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25-888 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing Should the Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing, and if such an exception exists, must a mun…
25-6632 Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray Eighth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action Whether a plaintiff can sue his former attorney under the color of state law for actions during a civil commitment trial
25-861 Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, et al. v. Keith M. Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending constitutional-rights enforcement-authority federal-court-review first-amendment judicial-precedent state-law Whether state officials may disclaim enforcement authority over a law to avoid federal court review of the law's constitutionality
25A808 In Re Esaias Joseph Menasi Eighth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application due-process evidence-tampering ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct supreme-court witness-intimidation Whether the Minnesota Supreme Court's alleged ex parte actions and sealing of evidence constitute a violation of due process and judicial ethics warra…
25-741 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2025-12-22 Pending constitutional-claims federal-court first-amendment petition-clause statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review Whether the petition stage of Supreme Court review constitutes a 'federal court proceeding' for purposes of tolling state tort statute of limitations …
25-6365 Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access Whether a state judge can issue substantive orders after formal recusal and whether federal courts can affirm void orders
25A695 Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-15 Application certiorari eighth-circuit labor-union procedural-rules supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a public sector labor union's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the standard of good cause under Suprem…
25-6321 Wenlasombo Ilboudo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied criminal-procedure due-process language-barrier rule-11-colloquy sentencing-rights waiver-of-appeal Whether a non-English speaking defendant can properly waive his right to appeal an unreasonable sentence without a full Rule 11 colloquy to ensure kno…
25A644 Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act Whether open-ended ends-of-justice continuances under the Speedy Trial Act are permissible when district courts find them reasonable
25A612 Alison Maynard v. William R. Lucero, et al. Texas 2025-11-24 Application internet-communications minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction preemption supremacy-clause wiretap-act Whether the Wiretap Act preempts state procedural laws and jurisdictional doctrines under the Supremacy Clause when a privacy invasion claim involves …
25-543 Thomas John Styczinski, et al. v. Grace Arnold, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce Eighth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied article-three constitutional-avoidance dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation judicial-power state-law Whether a federal court exceeds its Article III judicial power by unilaterally imposing a constitutional avoidance narrowing construction on a state l…
25-533 Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny Whether pursuing a legal vocation completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment, an…
25-5877 Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review …
25A416 Kyle John Roberts v. Regions Hospital Minnesota 2025-10-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights judicial-review medical-malpractice standards-of-care state-court statutory-interpretation Whether a state court's interpretation of medical malpractice statutes and standards of care violates a plaintiff's constitutional right to judicial r…
25-5583 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied discrimination-charges due-process eeoc-regulations fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-interest Whether a state-created statutory right to file discrimination charges constitutes a property interest under the Fourteenth Amendment that protects ag…
25-5415 Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were…
25A186 Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen Eighth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete amended-complaint eighth-amendment interlocutory-review plra-exhaustion prisoner-litigation section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies to an amended complaint filed after a prisoner's release when the original c…
25A192 Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete begging-laws first-amendment founding-era free-speech historical-tradition speech-categories Whether historical practice and tradition at the time of the founding categorically exclude begging from First Amendment free speech protection
25-150 Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit 'sex-trafficking' if the person gives unc…
25A133 Lynette Hathon, et al. v. Michigan Michigan 2025-08-01 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity state-remedies takings-clause Whether property owners have a direct cause of action under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment when state remedies are inadequate or unavailabl…
25-3 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada 2025-07-01 Denied financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen…
24-1315 Andy Desty v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied corporate-powers due-process equal-protection promissory-note takings-clause truth-in-lending Whether Supreme Court precedents permit Santander Consumer USA Inc.'s actions involving deprivation of rights without due process of law
24-1304 FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation Whether a federal agency acts arbitrarily or capriciously in determining a post-settlement change of law, and whether federal law applies to utility t…
24-7420 Olabamidele Olumide Bewaji v. Minnesota Minnesota 2025-06-13 Denied None Question not identified.
24-1225 LaWanda D. Small v. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a Minnesota Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-06-02 Denied appellate-review certification-standard federalism-interests judicial-procedure ninth-circuit state-law-certification Whether a federal court must consider federalism interests when asked to certify important and unresolved questions of state law
24-1198 Association for Government Accountability, et al. v. Steve Simon, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Minnesota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied drivers-privacy-act ex-parte-young federal-court injunctive-relief seminole-tribe state-officials Whether the Ex Parte Young exception for prospective injunctive relief applies in federal court actions against state officials in their official capa…
24A1091 LaWanda D. Small v. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a Minnesota Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-05-14 Presumed Complete None
24-1140 Peter Allan, Sr., et al. v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied appellate-review civil-rights institutionalized-persons mootness-doctrine religious-land-use rluipa Whether the Eighth Circuit's mootness standard conflicts with Supreme Court precedent regarding policy amendments during litigation
24-6844 In Re Gayle George 2025-03-25 Denied administrative-law appellate-procedure congressional-oversight constitutional-authority dc-home-rule judicial-review Whether the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is an agency subject to congressional oversight under the DC Home Rule Act, and whether the DC …
24-6819 Kenneth Daywitt, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, in her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied constitutional-rights court-standards first-amendment free-speech judicial-duty legal-standards Do federal courts have a duty to citizens of the United States of America to apply established legal standards related to First Amendment claims?
