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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6644 | James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | constitutional-limits criminal-prosecution foreign-commerce-clause international-law territorial-jurisdiction treaty-power | Has America become so great that it need not consider due process, comity among nations, follow international law, or fulfill its treaty obligations? … |
| 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 | Question not identified. |
| 25A809 | Richard Saddler v. Matthew Hearne, et al. | Missouri | 2026-01-13 | Application | counsel-withdrawal due-process financial-disclosure missouri-supreme-court-rule pro-se state-court-procedure | Question not identified. |
| 25A790 | United States v. Cotter Corp., N.S.L. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Application | government-indemnification nuclear-liability price-anderson-act radioactive-materials third-party-beneficiary tucker-act | Question not identified. |
| 25-6461 | Michael Anthony Christopher Cochren, II v. White Castle System, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | court-clerk-duties default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure record-falsification service-of-summons waiver-of-service | Introductory Statement: White Castle System, Inc.'s redundant counsel improperly waived service, outside of FRCP 4(d), and nullified a summons. This c… |
| 25-748 | Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez | Second Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | aedpa jury-deliberations jury-instruction pretrial-suppression seibert-rule state-court-findings | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from invalidating a state conviction unless there is both a legal e… |
| 25-718 | Missouri, ex rel. Sylvia Pride v. Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District | Missouri | 2025-12-18 | Pending | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fabrication open-records property-interest | When a state appellate court ignores the undisputed facts of an appeal and expressly decides an appeal on different, even opposite facts, does the res… |
| 25A706 | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services | Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law |
| 25A689 | Edward Allen Moore v. Gregory Hancock, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Application | certificate-of-appealability court-access eighth-circuit habeas-corpus prison-library pro-se-litigation | Whether a state prison's library copy limit impermissibly burdens an incarcerated individual's constitutional right of access to the courts |
| 25A683 | Monsanto Company v. Daniel Anderson, et al. | Missouri | 2025-12-10 | Application | cancer-warning failure-to-warn fifra-preemption glyphosate pesticide-labeling punitive-damages | Whether federal law through the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) expressly or impliedly preempts state-law failure-to-warn … |
| 25-6315 | Jasper Phillip Rushing v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-12-08 | Pending | capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process fundamental-error preservation-doctrine shackling | 1. Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in concluding that Mr. Rushing failed to preserve below? 2. If the claim was unpreserved, did the unjustified vi… |
| 25-6185 | John Pearl Smith, II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | distinctive-groups duren-test fair-cross-section jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion | 1. Is the Sixth Amendment right to a jury that represents a fair cross-section of the community violated where a defendant identifies a specific syste… |
| 25A592 | William Dahl v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation | Whether the judicially-created 'Dost factors' used to determine the 'lascivious exhibition' of minors in child pornography cases are constitutionally … |
| 25-6031 | Michael McAfee v. Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure | THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF A HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDING IS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT A MAN IS NOT UNJUSTEY IMPISONED; AND IF FOR SOME UNJUSTIFIABLE REASONS AS IN… |
| 25-6025 | Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | None | Mr. Nathan was sixteen years old at the time of his crimes. He was certified as an adult and tried for first degree murder and related offenses. He wa… |
| 25A498 | Matthew Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Application | indian-commerce-clause internet-loans rico sovereign-immunity state-regulation tribal-lending | Whether the Indian Commerce Clause permits states to regulate internet-based loans originated by tribal lenders on an Indian reservation when the borr… |
| 25-5957 | Katherine Contejean v. Ameren Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A475 | Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2025-10-24 | Application | certiorari death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction supreme-court | Whether the state of Nebraska provides an adequate post-conviction process for death row inmates consistent with federal constitutional standards |
| 25A456 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Eighth Circuit's harmless error analysis in sentencing guidelines calculations improperly prevents meaningful appellate review and conflic… |
| 25-5869 | Lance Shockley v. Richard Adams, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-13 | Denied | death-penalty free-exercise missouri-law ramirez-precedent religious-rights spiritual-advisor | 1. Does the State of Missouri's decision to deny a condemned his choice of spiritual advisor solely on the basis of the individual's familial relation… |
