| 25A707 |
Edward C. Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
child-pornography forensic-evidence knowingly-possessed metadata probation-violation supervised-release |
Whether the discovery of 75 thumbnail child pornography images in an inaccessible cache folder on an unreported cell phone constitutes knowing possess… |
| 24A656 |
Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
asset-forfeiture criminal-restitution district-court-order federal-court retirement-assets sentencing-judgment |
Whether a federal district court may order the turnover of a defendant's retirement assets to satisfy a criminal restitution judgment |
| 23A859 |
Lester Dobbey v. Uptown People's Law Center, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-remedies constitutional-rights legal-services mail-handling prison-grievance tax-documentation |
Whether a legal services organization and state corrections officials can be held liable for alleged constitutional violations when assisting an incar… |
| 23-999 |
Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko |
Virginia |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
collateral-estoppel disability-benefits due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy judicial-procedure preemption res-judicata statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
May state law doctrines of judicial convenience be raised against a preemptive federal statute? |
| 23M46 |
Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko |
Virginia |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 23A260 |
Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko |
Virginia |
2023-09-21 |
Presumed Complete |
federal-preemption marital-settlement-agreement military-retirement-pay supremacy-clause uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act veterans-disability-benefits |
Whether state courts may enforce a marital settlement agreement or divorce decree that requires a veteran to waive or assign federal disability benefi… |
| 21-7408 |
Randy Dingle v. Talmage S. Baggett, Judge, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
18-usc-242 42-usc-1983 case-coherence civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation legal-induction occurrence-analysis planned-action procedural-reasoning standing |
Whether the occurrences in the case were the result of a planned action |
| 21-7004 |
Adam L. Ware v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
affidavit-deficiency civil-procedure deterrence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception recurring-negligence standing systemic-negligence |
Should the good-faith exception apply when an affiant has been repeatedly warned not to submit deficient affidavits? |
| 21-1017 |
Carolyn Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
civil-rights classified-evidence electronic-surveillance in-camera-review mass-surveillance national-security nonjusticiable standing standing-doctrine state-secrets-privilege |
Whether the state-secrets privilege can be used to exclude public evidence establishing standing and dismiss a case as nonjusticiable |
| 21-601 |
Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. Amy Berman Jackson, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
anti-injunction-act appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irs judicial-review pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing |
Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen… |
| 21-545 |
Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification recusal standing |
Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen… |
| 20-6194 |
Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. |
Texas |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a cell phone's digital contents and location information by a private citizen debt collector violates th… |
| 20-458 |
Michael B. Brown v. Department of Labor |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure deposition-modification evidence factual-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure petition-for-review regulatory-compliance sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection |
Whether a judge's change of a party's transcribed deposition is an appropriate factual finding, conclusion, and decision |
| 20-5826 |
Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the principle of party presentation by raising and deciding an issue sua sponte in petitioner's habeas appeal |
| 19-1276 |
Michael B. White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Darla K. White, Deceased v. Medtronic, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
21-usc-360 adulteration buckman diversity-of-jurisdiction fda-regulations medical-device-preemption off-label off-label-use pleading pleading-standard private-causes-of-action riegel state-court-jurisdiction summary-disposition |
Whether the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly affirmed the U.S. District Court's grant of summary disposition due to an incorrect application o… |
| 19-7651 |
Craig Keyon White v. Robert Fox, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedure and resulting unreliable identifications admitted against White at his criminal trial … |
| 19-7035 |
Michael B. Lowry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Does the government bear the burden of proving that the attenuation doctrine applies to preclude suppression of evidence after an illegal search or se… |
| 18-1422 |
Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification |
Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a… |
| 18-9184 |
Michael B. White v. Collene K. Corcoran, Trustee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506-c bankruptcy-code-11-usc-506(c) bankruptcy-conversion chapter-11 chapter-7 debtor-in-possession debtor-recovery debtor-rights preservation-costs recovery statutory-interpretation trustee-duties |
Did the 6 Circuit Court of Appeals err when it determined that a Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession loses all rights to recover under 11 USC 506(c) upon … |
| 18-5070 |
Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Dismissed |
actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default |
Whether petitioner's actual innocence claim overcomes the procedural default of his federal habeas claims challenging the constitutionality of his sta… |