24-6754 Ryan Christopher Edner v. Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied None Question not identified.
24-6570 Andrew Jeffery Helmin v. Yuemin Xu Minnesota 2025-02-14 Denied child-custody constitutional-law due-process equal-protection icwa-principles native-american-rights Did the Minnesota courts violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by prioritizing Respondent's cultural background …
24-874 Douglas A. Kelley, in His Capacity as the Trustee of the BMO Litigation Trust v. BMO Harris Bank National Association, as Successor to M&I Marshall and Ilsley Bank Eighth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied bankruptcy-code eighth-circuit-ruling federal-bankruptcy-policy in-pari-delicto receiver-claims state-law-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit should have certified the controlling question of Minnesota law to the Minnesota Supreme Court, rather than fashion a novel…
24-862 Michelle MacDonald v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2025-02-12 Denied ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law judicial-candidates legal-qualification state-licensing Is an election law requiring proof that judicial candidates have state law licenses in order to qualify as 'learned in the law' unconstitutional under…
24-863 Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota South Dakota 2025-02-12 Denied fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops
24-6517 Edell Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1) is susceptible to an as-applied constitutional challenge and violates the Second Amendment
24-6422 In Re Terry Lee Jackson, Sr. 2025-01-29 Denied access-to-courts confrontation-clause constitutional-rights federal-defender habeas-corpus writ-of-certiorari Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right of access to the courts where the federal defender refused to file or assist in the filing of a Petitio…
24-782 Bob Jacobson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety v. Kristin Worth, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied age-restriction constitutional-rights firearms-regulation historical-analysis public-carry second-amendment Does Minnesota's statute limiting permits for public carry of pistols to those 21 and older comport with the principles underlying the Second Amendmen…
24-6258 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2025-01-10 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-bias sentencing-errors Whether a defendant's conviction should be voided due to ineffective assistance of counsel, judicial bias, and procedural irregularities during crimin…
24-663 Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued Minnesota 2024-12-19 Denied child-welfare constitutional-rights custody-rights due-process judicial-discretion state-action Do state courts have discretion to take state action to willfully sustain deprivations of protected rights in violation of requirements under U.S. Con…
24-664 Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued Minnesota 2024-12-19 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion Do state courts have discretion to misapply judicial doctrine in supersession of clear Constitutional requirements under U.S. Const. Amend. XIV §1, re…
24-655 Viewpoint Neutrality Now!, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied first-amendment free-speech-clause limited-public-forum status-discrimination student-organization viewpoint-neutrality Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of Perry Educ. Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n mischaracterizes status discrimination claims under t…
24-642 Lamel Jeffery, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied constitutional-scrutiny curfew-restrictions due-process emergency-powers fundamental-rights judicial-notice Whether the constitutionality of a mass curfew can be determined at the pleading stage without record evidence based solely on a government emergency …
24-602 Daniel Graff v. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, aka Brighthouse Financial Life Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-interpretation separation-of-powers state-law-deference statutory-construction Whether a Federal Court can interpret a state statute in a manner that extinguishes constitutional rights or upsets the separation of powers without a…
24-500 Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar Whether the actual innocence exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by a procedural bar should…
24-5884 Sheng-Wen Cheng v. P. Grenier, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied bivens-claim constitutional-violation judicial-remedy prison-counselor prisoner-rights right-to-petition Whether a Bivens claim against a prison counselor for denying a prisoner's right to petition can be dismissed despite the District Court finding a con…
24A421 Bob Jacobson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety v. Kristin Worth, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete age-restriction bruen-test firearm-regulation gun-rights historical-analogue second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment permits age-based restrictions on public firearm carry for individuals between 18 and 20 years old under the historical t…
24A378 Viewpoint Neutrality Now!, et al. v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-21 Presumed Complete first-amendment limited-public-forum minority-cultural-centers status-discrimination student-organization viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment permits a public university to use 'status discrimination' to exclude certain student minority cultural centers from a lim…
24-5701 Harold David Yaritz v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied complaint-amendment constitutional-rights document-interpretation judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-due-process Whether the District Court and Appellate Court improperly dismissed a complaint by disregarding substantive constitutional rights and procedural due p…
24-331 CBS MN Properties, LLC v. Hennepin County, Minnesota Minnesota 2024-09-24 Denied eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation property-rights real-property Whether a court has an independent duty to ensure just compensation exceeds $0 when the government takes a real property right and whether the Fifth A…
24-5564 Marlene Fearing v. University of Minnesota Medical Center, aka M Health Fairview Clinics, et al. Minnesota 2024-09-17 Denied constitutional-rights due-process medical-malpractice obstruction-of-justice res-ipsa-loquitur subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the state court lose subject matter jurisdiction by violating state and federal laws and committing obstruction of justice?