| 25-424 | Patricia Ashton Derges v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-violations due-process judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether seven constitutional violations — including violations of the Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments — over 120 Brady violations, and more t… |
| 25A389 | InfoDeli, LLC, a Missouri LLC, et al. v. Western Robidoux, Inc., a Missouri Corporation, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | burden-of-proof copyright-law expert-testimony pleading-standards saas-services software-copyright | Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of copyright law for software and SaaS services improperly shifts the burden of proof and pleading standar… |
| 25-5732 | Jeremy Baum v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-09-25 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent | Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and violates … |
| 25A333 | Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus pro-bono supreme-court-rule | Whether the Eighth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability in a federal habeas corpus petition improperly restricted the petitioner's right… |
| 25-5644 | Derrick Murphy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | constitutional-limits federal-authority missouri-v-holland necessary-and-proper-clause state-prerogatives treaty-power | Do constitutional structural limits on federal authority impose constraints on the scope of Congress authority to enact legislation to implement a val… |
| 25A301 | Michael Anthony Christopher Cochren, II v. White Castle System, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a one-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari meets the legal standard for good caus… |
| 25-5588 | Terry Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | criminal-procedure judicial-involvement lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure | Does the prohibition on judicial involvement in plea discussions extend to a district court inviting a defendant's questions about sentencing exposure… |
| 25A262 | Vincent Cannady v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge | Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n… |
| 25-5531 | In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy | 2025-09-03 | Denied | habeas-corpus mandamus panel-rehearing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari | Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Sixth Circuit to fulfill its obligation to fully and fairly decide the merits of the timely filed petiti… | |
| 25-5488 | Missouri, ex rel. Ricardo Williams v. Thomas C. Albus, Interim United States Attorney | Missouri | 2025-08-27 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process protection-order sixth-amendment | Whether the State violated the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments by potentially depriving the petitioner of due process rights in a domestic ass… |
| 25-5345 | Arturo Navarro-Zuniga v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | confession-admissibility criminal-procedure law-review miranda-warning objective-effectiveness subjective-intent | When determining whether a confession made following a midstream Miranda warning is admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectivene… |
| 25-163 | Corrigan Clay v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause missouri-v-holland optional-protocol | Whether the Foreign Commerce Clause empowers Congress to criminalize private, non-commercial conduct that occurs entirely abroad and whether Missouri … |
| 25A145 | Jeremy Baum v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions sexual-trafficking sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether an appellate court's affirmance of a criminal conviction on a legal ground not presented to the original jury constitutes a violation of the d… |
| 25-134 | Jannie Robinson Tisdell v. Elizabeth Bryne Hogan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, City of St. Louis, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Dismissed | bankruptcy-jurisdiction core-bankruptcy-estate due-process fraud-debt property-dispute subject-matter-jurisdiction | May a State Court have subject matter jurisdiction to hear a case over a property dispute if creditor subsequently filed a core proof of claim in an a… |
| 25-109 | Hong Thu Nguyen v. Chris McBee, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | arson certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insurance-fraud | Whether a certificate of appealability should be issued to review the district court's application of the Due Process Clause regarding financial evide… |
| 25-5195 | Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. | Missouri | 2025-07-25 | Denied | declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court | Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduciary … |
| 25-5177 | Aaron Edward Meier v. Aaron Williams, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-ethics supremacy-clause | Does a state judge's refusal to follow federal law and a prosecutor's claim that 'the Republic is dead' violate due process and the Supremacy Clause? |
| 25A22 | Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor | Second Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's multiple petitions for certiorari from different circuit court judgments should be considered timely under the 90-day stat… |
| 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… |
