| 25-6795 |
Norman Lee Scott, Sr. v. Whitney R. Bailey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion due-process fresh-start-policy judicial-estoppel |
1. Whether a federal court may apply judicial estoppel to dismiss a civil action when the debtor reopened the bankruptcy case, amended the schedules w… |
| 25-6762 |
Eileen McLaughlin v. Community Living Association, et al. |
Maine |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
civil-liberties due-process federal-law judicial-review medical-rights workers-compensation |
1. Does The Court uphold the lower court 's current authority and decisions ordered by the powerful legal system (relying on Insurance Company paid re… |
| 25A891 |
Nicholas Sexton v. Maine |
Maine |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
appellate-review certificate-of-probable-cause due-process post-conviction-review pro-se-petition procedural-waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6647 |
Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review |
1. Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably i… |
| 25-6599 |
Harry Whitman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
criminal-resentencing extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fact that a prisoner is serving a sentence that is significantly longer than the law would now permit, in light of the First Step Act's no… |
| 25-833 |
Duane Letroy Berry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
civil-commitment congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a) exceeds the constitutional limits of Congress's powers insofar as it permits the federal government to civilly commit a pe… |
| 25-778 |
Natalia Mikhaylovna Bardakova v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
criminal-procedure due-process foreign-national fugitive-disentitlement international-law motion-to-dismiss |
Whether a court may refuse to consider a foreign national defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment based on the fugitive disentitlement doctrine wh… |
| 25A772 |
Jason A. Czekalski v. William L. Wrenn, Individually, and as former Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Application |
appellate-jurisdiction extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure mandate-issuance panel-review petition-for-rehearing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6420 |
In Re Ryan D. Mumme |
|
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
article-iii constitutional-jurisdiction federal-court government-liability judicial-power sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the applicant has a right to the relief he demands;
2. If he has a right, and that right has been violated, whether the laws of his countr… |
| 25-6414 |
Matthew R. Davis v. Maine |
First Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
constitutional-rights expert-testimony eye-witness-identification ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment |
Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel, under the Sixth Amendment, by failing to timely disclose an expert report on eye-witness … |
| 25-738 |
Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f… |
| 25A734 |
Frank Thompson v. Carl Wilson, Commissioner, Maine's Department of Marine Resources |
First Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
carpenter-precedent closely-regulated-industry digital-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 25A726 |
Orna Shaposhnik v. Quality Loan Service Corp., et al. |
California |
2025-12-19 |
Application |
ada-accommodations cognitive-impairment jurisdictional-extension pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 25-679 |
Glen Morgan v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
article-iii class-action federal-jurisdiction standing state-law statutory-damages |
1. Whether Article III permits a federal court to entertain a state law cause of action for deceptively procuring non-private information, specificall… |
| 25-634 |
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International, et al. v. Hyun Jin Moon, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
church-autonomy church-leadership first-amendment neutral-principles property-dispute religious-entanglement |
Where necessary to resolve a church-property dispute, does the First Amendment prohibit courts from examining church-related facts to determine who le… |
| 25A623 |
Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud |
Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud |
| 25-602 |
Ray Leonerdirt Díaz Santiago v. José Ramon Cárrion Morales, Chapter 13 Trustee, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction article-iii bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-violation due-process mandate-stay |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals violates Due Process and exceeds its jurisdiction under Article III by denying an emergency stay request without… |
| 25M41 |
Jermaine Smith v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 25A545 |
Harvey Birdman, et al. v. United States Tax Court |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme … |
| 25A544 |
Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme … |
| 25-5938 |
Manuel Santiago-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights criminal-law discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25A460 |
George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-10-22 |
Application |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Whether a substitute expert witness's testimony based on an absent analyst's testimonial statements violates a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clau… |
| 25-5881 |
John Fakla v. Matthew Geist, Middlesex Borough Police Chief, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights favorable-termination heck-doctrine judicial-procedure malicious-prosecution section-1983 |
1. Whether the district court and court of appeals erred by applying Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), to bar petitioner's § 1983 malicious prose… |
| 25-5884 |
