| 25-938 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination |
Whether the State's consideration of race in striking prospective Black jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky |
| 25A867 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
alternative-suspect brady-violation capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a new trial when the prosecution withheld material exculpatory evidence identifying an alternative suspect pri… |
| 25-6626 |
Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton, Superintendent, Downstate Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination |
Whether an attorney has necessarily provided ineffective assistance of counsel when, after making successful Batson claims, he fails to insist on a re… |
| 25A718 |
Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may apply an impossible standard of prejudice in reviewing ineffective assistance of counsel claims related to B… |
| 25-696 |
Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights federal-claims federal-remedy limitations-period section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a)'s uniform residual limitations period provides a suitable federal rule to govern federal claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § … |
| 25A623 |
Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud |
Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud |
| 25-6252 |
Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition by procedural default without reviewing the record… |
| 25-6229 |
Douglas A. Krusley v. Abigail Caudill, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
actual-innocence brady-violation court-access equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se-prisoner |
Whether Douglas Krusley qualifies for equitable tolling due to prison lockdowns and inability to access legal resources when filing a federal habeas c… |
| 25A600 |
Raymon Walters v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
counsel-concession criminal-defense element-challenge mccoy-right sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
Whether the Sixth Amendment permits defense counsel to concede an element of a charged crime over the defendant's objection |
| 25-6179 |
Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
Did the en banc Sixth Circuit violate the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause by selectively, irregularly, and arbitrarily affirmi… |
| 25-6167 |
Amir Golestan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
denaturalization guilty-plea immigration-consequences rule-11 substantial-rights wire-fraud |
Whether the failure to give the Rule 11(b)(1)(O) warning affects the substantial rights of a naturalized United States citizen who could be denaturali… |
| 25-562 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-10 |
Rehearing |
appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains 'pend… |
| 25A510 |
Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defense attorney's failure to demand a remedy for a proven Batson violation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel when raci… |
| 25-529 |
Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Pending |
constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court |
Do this Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence 'clearly establish,' under § 2254(d)(1), that a state co… |
| 25-475 |
Jason Camp v. Los Angeles Unified School District |
California |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
educational-funding federal-education-law regulatory-compliance school-district-manipulation statutory-interpretation title-i-funding |
Whether a school district's deliberate manipulation of federal Title I enrollment counts to maximize funding allocations while systematically divertin… |
| 25-426 |
Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state-court decision is 'contrary to' federal law where its reasoning and outcome contradict materially indistinguishable Supreme Court prec… |
| 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… |
| 25A344 |
Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights federal-interests judicial-tolling relate-back section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether the federal catchall statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 1658 provides a more suitable limitations period for Section 1983 civil rights clai… |
| 25-336 |
Elsie Franklin v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
adequate-opportunity confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-standard prior-testimony |
What constitutes an 'adequate opportunity' for cross-examination under Crawford v. Washington when new evidence emerges after initial testimony |
| 25A333 |
Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus pro-bono supreme-court-rule |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability in a federal habeas corpus petition improperly restricted the petitioner's right… |
| 25-346 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Morgan McGarvey |
Kentucky |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards state-court-review |
Whether Kentucky state and federal courts can dismiss civil complaints before discovery without applying the Twombly standard of review |
| 25-5661 |
In Re Ronald Freeman |
|
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus liberty-interest strict-scrutiny |
Whether being in federal detention constitutes a substantial denial of constitutional liberty rights and warrants habeas corpus review under strict sc… |
| 25-5600 |
In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard |
|
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
Whether the jury instructions adequately informed the jury of the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea for 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) counts as interprete… |
| 25A241 |
James P. Baumgartner v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
batson-challenge equal-protection jury-composition military-justice panel-member-selection racial-discrimination |
Whether a one-for-one replacement of minority panel members in a military court-martial satisfies constitutional requirements for racial fairness in j… |
| 25-5459 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Does Kentucky's postconviction procedure for determining intellectual disability violate Woodall's Fourteenth Amendment right to confront witnesses an… |
| 25-5374 |
Artez Hammonds v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