| 24-1295 | Brandon Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentencing court should apply the plain meaning of 'expunged' when calculating a defendant's criminal history under the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 24A1266 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the rule of lenity requires courts to resolve inherent textual ambiguity when multiple circuits have reached conflicting interpretations of a … |
| 24-7447 | Gilbert Aguirre v. Department of Defense | Federal Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | administrative-procedure chevron-deference fraud-upon-court judicial-review rule-60-motion veterans-preference | Is a Rule 60 Motion for Fraud upon the Court sufficient basis for judicial intervention and review on its merits? |
| 24-7382 | Issac Jermale Fisher v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-06-09 | Denied | constitutional-significance courtroom-closure public-access structural-error trial-court-standards waller-v-georgia | When do intentional actions designed to restrict the public's entry to the courtroom constitute a closure of constitutional significance that, unless … |
| 24-1235 | Suliang Bu v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-06-04 | Denied | criminal-procedure cross-section-of-community due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment | Whether the Missouri Court of Appeals erred in holding that a jury trial waiver does not require the record to show the defendant understood all funda… |
| 24-7313 | Dallas Cody Hilt v. Chad Anderson, Sheriff, Bates County, Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-7314 | Missouri, ex rel. Jeffrey Weinhaus v. Richard Adams, Warden | Missouri | 2025-05-29 | Denied | cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus state-law summary-denial | Where State law entitles a prisoner to habeas corpus review of a Constitutional claim upon a showing of cause and prejudice, does the summary denial o… |
| 24A1159 | Jannie Robinson Tisdell v. Elizabeth Bryne Hogan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, City of St. Louis, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24A1124 | Corrigan Clay v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Presumed Complete | congressional-power extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause interstate-commerce missouri-v-holland treaty-power | Whether Congress's power under the Foreign Commerce Clause and the Treaty Power permits federal criminal prosecution for extraterritorial conduct not … |
| 24-7226 | John Adams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | constitutional-limits federal-authority missouri-v-holland state-prerogatives trafficking-victims-protection-act treaty-implementation | Do the constitutional structural limits on federal authority impose constraints on the scope of Congress authority to enact legislation to implement a… |
| 24-7178 | Douglas Turner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process incarceration-setting interrogation-context miranda-warnings supreme-court-precedent | Whether courts should treat interrogation of an incarcerated person as fundamentally equivalent to interrogation in non-incarcerated settings and whet… |
| 24-1068 | Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell | Missouri | 2025-04-09 | Granted | epa-approval failure-to-warn fifra-preemption pesticide-regulation product-labeling state-law-claim | Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be… |
| 24-6943 | Noah Duncan v. The Curators of the University of Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Denied | disciplinary-procedures due-process ferpa first-amendment fourteenth-amendment student-rights | Whether a public university can use a student's disciplinary history from a private institution to impose sanctions, particularly when the history inv… |
| 24-1055 | William Becker, et al. v. City of Hillsboro, Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-law land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause | Whether the Court of Appeals improperly declined to recognize an unconstitutional regulatory taking under Nollan, Dolan, and Lucas precedents |
| 24-6914 | Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-01 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation | Whether a reasonable jurist could debate the applicability of 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) when a state court rejects a claim on procedural grounds |
| 24-6895 | Herbert Lavonne Wiggins v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | factual-findings judicial-review legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence procedural-defect writ-of-certiorari | Whether courts can refuse to adjudicate the merits of a writ when newly discovered evidence is presented and fail to make proper factual findings |
| 24-6847 | Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-03-25 | Denied | death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing | Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting … |
| 24A274 | Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. | Missouri | 2025-03-18 | Denied | actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented substantial new evidence of actual innocence after his or… |
| 24-992 | Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Pending | corporate-status eleventh-amendment higher-education public-instrumentality sovereign-immunity state-arm | Whether a state treasury's liability for an entity's judgments is the primary factor in determining state-arm status, and whether incidents of corpora… |
| 24A899 | Missouri, ex rel. Jeffrey Weinhaus v. Richard Adams, Warden | Missouri | 2025-03-18 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-6763 | Jonetta L. Grieme v. Shawn Collie, Buchanan County Drug Strike Force, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-13 | Denied | color-of-law due-process fraudulent-concealment sexual-misconduct statute-of-limitations witness-tampering | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding the petitioner's claims time-barred despite allegations of fraudulent concealment, duress… |
