| 25-856 |
William King, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
government-authorization monetary-rights pension-appropriation property-interest takings-clause vested-pension |
In 2014, Congress created a process for solvent, private pension plans to rewrite the binding agreements that govern their obligations to pay money to… |
| 25-851 |
Ashley Grayson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law |
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title III) prohibits intentionally intercepting wire or oral communications or di… |
| 25A813 |
Jason Tywann Bell v. J. C. Streeval, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Application |
counsel-preparation legal-research petition-filing supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25A806 |
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Sean O'Day, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Application |
compelled-speech first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny pharmaceutical-regulation takings-clause trade-secrets |
Question not identified. |
| 25-787 |
John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process judicial-scrutiny rational-basis-test separation-of-powers |
A jet engine mechanic brought a civil rights lawsuit after a Massachusetts County denied him a permit to perform plumbing on the home he was building.… |
| 25-6472 |
Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
criminal-offense direct-review due-process felony-murder retroactive-application substantive-change |
Roberto Lopez -Ortiz is serving life in prison for an offense that no longer exist s. He fully preserve d his challenge to second -degree felony -murd… |
| 25-6457 |
Elijah Behringer v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
covid-mandates jacobson-precedent jury-trial rational-basis-review sixth-amendment substantive-due-process |
(1) Whether this Court's decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) provides authority for automatic dismissal of lawsuits challenging … |
| 25-765 |
Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
constitutional-scrutiny fundamental-rights government-mandate judicial-review medical-treatment rational-basis-review |
1. Does this Court's opinion in Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), limit a court's review of government mandated medical t… |
| 25A747 |
Justin Page v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking emergency-aid fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Is there a so-called "community caretaking" exception to the warrant requirement that operates distinctly from the emergency aid exception? |
| 25A739 |
Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time first-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
1. This case presents several significant and complex constitutional issues that warrant a carefully prepared petition for a writ of certiorari, which… |
| 25A714 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6312 |
Fred Baskin v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
arrest evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
I. Whether the Fourt h Amendment is violated and requires
suppression of evidence, when the police conduct a
warrantless search of the arrestee's ba… |
| 25A653 |
Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement |
Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min… |
| 25A639 |
Stanley Donald v. Carol Micci, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
appellate-review certiorari legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to difficulties in obtaining legal assistance during holida… |
| 25A630 |
Rahul Chaturvedi v. Bridge Over Corporation, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-01 |
Application |
confidentiality conflict-preemption dtsa export-controlled licensing-agreements trade-secrets |
Whether federal trade secret protections under the Defend Trade Secrets Act preempt state court adjudications that fail to provide mandatory confident… |
| 25A620 |
Malcolm Wilson v. Angelita Castaneda |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
arbitrary-action due-process hill-standard medical-expenses prison-disciplinary-board restitution |
Whether due process requires a prison disciplinary board to provide 'some evidence' of the actual or estimated loss before imposing a restitution sanc… |
| 25A591 |
Nadarius Barnes v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Application |
appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement waiver |
Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea waives the right to challenge on appeal that the admitted facts do not constitute the char… |
| 25A585 |
G'Ante Butler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on interfering with federal officers requires intentional violence or can include inadvertent contact |
| 25A564 |
Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation |
Whether a federal court retains jurisdiction to review a case when an agency unilaterally ceases allegedly unlawful conduct to evade judicial review |
| 25-6098 |
Elston Bone v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-challenge intermediate-scrutiny new-york-rifle-bruen state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Federal District Court have subject matter jurisdiction, over a Plaintiff who brings a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, and presents an indepen… |
| 25-564 |
Scott Meyer v. Gayla Rahn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion qualified-immunity second-amendment sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the grant of the motion to dismiss was
an abuse of discretion, not based upon the undisputed
facts presented, and supported by only the e… |
| 25A509 |
Matthew Cline v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
circuit-split co-conspirator criminal-proceeds forfeiture honeycutt-standard wire-fraud |
Whether a defendant can be ordered to forfeit criminal proceeds that were briefly under his control but immediately transferred to a co-conspirator |
| 25-6012 |
Julia Dixon v. Medhost Dispatcher, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-plaintiff medical-malpractice |
1. Whether requiring an indigent, self-represented plaintiff to post a mandatory medical tribunal bond as a condition for access to a malpractice tria… |
| 25A470 |
Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair |
Massachusetts |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
appellate-review constitutional-question due-process extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigation state-court |
Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's application for further appellate review, coupled with alleged procedural irregularities and pot… |