circuit-split due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether, under Griffin v. California and Carter v. Kentucky, jury instructions omitting 'no adverse inference' language can cure a prosecutor's willfu… |
| 25A133 |
Lynette Hathon, et al. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity state-remedies takings-clause |
Whether property owners have a direct cause of action under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment when state remedies are inadequate or unavailabl… |
| 25-96 |
Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights |
Whether retroactive application of a judicial decision changing legal precedent violates the Due Process Clause when it deprives a party of vested rig… |
| 25-73 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
district-court judicial-mandate malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit thompson-case |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision should be vacated and the case remanded with instructions to enter judgment in Petitioner's favor under 42 U.S.C.… |
| 25-5006 |
Fredrick Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment |
Must a federal circuit court address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rahimi and… |
| 25-5007 |
Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal |
Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah… |
| 24A1239 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether the death sentence imposed on the petitioner violated his constitutional right to a fair and reliable sentencing proceeding in a capital case |
| 24A1227 |
Victor Everette Silvers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Presumed Complete |
beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jury-trial sixth-amendment special-maritime-jurisdiction |
Whether a court may conclusively determine through judicial notice that the government has satisfied its burden to prove an essential jurisdictional e… |
| 24-7393 |
Walter Aceituno v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
coram-nobis effective-assistance-counsel immigration-consequences padilla-standard permanent-ban sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defense attorney is required to advise a client of a permanent immigration re-entry ban under Padilla v. Kentucky and the Sixth Ame… |
| 24-1256 |
Gary Robinson v. Jerry N. Higgins, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights tax-lien |
Whether the state of Kentucky violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enforcing an illegal tax lien, depriving the petitioner o… |
| 24-7351 |
Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Granted |
batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Does clearly established federal law require reversal of a state appellate court's denial of relief from a capital prosecutor's discriminatory exercis… |
| 24-7252 |
Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment |
Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap… |
| 24-7238 |
William Douglas Cope v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
abortion-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection reproductive-rights state-legislation |
Whether state laws criminalizing certain abortion-related acts violate constitutional protections of equal protection and due process rights |
| 24-1156 |
Maninder Singh, Individually and as Heir of the Estate of Jasvir Kaur, Kewal Singh, and Nirbhai Singh, et al. v. Nissan Motor Company, LTD., et al. |
Nevada |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
batson-challenge harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether discrimination against a potential alternate juror requires reversal without a showing of prejudice, or whether courts can review such claims … |
| 24A1086 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-1100 |
Ashu Joshi v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment marital-relationship sexual-exploitation tenth-amendment |
Whether the federal prosecution for sexual exploitation of a minor is unconstitutional as applied to a legally married couple under state law |
| 24-1087 |
David B. Porter v. F. Tyler Sergent, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
disciplinary-hearing due-process federal-funding procedural-fairness state-action title-ix |
May a private college which receives federal funding always rely upon a 'no state action' defense in denying its employee due process or procedural fa… |
| 24-6957 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
civil-suit evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Whether the trial court erred by precluding Addie Brice's civil suit statement from evidence and improperly withholding crucial testimony |
| 24-1049 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Bowling Green Independent Schools, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection rule-59e summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a Rule 59(e) motion can be converted to a summary judgment motion when evidence outside pleadings is presented and whether judicial actions vi… |
| 24A929 |
Thomas Byrd Lawhon, Jr. v. Owen County, Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-03-27 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24A912 |
Thomas Byrd Lawhon, Jr. v. Kentucky Tax Bill Servicing, Inc., et al. |
Kentucky |
2025-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-6787 |
Ralph Reed v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
constitutional-claims criminal-rule-61 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief |
Whether the Superior Court's denial of Reed's postconviction relief motion under Delaware Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 was an abuse of discretion v… |
| 24-6793 |
Steve Dismore v. Kentucky Parole Board, et al. |
Kentucky |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto garner-v-jones kentucky-law parole-eligibility |
Does the fact that Kentucky treats parole as 'a matter of grace or gift' exempt parole hearing rules from ex post facto challenges under Garner v. Jon… |
| 24-6739 |
Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
batson-challenge due-process expert-witness-testimony fair-trial jury-discrimination prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Ohio trial court clearly erred in not conducting the Batson three-step analysis for jury selection and in failing to address alleged discr… |
| 24-963 |
Elvin Torres-Estrada v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether the inaccurate advice by a criminal defendant's attorney to reject a favorable plea agreement during plea negotiations, with the prosecutor's … |
| 24-961 |
Environmental Protection Agency, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