| 24-963 | Elvin Torres-Estrada v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion | Whether the inaccurate advice by a criminal defendant's attorney to reject a favorable plea agreement during plea negotiations, with the prosecutor's … |
| 24-947 | Chanel Wiley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure jury-prejudice ninth-circuit physical-restraints | Whether a criminal defendant whose government imposed restraint is perceptible to a jury must show actual prejudice, or whether prejudice inheres |
| 24-932 | Pierre Kory, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Pending | content-neutrality first-amendment medical-communication physician-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination | Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that all physician communications with patients are unprotected by the First Amendment is consistent with NIFLA and s… |
| 24-6578 | Donald Lee Billings v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2025-02-18 | Denied | constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment jury-selection systematic-exclusion | Whether courts can establish a clear methodology for assessing fair representation of distinctive groups in jury selection and what constitutes system… |
| 24-828 | Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden | Missouri | 2025-02-04 | Denied | congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause | Whether the Supremacy Clause preempts state prosecution of a criminal defendant for killing a postal worker when Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1114 to … |
| 24A750 | Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Presumed Complete | arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality | Whether an entity created by a state to perform essential public functions qualifies as an 'arm of the state' entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign… |
| 24-796 | Missouri, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-review standing state-sovereignty tenth-amendment | Can federal courts second-guess a State's 'reason' for exercising Tenth Amendment authority? |
| 24-770 | Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment | Whether a hostile work environment claim under Title VII requires proof of 'severe or pervasive' harassment when Muldrow suggests only 'some injury' i… |
| 24-6307 | In Re Bryan Lee Gregory | 2025-01-15 | Denied | constitutional-duty due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the United States federal court system has a constitutional duty to review and reach the merits of a subject matter jurisdiction challenge in … | |
| 24-6118 | Ezekiel Isiah Delgado v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | confession-admissibility criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights supreme-court-precedent | Did the Court of Appeal unreasonably apply Supreme Court Miranda precedents by admitting Delgado's second confession without curative measures after d… |
| 24-636 | Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial physical-restraints | Whether the Deck test allows a trial judge to require a litigant to wear physical restraints during a jury trial without stating specific case-related… |
| 24-601 | The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | environmental-regulation foreign-tort-claims international-comity judicial-jurisdiction sovereignty trade-promotion-agreement | Did the Eighth Circuit err in denying dismissal based on international comity and in interpreting the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement as requiring… |
| 24A476 | Missouri, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge federal-law legislative-findings standing state-resources tenth-amendment | Whether a state can withhold resources from federal law enforcement based on its legislative determination of federal law's unconstitutionality withou… |
| 24-5953 | Ellva Slaughter v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | circuit-split cross-section-representation discriminatory-intent jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion | Whether Duren's 'systematic exclusion' prong can be satisfied by proof of consistent underrepresentation or requires evidence of specific discriminato… |
| 24-507 | James Daly v. City of De Soto, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24A417 | James A. Daly v. City of DeSoto, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | employment-termination first-amendment free-speech-rights public-employee speech-retaliation temporal-proximity | Whether a public employer can terminate a public employee's employment based on First Amendment-protected speech that occurred more than a year prior … |
| 24-5840 | David R. Schachtner v. Chris Brewer, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-29 | Denied | criminal-procedure fair-trial impeachment-evidence motion-to-suppress prior-bad-acts trial-court-discretion | Whether a trial court abused its discretion by denying a motion to suppress impeachment evidence and admitting prior bad acts evidence that prejudicia… |
| 24A416 | Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden | Missouri | 2024-10-29 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance missouri-supreme-court | Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's denial of habeas relief to a criminal defendant comports with federal constitutional standards of due process and… |
