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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6816 | Carlos Javier Figueroa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | counsel-override criminal-defense defendant-autonomy ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment witness-testimony | In McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), this Court held that (1) the Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the autonomy to decide the ob… |
| 25-6782 | Cosea Bell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2026-02-11 | Pending | None | /I NON V&pd lobCONl/l c+iotJS /o 4-Ajz epttops w t-Asz bfZieZ-l T> -/-€> •h-lNi_ U.A/tZAs&t I ■Qjp£j4,{ f-h-Q. l>ts+i2'cf- AHo/2Az«y ca^oKsot-ppcuid-e… |
| 25-6793 | Roman Flores v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-11 | Pending | autonomy-right capital-murder criminal-defense guilt-concession law-of-parties sixth-amendment | 1. Whether McCoy v. Louisiana prohibits only explicit admissions of guilt, or also bars functional concessions — such as conceding elements, condition… |
| 25-6761 | Kennan Alexis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation non-violent-drug-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to individuals who, like Petitioner, only have felony convic… |
| 25A890 | Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Application | at-large-elections eleventh-circuit public-service-commission racial-vote-dilution section-2 voting-rights-act | Question not identified. |
| 25-841 | Henry Troy Wade v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | brady-violation constitutional-procedure due-process grand-jury sixth-amendment wire-fraud | 1. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §1343 must be vacated where the Government obtained a verdict under a theory materially broader than the indic… |
| 25A802 | Henry L. Klein, et al. v. Lewis Title Insurance Company, et al. | Louisiana | 2026-01-12 | Application | federal-preemption insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson state-law supremacy-clause title-insurance | [1] Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err by counting Christopher Columbus Day against Applicants in computing the 14-day deadline for filing a Request … |
| 25A803 | Henry Wade v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Application | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | Whether the Petition presents multiple preserved structural constitutional questions of exceptional national importance, including: constructive amend… |
| 25-6506 | John Wesley Patton v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. | Louisiana | 2026-01-07 | Pending | civil-rights district-court judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal | Could a Louisiana District Judge, namely, Steven C. Grefer, 24th Judicial District Court, in Division "J" in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana be considered… |
| 25A775 | Cosea Bell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2026-01-05 | Application | collateral-review habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-bar state-court successive-application | Question not identified. |
| 25-6364 | Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-12-15 | Denied | confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence | Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal… |
| 25-650 | Raymon Walters v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Denied | counsel-strategy criminal-defense defendant-rights jury-trial legal-ethics sixth-amendment | Whether defense counsel may concede an element of an offense over the defendant's objection, where the concession is reasonably designed to advance th… |
| 25A645 | Julius Jarreau Moore v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-12-03 | Application | capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard third-party-culpability | Question not identified. |
| 25A625 | Louisiana, ex rel. Darrell J. Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2025-11-26 | Application | brady-violation exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review | Whether the prosecution's failure to disclose impeachment and exculpatory evidence constituted a Brady violation that prejudicially undermined the fai… |
| 25-6185 | John Pearl Smith, II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | distinctive-groups duren-test fair-cross-section jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion | 1. Is the Sixth Amendment right to a jury that represents a fair cross-section of the community violated where a defendant identifies a specific syste… |
| 25-6170 | Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana, et al. | Louisiana | 2025-11-19 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-error pro-se-representation self-representation | 1. WHETHER THE STATE APPELLATE COURT COMMITTED PLAIN JURISDICTIONAL ERROR WHEN GRANTING STATE APPELLEE'S MOTION FOR EXTENTION AFTER FILING DEADLINES H… |
| 25-6097 | Shanna M. Glynn v. Marquette City Police Department, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review stare-decisis state-accountability victim-rights | Can stare decisis deny a victim of violent crime, their right to due process and full and fair review? Does Hans v. Louisiana remove the requirement … |
| 25A549 | In Re Henry L. Klein | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | business-qualification debt-collection debt-purchaser henson-v-santander special-purpose-vehicle supremacy-clause | Whether the Supreme Court will enforce the Henson v. Santander ruling as the supreme law of the land regarding debt ownership and collection rights un… |
| 25A552 | Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Whether a criminal defendant can knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's sentencing errors as part of a plea agreement,… |
| 25A519 | Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | constitutional-challenge drug-pricing fifth-amendment first-amendment inflation-reduction-act medicare-drug-negotiation | Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 violates the Fifth and First Amendments |
| 25-6004 | Fillmore Wright v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-10-31 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment uncorroborated-confession | Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest … |
| 25-524 | Cedric Ray Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Pending | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error | I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s… |
| 25-5991 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error | I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s… |
| 25-6000 | Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-10-30 | Denied | confrontation-clause crawford-rule criminal-procedure due-process hearsay testimonial-evidence | Whether permitting a detective to testify to unconfronted, testimonial hearsay statements that directly inculpate a defendant statements, made by witn… |
| 25A495 | Mark Hanna v. John Bel Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Application | appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights good-faith-standard in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation procedural-default | Whether a prisoner's in forma pauperis (IFP) status can be denied on appeal when procedural challenges prevent full review of the underlying civil rig… |