circuit-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-action judicial-review nationwide-scope |
Whether EPA's disapproval action is subject to review only in the D.C. Circuit under 42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), which channels to that court petitions to r… |
| 24-931 |
Laurie Ann DeVore v. University of Kentucky Board of Trustees |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
accommodation-process religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii totality-of-circumstances undue-hardship |
Whether the dispute of sincerely held religious beliefs should be evaluated under a Totality of Circumstances test that resolves the dispute, not by i… |
| 24-895 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss prima-facie-case title-vii |
Whether the district court and circuit court improperly dismissed Qiu's Title VII complaint by declining to consider her supporting email evidence and… |
| 24-896 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
due-process employment-law equal-protection motion-to-dismiss racial-discrimination title-vii |
Whether a district court can dismiss a Title VII discrimination complaint alleging direct racial discrimination without considering the plaintiff's su… |
| 24-897 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Nelson County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection national-origin plausibility-standard |
Whether a complaint alleging employment discrimination based on national origin meets the plausibility standard for stating a claim under federal civi… |
| 24-841 |
David W. Suetholz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
criminal-liability deliberate-ignorance mens-rea physician-prosecution prescribing-standards statutory-interpretation |
Whether a deliberate ignorance instruction in a physician prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) impermissibly reduces the required mens rea by incorpor… |
| 24-6462 |
Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether a trial judge operating under an erroneous belief about the nature of a defendant's crime violates the defendant's federal due process rights |
| 24-6446 |
Larayna Manning v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
chain-of-custody constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the delay in trial and chain of custody of evidence violated the defendant's constitutional rights to a speedy trial and due process |
| 24-811 |
Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether the district court and circuit court improperly applied summary judgment standards and violated constitutional due process rights in a Title V… |
| 24-6317 |
James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule |
Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a … |
| 24-6236 |
Rico Lyntice Riley v. Jared D. Lazano |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-700 |
David Thomas Harris Brantley v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Denied |
bone-morphogenic-protein childhood-trauma federal-grand-jury genetic-testing legal-jurisdiction medical-research |
Whether the Supreme Court can adjudicate complex allegations of genetic manipulation, childhood trauma, and potential systemic misconduct involving me… |
| 24-6189 |
Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
batson-challenge due-process jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-bias voir-dire |
Whether the government's peremptory strike of a black female juror through a deliberately confusing question violates Batson v. Kentucky and whether f… |
| 24-600 |
Quiotis C., Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights jury-trial juvenile-justice prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment |
Whether juveniles are guaranteed a Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in juvenile court proceedings when prosecutors can unilaterally deny such a r… |
| 24-6065 |
Joshua Austin Ward v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
constitutional-procedure defendant-rights hybrid-representation pro-se waiver witness-selection |
Whether a pro se defendant's hybrid representation arrangement affects his right to determine witness selection, and if so, what constitutes a valid w… |
| 24-6001 |
Keith Brian Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act escrow-account fifth-amendment sixth-circuit-court trust-account |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly expanded the definition of a client escrow/trust account and violated the Petitioner's Fifth Ame… |
| 24-5978 |
In Re Marquis Deron Heard |
|
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
2255-motion federal-prisoner mandamus-relief pro-se-petition search-warrant sixth-circuit |
Whether a federal prisoner's multiple appeals of a 2255 motion and unresolved search warrant issues constitute grounds for mandamus relief |
| 24A481 |
Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2024-11-14 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-right counsel due-process ineffective-assistance probation-revocation sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel applies to probation revocation hearings and what standard of r… |
| 24A463 |
East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Clean Air Act allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a manner that exceeds its statutory authority and i… |
| 24-490 |
Wei Qui v. Anderson County Board of Education |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5874 |
Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
batson-challenge habeas-corpus jury-selection procedural-defense racial-discrimination tenth-circuit-ruling |
Does Jennings v. Stephens permit raising procedural defenses on remand after a Batson challenge in a criminal jury selection case? |
| 24-5806 |
Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Gentner F. Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
deportation habeas-corpus immigration-consequences in-custody-requirement ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky |
Whether a petitioner detained by ICE due to deportation proceedings can satisfy the 'in custody' requirement under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 after completing a… |
| 24-357 |
Wei Qiu v. Scott County Board of Education |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights-act discrimination due-process pro-se-litigant rule-59e summary-judgment |
Whether a federal court violated a pro se litigant's due process rights by denying her Rule 59(e) motion and sanction motion without proper justificat… |
| 24-5659 |
Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