| 25-470 |
Scott Cannon, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
derivative-claim erisa-preemption first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation wrongful-death |
Whether a claim for wrongful death under Massachusetts law is preempted by ERISA. |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 25A362 |
Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Presumed Complete |
employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech |
Whether speech condemning racist memes constitutes a matter of public concern under the First Amendment's protections for public employee speech |
| 25A354 |
Google LLC, et al. v. Epic Games, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
corporate-disclosure corporate-transparency publicly-traded rule-29-6 subsidiary-ownership supreme-court-rules |
Whether a corporate subsidiary's Rule 29.6 disclosure statement satisfies Supreme Court procedural requirements for corporate ownership transparency |
| 25A330 |
John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights licensing-restrictions property-rights rational-basis |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects a fundamental right to perform one's own home repairs and plumbing work without state licensing restrictions… |
| 25A307 |
Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth |
Massachusetts |
2025-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
court-rules judicial-discretion procedural-deadline supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline |
| 25-260 |
Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter |
First Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 |
1. Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when
the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate
have been disrupted so significantly that they ca… |
| 25A259 |
Rahul Chaturvedi v. Arvind Kumar Jay Jaiswal |
Massachusetts |
2025-09-03 |
Presumed Complete |
certiorari court-procedure final-judgment petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a state supreme court's final judgment triggers the standard 60-day period for filing a petition for writ of certiorari under Supreme Court Ru… |
| 25A251 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure legal-filing summary-judgment supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a summary judgment record exceeding 3,800 pages warrants an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 25-5486 |
Bruce Anderson v. Kenneth Lizotte, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
aedpa constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance second-petition |
Whether Petitioner Bruce Anderson's new federal habeas petition, in which he claims to have received ineffective assistance from the court-appointed d… |
| 25A220 |
Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process state-court time-extension |
Whether a state supreme court's denial of a discretionary extension of time for seeking further appellate review violates a criminal defendant's due p… |
| 25-206 |
Edwin L. Rojas v. Connecticut, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-08-20 |
Rehearing |
anti-peonage-act civil-liability double-jeopardy due-process judicial-misconduct state-court-jurisdiction |
1. The primary question presented is whether a criminal court in
a state can renege on the dismissal of criminal cases when a
prior judge and/or the… |
| 25A194 |
EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. |
Missouri |
2025-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction |
Whether a state court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants for a nationwide class action involving claims by predominantly … |
| 25-189 |
Ron J. Waterman v. Robyn B. Waterman |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
due-process federal-law-interpretation fourteenth-amendment judgment-modification state-court-jurisdiction variable-separation-incentive |
A dozen States' Appellate Courts have issued opinions holding that Variable Separation Incentive (VSI) is a retirement benefit/pension. Subsequently, … |
| 25A171 |
Robert Monteiro v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Application |
drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-admission prior-bad-acts rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the admission of prior bad act evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) and reliance on extra-record statements violated the defendant's… |
| 25A147 |
Scott Cannon, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Blaise Cannon v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
erisa federal-courts preemption rutledge-precedent statutory-interpretation wrongful-death |
Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association clarifies the standard for statutory preemption of stat… |
| 25-5280 |
Philip J. Marquis v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights firearms-licensing interstate-travel nonresident-travelers police-discretion second-amendment |
1. Does Massachusetts' firearms licensing regime, which grants a police colonel the power to deny any nonresident traveler a temporary firearms licens… |
| 25-138 |
Margo Roman v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment licensing-board occupational-speech professional-licensure speech-regulation |
whether a state occupational licensing board is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor… |
| 25-5267 |
Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination |
Whether, after a state supreme court expressly acknowledging that admitting surrogate DNA-analyst testimony violated the Sixth Amendment Confrontation… |
| 25-87 |
Kevin F. MacDonald v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Massachusetts |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
due-process estate-law foreclosure pro-se-litigation property-rights standing |
The case is a wrongful foreclosure where due process of law has been denied, property rights have been violated, and a Massachusetts statute has been … |
| 24A1288 |
Aren S. Tau v. Town of Lakeville, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7498 |
Dasahn Crowder v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto second-amendment |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial after a conviction was vacated due to failure to present evidence on an essential element in ligh… |
| 24-1312 |
James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re… |
| 24-1307 |
Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-tort ex-parte-young ongoing-violation property-retention state-officials |
Whether the unlawful retention of property by state officials constitutes a past wrong or an ongoing constitutional violation under Ex parte Young |
| 24-1258 |