| 24-5807 | Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-10-22 | Denied | brady-violation cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the State's failure to disclose impeachment evidence constitutes cause sufficient to excuse the petitioner's prior non-presentation of due pro… |
| 24-5746 | In Re Trey Tarell Bradley | 2024-10-11 | Denied | constitutional-challenge court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus self-representation state-court-procedure | Can a State summarily deny a defendant's right to self-representation and subsequently bar a constitutional challenge to such because of the defendant… | |
| 24-5632 | Laura Marie Baldwin v. Joshua Devine, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-25 | Denied | administrative-process due-process judicial-authority jurisdictional-challenge land-classification state-citizenship | Whether a state citizen can challenge the jurisdictional authority of state courts and prosecutors in classifying land and filing criminal complaints … |
| 24-5612 | Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri | Missouri | 2024-09-23 | Denied | capital-punishment constitutional-error due-process jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination | Whether due process requires reversal when a prosecutor concedes constitutional errors in a capital conviction and no longer seeks to defend the case |
| 24A290 | Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri | Missouri | 2024-09-23 | Denied | capital-crime death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay innocence-project new-evidence | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented new evidence potentially exculpating him from the underly… |
| 24-5561 | Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. | Missouri | 2024-09-18 | Denied | capital-punishment clemency-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process executive-discretion state-procedure | Whether the State of Missouri will deprive Williams of his life without due process by executing him after initiating and then terminating a special c… |
| 24A173 | Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-13 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law education-department income-contingent-repayment major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loans | Whether the Department of Education exceeded its statutory authority in modifying income-contingent student loan repayment plans through a rule that c… |
| 24-5099 | Brandan C. Bellamy v. Chanse Houghton, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-17 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hipaa hipaa-privacy malicious-prosecution privacy section-1983 standing summary-dismissal | Whether Petitioner should be given another chance to make another amended complaint |
| 22O159 | Missouri, Plaintiff v. New York | 2024-07-09 | Denied | None | ||
| 23-1247 | Duncan Abraham Goldberg v. Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | access-to-courts brain-injury brain-injury-accommodation civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-law-violation federal-laws judicial-access | On what grounds does Missouri continue to deny the fundamental civil rights of people living with Brain Injury in the Missouri Judicial System? |
| 23-7450 | Jihad A. Spann v. Missouri | Missouri | 2024-05-10 | Denied | constitutional-rights counsel-abandonment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest post-conviction-proceeding post-conviction-relief rule-29.15 state-court state-court-procedure state-law | May the due process clause require the State Courts to provide a full and fair post-conviction proceeding, if authorized by state law and as such cons… |
| 23-7397 | Diamond L. Barnes v. Felicia Adkins, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure concealed-carry constitutional-right due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure procedural-rule second-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question not identified |
| 23A970 | Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Presumed Complete | aedpa-standard capital-murder ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining | Whether the Eleventh Circuit and state courts improperly applied the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Missouri v. Frye by denying reli… |
| 23-7176 | Albert Enrique Narvaez v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-10 | Denied | constitutional-burden counterfactual-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review plea-bargaining presumption-of-acceptability prosecutorial-discretion | Does Missouri v. Frye place an unreasonable burden on defendants? |
| 23-7196 | Adam Carson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Denied | constitutional-rights first-impression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment | Whether the panel's opinion violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right by failing to accept the government's plea proposal |
| 23A890 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced individual who has demonstrated full rehabilitation and for whom the penolog… |
| 23A876 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-02 | Denied | capital-case conflict-of-interest effective-assistance flat-fee-contract ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether a capital defendant's appointed counsel's flat-fee contract constitutes an actual conflict of interest that warrants a presumption of prejudic… |
| 23-7119 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-02 | Denied | appointed-counsel capital-murder conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan flat-fee-contract ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland | Whether, where appointed counsel in a capital case had a flat-fee contract and failed to investigate or challenge a capital murder charge to the clien… |