24-282 Minnesota RFL Republican Farmer Labor Caucus, et al. v. Mary Moriarty, in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied article-iii-standing declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young first-amendment ripeness Whether there are additional ripeness or imminence requirements under the Ex parte Young exception to Eleventh Amendment immunity in actions for decla…
24-268 Housing First Minnesota v. City of Corcoran, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2024-09-10 Denied building-permits koontz-doctrine property-rights takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions user-fees Whether valuation-based building permit fees are exempt from unconstitutional conditions analysis under Koontz and constitute 'user fees' not subject …
24-271 Jerry Arnold Westrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-09-10 Denied confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy shed-dna sixth-amendment Whether society recognizes a reasonable expectation of privacy in shed DNA under the Fourth Amendment and whether scientific testimony violates confro…
24-5381 Nathan Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-search probable-cause stop-and-frisk terry-stop Whether the Court should overrule the frisk holding of Terry v. Ohio, which allows police officers to search people absent probable cause to arrest
24-5136 John Michael Murphy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied 4th-amendment constitutional-violation contraband fourth-amendment pat-down plain-touch-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the plain-touch doctrine allows deputies to remove an unknown object from under a person's clothing when they do not believe it is a weapon or…
24A88 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require reversal of a criminal conviction due to ineffective assistance of counsel, judicial bias, and all…
24-53 Nathan Miller, et al. v. Republican Party of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2024-07-17 Denied campaign-speech civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-law content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech political-speech Whether state statutes broadly banning false campaign speech are unconstitutional content-based restrictions on political speech
24-5046 Kyle Greene, et ux. v. Meeker County Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act article-iii-judge civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-transparency legal-standing sovereign-immunity standing Does the Eleventh Amendment apply to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
23-1299 Ade Olumide v. Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2024-06-12 Denied constitutional-rights due-process mandatory-decertification open-court open-government police-misconduct press-freedom risk-of-harm transparency Question not identified.
23-7289 Robert A. Horse v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-23 Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party third-party-doctrine warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a third party's (Google's) cell phone location data violated the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights
23-7197 Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under the…
23-7131 Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-04-03 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson overnight-guest reasonable-expectation-of-privacy Does an overnight guest lose his or her reasonable expectation of privacy by engaging in criminal acts within the house?
23A829 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-13 Presumed Complete child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest Whether due process protections are violated when state child welfare investigations rely on admittedly falsified conclusions to deprive parents of fu…
23-986 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied access-to-venue association child-welfare children's-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment natural-parents rooker-feldman unlawful-confinement Did the Eighth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's Order and denying Petitioners' petition for rehearing en banc?
23-6958 Mal Pauliet Tharjiath v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-03-11 Denied civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearings judicial-review legal-standing standing Question not identified
23-960 Independence-Alliance Party of Minnesota v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied anderson-burdick ballot-access first-amendment minor-political-party nominating-petition political-participation strict-scrutiny Whether an unnecessarily confusing oath requirement in a minor political party candidate's nominating petition to gain access to the ballot is subject…
23A762 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete criminal-penalties due-process liberty-interest personal-disclosure predatory-offender sex-offender-registration Whether a state's mandatory sex offender registration scheme that requires extensive personal disclosures and imposes criminal penalties for non-compl…
23-6617 Michael J. Harvey v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied amendment-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process free-speech judicial-review medical-assistance standing Did the DC apply de novo review to A.'s Complaint?