batson-challenge constitutional-law gender-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Whether expressly citing race or gender as a reason for a peremptory strike means the strike was motivated by discriminatory intent under Batson v. Ke… |
| 24-5668 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the Batson factors in determining racial discrimination in jury selection when empaneling … |
| 24-5612 |
Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
capital-punishment constitutional-error due-process jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Whether due process requires reversal when a prosecutor concedes constitutional errors in a capital conviction and no longer seeks to defend the case |
| 24-5614 |
Hussein Kadhim Abood Khalaf v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
deportation-consequences immigration-law ineffective-assistance moral-turpitude padilla-standard plea-bargain |
When deportation consequences posed by a criminal charge are not clear, do attorneys render ineffective assistance by telling an indigent client their… |
| 24-239 |
Kenneth Chloe v. George Washington University |
District of Columbia |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers |
Whether the United States District Court and Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights through administrative rulemaking and potential breach of… |
| 24-5368 |
Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit |
Whether a defendant was denied due process and a unanimous jury verdict when convicted under alternative theories of culpability and affirmed by the S… |
| 24-5173 |
Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination |
Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an 'unpleasant experience' with police (namely, 'drivi… |
| 24-5181 |
Dale Williamson v. University of Louisville |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
ada-compliance ada-title-ii administrative-procedure disability-accommodation disability-discrimination procedural-remedy title-ii-claim transcript-correction tuition-fees venue-transfer |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5155 |
Bradley W. Berry v. Donnie Bordelon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-amendment federal-case-law federal-court-of-appeals griffith-v-kentucky judicial-review retroactivity state-constitution |
Whether the decision by the federal court of appeals is correct as applied to the Petitioner regarding a certificate of appealability |
| 24-5145 |
Antonio Tyree Gaskin v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification law-enforcement legal-representation lineup procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel suspect-rights |
Whether the 6th Amendment of the US Constitution has guaranteed protections that safeguard against law enforcement showing a single photograph of a su… |
| 24A37 |
Hussein Kadhim Abood Khalaf v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
deportation-risk guilty-plea immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla-standard plea-withdrawal |
Whether ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations that misrepresent potential immigration consequences constitutes grounds for withdr… |
| 24-28 |
Iona Howard v. Amica Mutual Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
act-of-war civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-procedure legislative-overreach maladministration national-security standing |
Violation-of-constitutional-rights |
| 24-5018 |
Maureen McDermott v. Anissa De La Cruz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
aedpa aedpa-standard batson-challenge clearly-established-federal-law darden-v-wainwright death-penalty-review due-process ninth-circuit-review parker-v-matthews prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Ninth Circuit's denial of relief rest on a misapprehension of what constitutes clearly established federal law under this Court's decision in … |
| 23-1357 |
Country Oaks Partners, LLC, dba Country Oaks Care Center, et al. v. Mark Harrod |
California |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
advance-directive agent-authority arbitration-agreement contract-statutes federal-arbitration-act health-care-decisions health-care-providers power-of-attorney state-law state-law-preemption |
Whether the FAA preempts state law contract statutes and regulations by singling out for disfavored treatment arbitration agreements entered into betw… |
| 23-7674 |
Eric Wright v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination |
Did the court of appeals' refusal to grant Mr. Wright habeas corpus relief in respect to his claim of unlawful racial discrimination in the selection … |
| 23-7581 |
Glenn D. Odom, II v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
conflict-counsel conflict-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process jury jury-questioning pro-se-defense waiver witness witness-testimony |
Does a criminal defendant have a constitutional right to fully present himself / herself as a witness |
| 23-7499 |
Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of showin… |
| 23-7364 |
Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation |
May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case? |
| 23-1169 |
Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te… |
| 23-7266 |
Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings |
Whether a conviction can be obtained, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury to convict, when the r… |
| 23-7276 |
Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Did the court of appeals erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition due to procedural default without reviewing the record and basing its de… |
| 23-7231 |
Bryan Christopher O'Rourke v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-04-16 |
Denied |
18-usc-921a33b 18-usc-922g9 constitutional-rights domestic-violence effective-assistance-of-counsel firearms-prohibition ineffective-assistance misdemeanor-domestic-violence padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky second-amendment |
Whether counsel is constitutionally deficient for failing to notify a U.S. citizen of the loss of Second Amendment rights due to a misdemeanor domesti… |
| 23-7167 |
Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing |
Whether the defendant has been denied the right to trial by an impartial jury when racial discrimination in jury selection compromises the right of tr… |
| 23A894 |
Terrance Brown v. Andrew Beshear, Governor of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-prerequisite notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant time-limitation |