| 25-5954 | In Re Michael Albert Focia | 2025-10-24 | Denied | commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment | 1. Does the district court's application of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. section 921 and following, to apply to private arms sales on the secondary … | |
| 25-5895 | Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment | L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi… |
| 25-5851 | Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-10-09 | Denied | burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error | Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b… |
| 25-422 | Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-08 | Denied | court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote? |
| 25-5827 | Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-10-08 | Denied | constitutional-violation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-oppression racial-discrimination sixth-amendment | WHETHER A STATE RACIALLY MOTIVATED PERVASIVE Unconstitutional Statute purposed to deny it's African American Citizens their equal protection of law … |
| 25-385 | Charles Ray Crawford v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-10-02 | Denied | capital-trial criminal-procedure retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error teague-rule | In McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), this Court held that the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the right to personally decide whether t… |
| 25-5711 | Jermal Williams v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-09-23 | Denied | circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof | Under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, is La. R.S. 15:438 a higher standard of proof than Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. … |
| 25-5647 | Kolby Reshaad Moore v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-09-16 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-appeal insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency murder-conviction reasonable-doubt | WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM RAISED … |
| 25-294 | Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | Whether trial judges must define "reasonable doubt" for the jury upon the defendant's request. |
| 25A292 | Larce Spikes v. Lesley Wheat, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-minimum deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity | Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a substantive inquiry into the adequacy of medical treatment provided to prisoners, or if the mere provision of … |
| 25-277 | Aden Rusfeldt v. Officer Cristian Morar, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | fighting-words first-amendment free-speech heckler's-veto public-forum qualified-immunity | Under the First Amendment, street preachers and counter-protesters can speak in front of a crowd but not to a crowd, or to any person therein, or else… |
| 25A275 | Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 | Whether a district court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability without substantive analysis violates a criminal defendant's right to mean… |
| 25-5563 | Joseph Lee Smith v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-09-05 | Denied | constitutional-review manslaughter post-trial-motions sentencing specific-intent writ-application | WHETHER THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S WRIT APPLICATION FILED ON DIRECT APPEAL AND THE CLAIM THAT PETITIONER POSSESSE… |
| 25A239 | Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits introduction of inculpatory evidence through an investigating officer when the underlying witness does not te… |
| 25-5492 | Shedrick Givens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2025-08-28 | Denied | bill-of-information constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment grand-jury subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | 1. Whether the trial court, in the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, lacked subject matter jurisdiction where in United States v. Cot… |
| 25-5455 | Jesus Torres v. Cheniere Energy, Inc., et al. | Texas | 2025-08-22 | Denied | choice-of-law discovery-process jurisdictional-deficiency service-agreement statutory-employer summary-judgment | 1. Choice of Law: Did the lower court err in applying Louisiana law to the plaintiffs claims despite the explicit choice-of-law provision in the Servi… |
| 25-5422 | Lamont Johnson v. Michele Dauzat, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-bar second-successive-application state-action | Whether a second in time habeas application which raises a claim that the petitioner was prevented by state action from raising in a prior application… |
| 25A205 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-limitation electronic-trading insider-trading sixth-amendment stock-exchange venue | Whether the Sixth Amendment's venue provision requires venue for insider trading prosecutions to be determined by the location of the actual electroni… |
| 25-195 | St. James Parish, Louisiana v. Inclusive Louisiana, By and Through Their Members, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | article-iii-standing environmental-justice governmental-entity land-use-decisions racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations | 1. Article III Standing Environmental justice activist organizations, acting as the Plaintiffs and purporting to have suffered harm as the result of … |
| 25-180 | John Doe v. Dynamic Physical Therapy, LLC, et al. | Louisiana | 2025-08-14 | Judgment Issued | americans-with-disabilities-act federal-preemption healthcare-discrimination public-health-emergency rehabilitation-act state-procedural-law | Whether a state procedural law that immunizes a healthcare provider from liability during a public health emergency may override a federal substantive… |
| 25-166 | Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure jury-size jury-trial-right nonunanimous-jury sixth-amendment | Whether the Court should overrule Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970). |
| 25-5286 | Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | aedpa circuit-court-mandate clearly-established-law exceptional-circumstance habeas-corpus supreme-court-review | May a subsequent decision of this Court calling into question the correctness and integrity of a circuit court's judgment qualify as an exceptional ci… |
| 25A105 | Ismael Bimbow v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-25 | Presumed Complete | due-process evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through a warrantless search lacking exigent circumstances and potentially b… |
| 25A109 | Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Bobby Singleton, et al. | Alabama | 2025-07-25 | Presumed Complete | congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act | Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state legislature from drawing congressional districts that allegedly discriminate against minority vo… |