23-6538 Ye-Ying Cen v. Oliver Wilfred Cass Minnesota 2024-01-23 Denied alimony-tax-law cognitive-impairments due-process fairness fiduciary-duty guardian-ad-litem legal-ethics procedural-fairness spousal-support Informed-consent-breach-of-fiduciary-duty
23-6544 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2024-01-23 Denied appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process emotional-harm enhancement-factor miscarriage-of-justice prejudicial-variance sentencing-guidelines third-party-harm Does the Minnesota sentencing guidelines enhancement factor particular cruelty in relying on emotional harm to third parties instead of conduct exacte…
23-6473 Joseph Bergeron v. William Bolin, Warden, et al. Minnesota 2024-01-12 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis informa-pauperis judicial-fairness legal-obstruction minnesota-judicial-system pro-se pro-se-litigation Can the Minnesota Judicial system deny Informa Pauperis to impoverished Pro Se litigant as a means to obstruct Judicial fairness?
23-6353 Robert John Virnig v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-26 Denied 4th-amendment agency exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-informant home-office probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the District Court err in ruling that the government informant was not acting as an agent of the government when, without a warrant or an exceptio…
23-679 Gene Rechtzigel v. Green Valley Development, LLP, et al. Minnesota 2023-12-22 Denied boundary-determination constitutional-rights due-process full-and-fair-trial judicial-procedure land-boundary property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Did the state courts deprive the petitioner of due-process, property-rights, constitutional-rights, statutory-rights, full-and-fair-trial, boundary-de…
23-665 Tina Goede v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, et al. Minnesota 2023-12-20 Denied civil-rights due-process employment-policy first-amendment free-speech philosophical-choice religious-beliefs religious-sincerity state-court-review thomas-v-review-board unemployment-benefits Can a state deny unemployment benefits to an applicant whose religious beliefs are independently sufficient to cause her refusal to follow an employer…
23-657 Michelle MacDonald v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota 2023-12-18 Denied attorney-discipline attorney-speech client-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-power judicial-discipline judicial-integrity professional-conduct Whether a free speech right to impugn judicial integrity must be recognized for attorneys in order to reclaim their First Amendment Rights in invoking…
23-6262 Raymond Clyde Robideau v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-14 Denied aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-trial-waiver remand state-remand waiver Is a court required to obtain a renewed jury-trial waiver when the State amends its Aggravating Factor[s] after remand from State's Highest Court, and…
23-6201 Courtney Green v. General Mills World Headquarters, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Dismissed civil-rights due-process eavesdropping harassment intellectual-property non-consensual-monitoring privacy-violation reasonable-privacy surveillance unjust-enrichment Did the respondent General mills use these findings to duplicate a breakfast creation for mass production of its breakfast cereal brand?
23-6170 Edell Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
23A506 Michael J. Harvey v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Eighth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete extension-request filing-deadline legal-obstacles pro-se supreme-court technological-barriers Whether a pro se litigant's technological challenges, personal circumstances, and time constraints constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary …
23-6144 Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 Whether the 14th Amendment right to life was violated by the Minnesota Governor and Health Department Commissioner's actions that resulted in the deat…
23-535 Jillian Ostrewich v. Teneshia Hudspeth, in Her Official Capacity as Harris County Clerk, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied ballot-measure election-law first-amendment free-speech polling-place polling-place-censorship union voter-apparel Does a state violate the First Amendment when it censors voters' t-shirts with a union logo in a polling place because the union took a position on a …
23A406 Sylvester Cunningham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence without proper consideration of the legal argu…
23-443 MMN Infrastructure Services, LLC, Successor in Interest to Vectren Infrastructure Services Corp. v. Michigan Department of Treasury Michigan 2023-10-27 Denied corporate-disclosure extraterritorial-taxation factor-representation fair-apportionment interstate-commerce short-tax-year tax-apportionment tax-assessment temporal-element Whether a state must include in its tax apportionment formula the factors of a business giving rise to income to be taxed, and whether factor represen…
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…
23-5833 Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-18 Denied 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and the …
23A310 Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W.Y. and S.Y. v. Lamont Marzolf, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete dashcam-footage excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment taser-threat Whether Scott v. Harris's narrow exception to the summary judgment standard—permitting courts to resolve disputed facts when video evidence is blatant…
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-03 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent defendants against public defenders?
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure Whether the analytical home for § 1983 unreasonable seizure claims involving only postconviction incarceration for 'violating' an inapplicable law is …
23-5610 Justin D. Shackelford v. University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-09-19 Denied ada administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment federal-employment standing state-agency state-federal-conflict unemployment-law Can a state agency make an unemployment determination that contradicts the federal Americans with Disabilities Act?