Whether a pro se litigant's notice of appeal filed outside the standard 30-day window can be considered timely under federal appellate procedural rule… |
| 23-7115 |
Timothy D. Hinkle v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-rule jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault witness-credibility |
Did the courts allow the petitioner to have a fair and impartial trial? |
| 23-7105 |
Katherine Barrett v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process home-incarceration jail-credit jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the prosecutor's statement to the jury that the presumption of innocence is gone constitute flagrant misconduct? |
| 23-7006 |
Kelly Porter v. Axelon, Inc., et al. |
Kentucky |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fraud legal-notice standing workers-compensation |
Whether the Supreme Court's decision affirmed the Appellant Court is an abuse of discretion and against the rule of law |
| 23-6917 |
Saladin Thompson v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process habeas-corpus meaningful-access state-agent |
Did the actions/omissions of State agents deny petitioner of meaningful access to the habeas courts, in violation of the 1st and 14th U.S. Constitutio… |
| 23A806 |
Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-03-01 |
Presumed Complete |
batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Whether the prosecution's peremptory jury strikes of African American jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky, given evid… |
| 23-6804 |
Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have 'broad discretion' to refuse to … |
| 23-888 |
Alfredo Felipe Rasco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure deportation-consequences guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky rule-11 rule-11-violation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to deny my C.O.A. and the district court's denial of my motion to withdraw my guilty plea contravenes this Cou… |
| 23-844 |
Phillip Truesdell, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment occupation occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities slaughter-house-cases |
Whether the right to enter a common and lawful occupation is a privilege or immunity protected by the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23A709 |
David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Interim Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Presumed Complete |
abuse-of-writ aedpa banister-doctrine habeas-corpus sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's standard for determining whether a second-in-time habeas petition is initial or successive conflicts with the Supreme Cour… |
| 23-802 |
William Bembury v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
backpack criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment luggage probable-cause purse search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement |
Does the exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest permit a warrantless search of a backpack, purse, lug… |
| 23A672 |
Samuel Fields v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
confrontation-clause constitutional-violation extrinsic-evidence habeas-relief jury-deliberation sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause prohibits a jury from considering extrinsic evidence against a criminal defendant without providing… |
| 23-6492 |
Delondo Henderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a 'controlled substance… |
| 23-725 |
Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. v. Phillip Truesdell, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
buck-v-kuykendall certificate-of-need constitutional-interpretation dormant-commerce-clause ground-ambulance-services healthcare healthcare-regulation judicial-precedent sixth-circuit stage-lines |
Whether the modern case law approach controls a court's analysis of the dormant Commerce Clause and repudiates the holding in Buck v. Kuykendall |
| 23-692 |
Zachariah Minix v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-withdrawal |
Were the Petitioner's federal due-process rights violated when the Adair County Circuit Court denied the Petitioner's request to withdraw his plea of … |
| 23-6334 |
Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. |
California |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution interlocutory-order judicial-procedure state-court state-courts statutory-provisions |
Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs / offense / invalidate Federal Constitution and Due processes? |
| 23A577 |
Tyler Gonzales, fka Tyler A. Montour v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Presumed Complete |
attorney-performance constitutional-performance ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether a reviewing court must assess an attorney's performance under the Sixth Amendment's ineffective assistance of counsel standard by objectively … |
| 23A569 |
Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
batson-challenge constitutional-law ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard |
Whether a state supreme court can impose an impermissibly high standard of prejudice review that effectively nullifies the constitutional protections … |
| 23-668 |
Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts |
| 23-649 |
Lisa Price, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nickie Miller v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 brady-v-maryland civil-rights court-order due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-discretion prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether absolute immunity extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence |
| 23A515 |
Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination |
Whether the use of a peremptory challenge to remove a Black woman from a jury panel violates the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky and … |
| 23-590 |
Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights |
Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 23-6099 |
Carlos Noe Gallegos v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
circuit-split citizenship-denaturalization denaturalization guilty-plea habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel naturalized-citizenship padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky prejudice-standard |
Whether Padilla v. Kentucky applies to denaturalization consequences of a guilty plea |
| 23-6052 |
Larry Bailey v. West Laurel Water Association, et al. |
Kentucky |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