| 23-7083 | Orlando Kim Ferguson, II v. Missouri | Missouri | 2024-03-27 | Denied | article-i-section-19 constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process missouri-constitution oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct retrial | Is the Missouri Constitution Article I; Section 19; limiting Double Jeopardy rights on retrial following intentional prosecutorial misconduct under Or… |
| 23-7080 | Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation-act rule-15d standing standing-defects supplemental-pleading | Whether the court agrees to resolve the circuit split on Rule 15(d) supplemental pleading to cure standing defects and provide reasonable accommodatio… |
| 23-6993 | Leon Akins v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Denied | competency-evaluation criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process dusky-v-united-states judicial-review mental-competency record-evidence trial-standards | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with this Court's decisions in Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960) and Drope … |
| 23A840 | Vivian Houston, et al. v. Christopher Klaverkamp, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights court-orders dismissal due-process pro-se willful-disobedience | Whether a district court's dismissal with prejudice of a pro se civil rights action for willful disobedience of court orders violates the plaintiffs' … |
| 23A825 | Larry Muldrow v. Arkansas | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation | Whether the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause protect a pro se litigant from alleged judicial misconduct and government harassment in a c… |
| 23-6914 | Matthew W. Miller v. Dan Wilcot, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process exile fair-treatment insubordination pro-se-petition racketeering standing | Why is this case required to reach the Supreme Court? |
| 23-957 | David Michael Bishop, et al. v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-04 | Denied | administrative-investigation civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech irs irs-summons judicial-review powell-factors standing tax tax-procedure | Whether the IRS summons process is subject to quashing and constraint by the First Amendment's protections against chilling or retaliatory government … |
| 23-953 | Brandon Michael Council v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | circuit-split competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-death-penalty judicial-discretion mental-competence trial-competency | Whether a trial court may deem a defendant competent based solely on the unexplained, unsupported opinion of a defense expert or defense counsel |
| 23A753 | United States v. Ideker Farms, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-02-15 | Presumed Complete | endangered-species fifth-amendment flood-control government-action missouri-river takings-clause | Whether the government's implementation of flood control and environmental protection measures constitutes a compensable taking under the Fifth Amendm… |
| 23-6744 | Darrel R. Fisher v. Robert E. Larsen, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | 18-usc-1519 bodily-injury civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-criminal-law jurisdictional-challenge mireles-v-waco | Whether Smith was improperly sent to FMC Butner, NC 27509 |
| 23A732 | Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt, in His Individual Capacity | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Presumed Complete | first-amendment jaywalking nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement | Whether the probable-cause exception to retaliatory arrest claims under Nieves v. Bartlett can be satisfied by generalized evidence of selective enfor… |
| 23-6576 | Caitlyn Williams and Tamarae Larue v. Missouri | Missouri | 2024-01-25 | Denied | civil-rights compulsory-education constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness school-attendance statutory-construction vagueness | Whether the language 'on a regular basis' in the compulsory school attendance law is impermissibly vague in violation of due process guarantees |
| 23A672 | Samuel Fields v. Scott Jordan, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation extrinsic-evidence habeas-relief jury-deliberation sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause prohibits a jury from considering extrinsic evidence against a criminal defendant without providing… |
| 23-6455 | Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search | Whether the police officer's warrantless trespassing on the petitioner's private property was justified, and whether the petitioner's subsequent reque… |
| 23A615 | Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct | Whether the First Amendment and Americans with Disabilities Act protect a student with cognitive disabilities from being denied access to public unive… |
| 23-6379 | Terrence LaFaive v. Records Custodian, Waukesha County District Attorney | Wisconsin | 2023-12-28 | Denied | attorney-work-product civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-negotiations public-records standing | Does the Common-Law exception recognized in State ex rel. Richards v. Foust abridge the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a litigant? |
| 23-6189 | Karen Gail Brainen Kleinman v. Cynthia A. Norton, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Denied | bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions bankruptcy-procedure collateral-estoppel creditor-rights due-process judicial-immunity res-judicata stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | Whether the intent of Congress in enacting 11 U.S.C. §522(1) and Fed.R.Bankr.P. 4003(b) as interpreted by this Court's precedential and controlling de… |
