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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…