23-168 American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied civil-rights climate-change climate-change-litigation due-process federal-common-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction interstate-emissions removal-jurisdiction standing state-law-claims Whether a federal district court has removal jurisdiction over putative state-law claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by the effect o…
23-5403 Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in…
23-143 Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association v. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Minnesota 2023-08-16 Denied california-standards california-waiver clean-air-act environmental-law federal-preemption maintenance-plans national-ambient-air-quality-standards nonattainment-areas state-regulation vehicle-emission-standards vehicle-emissions Whether Minnesota qualifies to adopt California's vehicle emission standards under the Clean Air Act
23-70 Traffic Tech, Inc., et al. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied anti-waiver-statute choice-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights full-faith-and-credit interstate-commerce state-sovereignty Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Due Process Clause require a State, which has its own Anti-Waiver Statute, to uphold a sister State's…
23-5129 Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota Minnesota 2023-07-18 Denied civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria Whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights
23-43 Christopher M. Hunt, Sr. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Georgia 2023-07-14 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-laws court-preemption due-process federal-jurisdiction foreclosure-dispute judicial-review jurisdiction-conflict preemption state-jurisdiction supersedeas-bond whistleblower-protection When there is admitted by courts conflict between the federal courts and state courts on such all-important matters such as jurisdiction, which court …
22-7888 Desean Lamont Thomas, nka Pharaoh El-Forever Left-I Amen El v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-06-28 Denied due-process economic-barrier expert-testimony expert-witness indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se strickland-standard If a state conditions satisfying Strickland's first prong, on the testimony of two privately funded expert witnesses against a indigent pro se prisone…
22-7845 Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools Eighth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure inadvertence judicial-relief mistake mistake-of-law rule-60 summary-judgment surprise Whether Petitioner Daniel Coleman Rule 60 is timely under Federal rules of Procedure Rule 60?
22A1071 American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-06-13 Presumed Complete None
22A1058 Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-06-06 Presumed Complete None
22-7694 Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-02 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's RICO and BIVENS complaints
22-7570 Gideon Charles Arrington v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-05-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence fraud legal-ethics legal-system standing statute-of-limitations time-bar Can the use of false evidence (which is fraud) be time/knaffla barred?
22-1005 Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters Minnesota 2023-04-17 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in qualified immunity cases?
22-981 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-04-10 Denied brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-of-access right-of-access-to-court Whether the court of appeals erred and violated petitioner's due process right
22A837 Desean Lamont Thomas, aka Pharaoh El-Forever Left-I Amen El v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-03-23 Presumed Complete None
22-836 Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing Whether a Federal Court in a claim filed under Section 1983 can void a disbarment judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in which the disbarred …
22-6860 Shavelle Oscar Chavez-Nelson v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain property-rights regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
22-6778 Mi-in-gun Justin Charette, aka Justin Marshall Critt v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-02-14 Denied criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custodial-questioning fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-rights Whether the prophylactic rules announced in Miranda v. Arizona allow a suspect to request that counsel be present for questioning when the suspect is …
22A691 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-02-01 Presumed Complete None
22-702 Joseph D. Rued v. Catrina M. Rued Minnesota 2023-01-27 Denied child-abuse child-custody due-process evidence family-law judicial-discretion sexual-abuse standard-of-review therapist-testimony Whether the District Court's affirmative conclusion that sexual abuse did not occur denied due process to the father and child
22A666 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-01-24 Presumed Complete None
22-6583 Keith Melillo v. City and County of Rice, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied arrest-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest law-enforcement standing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to be free from false arrest and the courts discriminated against the petitioner as a disabled person
22-626 Hazem M. Hamdan, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-01-09 Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty informed-consent medicaid-regulations medical-ethics medicare-medicaid patient-rights Are complainants to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry entitled to statutory due-process?
22-6380 Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Minnesota 2022-12-22 Denied administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
22-544 Innovation Sciences, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied 35-usc-102 anticipation anticipatory-reference clear-and-convincing clear-and-convincing-evidence invention patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity prior-art Whether an inference that a device that could have existed before the invention thereof by an inventor is properly treated as an anticipatory referenc…
22A521 Akpene Asempa v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-12-13 Presumed Complete None
22-6079 Teshome Sok Sameru v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence self-incrimination witness Does a 9-1-1 caller become a witness, especially after giving statements to the police which the state conceded were inadmissible?
22-6080 James David Wren v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-11-16 Denied affidavit civil-procedure declaration financial-status in-forma-pauperis poverty Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
22-438 Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied 5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims
22-5966 Malachi Henessey Rodriguez v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-11-01 Denied burden-of-proof character-evidence civil-rights coercion consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission reasonable-doubt The state failure to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner used coercion
22-394 Eric Brown, et al. v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 5, AFL-CIO, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied 42-usc-1983 agency-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-liability first-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense section-1983 Does defendants' good-faith reliance on a state law before it was held unconstitutional shield them from damages liability for taking agency fees from…
22-5921 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Dismissed civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process grand-jury indictment mandamus personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court lacked subject-matter and personal jurisdiction in the petitioner's criminal proceedings
22-5789 Rodney Donta Jackson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-10-07 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juror-misconduct post-verdict-hearing post-verdict-hearings public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extend to postverdict hearings investigating potential juror misconduct?