| 23A516 | Ronald D. Houston, aka Hassan Blue, aka Ron Reezy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Presumed Complete | borden-precedent crime-of-violence eighth-circuit force-clause resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state law criminalizing resisting arrest constitutes a 'crime of violence' under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when the statute encompasses… |
| 23A513 | Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Presumed Complete | anti-harassment-rule first-amendment jurisdictional-inquiry mootness pre-enforcement-challenge standing | Whether a First Amendment pre-enforcement challenger lacks standing to challenge a vague anti-harassment rule based on a nonbinding, reversible enforc… |
| 23A477 | Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | capital-case certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability for all eight grounds raised in a capital habeas corpus pe… |
| 23A480 | HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | aaa-rules arbitration-agreement contract-law delegation-provision non-signatory threshold-arbitrability | Whether a non-signatory corporate parent can compel arbitration under an arbitration agreement signed by its wholly-owned subsidiary when the agreemen… |
| 23-6074 | Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-11-22 | Denied | controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession | Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy is violated when convictions and sentences are entered for unlawful use of a weapo… |
| 23-517 | Jeffrey Pratt v. Tony Helms, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Camden County, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct johnson-v-city-of-shelby meritorious-claims pleadings-doctrine | Whether the Eighth Circuit impermissibly reestablished the long-abolished pleadings doctrine |
| 23-5959 | Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law |
| 23A370 | Harold W. Clarke v. Berman Justus, Jr. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | certiorari counsel-scheduling extension-of-time habeas-litigation legal-obligations supreme-court | Whether a criminal defendant's counsel can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on competing professional obligations |
| 23-411 | Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Judgment Issued | None | |
| 23A356 | Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Presumed Complete | burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case | Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly conflates the prima facie stage of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework with the employer's legitimat… |
| 23A325 | Caitlyn Williams, et al. v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-10-12 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23-5765 | Lewis Eugene Day v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-law first-amendment free-speech grievance-procedures pursuit-of-happiness | Whether the petitioner's rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act, First Amendment, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and Civil Rights/Civil Liberties were viol… |
| 23A296 | Missouri, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23-357 | Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-10-04 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-trial jury-trial-waiver split-of-authority trial-court-discretion waiver | must a trial court obtain some personal acknowledgement from a criminal defendant that the defendant has waived the defendant's right to a jury trial … |
| 23-305 | Larry Rice v. Interfood, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | 12(b)(6) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-breach dismissal federal-jurisdiction merits missouri-law redressability standing summary-judgment | Whether a federal court can rule on the merits of a complaint or counterclaim without first ruling on standing |
| 23-5652 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter… |
| 23-5642 | Tracy Jones, aka Tracy Wilcox v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights missouri-v-seibert presentment | Whether a 37-day delay in presentment requires dismissal under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment? |
| 23A243 | Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Presumed Complete | content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-speech injunction social-media | Whether the First Amendment prohibits the federal government from communicating with social media platforms regarding the removal or suppression of us… |
| 23-203 | Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney | Missouri | 2023-09-05 | Denied | batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors |
| 23A191 | Anthony Kinney v. Supreme Court of New Hampshire | New Hampshire | 2023-08-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review attorney's-fees caperton-standard conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal | Whether a state trial judge's failure to recuse himself despite a financial interest in a party's law firm, combined with sua sponte ordering of unnec… |
| 23-5439 | Steven Huffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony | Whether knowing conduct not intentionally designed to harm a targeted person satisfies the force clause definition of violent felony in 924(e)(2)(B)(1… |
| 23-5243 | Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-07-31 | Denied | capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ford-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mental-competency panetti-v-quarterman procedural-fairness | Whether a report from a qualified neuropsychiatrist that a condemned prisoner is incompetent for execution that is not contradicted by any qualified e… |