appeal circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status notice-of-appeal standing |
Whether the Franklin Circuit Court violated my constitutional rights to due process |
| 23-516 |
Michael D. Smith v. Derek Gordon, et al. |
Kentucky |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment immunity legal-immunity legal-malpractice prisoner-rights standing |
Will this court let stand as Kentucky courts have ruled that lawyers in a criminal case have the same immunity as judges and prosecutors and cannot be… |
| 23-492 |
Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Kentucky, ex rel. Russell Coleman, Attorney General of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
due-process equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medical-treatment parental-rights rational-basis-review sex-classification transgender transgender-rights |
Whether the Kentucky treatment ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors should be subject to heightened scrutiny under the Due Process… |
| 23A404 |
Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Presumed Complete |
circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 |
Whether absolute prosecutorial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence and defiance of a… |
| 23-5890 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination |
Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent… |
| 23A371 |
William Bembury v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A356 |
Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Presumed Complete |
burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly conflates the prima facie stage of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework with the employer's legitimat… |
| 23-5710 |
Darryl Burghardt v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Whether Petitioner Darryl Burghardt's trial counsel performed deficiently by refusing to raise, and thereby waiving, a meritorious Batson objection |
| 23-5659 |
Cedric Theodis Hobbs, Jr. v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection post-hoc-justifications racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether a court conducting a comparative juror analysis can consider 'favorable characteristics' in otherwise comparable jurors when those characteris… |
| 23-307 |
Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity |
Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding |
| 23-259 |
Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm, or instead must pro… |
| 23-248 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-violations black-defendant capital-case equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination white-victims |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' decision that Mr. Broadnax failed to establish a prima facie equal protection claim conflicts with this C… |
| 23-5549 |
Hope White v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right |
Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-created r… |
| 23-5542 |
Stephen James Hood v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether Virginia's ruling as to Va. Code § 19.2-327.10 violates the rights of Hood, and those similarly situated, under the Due Process, Equal Protect… |
| 23A190 |
Thomas Massie, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. v. Nancy Pelosi, in Her Official Capacity, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
congressional-discipline justiciability member-pay separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-immunity twenty-seventh-amendment |
Whether Congress may impose fines on individual members enforced through salary reduction for violations of House rules enacted without an intervening… |
| 23-5400 |
Nathan Leon Branham v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
compulsory-process curriculum-vitae defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
When can a defense expert be excluded for failure to timely file curriculum vitae? |
| 23-5266 |
Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to pr… |
| 23A62 |
Michael Carey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plain-text statutory-interpretation suppression-provision wiretap-act |
Whether the Wiretap Act's mandatory suppression provision in 18 U.S.C. § 2515 permits judicial creation of exceptions based on analogies to Fourth Ame… |
| 23A53 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Presumed Complete |
american-rescue-plan-act coercion-doctrine conditional-federal-grants fiscal-recovery-funds spending-clause tax-offset-provision |
Whether the offset provision of the American Rescue Plan Act's Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund, which restricts States from using federal funds… |
| 23-5144 |
In Re Donald Lynn Martin |
|
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 23-5122 |
Ronny Deviod Walker v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts immunity impeachment judicial-misconduct misconduct pro-se-pleading procedural-rules standing |
Who may be complained about: where to file a complaint? |
| 23A13 |
Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B.D.H., the minor son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-7813 |
Toby Ray A. McKenzie v. Kentucky Commission on Human Rights |
Kentucky |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights discrimination due-process fair-housing family-status housing-discrimination judicial-misconduct landlord-tenant retaliation |
Is unfair housing now legal in the state of Kentucky where single fathers can be singled out and discriminated against by their landlords due to their… |
| 22-7795 |
Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Laura B. Zuchowski, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Vermont Service Center |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-suppression civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-officials immigration-law |
Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the USCIS director's suppression of the plaintiff's appeal application, resulting in hi… |
| 22-7623 |
Arquimedes Mendoza v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining reasonable-defendant reasonable-person |
Whether a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel in the plea context must show that an objective 'reasonable person' or 'reasonable defe… |
| 22-7502 |
Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force |
Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Gilbert-Brown was seized |
| 22-1083 |
Kent Chandler, in His Official Capacity as Chairman and Commissioner of Kentucky Public Service Commission, et al. v. Foresight Coal Sales, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