Peter Judson v. Robert I. Friedman |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
14th-amendment estate-planning fiduciary-duty irrevocable-trust property-rights uniform-principal-and-income-act |
Whether a Settlor of an irrevocable trust has a 14th Amendment right to set estate terms without fiduciary intervention and whether a national standar… |
| 24-7373 |
Natnael Zemene v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment second-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause protects an individual from subsequent prosecution when insufficient evidence was produced to reb… |
| 24A1180 |
Philip J. Marquis v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24A1168 |
Richard W. Gannett v. Board of Bar Overseers |
Massachusetts |
2025-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
bar-discipline conflict-of-interest disbarment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver |
Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to counsel in state bar disciplinary proceedings, and whether a petitioner must use specific language t… |
| 24-7329 |
Nicco-Kawon Pledger v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
due-process expert-testimony hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-procedure |
Whether counsel's failure to challenge the admissibility of expert testimony and hearsay evidence prejudicially impacted the defendant's right to a fa… |
| 24-1210 |
Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act fifth-amendment rule-41-dismissal |
Does the Fifth Amendment require appellate courts to rule on a petitioner's briefed arguments and alleged facts rather than unraised theories and fact… |
| 24-7293 |
Alexander Soto v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
arizona-v-gant criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement |
Whether the search-incident-to-arrest exception from Arizona v. Gant applies to searches of containers in buildings or only in automobiles |
| 24-7287 |
Anthony Michael Branch v. Aidan T. Kearney, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
actual-malice defamation media-publications public-figure summary-judgment |
Whether a private individual who becomes the subject of defamatory online publications may be designated a 'limited-purpose public figure' based solel… |
| 24-7282 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-05-23 |
Denied |
child-separation constitutional-rights due-process federal-reimbursement lgbtq-rights state-law |
Whether Massachusetts can constitutionally 'double protect' some citizens by revoking Constitutional protections for others, and whether LGBTQ+ immuni… |
| 24-7025 |
James Todino v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
criminal-harm due-process internet-immunity platform-liability section-230 user-generated-content |
Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides continued immunity to internet platforms that knowingly host user generated content inv… |
| 24-7008 |
Anthony Michael Branch v. Fannie Mae, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure notice-of-default property-rights |
Did the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court err in affirming the Housing Court's decision granting possession to Fannie Mae and the third-party purch… |
| 24A976 |
Jennifer Cotto, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-1048 |
Karen Read v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict retrial |
Whether a final and unanimous, but unannounced, decision by a jury that the prosecution failed to prove a defendant guilty constitutes an acquittal pr… |
| 24-6840 |
In Re Lolonyon Y. Akouete |
|
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-procedure due-process finality-doctrine irreparable-harm judicial-review |
Whether the First Circuit and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of finality by narrowly interpreting the For… |
| 24-6600 |
Michael Boutin v. Chicopee Housing Authority |
Massachusetts |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
constitutional-law due-process housing-dispute judicial-bias procedural-irregularities tenant-rights |
Did the Massachusetts courts fail to address constitutional due process violations in a housing dispute involving judicial bias and tenant rights? |
| 24-769 |
Joan Stormo, as Assignee of Peter T. Clark v. State National Insurance Company |
First Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
certification diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-procedure federalism state-law |
Does the rule disfavoring certification employed by a minority of circuits violate the Erie doctrine and principles of federalism by discriminating ag… |
| 24-6339 |
Mark Tomas Regan v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-possession licensure-requirement second-amendment |
Whether the right to keep and bear arms, due process, double jeopardy, and licensure requirements prohibit retrial of a defendant on firearms possessi… |
| 24A676 |
Mark Tomas Regan v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-possession second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment, due process clause, and Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy prohibit retrial of a defendant on firearms p… |
| 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… |
| 24-691 |
Debra Brown v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
constitutional-law due-process fnma-authority government-instrumentality property-rights state-consumer-law |
Whether FNMA is an instrumentality of the U.S. Government and/or state government authorized to take private citizens' property without due process of… |
| 24-6183 |
Robert M. Joost v. Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
bar-admission constitutional-rights legal-education legal-practice occupational-freedom professional-qualification |
Whether the Massachusetts bar's educational requirements violate a legal practitioner's constitutional rights by preventing admission based on extensi… |
| 24-660 |
Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
appeals-court constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-fees religious-freedom |
Whether the Massachusetts Appeals Court violated the Petitioner's First Amendment religious freedom rights and improperly awarded legal fees |
| 24-6098 |
Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law in criminal resentencing, and whether cons… |
| 24-6079 |
Lance Hullum v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-review jury-verdict legal-prejudice |
Whether a jury's verdict can be overturned when critical evidence is deemed erroneous and potentially prejudicial against the petitioner |
| 24A540 |
Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law defining a criminal offense element when t… |
| 24A524 |
Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
certiorari extension-of-time health-challenges legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court |
Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the need for legal a… |
| 24A467 |
Elizabeth D'Andrea v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
eviction-proceeding foreclosure-statute judicial-review predatory-lending property-transfer title-controversy |
Whether Massachusetts foreclosure statutes require judicial review of foreclosure sales as a prerequisite to valid property transfer and eviction proc… |
| 24A468 |
Grace Rungu v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process eviction foreclosure judicial-review property-rights title-dispute |
Whether Massachusetts state courts have systematically violated due process and property rights by failing to properly adjudicate title disputes in fo… |
| 24A470 |
Margaly Philippe v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Trustee |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
foreclosure judicial-review predatory-lending property-rights statutory-interpretation title-transfer |
Whether Massachusetts foreclosure statutes require judicial review of foreclosure sales and title transfers to ensure compliance with state property l… |
| 24-410 |
L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
first-amendment ideological-speech personal-identity school-censorship student-speech tinker-standard |
Whether school officials may presume substantial disruption or a violation of the rights of others from a student's silent, passive, and untargeted id… |
| 24-5520 |
Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the USCIS misinterpreted 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) in denying a spousal visa petition based on alleged marriage fraud |
| 24A161 |
L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Presumed Complete |
first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard |
Whether a public school's disciplinary actions against a student for off-campus, online speech violate the First Amendment's protection of free speech… |
| 24-5225 |
Nidal M. Hasan v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts |
Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue… |
| 24-5199 |
Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
dismissal due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment interlocutory-appeal obstruction-of-justice petition-government self-incrimination |
Whether 8.J.C. Rule 2:21 (2) is an adequate basis to dismiss the Petitioner's Complaint, and not a violation of the Petitioner's First Amendment right… |
| 24-101 |
John E. Cassidy v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-liability due-process firearm-licensing firearms home-possession interstate-travel licensing residence second-amendment |
What type of 'Arms' are protected by the Second Amendment when a state's multi-level firearm licensing scheme attaches criminal liability for in home … |
| 24-5111 |
Amadi Sosa v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof confrontation-clause constructive-malice cross-examination due-process felony-murder perjury-protocol sixth-amendment winship-fact |
Due-process-right-to-fair-trial,confrontation-clause,perjury-protocol,felony-murder,burden-of-proof,winship-fact |
| 24-5084 |
Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig |
Ohio |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers |
Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections violates substantive-due-process-and-privileges-and-immunities,takings-clause,due-process-and-e… |
| 23-1265 |
Catherine Antunes v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
bodily-integrity constitutional-rights due-process economic-coercion emergency-authorization employer-coercion equal-protection jacobson-v-massachusetts prep-act vaccine vaccine-mandate |
Does the Constitutional right to bodily integrity encompass the right to decline a vaccine? |
| 23A1073 |
Jeremiah Wooden v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-05-31 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits a retrial when a change in law renders the original trial evidence insufficient to support a conviction |
| 23-1222 |
Children's Health Defense, et al. v. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection experimental-treatment experimental-vaccine jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-consent vaccine-efficacy vaccine-mandate vaccine-safety |
Fundamental-right-to-refuse-medical-treatment |
| 23A1001 |
Amadi Sosa v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
co-defendant confrontation-rights due-process perjury severance trial-procedure |
Whether a state court's procedural rules permitting a co-defendant to testify in a potentially perjurious manner violate a criminal defendant's due pr… |
| 23-7250 |
Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney |
Massachusetts |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice standing state-prosecution witness-intimidation |
Standing-to-appeal-criminal-complaint |
| 23-7175 |
Philip Ayala v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
capital-case criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records |
Whether the district court erred in granting habeas relief on the petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to obtain mental… |
| 23-7150 |
Elana Gordon v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-04-05 |
GVR |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to present testimony by a substitute forensic expert conveying testimonial statements of a no… |
| 23-6980 |
Matthew Murphy v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error |
whether-this-court-should-grant-this-petition |
| 23-7005 |
Simon Chan v. Maura Tracy Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
14th-amendment ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights class-of-one due-process engquist-v-oregon equal-protection government-discrimination judicial-review |
Should the US Supreme Court allow government officials to engage in discriminatory conduct without consequence? |
| 23-996 |
Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
bodily-autonomy civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process heightened-scrutiny jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-treatment public-health vaccine-mandate |
Whether Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), when read in light of this Court's later acknowledgment that the right to refuse treatment is '… |
| 23-886 |
Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
burks-v-united-states change-in-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence legal-sufficiency prosecution-evidence second-trial supreme-court-precedent trial-rights |