| 25A110 | Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al. | Alabama | 2025-07-25 | Presumed Complete | congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act | Whether Alabama's 2023 congressional redistricting plan violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause by allegedly discr… |
| 25A93 | Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 25-5119 | Steven Dwayne Rigmaiden v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-07-16 | Denied | criminal-appeal criminal-procedure louisiana-courts murder-evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | WHETHER THE LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEALS AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM RAISED ON DIRECT APPEAL, THAT THE EVIDE… |
| 25-5123 | Lee R. Jackson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-07-16 | Denied | None | 1. Whether reasonable jurists determine that the trial court erred in both concluding retroactively that a mistrial had been intended and in retroacti… |
| 25-5060 | Harold Alvin Campbell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-07-09 | Denied | amendment-challenge constitutional-violation intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-statute negligent-homicide | WHETHER THE LOUISIANA STATE MURDER STATUTES WHICH INCORP ORATES " NO INTENT TO KILL ", LSA-RS 14:30.1(2), 14:31(2), ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY A DISTINCT… |
| 25-5070 | Kedrick Johnson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-07-09 | Denied | brady-violation criminal-procedure evidence-disclosure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing legal-disclosure witness-testimony | Did the State violate Brady v. Maryland when it failed to disclose a June 8, 2010, supplemental police report that would have made key witness Stephen… |
| 25-1 | James Skinner v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-07-01 | Pending | brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-precedent post-conviction-relief | Did Louisiana courts err in refusing to apply Wearry to Mr. Skinner's Brady claims? |
| 24A1286 | Dion Horton, et al. v. Jill Rangos, Administrative Judge, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Presumed Complete | bail-hearing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty pretrial-detention | Whether prolonged pretrial detention without individualized bail hearings violates the constitutional right to due process and equal protection |
| 24-1304 | FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation | Whether a federal agency acts arbitrarily or capriciously in determining a post-settlement change of law, and whether federal law applies to utility t… |
| 24A1258 | Willie Dennis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-20 | Presumed Complete | due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation procedural-standing right-to-counsel | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to self-representation and meaningful participation in his own appeal was violated by counsel's un… |
| 24-7427 | Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden | Georgia | 2025-06-16 | Denied | actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar | Whether Georgia's Habeas Corpus Act violates constitutional protections when procedural bars prevent meaningful review of a potentially wrongful convi… |
| 24-7405 | Willie Triplett v. James LeBlanc, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | access-to-court civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis medical-complaint three-strikes-rule | Whether the U.S. Middle District of Louisiana's dismissal of Petitioner's Civil Rights medical complaint as frivolous and denial of in forma pauperis … |
| 24-7354 | Seth Stewart v. City of American Fork, Utah | Utah | 2025-06-04 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial stare-decisis | Whether stare decisis can be invoked to undermine constitutional guarantees when interpreting the Constitution |
| 24-7343 | Christopher Harris v. Officer Lesko, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Denied | constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract kokkonen-rule | Where an officer of the court violates the 'Kokkonen rule' by 'enforcing' an on-the-record promise only, who has unambiguously invoked the Fourteenth … |
| 24A1175 | Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole based solely on the nature of the crime without meaningfu… |
| 24-1220 | Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would be '… |
| 24-7294 | Rustin Randall Middleton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-05-28 | Denied | criminal-appeal evidence-challenge legal-sufficiency louisiana-supreme-court sentence-review writ-application | Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's writ application challenging the sufficiency of evidence and excessiveness of senten… |
| 24A1157 | Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Presumed Complete | due-process-clause habeas-corpus immigration-detention mandatory-detention noncitizen-detention removal-proceedings | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment imposes temporal or procedural limits on the government's authority to detain noncitizens pendin… |
| 24-7285 | Kirk Powell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-05-23 | Denied | co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment misjoinder sixth-amendment | Whether the misjoinder of defendants and admission of co-defendant's out-of-court statements in a joint trial violated the Petitioner's Fifth and Sixt… |
| 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… |
| 24A1088 | James Skinner v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-05-12 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-7124 | Gary Daniel Rodgers v. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-challenge frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis legal-briefing | Whether the Circuit Court erred in their rulings regarding Rodger's legal filings, procedural challenges, and motion to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 24-7096 | Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-04-29 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment | Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts violate a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 24-7059 | Dennis L. Magee v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-04-23 | Denied | aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment | Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts in aggravated rape cases violate a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 24-7039 | Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-04-21 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States federal courts have jurisdiction over habeas corpus proceedings under 40 CFR |
| 24-6949 | Kendrick Christmas v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | district-attorney equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se supervisory-writ warden | Whether Kendrick Christmas's federal writ of habeas corpus is entitled to equitable tolling during the time he filed for supervisory writs in the Loui… |
