has disestablished the reservation of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Nation in Oklahoma
18A253 Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa Iowa 2018-09-11 Presumed Complete None
18-5692 Melvin Jordan, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA
18-5609 Michael Alexander LaJeunesse v. Iowa Iowa 2018-08-16 Denied appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct shower-curtain Whether the lower court erred in its analysis of the issues raised in the petition for writ of certiorari
18-5570 Ilich Vargas v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County California 2018-08-13 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-informants due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether district attorneys/prosecutors have a free-standing obligation to investigate and inquire into the backgrounds of criminal jailhouse informant…
18-5480 Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony Whether the court erred in applying a sentencing enhancement for a prior crime of violence conviction when the prior conviction was for Iowa third-deg…
18-5432 Ahmadou Sankara v. Liam O'Hara, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure unlawful-search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, and false imprisonment without consent…