Derrick U. Jacobs v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-violation fabricated-prosecution first-amendment immunity-doctrine retaliation |
Philadelphia Police Detective Derrick Jacobs (Petitioner/Jacobs) observed newly elected Philadelphia District Attorney, Lawrence Krasner ("Krasner") a… |
| 25A430 |
Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid |
First Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent |
Whether a child's habitual residence under the Hague Convention can be modified by parental actions demonstrating shared intent to change jurisdiction… |
| 25A432 |
Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
cold-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-standard jurisdiction-review missing-child |
Whether the constitutional rights of a criminal defendant are violated when a conviction is based on decades-old circumstantial evidence in a high-pro… |
| 25A408 |
In Re Gregory Alvin James Van Etten |
First Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Application |
constitutional-injury due-process federal-review jurisdictional-defect service-of-process void-judgment |
Whether a federal court may refuse enforcement of state court orders entered without valid service of process and in violation of due process protecti… |
| 25-380 |
Sean Kuhlmeyer v. Isabelle Latour |
Washington |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
constitutional-standard due-process family-court fundamental-rights no-contact-order parental-rights |
1. When states have ruled differently, 1 and given this
Court 's reasoning in Santosky v. Kramer, 2 and Mathews
v. Eldridge, 3 the issue here is:
Wh… |
| 25A377 |
Ian S. R. Buenaventura v. Leslie G. C. Buot |
Maine |
2025-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
anti-slapp first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-review pro-se procedural-due-process |
Whether a state court's dismissal of an interlocutory appeal under an anti-SLAPP statute violates a pro se litigant's First Amendment right to appeal … |
| 25-5603 |
Germaine Edward Campbell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5550 |
Jermaine Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5370 |
Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty ineffective-assistance neuropsychological-evidence sentencing-procedure |
After a questionable conviction, Kayle Bates has twice been sentenced to death. His first death sentence was reversed on collateral review for ineffec… |
| 25-5345 |
Arturo Navarro-Zuniga v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
confession-admissibility criminal-procedure law-review miranda-warning objective-effectiveness subjective-intent |
In Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004), the Court issued a fractured decision regarding "midstream Miranda warnings," i.e., when police question … |
| 25A130 |
Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-occupancy federalism land-use procedural-due-process section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether the statute of limitations for a procedural due process claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983 begins to run only after state proceedings challenging a p… |
| 25A74 |
Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Application |
appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeal non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata substitute-trustee-deed |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5106 |
Milad Shaker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-court jurisdictional-nullity post-conviction-relief |
1. Whether a court may impose sentencing or supervised
release after dismissing a criminal case under Federal
Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) , whe… |
| 25-5066 |
Danielle Sposito v. Linda Rollins-Threats |
Texas |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
42-U.S.C.-§-1988 child-custody civil-rights judicial-immunity malicious-actions parent-facilitator |
Whether a parent facilitator was entitled to judicial immunity when the actions she took in a child custody case were done maliciously involving her f… |
| 25-5052 |
Veronica Aquino-Dolores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights-law criminal-prosecution discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25-6 |
Thomas Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Granted |
bad-faith bankruptcy-law civil-claims judicial-estoppel judicial-integrity procedural-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing th… |
| 24-7528 |
John A. Sam v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-ban second-amendment |
Whether the application of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) to a convicted felon plainly violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-7515 |
Joseph Counts v. Maine |
Maine |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1279 |
Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium … |
| 24-7488 |
Richard W. Kelley v. Maine |
Maine |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
fourth-amendment government-surveillance gps-tracking personal-property privacy-interest vehicle-search |
Does a regular passenger in a vehicle being GPS tracked by the Government have a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in his movements and the vehicle, w… |
| 24-7475 |
Samuel Mateo-Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-7476 |
Arturo Alexis Ordonez-Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-review legislative-intent racist-statute |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24A1263 |
Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. v. Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
architectural-design commercial-use copyright-law fair-use intellectual-property transformative-use |
Whether the fair use doctrine under copyright law permits commercial appropriation of an architect's proprietary house plans without compensation or c… |
| 24-1242 |
Jeremiah Hogan, et al. v. Lincoln Medical Partners, et al. |
Maine |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