22-317 Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law?
22-5714 Tracy Alan Zornes v. William Bolin, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of-1 courtroom-closure criminal-procedure partial-courtroom-closure presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire waller-test waller-v-georgia Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996…
22-5664 Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-09-23 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-modification medical-records mental-health statutory-interpretation Did the alteration of the receiving hospital report by Judge Burke as mandated by Minn. Stat. § 253B.12 (1990) violate substantive law?
22-249 Chambers Self-Storage Oakdale, LLC v. Washington County, Minnesota Minnesota 2022-09-16 Denied assessment assessment-methodology constitutional-claim discovery due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-tax unequal-assessment Does the right to Due Process prohibit a State from depriving real property taxpayers the right to conduct discovery of assessment data and methods, t…
22-182 Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition 22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor…
22-166 Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-23 Judgment Issued civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine excessive-fines government-forfeiture property-rights takings-clause tax-debt Whether the government's retention of surplus proceeds from the sale of a home to satisfy a tax debt violates the Takings Clause
22-5351 Gary Lee Johnson v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federalism legal-standing sovereign-immunity standing state-procedure takings When is State Sovereignty allowed to override a U.S. citizen's unalienable rights?
22-119 Christian Action League of Minnesota, et al., v. Mike Freeman, in His Official Capacity as Hennepin County Attorney Eighth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution due-process enforcement-authority free-speech pre-enforcement-challenge standing Whether, if a law authorizes both private and public enforcement, and a credible threat of private enforcement exists, a plaintiff may bring a pre-enf…
22-5309 Saddam Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief Did the lower courts err by suppressing evidence after a state court ruling?
22A96 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-08-03 Presumed Complete None
22-35 Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied 14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property Whether the burden of proof with clear and convincing evidence was improperly imposed on the plaintiff
22A15 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Minnesota 2022-07-06 Presumed Complete None
21-8224 Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of …
21-1552 Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large Eighth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops Whether courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his authority before proceeding to the qualified-immunity anal…
21-7930 Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools Eighth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied civil-procedure fraud inherent-authority jurisdiction relief voluntary-dismissal Whether trial courts have jurisdiction or inherent authority to grant relief from a voluntary dismissal in which there have been allegations of fraud …
21-7924 Timothy S. Smith v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Eighth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process pro-se standing Whether the courts of Minnesota have the authority to deny a pro se litigant's request for appointment of counsel in a civil rights case
21-7868 Lee Michael Pederson v. Phillip Frost, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied calder-v-jones civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction intentional-interference personal-jurisdiction venue-transfer witness-tampering Does Minnesota have the power to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Phillip Frost and CoCrystal Pharma, Inc. under Calder v Jones, where the…
21A712 Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-11 Presumed Complete None
21-7732 Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest Whether the court of appeals properly assessed prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation
21-7478 Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied 1st-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts standing takings Whether Bikoner is being deprived of his civil rights by the capital courts' denial of due process of law
21-7108 Kevin Stephen Ryan v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-02-14 Denied 1st-amendment civil-rights content-based-restriction free-speech government-regulation prior-restraint Whether the government's restriction on the petitioner's speech violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech
21-6734 Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-12-28 Denied constitutional-law counsel-concession criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process factual-innocence right-to-counsel trial-strategy Does McCoy apply where the defendant made clear to counsel the objective of the defense is to maintain innocence, only for counsel to then concede gui…
21-937 Christopher Lee Holloway v. Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied based solely on the relative age of the actor violates the constitutional right to equal-protec while permitting it to another affirmative-defense age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law legislative-intent rational-basis Whether the denial of an affirmative defense to one class of offenders in a criminal case
21-834 Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party Whether a government can threaten criminal prosecution against voters who sign petitions supporting minor political party candidates without notice th…
21-6353 Stephen Allwine v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-11-19 Denied access-to-courts court-funding due-process equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief Did the Trial Court err in denying In Forma Pauperis funding based on financial status at start of prosecution rather than post-conviction action?