| 24-6940 | Tam Q. Le v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Denied | allen-charge constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment | Whether the trial court committed reversible error by providing an Allen charge to a deadlocked jury and whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimo… |
| 24-6920 | Bobby B. Kirkendoll v. Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-03 | Denied | due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus interstate-agreement-detainers-act non-party-state temporary-custody | Whether the Interstate Agreement Detainers Act (IAD) provides an exception clause under V(g) for due process protections for a petitioner awaiting tri… |
| 24-6921 | Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-03 | Denied | dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether sovereign immunity implicates subject-matter jurisdiction such that it may be resolved through factual challenges under Federal Rule of Civil … |
| 24-6923 | Christopher M. Alexander v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-04-03 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6885 | Thomas Creech v. Idaho | Idaho | 2025-03-28 | Denied | constitutional-law death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards execution-attempts | Should Resweber be overruled? |
| 24-6778 | Jessie Hoffman v. Gary Westcott, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-16 | Dismissed | cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-gassing religious-freedom rluipa | Whether a method of execution that superadds psychological suffering violates the Eighth Amendment's bar on cruel and unusual punishment; Whether exec… |
| 24-6769 | Maylois Bacot, aka Maylois Conerly Price, aka Maylois Conerly, aka Maylois Price v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4 | Louisiana | 2025-03-14 | Denied | civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech right-to-petition | Whether the court violated the Petitioner's First Amendment right to freedom of speech and right to petition the court, and whether the court's proced… |
| 24-979 | Legacy Recovery Services, LLC, dba Legacy House, et al. v. City of Monroe, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | amendment-rights appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure finality-doctrine pleading-standards rule-12 | Do federal courts have authority to create pleading requirements beyond the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and when does a Rule 12 dismissal order b… |
| 24-6758 | Matias P. Briones v. Texas | Texas | 2025-03-12 | Denied | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process non-unanimous-jury ramos-precedent texas-penal-code | Whether Texas Penal Code 21.02 violates the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments by allowing non-unanimous jury instructions for finding guilt and predicate … |
| 24-6722 | Ashley Muse v. Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-jurisdiction res-judicata state-court | Whether a U.S. District Court can apply Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel to a void State Court judgment and deny due process rights in a federal c… |
| 24-925 | Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | adjudication due-process fifth-circuit industry-participant pecuniary-interest regulatory-board | Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand with instructions to the Fifth Circuit to identify any alleged substantial pecuniary interest held … |
| 24-6639 | Mario Ayala Alfaro v. California | California | 2025-02-25 | Denied | common-law-infant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jurisdictional-defect mens-rea | Whether punishing a common-law infant without requisite knowledge and mens rea violates the Eighth Amendment and due process rights when the defendant… |
| 24-6620 | In Re Bobby R. Reed | 2025-02-21 | Denied | constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari | Why did the state of Louisiana violate my constitutional rights and jurisdiction in a potential habeas corpus petition? | |
| 24-878 | Rachel Breaux v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, et al. | Louisiana | 2025-02-18 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-court equitable-factors fair-notice judicial-estoppel | Whether application of judicial estoppel violates fundamental principles of fair notice when a petitioner's duty to report a claim to bankruptcy court… |
| 24-6543 | Devin Chaney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Pending | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-error | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and… |
| 24-6500 | A. N. v. Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services | Louisiana | 2025-02-07 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6508 | Tyrone Lindsey v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-02-07 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6454 | Arthur Anderson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-02-03 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-813 | Chevron USA Incorporated, et al. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Granted | causal-nexus civil-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal oil-production statutory-interpretation wartime-contract | Whether a federal contractor can remove to federal court under the federal-officer removal statute when sued for oil-production activities undertaken … |
| 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… |
| 24-807 | David Stanley v. Scott Morgan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | civil-service delaware-state-college-v-ricks employment-discrimination finality-of-action grievance-procedure statute-of-limitations | Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Delaware State College v. Ricks applies to grievance procedures that constitute 'direct review' and impact the … |
| 24-6393 | Shamichael Antonio Pearson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-01-27 | Denied | criminal-procedure criminal-standard-of-proof identity-evidence jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia to prove beyond a reasonable doubt Mr. Pearson's identity as the perpetrator |
| 24-6356 | RonAllen Hardy v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-01-22 | Denied | brain-development cognitive-maturity cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-principles | Whether sentencing a young adult to life without parole violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when the offe… |
| 24-6347 | Demario G. Warren v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-01-21 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-770 | Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment | Whether a hostile work environment claim under Title VII requires proof of 'severe or pervasive' harassment when Muldrow suggests only 'some injury' i… |
| 24-722 | Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. | Tennessee | 2025-01-10 | Denied | due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent | Whether Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court constitutes a structural constitutional violation under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces… |
| 24-6234 | Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-01-03 | Denied | attorney-general dismissal false-claims-act jurisdiction qui-tam relator | Does the District Court have jurisdiction to dismiss a False Claims Act action without a written explanation from the court and Attorney General, and … |