coal-severance-tax discrimination dormant-commerce-clause economic-discrimination interstate-commerce state-regulation utility-costs utility-regulation |
Does a Kentucky law that directs a state agency not to consider any jurisdiction's coal-severance tax in assessing the reasonableness of a utility com… |
| 22-7400 |
Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Whether a juror's communication to the jury during deliberations of highly prejudicial specialized factual information that was based on his professio… |
| 22A859 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States v. Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6811 |
A. B. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation |
Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte… |
| 22-6764 |
Michael Ray Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether United States v. Granados, 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Cooper,… |
| 22-6552 |
Sergio Guerrero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
ammunition-possession bill-of-rights fourth-amendment lawful-materials probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment warrantless-arrest |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is consistent with this Court's precedents on the Fourth Amendment's probable cause standard when suspicion is ba… |
| 22-6512 |
Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court |
Whether the lower Florida state court's error in failing to correctly calculate the date that petitioner's direct review of his case became 'final' de… |
| 22-6406 |
William James Truesdale v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
appellate-filing-fee certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit filing-fee habeas-corpus pro-se-petition standing |
Whether petitioner Truesdale owes the District Court Clerk the docketing and filing fee in order to obtain a Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-6343 |
Rossen Iossifov v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud |
Jurisdictional-grounds-for-SCOTUS-review |
| 22-6339 |
Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California |
California |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness |
Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process |
| 22-6211 |
In Re Patricia Ann Solomon |
|
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs |
Can Ms. Patricia Solomon, a physician assistant who never prescribed any drug, be convicted under 21 U.S.C. §846 in the Eastern District of Kentucky L… |
| 22-477 |
Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
Should the requirement that a plaintiff's cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign natio… |
| 22-6107 |
Jarmal Williamson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Does Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny instruct courts to consider repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor as suggestive of pretext when… |
| 22-450 |
Gregory Shields, Sr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause constitutional-standard crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing state-court-division state-court-split witness-testimony |
When, if ever, does a preliminary hearing provide an 'adequate opportunity' for cross-examination under the Confrontation Clause? |
| 22-6057 |
Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection racial-discrimination |
Whether Mississippi continues to misapply Batson v. Kentucky |
| 22-5988 |
Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator… |
| 22-5943 |
Isaiah Tyler v. Kentucky Department of Corrections |
Kentucky |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest violent-offender-statute |
Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process? |
| 22-5906 |
William Lee Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-25 |
Rehearing |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule |
Whether Hall v. Florida announced a new rule of constitutional law or was simply an application of Atkins v. Virginia |
| 22-376 |
Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 |
May a convicted offender, subsequently pardoned, bring a § 1983 action where the pardon fails to expunge the underlying criminal conviction or call it… |
| 22-5839 |
Daniel Mason v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the per… |
| 22-271 |
M. N. v. A. A., et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness |
whether-ky-rev-stat-ann-§-199.502-violates-the-fourteenth-amendment's-due-process-clause |
| 22-5667 |
Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination |
Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the Batson standard by requiring a defendant to establish that a juror removed peremptorily is st… |
| 22-5624 |
Tiffany Leigh Marion v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
Whether Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny apply to equal-protection claims challenging a prosecutor's decision on plea-offers based on race |
| 22A204 |
Kentucky v. Dovontia Reed |
Kentucky |
2022-09-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A198 |
Gregory Shields, Sr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2022-09-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-188 |
Patrick J. O'Connell v. Jonna Z. Bianco |
Kentucky |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
11-usc-362 11-usc-521 11-usc-541 28-usc-1334 28-usc-157 bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-bankruptcy-code judicial-estoppel state-court-jurisdiction |
Bankruptcy-jurisdiction-and-procedure |
| 22-161 |
Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the prosecutor's peremptory striking of Hispanic prospective jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause |
| 22-5359 |
Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike |
| 22-132 |
Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid judges (or prosecutors) from instructing (or inviting) the jury to take into account a non-testifyi… |
| 22-5238 |
M. Stephen Minix, Sr. v. Charity Stone, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceeding judicial-immunity osborne-v standing state-case-law stump-v-sparkman void-ab-initio |
Did Respondent Judge issue rulings on Respondent Stone's claim that were void ab initio and taken without judicial immunity under Stump v. Sparkman be… |
| 22-91 |
Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav… |
| 22-81 |
Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay |
What test applies to excessive sentencing delay claims under the Due Process Clause, including whether prejudice is required and what prejudice counts… |