21-6304 Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland Minnesota 2021-11-16 Dismissed 14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to an i…
21-6279 Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-11-15 Denied cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the after thirty years, the functional equivalent of a natural life s…
21-6205 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Dismissed actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under 18 U.S.C. §16(b)
21-676 Susan K. Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Center, et al. Minnesota 2021-11-05 Denied controlled-substances-act due-process federal-law medical-marijuana preemption standing state-law workers-compensation Does the Controlled Substances Act preempt an order under a state workers' compensation law requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for…
21-667 Nathan Ernest Hatch v. State of Minnesota, City of Minneapolis Metropolitan Airports Commission Minnesota 2021-11-04 Denied 2nd-amendment carry-permit civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process fundamental-rights minnesota-law second-amendment standing strict-scrutiny Whether a state statute that infringes on a U.S. citizen's Second Amendment fundamental rights must be subjected to strict scrutiny analysis
21-6165 Davenell L. Ash v. Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process electromagnetic-harassment human-trafficking standing terrorist-watchlist whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation Did the United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit deny Ms. Ash of her 14th amendment right of due process
21-431 Grant Lloyd Greenwood v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-09-21 Denied due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel, and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, are violated
21-312 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General Ohio 2021-08-31 Denied clean-air-act emission-standards epa-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system…
21-5364 Tyrone Cammon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson payton-v-new-york probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure steagald-v-united-states third-party-residence warrantless-entry Whether Steagald v. United States protects an arrestee in a third party's residence
21-5313 In Re Juan Luis Leonor 2021-08-09 Dismissed collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-retroactivity-test retroactivity second-degree-murder state-v-ronald-smith sudden-quarrel-provocation supreme-court-review teague-standard Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court's decision not to hold State v. Ronald-Smith retroactive confines the petitioner to a lesser remedy than what the U…
21-127 Adolfo Gutierrez Avila Jr. v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied a person of color violate his fundamental-federal-rights 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct systemic-racism Where judicial misconduct targeted Petitioner
21-5194 Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause Judicial-officers-acting-beyond-judicial-capacities
21-5182 Pedro Ray Tejeda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-07-22 Denied ammunition constitutional-rights criminal-possession criminal-procedure due-process firearm jury-instruction possession trial-procedure unanimous-verdict Must my conviction for Ineligible Person in Poss. of Ammo or firearm be reversed, remanded for new trial and or vacated based on Unanimous Verdict iss…
20-8434 Robert L. Henning v. Michigan State Treasurer Michigan 2021-06-24 Denied asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process enforcement-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries legal-jurisdiction michigan-court post-judgment-enforcement state-treasurer Did the state treasurer violate jurisdictional boundaries by proceeding to seize petitioner's assets held in Minnesota without filing a post judgment …
20-1714 William Joseph Mooney, et ux. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied administrative-procedure article-iii courts-of-the-united-states due-process federal-register iRS-collection legal-notice real-party-of-interest standing substantive-regulations united-states united-states-of-america Who has Standing against the Mooneys as the Plaintiff and being the as the Real Party of Interest in the 'Courts of the United States' arising under A…
20-1635 Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-24 Denied civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s…
20-1626 Robert L. Schulz v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-response historical-practice judicial-review petition-clause right-to-petition Whether the forerunners to this case were fully, fairly and completely litigated
20-8088 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-20 Dismissed actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington Whether the lower court erred in denying appellant's motion
20-8089 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-20 Dismissed civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing Whether pro-se-litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled-litigants
20-8090 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-20 Denied actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel larrison-v-united-states newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct recantations witness-recantation Whether Petitioner Is Entitled To An Acquittal Or New Trial On The Newly Discovered Exonerating Evidence Showing Actual Innocence Based On Recantation…
20-1583 Jeffrey Olson v. Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue Minnesota 2021-05-14 Denied administrative-procedure appeal commissioner-order commissioner's-order due-process mail-notice ordinary-mail procedural-due-process tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-procedure Whether issuance of a Commissioner's order by ordinary mail meets constitutional requirements of procedural due process
20-7881 Steven Lynn Oppel v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-04-28 Denied 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-misconduct judicial-reputation wrongful-conviction Are Minnesota courts more interested in protecting a judge's reputation than the constitutional rights of the people?