| 24-6225 | Dennis Mischler v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit deprived Mischler of Due Process by failing to afford an evidentiary hearing on disputed facts when no hearing was provided … |
| 24-667 | Belinda Parker Brown v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-12-19 | Denied | attorney-communication contempt-power court-procedure first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion | Whether a court's exercise of contempt powers for verbal interactions with attorneys during recess violates an individual's First Amendment rights |
| 24A599 | Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process federalism regulatory-board state-sovereignty | Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state regulatory boards from including industry representatives when there is no evidence of actual bias or p… |
| 24-6119 | Logan Smith v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-12-12 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6040 | Graham L. Stowe v. Gregory Van Rybroek, Director, Mendota Mental Health Institute | Seventh Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | confinement due-process foucha-v-louisiana mental-institution ngi-acquittee not-mentally-ill | Whether the Wisconsin court's decision is contrary to and an unreasonable application of Foucha v. Louisiana because it permits the state to confine N… |
| 24-561 | RSBCO v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | attorney-fees fifth-circuit-review invited-error jury-instructions procedural-violation tax-dispute | Did the Fifth Circuit err in reversing a lower court ruling by interpreting undefined jury instructions and verdict forms in a tax dispute against the… |
| 24-5990 | Darius Rush v. James Corrigan, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression trial-counsel | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were violated when trial counsel failed to challenge potentially coerced evidence and suppressed … |
| 24-5958 | In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster | 2024-11-12 | Denied | amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-authority | Whether the state of Louisiana violated the petitioner's 13th and 14th Amendment rights through alleged constitutional deprivations | |
| 24-5946 | James B. Crosby v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | due-process federal-proceedings heck-bar injunction supremacy-clause younger-abstention | Whether Younger abstention can be ignored when federal proceedings began before state proceedings and an injunction should be granted to prevent arres… |
| 24-512 | Ghassan Korban, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans v. Watson Memorial Spiritual Temple of Christ, dba Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries, et al. | Louisiana | 2024-11-05 | Denied | common-core-facts federal-judgment preclusion procedural-posture res-judicata state-law-claims | Is a prior federal judgment res judicata as to state-law claims in a subsequent state or federal court action that arise from a common core of facts a… |
| 24-513 | Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | civil-rights jury-discrimination peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias section-1983 | Does a prospective juror who alleges they were struck as the result of a policy, custom, or usage of racial discrimination have a cause of action unde… |
| 24-5910 | Robert Ward Frazier v. California | California | 2024-11-05 | Denied | autonomy-right capital-defendant counsel-objection fundamental-objectives mitigation-defense sixth-amendment | Is a capital defendant deprived of their Sixth Amendment autonomy right to determine the fundamental objectives of their defense when appointed counse… |
| 24-5866 | Edward Moses v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | attorney-sanctions clearly-erroneous-standard constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity tribal-recognition | Whether Emperor Moses is entitled to an injunction barring state officials from operating within the Atakapa Indian Nation based on the constitutional… |
| 24-5875 | Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Department of Public Works, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | civil-rights federal-courts legal-notice personal-injury property-rights statute-of-limitations | Whether lower federal courts should apply Louisiana's one-year personal injury statute of limitations and give effect to Louisiana's special reviews i… |
| 24-5818 | In Re Lemerick Christopher | 2024-10-24 | Denied | 13th-amendment 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process federal-status state-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5811 | In Re Jeremy Edwards | 2024-10-23 | Denied | amendment-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-preemption liberty-interest state-jurisdiction | Why did the state of Louisiana violate the 13th and 14th Amendments and Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution? | |
| 24-5813 | In Re Thomas Critton | 2024-10-23 | Denied | amendment-violation constitutional-rights federal-status jurisdictional-principles preemption-doctrine state-action | Why did the state of Louisiana violate constitutional rights and jurisdictional principles? | |
| 24-447 | Mei Wong, et al. v. Shemia Fagan, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Denied | due-process election-fraud election-integrity equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity | Whether fraud in the 2022 Oregon Primary Elections invalidates the election results and judicial rulings despite defendants' claims of sovereign immun… |
| 24-444 | Otto L. Haselhoff, Individually and as Trustee v. City of Santa Monica, California | California | 2024-10-21 | Denied | constitutional-violation due-process judicial-notice notice-requirement property-rights takings-clause | When government acts without notice in a way that seriously impacts the rights of citizens, does the lack of statutory and constitutionally required n… |
| 24-409 | Roderick Jones v. Tommy Bowen, Warden | Georgia | 2024-10-11 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment | Whether McCoy v. Louisiana permits counsel to concede a client's guilt in direct contradiction of the client's testimony and whether such a concession… |
| 24-5731 | In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster | 2024-10-09 | Denied | constitutional-violation extraordinary-writ forum-transfer judicial-misconduct legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules | Why have judges of the Western District of Louisiana been practicing law improperly and violating constitutional rights through procedural rules? | |
| 24-5732 | In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster | 2024-10-09 | Denied | constitutional-violation forum-transfer judicial-misconduct procedural-rules substantive-law writ-of-prohibition | Whether judges in the Western District of Louisiana have improperly practiced law and violated plaintiff's substantive rights through procedural rules | |