| 22-5187 |
Jesus Maya-Zapata v. California |
California |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky credibility-determination judicial-procedure jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-excusal-of-a-juror reasonableness-of-stated-justifications sixth-amendment |
Whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth-Amendment-claims-arising-under-Batson-v-Kentucky or whether appellate cou… |
| 22A55 |
Michael Fields v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2022-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-42 |
Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process economic-liberty fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty meaningful-review occupation-rights occupational-licensing rational-basis-review substantive-due-process |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment require meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation? |
| 22A29 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1591 |
Bardstown Capital Corporation, et al. v. Seiller Waterman, LLC, et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
antitrust-laws civil-proceedings first-amendment noerr-pennington-doctrine petition-clause sham-lawsuit sham-lawsuits standing wrongful-use-of-process |
Does this same precedent exempt all but sham lawsuits from the reach of state common-law torts, like wrongful use of civil proceedings? |
| 21-1575 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Jeremy Mattox, Judge, Circuit Court of Kentucky, 14th Judicial Circuit |
Kentucky |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure clerk court-clerk judicial-discretion judicial-ethics mandamus ministerial-duties prohibition |
Does any circuit court judge have the authority or discretion to prevent the clerk of the circuit court from properly performing her ministerial dutie… |
| 21-1569 |
SouthPointe Partners, LLC v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusive-remedy federal-claims section-1983 state-statute |
Can a state statute providing a right of appeal from an administrative decision serve as an 'exclusive remedy' to bar separate federal claims under 42… |
| 21-8160 |
Jamie M. Coffey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process griffith-v-kentucky judicial-precedent retroactive-application retroactivity |
Do the State and Federal courts violate a petitioner's 14th Amendment Right to due process when they decline to apply a new rule governing a criminal … |
| 21-1465 |
Austin Channing McGraw v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the government can advise a jury that a Defendant invoked his right against self-incrimination, and refused a consensual, warrantless search o… |
| 21-1409 |
Prince Bixler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
controlled-substances cross-examination federal-rule-of-evidence-412 fifth-amendment prostitution sentencing-enhancement sex-trafficking sixth-amendment |
Whether Bixler's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were violated |
| 21A615 |
Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7584 |
William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire |
Did the state postconviction court violate Batson-and-its-progeny |
| 21-7475 |
Edward James Rose v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-inquiry discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-speculation jury-selection peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether a court can use its own speculation to supplant facts necessary to make findings at each step of the Batson inquiry |
| 21-7455 |
Don'te Lamont McDaniel v. California |
California |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection mixed-motive peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-stereotypes |
Proper method for assessing mixed motive in Batson cases |
| 21-7437 |
Steven Hutchinson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky constitutional-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presumption-of-prejudice racial-discrimination strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
Should prejudice under Strickland v. Washington be presumed for an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on counsel's failure to object to unc… |
| 21-1201 |
Michael D. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-misconduct jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct |
Will the Eastern District of Kentucky be allowed to ignore our federal laws,Constitution and Bill of Rights and have a 5 week, mock trial on innocent … |
| 21-1202 |
Michael D. Smith v. Frances Catron Cadle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
abuse-of-power civil-rights constitutional-rights cover-up criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Will the government officials be allowed to violate federal-laws,constitution-and-bill-of-rights,prosecutorial-misconduct,judicial-misconduct,no-juris… |
| 21-7140 |
Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 21-7141 |
In Re Taquan Rashe Gullett-El |
|
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
alien-status civil-rights constitutional-violations dred-scott due-process habeas-corpus international-law pro-se-petition sovereign-citizenship standing unlawful-detention |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the unlawful detention and denial of habeas corpus relief |
| 21-1122 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Amy McGrath |
Kentucky |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process election-law mootness mootness-doctrine procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation trial-court-dismissal |
May a trial court dismiss a ballot challenge without construing it favorably to the movant? |
| 21-1110 |
Travis Boys v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky due-process Johnson-v-California jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination |
Whether the Louisiana appellate court applied an impermissibly high burden of proof at the first step of Batson by creating an unattainable statistica… |
| 21-1029 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-allegations defendant-sanctions dismissal due-process good-faith-findings pre-discovery-dismissal sanctions standing trial-court-dismissal |
Whether a trial court may dismiss all allegations against most defendants before discovery without construing the complaint in the light most favorabl… |
| 21-6747 |
Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit |
Is a prosecutor's statement that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one African-Am… |