20-1447 Kenneth R. Kunzer v. Lisa A. Hiniker, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied breach-of-trust civil-procedure embezzlement estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraud probate probate-law resulting-trust testamentary-intent trust-administration Issue being raised
20-1379 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Center for Investigative Reporting Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied categorical-ban commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-speech political-speech public-forum supreme-court-precedent transit-advertising transit-authority Whether this Court's decision in Mansky overruled or abrogated the Court's holding in Lehman that transit authorities have the discretion to categoric…
20-7643 Nafis Antuan Faison v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied 28-usc-2254 arrest-warrant constitutional-standard expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus minnesota-v-olson probable-cause standing third-party-residence Whether the federal court impermissibly added an element to the expectation-of-privacy standard for a third-party overnight guest, in violation of 28 …
20-7563 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied 28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution whether-federal-court-has-authority-to-order-release-of-state-prisoner
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim
20-7514 Aimee Johnson v. St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied bias child-welfare civil-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-allegations ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias parental-rights recusal Can a judge preside over a case when he or she is biased? Or when they are friends with the parties involved? Can a person have a fair trial when they…
20-7389 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability covid-19 covid-19-impact due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Whether the district court applied an incorrect standard of review
20-7390 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law Whether the Supreme Court holding in Session v. Dimaya vacates administrative charges under the 'residual clause' of 18 U.S.C. §16(b)
20-1155 Jonas David Nelson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-02-23 Denied cognitive-deficits cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mental-illness proportionality proportionality-review Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evidenc…
20-1091 Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. New York 2021-02-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minnesota State Bd. for Community Colls. v. Knight, 465 US. 271 (1984)
20-7089 Kemen Lavatos Taylor, II v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied constitutional-scrutiny courtroom-closure courtroom-closures eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals judicial-procedure minnesota-supreme-court public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee contains a triviality exception
20-7028 Amos Mast, et al. v. Fillmore County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2021-02-03 GVR compelling-interest government-interest judicial-review least-restrictive-alternative religious-freedom rluipa strict-scrutiny When applying strict scrutiny under RLUIPA, can lower courts rely upon an admission that an interest is compelling generally, or must they require the…
20-1046 Marin Housing Authority v. Kerrie Reilly California 2021-02-01 Denied administrative-law annual-income developmental-disability housing-assistance income-calculation medicaid-funding medicaid-payments personal-caregiving public-housing Whether a public housing authority, in calculating a family's annual income, is required by this regulation to exclude Medicaid-funded payments made t…
20-7003 Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-02-01 Denied 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion?
20-1019 Jade Thompson v. Marietta Education Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied civil-rights compelled-association first-amendment free-speech knight-v-minnesota labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees representative-advocacy Whether it violates the First Amendment to designate a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who object to its advocacy on th…
20-994 Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. v. The Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied clean-air-act emission-standards federal-authority federal-regulation nationwide-updates preemption state-law state-regulation vehicle-emissions vehicle-regulation Whether the Clean Air Act preempts state and local governments from regulating manufacturers' post-sale, nationwide updates to vehicle emission system…
20-6858 Benjamin Mario Soto v. AFSCME Union Council 5 Local 12181, et al. Minnesota 2021-01-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct state-constitution employment-contractual-due-process-property-rights
20-6784 Abdisalan Abulahab Hussein v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied civil-rights due-process fraud insurance insurance-claims mail-fraud medical-necessity patient-referral scheme-to-defraud standing wire-fraud Whether a defendant can be convicted of mail and wire fraud where the purported victim insurance companies were not deprived of money or property beca…
20-875 Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified-immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine-issue-…
20-864 Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II Minnesota 2020-12-30 Denied child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement Whether the Minnesota courts' refusal to acknowledge the ultimate outcome of Convention proceedings by a Contracting State and declining to afford com…
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-6611 John Paul Mullaney v. University of St. Thomas Minnesota 2020-12-11 Denied academic-sanctions censorship civil-rights discovery discovery-rule due-process ferpa fifth-amendment Is the intent of FERPA to protect the privacy of student and faculty as a preliminary subsociety, not use 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(B)G&ii) in a punitiv…
20-641 LSP Transmission Holdings, LLC v. Katie Sieben, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause electric-utilities electricity-transmission interstate-commerce market-preference state-law state-regulation transmission-lines Whether a state law that grants an express preference to entities with an existing in-state presence to build facilities serving a distinctly intersta…
20-612 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2020-11-05 Denied ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections Whether Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election statutes are repugnant to the First and …
20-6188 Joshua Chiazor Ezeka v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-11-03 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning plain-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's custodial statements should be suppressed due to lack of Miranda warning
20A81 Minnesota Voters Alliance, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-30 Presumed Complete None
20-541 James MacDonald v. Louis E. Kempinsky, et al. California 2020-10-23 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection petition-for-redress Question not identified
20-537 Jeffrey J. Walker, et al. v. Minnesota Commissioner of Management and Budget Minnesota 2020-10-22 Denied due-process exactions just-compensation land-use-permit special-assessments subdivision takings unconstitutional-conditions Do States or their agencies or subdivisions have the power to require the waiver of just compensation for land taken by special assessments, exactions…
20-441 Minnesota Sands, LLC v. County of Winona, Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-06 Denied commerce-clause discrimination interstate-commerce mineral-rights mining permitting-requirements property-interest property-rights state-regulation takings-clause Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are com…
20-5895 Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-02 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due process