| 24A305 | RSBCO v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition counsel-representation fifth-circuit legal-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a case involving a Louisiana partnership's … |
| 24-5647 | David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2024-09-26 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science | Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 24-329 | Michael Ashford, et al. v. Aviation Technical Services, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | case-controversy diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction realignment removal state-court | Whether realignment can be used to create diversity jurisdiction in a removed case notwithstanding the presence of an actual case and controversy betw… |
| 24A259 | Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Presumed Complete | federal-grants fiscal-recovery spending-clause state-sovereignty statutory-conditions tax-policy | Whether the Spending Clause permits Congress to impose conditions on federal grants that restrict a state's ability to modify its tax policy through a… |
| 24A251 | Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits civil rights lawsuits by prospective jurors challenging racially-motivated peremptory challenges when statist… |
| 24-5487 | Michael Ravy v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-09-09 | Denied | collateral-attack constitutional-right criminal-proceeding critical-stage due-process sixth-amendment | Whether an evidentiary hearing following a collateral attack on a conviction constitutes a critical stage of a criminal proceeding requiring counsel u… |
| 24-5440 | Edward Moses, Jr. v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel | Louisiana | 2024-09-04 | Denied | attorney-discipline confrontation-clause due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics professional-misconduct | Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated Edward Moses Jr.'s due process rights in suspending his law license without adequate confrontation |
| 24-5431 | Jacob Valle v. Florida | Florida | 2024-08-30 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 24-213 | Willis Franklin v. California | California | 2024-08-27 | Denied | client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance | Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice and client autonomy when the trial court failed to conti… |
| 24-5320 | Ahkemon J. Bardell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-08-14 | Denied | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to detect and prevent a potential confrontational violation during … |
| 24A159 | LeGregory Davis v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-08-09 | Presumed Complete | capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection procedural-due-process | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate based on claims of procedural irregularities or constitutional violations i… |
| 24-5254 | Edward Keith Johnson, Jr. v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-109 | Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais, et al. | Louisiana | 2024-08-01 | Pending | None | |
| 24-5208 | In Re Daimeyahn Stevenson | 2024-08-01 | Denied | arbitrary-order case-review civil-procedure court-authority due-process erroneous-order judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-divesting legal-jurisdiction procedural-error standing | Whether a court may divest itself of lawful jurisdiction by an erroneous or arbitrary order | |
| 24-102 | Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review | Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government 'effected [a] prohibition' of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of … |
| 24-5188 | Patrick Wilson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-31 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trials non-unanimous-jury second-degree-murder sixth-amendment state-courts | Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts in state criminal trials violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution |
| 24-5179 | Forrest Hammond v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | civil-liberties commutation criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review pardon state-court | Whether the commutation of Petitioner's sentence to time-served ending his state custody before his pending federal habeas corpus application was adju… |
| 24A78 | Department of Education, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights | Whether Title IX regulations implementing protections for transgender students in educational settings exceed the Department of Education's statutory … |
| 24-5079 | John W. Patton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-16 | Denied | actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript | Due-process |
| 24-40 | Leonard L. Grigsby, et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | administrative-agency administrative-agency-finding burden-of-proof funding-exclusion independent-review judicial-review presumption-of-correctness research-activities research-and-development-tax-credit summary-judgment tax-credit | Whether an administrative agency finding should be presumed correct when the agency conducted no independent review prior to filing suit |
| 24-5080 | Glenn Brumfield v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-15 | Denied | 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-state-laws constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-fraud state-law-violation | Whether judgments of Louisiana Supreme Court, the Appeals Court, Fifth Circuit, and the District Court are absolutely null? |
| 24-5070 | Javaris Marquez Tubbs v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | 14th-amendment birth-certificate citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-classification national-identity sentencing state-jurisdiction | Was the sentence imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States? |
| 24-5055 | Tre'veon Demarcus Anderson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-11 | Denied | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights douglas-v-alabama due-process fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments | Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated when the State elicited testimony from a witness who repeatedly invoked th… |
| 23-1367 | Pamela Quinlan v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-02 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fair-warning fifth-circuit malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity section-1983 thompson-v-clark | Whether the United States Fifth Circuit cases of Guerra v. Castillo and Wallace v. Taylor, which stand for the proposition that qualified immunity req… |
| 23-1332 | Jarius Brown v. Javarrea Pouncy, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | 28-usc-1658 civil-rights civil-rights-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law statute-of-limitations | Is a one-year state statute of limitations period consistent with federal interests underlying Section 1983? |
| 23A1142 | Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. | Louisiana | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | congressional-map constitutional-challenge equal-protection racial-gerrymander redistricting voting-rights | Whether Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause by constituting an unconstitutional racial gerrymander |