Whether there is an exception to the Burks v. United States holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause forbids a second trial to allow the prosecution to… |
| 23-821 |
Michelle Smith v. Peter B. Krupp, Judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-of-court jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-proceedings title-42 usurpation-of-power |
Whether the Rooker Feldman Doctrine was intended to shield Defendants in a Title 42 section 1983 claim, in immunity for their actions of fraudulently … |
| 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 |
| 23-793 |
Isidro Javier Armenta v. California |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automated-enforcement automated-traffic-enforcement confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts extends to automated traffic enforcement system schemes |
| 23-786 |
Jon Myers v. Sondra Myers, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
abuse civil-rights consent-denial due-process emotional-distress family-dispute intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress judicial-procedure legal-rights standing tort-claim |
Whether in denying Jon Myers' consent to file a lawsuit |
| 23A662 |
Jacques Saade v. Fay Servicing, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-procedure filing-restrictions judicial-economy mortgage-default pro-se-litigation sanctions |
Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of substantially similar lawsuits challenging a mortgage default constitutes vexatious litigation warranti… |
| 23A632 |
Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-01-09 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-development retrial second-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits a retrial when the record from a first trial is insufficient to support a conviction based on a legal devel… |
| 23-711 |
James P. Ryan v. Carlo DeMaria, Jr., Mayor of the City of Everett, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
appeal-jurisdiction civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-court-procedure federal-jurisdiction good-cause notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-limits |
Whether a federal court is deprived of jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed beyond the 30 days in the first provision of § 2107 but meets the… |
| 23A602 |
Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
bodily-autonomy covid-vaccine-mandate due-process fourteenth-amendment jacobson-precedent rational-basis-review |
Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Jacobson v. Massachusetts remains valid for evaluating vaccine mandates in light of subsequent due process ju… |
| 23A605 |
Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Third Circuit's prior appellate decision in favor of the petitioner warrants Supreme Court review given the unique circumstances of counse… |
| 23-6398 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional? |
| 23A589 |
Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney |
Massachusetts |
2023-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
article-iii-standing constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution fair-trial first-amendment witness-intimidation |
Whether a private citizen has Article III standing to seek criminal prosecution for witness intimidation when the alleged harassment threatens the cit… |
| 23-669 |
Massachusetts Coastal Railroad LLC, et al. v. Chad Marsh |
Massachusetts |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
conflict-preemption economic-regulation federal-preemption field-preemption iccta-preemption interstate-commerce massachusetts-prevailing-wage-act rail-transportation railroad-regulation state-wage-law |
Whether the ICCTA preempts Massachusetts' prevailing wage act for railroad maintenance workers |
| 23A558 |
Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires trial courts to explicitly warn defendants of the dangers of self-representation before finding a knowing and vol… |
| 23A552 |
Bharani Padmanabhan v. Cambridge Health Commission |
Massachusetts |
2023-12-15 |
Presumed Complete |
contractual-breach due-process employment-termination fair-hearing false-reporting medical-staff-privileges |
Whether a hospital can falsely report a physician's employment status to state and federal authorities in violation of contractual bylaws and due proc… |
| 23-582 |
Rollo A. Barker, aka Rollo Narker v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-11-30 |
Denied |
6th-amendment chain-of-custody confrontation-clause criminal-evidence evidence forensic-analysis lab-analysis lab-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent sixth-amendment |
Does testimony from a lab analyst who did not perform the actual testing on Defendant's seized (alleged) contraband that was analyzed by a State Polic… |
| 23A488 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
domestic-violence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct liberty-interests parental-rights restraining-order |
Whether a civil domestic violence restraining order issued without objective standards violates a parent's fundamental liberty interests under the Fou… |
| 23-563 |
Obaida Abdulky, et al., as Parents and Next Friends of Anthony Abdulky v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review legal-standards notice procedural-fairness |
Whether the Appeals Court of Massachusetts violated the due process rights of the Petitioners |
| 23A439 |
Nancy Roe, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of A.R., et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-exhaustion fape idea mootness preliminary-injunction standing |
Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the standards for standing and mootness in educational disability rights cases involving administrative exhau… |
| 23-496 |
Sharan Garlapati v. Brigham & Women's Hospital, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights coercion constitutional-protections cyberstalking due-process obstruction-of-justice privacy privacy-rights stalking-by-proxy |
Does the fundamental right to privacy still exist in our modern digital age, and do conspiracies against civil-rights, cyberstalking, stalking-by-prox… |
| 23A416 |
Robinhood Financial LLC v. William F. Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
broker-dealer fiduciary-duty investor-protection preemption regulatory-conflict sec-regulation |
Whether federal Regulation Best Interest preempts a state law imposing a fiduciary duty standard on broker-dealers that directly conflicts with the SE… |
| 23-468 |
Matthew Haney, as Trustee of the Gooseberry Island Trust v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-property-rights due-process government-permit judicial-review prudential-ripeness ripeness standing takings takings-claim variance variance-request |