constitutional-tort parental-consent preemption public-health-emergency state-law-immunity vaccine-administration |
Whether 42 U.S.C. § 247d-6d unconstitutionally preempts state-law claims when a vaccine is administered to a minor without parental consent during a f… |
| 24-7314 |
Missouri, ex rel. Jeffrey Weinhaus v. Richard Adams, Warden |
Missouri |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus state-law summary-denial |
Where State law entitles a prisoner to habeas corpus review of a Constitutional claim upon a showing of cause and prejudice, does the summary denial o… |
| 24-7292 |
Germaine Ramsey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
appellate-review certiorari grant-vacate-remand judicial-discretion supreme-court-procedure thompson-case |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand (GVR) in light of Thompson v. United States |
| 24A1051 |
Laurel D. Libby, et al. v. Ryan M. Fecteau, Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-7095 |
Javier Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
civil-rights discrimination equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-1114 |
Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Sara Gagne-Holmes, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-review judicial-scrutiny litigation-sham religious-exemption vaccine-mandate |
Whether a State may avoid judicial review of a statute categorically prohibiting religious accommodations by rescinding an emergency rule while contin… |
| 24-969 |
Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Pending |
constitutional-challenge governmental-action judicial-relief officer-replacement presidential-power removal-restriction |
Whether a party challenging governmental action taken by an individual who remained in office against the President's wishes due to an unconstitutiona… |
| 24-6718 |
Juan Carlos Gamez-Salas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-6601 |
Gabriela Bautista-Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights-law criminal-prosecution discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-6594 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedural interpretation of Hall v. Florida circumvents the categorical prohibition against executing intellectua… |
| 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… |
| 24-886 |
Christopher Schurr v. Peter Lyoya, Personal Representative for the Estate of Patrick Lyoya, Deceased |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
deadly-force law-enforcement pleading-stage qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence |
Whether Scott v. Harris permits courts to resolve qualified immunity at the pleading stage based on objective video evidence that demonstrates the imp… |
| 24-875 |
Lucas Sirois v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
appropriations-law compliance-standard criminal-prosecution federal-enforcement medical-marijuana state-authorization |
Whether the Department of Justice may criminally investigate and prosecute individuals licensed for medical marijuana under the Rohrabacher-Farr Amend… |
| 24A762 |
Jermaine Lamar Rutledge v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-jurisdiction certiorari criminal-procedure state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension |
Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a) |
| 24-830 |
Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
article-1-section-10 constitutional-issue due-process procedural-rules summons-deadline void-judgment |
Whether a court can issue a stay order to change a summons response deadline under Article 1 Section 10 Clause 1 or due process of law, and whether a … |
| 24A675 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability postconviction-relief supreme-court-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced inmate with an intellectual disability claim that was rejected by the Florid… |
| 24-6145 |
Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Sr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-standard procedural-default sentencing-error |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the standard governing the grant of a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas petition… |
| 24-621 |
National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Granted |
campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure |
Whether the limits on coordinated party expenditures in 52 U.S.C. § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spe… |
| 24-6024 |
Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on the aut… |
| 24-6002 |
Alfredo Viveros-Chavez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
arlington-heights equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5897 |
Justin Jermaine Johnson v. Stephen Duncan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-admission harmless-error mistrial witness-testimony |
Whether the admission of investigator testimony via Skype, pre-death victim photos, and denial of mistrial constitute harmless error or violate due pr… |
| 24-486 |
William B. Walton, et al. v. Neskowin Regional Sanitary Authority |
Oregon |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-occupation property-rights statute-of-limitations takings-clause |
Whether a Constitutional Fifth Amendment Takings Claim, based on a physical occupation, fully accrues and the statute of limitations begins to run bef… |
| 24-5819 |
Oscar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights |
Whether a criminal defendant meets the substantial rights prong of plain error review when sentence differences on separate counts would change absent… |
| 24-5790 |
Inmer Isai Mayorga-Jacinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5766 |
Gilberto Nicolas Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5767 |
Edgar Hernandez Lemus, aka Edgar Hernanez Lemus, and Junior Almendarez Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
criminal-intent felony-proceeds interstate-commerce mens-rea ransom-demand statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must prove a defendant's specific knowledge of the predicate felony offense when prosecuting a charge of receiving unlawfully o… |