| 23-1311 | Charles W. Washington v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-06-14 | Denied | affidavit drug-activity fourth-amendment oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant sgro-precedent time-delay warrant-application | Whether the mandates announced in Sgro v. United States were violated in the issuance of the search warrant |
| 23-7685 | Edwin K. Davis v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-11 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida | Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 23A1095 | Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | brady-list civil-service-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment occupational-liberty professional-employment | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects an individual's liberty interest in pursuing a chosen profession when government a… |
| 23-7613 | Tre' Anthony James v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-06-03 | Denied | appellate-review due-process factual-sufficiency jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency new-trial | Is an appellate court's reversal of a trial court's grant of a new trial reviewable? |
| 23-7525 | Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-05-21 | Denied | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment | Is the State of Louisiana barred by the Thirteenth Amendment from punishing involuntary servitude at hard labor for a class of offenders without due c… |
| 23-7500 | Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute | Whether and to what extent Virginia's 'not guilty by reason of insanity' (NGRI) statutes are unconstitutional |
| 23-1219 | Colton Matthews v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-05-16 | Denied | chambers-precedent chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial gun-evidence right-to-present-defense self-defense | Constitutional right to present a defense |
| 23A1002 | Nancy Landry, Secretary of State of Louisiana, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. | Louisiana | 2024-05-10 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23-7418 | James Dow Vandivere v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | adam-walsh-act burden-of-proof civil-commitment due-process foucha-v-louisiana judicial-procedure kansas-v-hendricks liberty-interest | Whether the lower courts have impermissibly shifted the burden of proof from the Government to a citizen-detainee at a release hearing under the Adam … |
| 23-1197 | Damon Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Granted | civil-rights constitutional-law damages government-official-liability individual-capacity-damages qualified-immunity religious-freedom religious-land-use spending-clause statutory-interpretation | Whether an individual may sue a government official in his individual capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionali… |
| 23-1192 | Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First and/or Eighth Amendments |
| 23A961 | John W. Patton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure court-costs in-forma-pauperis indigent-status prisoner-litigation pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's in forma pauperis application satisfies the legal standard for proceeding without prepayment of court costs in federal cou… |
| 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… |
| 23-7279 | Charles K. Wallace v. Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Dismissed | authentication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-filings fraud habeas-corpus jury-trial standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Is the U.S. Department of Justice under a duty to enforce accurate federal court filings therein federal district courts to comply with 18 U.S.C. §102… |
| 23-7253 | Calvin King v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-04-18 | Denied | application constitutional-provisions interpretation jurisdiction legal-analysis lower-court-decision petition statement-of-case statutory-provisions table-of-contents | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 23-7171 | Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-04-10 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-claims out-of-time-appeal pleadings standing | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 23-7153 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution | When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica… |
| 23A890 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced individual who has demonstrated full rehabilitation and for whom the penolog… |
| 23A881 | Linda Baldwin v. Robert Pitman, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-challenge in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant | Whether a federal district court judge's adverse rulings in prior cases constitute a cognizable constitutional violation or impermissible judicial bia… |
| 23-7107 | Brock Melancon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-29 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission | Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing Commission's commentary to t… |
| 23-6977 | Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable |
| 23-998 | Melanie Jerusalem v. Louisiana Department of State, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Denied | article-iii civil-rights constitutional-standing due-process election-law electronic-voting federal-elections standing voting-rights | Did the Fifth Circuit err in ruling a registered Louisiana voter for a federal election sustained insufficient injury in fact under Article III of the… |
| 23-6944 | In Re Bob Eugene West | 2024-03-08 | Denied | 14th-amendment due-process federal-relief habeas-corpus jury-unanimity oregon post-conviction-relief ramos-ruling ramos-v-louisiana state-inmate | Can an Oregon State inmate file a federal habeas corpus petition to vacate a conviction under Ramos v. Louisiana? | |
| 23-6925 | Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-03-07 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection forcible-rape fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment | Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts for felony convictions violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-6912 | Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Rehearing | aedpa clearly-established-law constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus jury-experiment jury-trial verdict-standards | Whether a jury's consideration and reliance on extrinsic evidence as part of a jury experiment violates the clearly established federal law requiring … |
| 23-6832 | Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing | Whether an off-duty officer qualifies for qualified-immunity |
| 23A766 | Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Presumed Complete | administrative-agency agency-authority jurisdictional-interpretation patent-review statutory-construction statutory-deadline | Whether a statutory deadline imposed by Congress on an administrative agency is jurisdictional or merely hortatory, and the extent to which an agency … |