Can the government evade adjudication of constitutional takings claims on prudential ripeness grounds—after it has twice definitively denied necessary… |
| 23-5932 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equity-mandate executive-order legal-paradox russell's-paradox |
Does the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for only some) violate the Constitution? |
| 23-5868 |
Nicky S. Keo v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty due-process felony firearm-licensing licensing mandatory-minimum second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the imposition of a mandatory eighteen-month jail sentence on a first offender for what might well be an entirely innocent regulatory infracti… |
| 23A318 |
Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Presumed Complete |
breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary |
Whether the domestic relations exception to federal question jurisdiction bars federal courts from adjudicating breach of contract claims arising from… |
| 23-314 |
Debra Brown v. Federal National Mortgage Association |
Massachusetts |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
consideration default due-process equal-protection foreclosure fraud government-instrumentality mortgage property-ownership standing takings |
Whether FNMA as an instrumentality of the U.S. Government and/or state government can take private citizens' property without due process of law const… |
| 23-281 |
Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review |
Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo? |
| 23A251 |
Obaida Abdulky, et al. v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
access-to-courts attorney-malpractice due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the constitutional right of access to courts by establishin… |
| 23-5600 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure discretion due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate standing time-limitation |
Whether Bostwick's Appeal was NOT Reviewed by the Lower Courts (Appeals Case No. 21-P-721) given Bostwick's Notice of Appeal |
| 23-5562 |
Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing |
whether-the-united-states-of-appeals-has-entered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-the-decision-of-another-united-states-court-of-appeals-on-the-same-justic… |
| 23-5552 |
Lei Yin v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. |
Massachusetts |
2023-09-11 |
Denied |
administrative-hearing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-bias legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-rights standing worker-compensation |
Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Court Systems in COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS? |
| 23-5538 |
Noel Brown v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset |
Pennsylvania |
2023-09-07 |
Dismissed |
civil-rights constitutional-doctrine dismissal due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief reversal structural-error warden writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Weaver v. Massachusetts clarified the Constitutional Doctrine of Structural Error |
| 23-5474 |
Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine |
Should the lateness of the habeas petition be excused due to the petitioner's mental health issues and the DNA evidence? |
| 23A175 |
Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Presumed Complete |
courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice structural-error voir-dire |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial is violated by a trial court's closure of the courtroom during voir dire, and whether such a viola… |
| 23-144 |
Anthony Marciano v. Eric Adams, Mayor of the City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization informed-consent municipal-vaccine-mandate quarantine quarantine-law state-law state-preemption vaccination |
Whether the Mayor of the City of New York, through his appointed police and health commissioners, acts without legislative authority by mandating muni… |
| 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. |
| 23A121 |
Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. |
Alaska |
2023-08-11 |
Presumed Complete |
due-process-clause environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substances retroactive-liability sulfolane |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from imposing retroactive environmental liability for the discharge of a … |
| 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… |
| 23A98 |
Matthew Haney v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Presumed Complete |
fifth-amendment final-decision regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine variance-request zoning-board |
Whether a property owner's as-applied regulatory takings claim is ripe for federal court review when a local zoning board has not issued a final decis… |
| 23-5193 |
Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts |
Whether the Strickland actual-prejudice standard applies to a structural error in the form of an impliedly-biased juror |
| 23-5110 |
James K. Silva v. District Court of Massachusetts, Dukes County |
First Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified |
| 23A11 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-07-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-1231 |
Laird J. Heal v. Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee for WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Services 2006-PR2 Trust, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-estoppel motions-to-strike standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the motions to strike under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c)(2) were decided correctly |
| 22-1237 |
Ryan Daly, et al. v. Alexis Chechowitz, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement due-process federal-arbitration-act preemption supremacy-clause |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts Mass. R. Civ. P. 23 |
| 22A1020 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-7578 |
In Re Carlos A. Seino |
|
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate jurisdictional-challenge massachusetts-law procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment in the context of a warrantless s… |
| 22-7545 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a State court is permitted to issue decisions in conflict with Supreme Court precedents and violate fundamental rights under the Fourteenth Am… |
| 22-1109 |
Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal |
Has Irving Rounds, Jr. been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments? |
| 22-1068 |
Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 22-7397 |
Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats |
Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, without h… |
| 22-7400 |
Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Whether a juror's communication to the jury during deliberations of highly prejudicial specialized factual information that was based on his professio… |
| 22M103 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-995 |
Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing |
Whether a harm to an intangible property interest is a sufficient injury to a business or property interest under RICO |
| 22-957 |
Laurie A. Dermody v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
42-usc-1396p annuity annuity-rules asset-transfer medicaid-eligibility medical-assistance remainder-beneficiary spousal-impoverishment statutory-interpretation transfer-penalty |
Whether an annuity that satisfies the condition in Section 1396p(c)(2)(B)(i) must name the State as the first remainder beneficiary in order to avoid … |
| 22-948 |
Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County Medical Care Facility, et al. |
Michigan |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
administrative-agency administrative-law contract-clause due-process earned-compensation equal-protection paid-time-off tax-evasion wage-and-hour |
Did the Michigan State Administrative Agency Wage and Hour Division violate the US Constitution Contract Clause when it used the Michigan P.W.F.B.A st… |
| 22-940 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
administrative-law bill-of-rights due-process liberty-right medical-license medical-licensing professional-practice professional-regulation rational-basis state-board |
Is the taking of a physician's medical license a violation of the Bill of Rights to our Nation's scheme of ordered liberty? |
| 22-7115 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
child-support-enforcement congressional-research-service constitutional-challenge constitutional-interpretation federal-matching-grant federal-reimbursement federal-reimbursements open-ended-program reimbursement-rate state-matching-grant |
In the context of the federal CSE reimbursement program, is the 'open-ended' and thus manipulatable federal program constitutional as currently practi… |
| 22-922 |
Ryan J. Welter v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
administrative-discretion capacity-to-deceive career-ending-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-materiality-harm misleading-statements occupational-licensing |
When can a licensing board impose career-ending sanctions based on truthful statements with potential to mislead? |
| 22-885 |
South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer |
South Carolina |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements |
Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test… |
| 22M84 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-02-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6841 |
Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights due-process economic-freedom free-enterprise licensing-board market-participants sovereign-immunity |
Does Massachusetts' grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing board violate the Nation's free enterprise structure and the right of… |
| 22-6842 |
Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
bedrock-of-jurisprudence court-procedure federal-courts jurisprudence litigation-principle neutral-arbiter party-presentation sineneng-smith state-courts united-states-v-sineneng-smith |
Does the Principle of Party Presentation apply to state courts? |
| 22A703 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-02-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A665 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2023-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6565 |
Cristian Santa v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
expert-opinion expert-testimony factual-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kolenovic-precedent massachusetts-jurisprudence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Has Massachusetts jurisprudence, particularly the expansion of Commonwealth v. Kolenovic, 471 Mass. 664 (2015), run afoul of the Sixth Amendment by ru… |
| 22A640 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A577 |
Ryan J. Welter v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2022-12-28 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-575 |
William S. Toppi v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias massachusetts-appeals-court-rule-23.0 plea-waiver procedural-due-process recusal waiver-of-rights |
Whether the sentencing judge and defense counsel were required to recuse themselves after exhibiting clear bias relating to Defendant's case |
| 22-6276 |
Lester S. Barney v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254d faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se-representation self-representation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the state court unreasonably determined that Lester S. Barney did not clearly and unequivocally assert his right to proceed pro se |
| 22A503 |
Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2022-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A504 |
Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2022-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6160 |
Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit improperly applied Weaver v. Massachusetts and AEDPA, and whether the Michigan trial court violated… |
| 22-6095 |
Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction |
Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachusett… |
| 22-6061 |
Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effect, an automatic means of excusing unconstitutional law enfor… |
| 22M43 |
Shirley J. Eslinger v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-11-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6040 |
William H. Wyttenbach v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
article-iii-court civil-procedure conclusions-of-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process findings-of-fact fourth-circuit-court jurisdiction rule-of-law |
Has the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court and the lower court violated all three foundational corner stones of Rule of Law; Jurisdiction, Finding of Fact… |
| 22-404 |
Jane Goe, Sr., on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Child, et al. v. James V. McDonald, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
due-process fundamental-rights jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-exemption public-health strict-scrutiny unconstitutional-conditions vaccine-mandate |