| 24A344 |
Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability drug-trafficking ineffective-assistance jury-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find the specific drug quantity necessary to impose a Level III drug trafficking sentence beyond a reas… |
| 24-388 |
Kariann V. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services |
Maine |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-review parental-rights procedural-due-process state-supreme-court |
Whether a state supreme court can deny an appeal without addressing all legal questions presented when statutorily required to do so |
| 24-377 |
South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine |
Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another |
| 24-5686 |
Luis Ernesto Prado-Crespo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5628 |
Angel Landa-Arevalo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
competency constitutional-rights mental-health pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Was Petitioner's right to a speedy trial violated under the Sixth Amendment and should the trial judge have ordered a mental health evaluation given t… |
| 24-5548 |
Gustavo Lazcano-Neria v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5455 |
Nelson Alexis Colato-Gallardo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24M22 |
Kariann V. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services |
Maine |
2024-09-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-230 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
bodily-integrity fourth-amendment government-employment medical-testing mootness qualified-immunity |
Whether mandated weekly Covid-19 medical testing for government employees violates Fourth Amendment rights and whether such testing is a clearly estab… |
| 24-5415 |
Glen Earl Claiborne, Sr. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
civil-rights judicial-discretion meaningful-attorney-involvement pro-se summary-judgment wrongful-foreclosure |
Whether the District Court and Appeals Court committed reversible error and abuse of discretion in a pro se civil rights case involving alleged statut… |
| 24-161 |
New York State Telecommunications Association, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-14 |
Denied |
broadband-service common-carrier communications-act interstate-commerce preemption rate-regulation |
Whether the Communications Act preempts New York's broadband rate-regulation law |
| 24-5129 |
Sergio Estrada-Maduena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-7846 |
Yair Ramirez-Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights due-process equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-origins statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-1337 |
Baldwin County, Alabama, et al. v. Mike Bordelon, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
due-process economic-use fair-market-value fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central property-rights regulatory-taking takings temporary-prohibition temporary-taking |
Does the temporary prohibition of a specific project or use constitute a compensable regulatory taking, regardless of the availability of other econom… |
| 23-7634 |
Claudio Salas-Bautista v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
civil-rights discrimination-analysis due-process equal-protection immigration judicial-review legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment |
| 23-7607 |
In Re Kurt A. Benshoof |
|
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings parental-rights pro-se-rights unlawful-imprisonment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided an important federal question regarding domestic-relations-exception in a way that conflicts with r… |
| 23-7549 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure |
Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j… |
| 23-7472 |
Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7365 |
Cory Jermaine White v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
18-usc-3142 bail-reform-act flight-risk judicial-finding judicial-hearing pretrial-detention release-conditions serious-flight-risk statutory-interpretation |
Under the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3142, must a judicial finding of serious flight risk, §3142(f)(2)(A), precede imposition of release conditions … |
| 23-7342 |
Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession gun-ownership non-violent-felon second-amendment |
Whether petitioner's conviction for being a non-violent felon in possession of a firearm violates the Second Amendment |
| 23-7347 |
J. Guadalupe Figueroa-Juarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 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… |
| 23-7172 |
JB Nicholas v. Judy A. Camuso, Commissioner, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife |
First Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
burford-abstention civil-rights due-process evidence first-amendment government-restrictions judicial-review occupational-liberty rational-basis |
Should the Court require Government-imposed restrictions on the 809-year-old personal right to occupational liberty, long-recognized by this Court as … |
| 23-7026 |
Pedro Valencia-Ayala v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-972 |
Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling |
Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause |
| 23A791 |
Mark Habelt v. iRhythm Technologies, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-standing circuit-split lead-plaintiff non-party-appeal pslra securities-class-action |
Whether a named plaintiff in a securities class action retains appellate standing when an institutional lead plaintiff declines to appeal after a dist… |
| 23-6604 |
Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families |
Massachusetts |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the petitioner's right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts rule 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated |
| 23-817 |
Michael Donatelli, et al. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, et al. |
Maine |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-sanctions spoliation-of-evidence summary-judgment |
Did the court err in passing on properly disposing of the plaintiffs' filing of a motion for sanctions due to spoliation of evidence mis-styled as a m… |
| 23-6527 |
Jermaine Anderson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-777 |
Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court |
First Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger |
Whether the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in refusing to enter a default judgment against the respondents when the Maine Attorney Ge… |
| 23-724 |
WVSV Holdings, LLC v. 10K, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-plan judicial-estoppel new-hampshire-v-maine post-petition-claim postconfirmation-jurisdiction state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim |
Whether a debtor's state law tort claim that only accrues following the bankruptcy petition date is property of the bankruptcy estate |
| 23A603 |
Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A.S., a Minor v. The County of Harrison, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-assessment juvenile-shackling |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require an individualized assessment of need before shackling a juvenile defendant during pre-trial or non… |
| 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 |
| 23-6341 |
Tramaine Edward Martin v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
abuse-of-process civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct |
Does habeas corpus stand to correct the abuse of process involved in deliberate deception of a court by presentation of known false evidence? |
| 23-6219 |
Manuel Rodrigues-Barios v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-criminal-law immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment |
| 23-6221 |
Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment |
| 23-6129 |
Jarmaine Carter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of 'extortion' under United States Sentencin… |
| 23A472 |
Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia |
Whether a defendant's severe mental illness and state habeas counsel's abandonment can constitute cause to excuse procedural default in a capital case… |
| 23A473 |
Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
ballot-access campaign-finance equal-protection minor-party presidential-election public-funding |
Whether Section 9032(6) of the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account Act violates the Equal Protection Clause by arbitrarily terminating minor… |
| 23-543 |
Solena Y. Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
38-usc-7104 38-usc-7292 administrative-law chenery-doctrine fact-finding implicit-denial judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-benefits veterans-affairs veterans-claims |
When the VA fails to adjudicate a claim for benefits, may a reviewing Court find that the VA meant to implicitly deny the claim, without running afoul… |
| 23-6068 |
Jermaine Deshan West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
5th-amendment courts-of-appeals due-process empirical-evidence equal-protection fifth-amendment methamphetamine sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. $994(2)(1)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Cour… |
| 23-416 |
Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire |
Whether community harm and threat of harm is a presumed community bias and must be considered as a singular inquiry as an extreme case creating circum… |
| 23-418 |
Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-action consumer-group consumer-prices consumer-protection federal-agency-action injury-in-fact price-impact standing |
Can the 'injury in fact' element of standing be established by an evidentiary showing of increased consumer prices? |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 'death results' element in 21 U.S.C. 841(b) requires proof of mens rea |
| 23A261 |
Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-307 |
Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity |
Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding |
| 23-5536 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Maine |
First Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing |
Whether a state trial court can open a child protection case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, set bail/bond conditions… |
| 23-5539 |
Trezjuan Thompson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents |
How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifies a… |
| 23-5530 |
Matthew Jones v. Maine State Police Troop E |
Maine |
2023-09-06 |
Dismissed |
access-to-justice civil-procedure court-fees due-process fee-waiver indigency indigent-status judicial-access legal-standing procedural-rights standing |
Who qualifies for fee waivers in the United States Court system? |
| 23-5475 |
Elmer Wayne Zahn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
color-of-authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gross-negligence police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard warrant-database warrant-system |
Does police misconduct in maintaining an inaccurate warrant database violate the Fourth Amendment? |
| 23A170 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-08-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A171 |
Jermaine Deshan West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5365 |
Marcus Roosevelt Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-proceeds drug-trafficking due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act restitution restitution-order |
Whether the $228,304 restitution order infringes upon Marcus Taylor's constitutional rights |
| 23-152 |
Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… |
| 23A131 |
Timothy Schott, Acting Superintendent of Insurance for Maine, et al. v. Michael Humphreys, Commissioner of Insurance for Pennsylvania, in His Official Capacity as Statutory Rehabilitator of Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5343 |
Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being one of many people in the vic… |
| 23-5345 |
Henry Robledo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation |
Whether an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors is sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim |
| 23-100 |
Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Michael J. O'Hara |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process false-testimony heck-bar iqbal-plausibility malicious-prosecution |
Whether the appellate court erred in upholding the dismissal of a malicious-prosecution claim despite allegations of false testimony and improper dism… |
| 23A94 |
Michael Boresky v. Jeremy Graber |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
bivens-claim collateral-order-doctrine false-arrest fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether the collateral order doctrine permits immediate appellate review of district court rulings denying motions to dismiss based on the non-cogniza… |
| 23A91 |
Susan Porter v. Kelly Martinez, Sheriff, San Diego County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-84 |
Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
breach-of-duty business-ventures civil-procedure copyright-infringement defamation legal-duty pseudonym-authorship songwriter-rights songwriting-compensation |
Did Shawn Jay-Z Carter have a legal duty owed to the Petitioner, and did he breach of that duty? |
| 23A77 |
Michael Hillman v. Borough of Collingdale, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5216 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering |
Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'preserve custody' case based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute in secret and … |
| 23-5217 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute |
Can a judge in a child protective custody case base a decision solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, then set bail/bond condition… |
| 23-5184 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing |
Can a final court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute in secret and in ab… |
| 23-5185 |
Yolanda Howard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Did the Maine State Trooper's hunch that 'there were a lot of drugs inthis car' based solely on his initial encounter with Ms. Howard justify delaying… |
| 23-5186 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Jeanne Lambrew, et al. |
Maine |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
child-removal civil-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling family-law federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction transcript-accuracy |
Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute and in the absence of j… |
| 23A61 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers from liability for excessive force claims when officers use force to prevent a suspect fr… |
| 23-5170 |
Peter Robert Jordan, aka Richard Mercer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
aggregate-sentence covered-counts criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion non-covered-counts sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 404(b) of the First Step Act authorizes the lower courts to impose a reduced aggregate sentence on both covered and non-covered counts… |
| 23-5142 |
Joseph Counts v. Maine |
First Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules standing stare-decisis |
Where the proper way for lower courts to handle the penumbra of filings |
| 23-5056 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. JPMorgan Chase Bank |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure first-amendment fraud judicial-review summary-judgment |
Whether the violation of standard of review for summary judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected or violator go unpunished |
| 22-1234 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author… |
| 22-1204 |
William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell |
Colorado |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights |
Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud… |
| 22-1205 |
Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy |
Maine |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination |
Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case? |
| 22-7741 |
Rudy Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warning miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination supreme-court |
When determining whether statements made after a midstream Miranda warning are admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectiveness or… |
| 22A1056 |
Joseph Counts v. Maine |
First Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-1155 |
Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
constitutional-provision constitutional-rights field-sobriety-test fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-courts probable-cause search sobriety-test |
Whether a field sobriety test is a search for which the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause |
| 22-7557 |
Germaine Coulter, Sr., aka Slim v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
due-process fair-trial hearsay-testimony juror-coercion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Coulter's Sixth Amendment rights were violated |
| 22-7283 |
Ronald O. LaTray v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-courts stone-v-powell |
What constitutes a full and fair opportunity to litigate a United States Constitutional Fourth Amendment violation complaint invoking the exclusionary… |
| 22-7293 |
Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Dismissed |
appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal |
Whether the First Circuit's refusal to undertake a de novo review with claims that pro se appellant did not develop his case for them to 'review' when… |
| 22-7222 |
Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment |
Whether preclusion of cross-examination about an informant's propensity for bias violates the Confrontation Clause |
| 22A823 |
Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-03-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6907 |
Jeremy Jermaine Cumbie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence evidence-outside-record outside-the-record record sentencing trial-court-discretion |
Was Mr. Cumbie denied due process when the court considered evidence outside the record in assessing the sentence? |
| 22-797 |
Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-6694 |
Abdiraham Haji-Hassan v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
alternative-suspect-theory due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining postconviction postconviction-review presumption professional-assistance reasonable-professional-assistance strickland-standard |
Whether the state postconviction court misapplied Strickland-v-Washington |
| 22-6648 |
Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Dismissed |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-misconduct judicial-overreach legislative-authority separation-of-powers standing state-statute state-supreme-court torture |
Separation-of-powers |
| 22-6654 |
Roland Cummings v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process are satisfied by an appellate court's summary conclusi… |
| 22-694 |
Jermaine Andra Whitaker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prison-access prison-law-library statute-of-limitations |
Whether the 11th circuit Court erred in determining that the covid-19 pandemic, which led to the quarantine of the Wheeler Correctional Facility for m… |
| 22-6428 |
Jermaine Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights district-court due-process federal-habeas judicial-discretion procedural-standard standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 22-6429 |
Robert McKenna v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's sentence was procedurally and substantively reasonable under 18 USC §… |
| 22-6358 |
Bernard Thomas Edmond v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
5th-amendment 924(c)(3) armed-career-criminal-act due-process hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense residual-clause sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously decided that the petitioner's predicate offense for his Sec. 924(c) is the conspiracy charge an… |
| 22-6295 |
Jamisi Jermaine Calloway v. M. Martel, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
access-to-courts ada-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-violation-doctrine disability-rights due-process indigent-prisoner-rights legal-assistance pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation section-1983 |
When should a total disabled incarcerated indigent prisoner be appointed legal assistant in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case? |
| 22-6188 |
Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. Bo Thorpe, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent retaliation statutory-interpretation |
Whether the denial of library access, legal assistance, and the failure to notarize legal documents constitute sufficient injury to state a claim for … |
| 22-6193 |
Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding |
Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual |
| 22-6135 |
Monzell Harding v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes |
Was the district court required by JHuddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted … |
| 22-6144 |
In Re Richard Daniels |
|
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
amendment-violation constitutional-rights drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-custody liberty marijuana-classification |
Whether being in federal custody for marijuana-related offenses is a substantial denial of constitutional liberty without due process |
| 22-471 |
Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards |
Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws relating to the subject matters expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state law… |
| 22-474 |
Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Dismissed |
civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding that the Due Process Clause imposes an obligation on county sheriffs to release a violently dangerous schiz… |
| 22-427 |
William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine |
Maine |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines |
Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine can require the Petitioner to pay a fee to buy a hearing or defend himself |
| 22-5771 |
Shawn Canada v. Olmsted County Community Corrections, All Staff Members, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process proportionality prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment requires that a defendant be sentenced to a term of imprisonment that is pr… |
| 22-5732 |
Richard Michael Arrington v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure interrogation jail-informant maine-v-moulton massiah-v-united-states recording-device right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-agent united-states-v-henry |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated when a jail informant recorded conversations with the accused about his pending case after b… |
| 22-280 |
Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner |
| 22A259 |
Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5487 |
Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
capital-murder criminal-procedure evidence-admission massiah-v-united-states penalty-phase right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action state-agent |
Did the TCCA err in holding that the State upheld its 'affirmative obligation to not act in a manner that circumvents the [Sixth Amendment] protection… |
| 22-5450 |
Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Whether the district court erred in finding that Crump received effective assistance of trial counsel |
| 22-135 |
Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction |
Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu… |
| 22-5296 |
Ryan T. Carleton v. Maine |
Maine |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure agency-documents civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel internal-communications prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial staff-communications |
Does Carleton's public defender have a history of incompetence or misconduct? |
| 22-97 |
Owl Creek Asia I, L.P., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
collins-v-yellen conservatorship corporate-ownership federal-claims federal-housing-finance-agency government-action net-worth-sweep private-shareholders property-interest shareholders-rights takings takings-clause |
Whether private shareholders have a direct, personal interest in challenging a taking of their rights incident to share ownership |
| 22-5165 |
Daniel Boos v. Jermaine White, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to multiple errors by trial counsel, which cumulati… |
| 22-5114 |
Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare… |
| 22-5047 |
Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 21-1539 |
Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine |
First Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
cable-communications-policy-act express-preemption preemption presumption-against-preemption rate-regulation state-and-local-laws state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Cable Act preempts state and local laws that prevent cable companies from selling their services at their chosen rate for the final month … |
| 21-8091 |
Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's constitutional rights were not violated and in not granting a new tri… |
| 21-8053 |
Ron Delano Kuntz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
concurrent-representation conflict-of-interest crime-of-violence critical-stages cuyler-v-sullivan district-court jury-trial sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a conflict arises when trial counsel's concurrent representation ends prior to trial |
| 21-7909 |
Kevin D. Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Dismissed |
appointment-affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-servant due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion oath-of-office standing united-states-attorney |
Whether an individual who does not have an Appointment Affidavit and has not taken the Oath of Office can become a civil servant/Assistant United Stat… |
| 21-7914 |
Andres Santana v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District |
California |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
appellate-rights board-of-regents civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus people-v-wende pro-se-brief state-created-liberty-interest wende-procedure |
Whether a California Penal Code §1237(b) appeal is a state-created liberty interest under Board of Regents, and if so, whether the right to file pro s… |
| 21-7878 |
Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the petitioner's due process rights by misapplying the categorical analysis and relying on a non-retroactive state … |
| 21-1403 |
Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French |
First Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement |
Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent? |
| 21-7672 |
Jermaine E. Spence v. Reemon Bishara, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal dismissal due-process evidence in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process standing |
Were the causes of action substantiated by evidence or was the trial court not in error in dismissing the case? |
| 21A619 |
Spectrum Northeast, LLC, et al. v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine |
First Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1353 |
Isabella Nartey v. Franciscan Health Hospital |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process emergency-medical-treatment medical-negligence supplemental-jurisdiction title-vi |
Whether Franciscan hospital violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act |
| 21-1346 |
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, et al. v. Central Maine Power Company |
Maine |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
administrative-agency administrative-law civil-procedure federal-aviation-administration federal-preemption judicial-review no-hazard-determination regulatory-determination state-law |
Whether the issuance of a non-binding 'No Hazard Determination' by the Federal Aviation Administration preempts the application of state law, despite … |
| 21-7356 |
Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct |
Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug-trafficking,firearm-possession |
| 21A444 |
Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7175 |
Keith Smeaton v. United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus international-human-rights judicial-discretion mandamus-petition obstruction-of-justice |
Question not identified |
| 21-7060 |
Christopher N. Bilynsky v. Maine |
Maine |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial self-incrimination sentencing-exposure stipulation waiver |
Do the Due Process Clauses and Boykin v. Alabama mandate a colloquy before accepting stipulations to offense elements that increase sentencing exposur… |
| 21-7043 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Allstate Insurance Co. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial interlocutory-decision procedural-due-process public-confidence standing |
Does the judiciary's failure to provide a fair trial and hearing violate due process and erode public confidence in the courts? |
| 21-6842 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Census 2020, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
ada-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employer government-misconduct retaliation sherman-act title-vii |
Where there exists illegal practices in the workplace by a United States federal employer Census 2020-Department of Commerce |