| 23A759 | Warren Chen, et al. v. Razberi Techologies, Inc., et al. | Texas | 2024-02-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Texas Court of Appeals improperly applied procedural rules in a manner that prejudiced the applicants' right to seek Supreme Court review |
| 23-883 | Lawrence Wilson Kingsley v. Ann Elizabeth Lange | Louisiana | 2024-02-16 | Denied | access-to-courts appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-intervention procedural-intervention standing | Should this case be allowed to conflict with federal and state cases on nonparty intervention |
| 23A743 | Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-02-09 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts covid-19 habeas-corpus law-library prison-conditions pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to a law library during a COVID-19 lockdown constitutes a violation of his constitutional right to meaningf… |
| 23-830 | Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona | Arizona | 2024-02-02 | Denied | criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing-discretion | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile to be sentenced to life without parole under a system that did not afford the sentencing court discret… |
| 23-6642 | David Wayne Poydras v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-02-01 | Denied | constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-standard factual-innocence indigent-defendants judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation | Did La. Code Criminal Procedure, Article 142.3(B), Allow the Court's in Louisiana to deny destitute inmates the right to prove they are Factually Inno… |
| 23-6646 | Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht | New Hampshire | 2024-02-01 | Denied | child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a timely hearing on the enforcement of a child custody decree |
| 23-6630 | Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony | Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi… |
| 23-816 | In Re Shiva Akula | 2024-01-29 | Denied | civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue | Does district-court-judges have-to-disclose-financial-holdings | |
| 23A695 | John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension want-of-prosecution | Whether a pro se litigant's appeal can be dismissed for want of prosecution when the notice of dismissal was not received until 54 days after the dism… |
| 23A664 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2024-01-19 | Denied | cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a condemned prisoner after multiple failed execution attempts involving repeated difficu… |
| 23-745 | In Re Henry L. Klein | 2024-01-10 | Denied | administrative-review attorney-discipline attorney-regulation axon-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure louisiana-supreme-court sec-v-cochran supremacy-clause | Did the Louisiana Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause by denying Petitioner's request to enforce Axon v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran as the supreme … | |
| 23-6380 | Noel Austin v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Louisiana | 2023-12-28 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law supreme-court-review | Whether the lower state court's deliberate transgression of jurisdictional barriers imposed by the 14th Amendment should be addressed |
| 23-6381 | Roy Jackson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-12-28 | Denied | antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence extraordinary-circumstances guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing | Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's habeas corpus petition as untimely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act… |
| 23-6393 | Jeremy Jermaine Brooks v. James M. LeBlanc, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment fair-notice juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery-rule mootness-doctrine proportionate-sentencing | Whether Louisiana murder statutes satisfy the holdings announced in Miller/Montgomery |
| 23-6395 | In Re Daniel Lee Beckley | 2023-12-28 | Denied | all-writs-act appellate-procedure federal-appeals filing-deadline houston-v-lack incarcerated-person mandamus prison-mail prisoner-litigation pro-se-filing supreme-court-mandate timely-filing | Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to abide by the Supreme Court's holding in Houston v. Lack and accept Petitione… | |
| 23-6369 | Joseph R. Cyr v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | burden-of-proof conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions malice-aforethought sandstrom-standard sandstrom-v-montana | Whether the trial court's jury charge violated the defendant's due process rights by creating an impermissible conclusive presumption that relieved th… |
| 23-6321 | Barbara Johnson-Luster v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Denied | appellate-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel disability-rights due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances title-vii | Whether an appellant in the Circuit Courts, with an invisible disability and previous court appointed attorneys in the Lower District Courts should re… |
| 23-657 | Michelle MacDonald v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility | Minnesota | 2023-12-18 | Denied | attorney-discipline attorney-speech client-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-power judicial-discipline judicial-integrity professional-conduct | Whether a free speech right to impugn judicial integrity must be recognized for attorneys in order to reclaim their First Amendment Rights in invoking… |
| 23-6267 | Jose Gonzalez, III v. Texas | Texas | 2023-12-15 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Is McCoy v Louisiana a logical extension of Florida V Nixon when concession of Petitioner's guilt was never discussed prior to trial? |
| 23-602 | William Shupp v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-12-05 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evitts-v-lucey fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-supreme-court out-of-time-appeal writ-of-certiorari | Whether Louisiana's denial of Shupp's request to file an out-of-time application for writ of certiorari to the Louisiana Supreme Court, despite the in… |
| 23-561 | Katherine Muslow, et al. v. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Board of Supervisors, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Denied | comparator-requirement employment-discrimination equal-pay-act gender-discrimination pay-discrimination retaliation sex-discrimination title-vii wage-disparity | Does the EPA protect employees who are paid less money for positions requiring more skill, effort, or responsibility than those held by employees of t… |
| 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 | |
| 23A364 | BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. | Louisiana | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | coastal-erosion environmental-liability federal-preemption land-use oil-and-gas state-law | Whether state courts can impose environmental remediation liability on oil and gas companies for coastal land erosion under Louisiana state law withou… |