Whether families have a fundamental right to a medical exemption |
| 22-392 |
Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins |
| 22A347 |
Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5748 |
James Atkinson v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-possession licensing-law second-amendment standing subjective-standard takings |
Whether Mass. Gen. Laws. ch. 140, § 131(f) is a proper analogue to a historical firearm regulation |
| 22-5759 |
Andrew Robertson v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence indictment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the judge abused his discretion in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment due to prosecutorial misconduct |
| 22-5568 |
Douglas Gordon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
copyright-infringement criminal-conviction criminal-law evidence fair-use first-circuit jury-instructions orphan-works sufficiency-of-evidence willful-conduct |
Whether the sufficiency of the evidence supported the jury's finding that Mr. Gordon acted willfully |
| 22-132 |
Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid judges (or prosecutors) from instructing (or inviting) the jury to take into account a non-testifyi… |
| 21-8246 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process |
Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act are unconstitutional |
| 21-1547 |
Chris C. Streeter v. John D. Casey, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Probate and Family Court |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-delay probate-court standing |
If the Petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process and equal protection under the law are violated by the delays in issuing rulings as justice de… |
| 21-8086 |
Jeremiah F. Wooden v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure criminal-record guilty-plea ineffective-assistance informed-consent meritorious-defenses plea-bargaining plea-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether plea counsel has a duty to advise of the impact of a conviction on his client's criminal record before a guilty plea |
| 21-1469 |
Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo |
Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20 violate the Due Process Clause? |
| 21-7889 |
Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search |
Did the pat-frisk of Mr. Bailey-Sweeting violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 21-7894 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court |
Whether the Due Process or Equal Protection Clause require objective standards for the issuance or extension of a domestic violence order of protectio… |
| 21A731 |
Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-05-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7728 |
Antonio M. Branco v. Massachusetts |
First Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-appeals |
Whether the dismissal of a Section 2254 petition based on failure to exhaust state remedies should be overturned, given that the judgment conflicts wi… |
| 21A653 |
Antonio M. Branco v. Massachusetts |
First Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A611 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-04-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1324 |
John Zarba, et ux. v. Town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
appellate civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing municipal-liability rule-12b6 section-1983 standing |
Should Rule 12(b)(6) motions be modified? |
| 21-7513 |
Jonathan Carvalho v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley |
First Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
aedpa-deference antiterrorism-effective-death-penalty-act arbitrary-decisions constitutional-reliability due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard lower-courts supreme-court trial-court-procedure |
Does the Supreme Court's leeway and the Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) deference for lower courts to determine due process violatio… |
| 21-1301 |
Hector M. Jenkins v. Housing Court Department, City of Boston, Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
civil-procedure-amendment civil-rights eeoc eeoc-notice employment-discrimination insubordination retaliation title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether an employee's repeated complaints of unlawful and discriminatory treatment can provide the basis for a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason to te… |
| 21-7406 |
Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the Massachusetts courts' construction of the 'mandated reporter' statute violates due process by failing to provide fair notice and being unc… |
| 21-1257 |
Brian K. Evans, as Administrator of the Estate of Helen Marie Bousquet v. Ronald A. Marvin, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
appearance-of-impropriety conflict-of-interest due-process interests-of-justice judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice recusal |
Was the judge's failure to disclose his wife's connection to the hospital appropriate? |
| 21-1249 |
John E. Cassidy v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
due-process firearm-licensing firearm-possession home-possession licensing-scheme new-residents privileges-and-immunities second-amendment strict-scrutiny |
Does the Second Amendment's core protections, the Due Process Clause, and Privileges and Immunities Clause extend to new residents when they import le… |
| 21-1232 |
Paul C. Nordberg v. The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System |
First Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process hans-v-louisiana judicial-interpretation legal-precedent sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity |
Should the 11th Amendment be the basis for judicial determinations |
| 21-7312 |
Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence without expert medical testimony |
| 21-7260 |
George K. Mackie v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
closing-argument criminal-procedure impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt |
Did the appeals court err in holding that the error-laden closing argument by the prosecutor, taken in its totality, create a substantial risk of a mi… |
| 21-7198 |
Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment |
When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the Sixt… |
| 21-7168 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-22 |
Dismissed |
care-and-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jury-trial parental-rights standing |
Whether right to parent of biological parents' can be terminated by a single judge and statutorily transferred to foster parents when a parent raises … |