| 23-5244 | Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-31 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 capital-punishment competency-to-be-executed death-penalty delusional-beliefs habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness panetti-standard state-court-review | Whether the state court's finding that the petitioner did not meet the Panetti threshold for incompetence to be executed was unreasonable under 28 U.S… |
| 23A93 | Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-07-31 | Denied | death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness panetti-competency | Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause prohibit executing a prisoner who, due to severe mental illness, lacks rational understanding of t… |
| 23A63 | Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-07-24 | Denied | brady-violation due-process-clause habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence | Whether a state court's denial of a Brady claim alleging prosecutorial suppression of material impeachment evidence, without explanation or argument, … |
| 23A65 | Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-07-24 | Presumed Complete | bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a waiver of the right to a jury trial in a criminal proceeding must be made personally by the defendant, or … |
| 23A57 | Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eighth-amendment-sentencing federal-standards jerome-presumption sentencing-guidelines | Whether the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) should be interpreted according to federal standards or permits applic… |
| 23A42 | Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Presumed Complete | clearly-established first-amendment legal-observers qualified-immunity retaliation section-1983 | Whether the First Amendment protects individuals from government retaliation for wearing identifying apparel as legal observers and for unobtrusively … |
| 23-5114 | Leroy C. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 22-1248 | Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | administrative-procedure constitutional executive-order greenhouse-gas procedural-injury regulatory social-cost sovereign-interests standing standing-doctrine statutory | Whether the Petitioning States' alleged harms to their proprietary and sovereign interests (as well as a completed procedural injury) are sufficient t… |
| 22A1112 | Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney | Missouri | 2023-06-23 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22A1113 | Missouri Office of Administration, et al. v. Missouri Corrections Officers Association, et al. | Missouri | 2023-06-23 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-7769 | Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden | Missouri | 2023-06-13 | Denied | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion | Mandatory-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders |
| 22-7755 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws | Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 22-7741 | Rudy Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warning miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination supreme-court | When determining whether statements made after a midstream Miranda warning are admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectiveness or… |
| 22-7700 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-04 | Denied | death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus juror-disqualification jury-selection procedural-claim state-concealment statutory-disqualification statutory-violation voir-dire | Whether a federal petition raising a Hicks v. Oklahoma, 447 U.S. 348 (1980) claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) |
| 22-7699 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-06-02 | Denied | due-process illiteracy juror-qualification juror-qualifications jury-selection missouri-law right-to-fair-trial voir-dire | Did the Missouri Supreme Court's failure to enforce Missouri's mandatory exclusion from the jury of persons who cannot read or write violate Mr. Tisiu… |
| 22-7652 | Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-26 | Denied | constitutional-rights counsel-communication criminal-procedure deadline-extension effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment duty to communicate a plea offer extends to communicating a plea offer deadline extension |
| 22-7621 | Jerry Elkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | civil-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-fraud interstate-commerce jury-instructions rico-violation | Whether the convictions were proper due to lack of federal jurisdiction |
| 22-1070 | Stanford James Stelle, III v. California | California | 2023-05-04 | Denied | competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review | Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 22A900 | Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-7185 | Brandon Scott Donaldson v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-04-03 | Denied | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky but-for-cause civil-rights fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike pretext race-neutral race-neutral-explanation systematic-underrepresentation | Whether a peremptory challenge complies with Batson if a prosecutor voiced a race-neutral explanation for his strike in addition to pretextual, improp… |
| 22-7150 | Courtney Green v. Fox Corporation | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | civil-rights cyber-stalking defamation defamation-of-character invasion-of-privacy media-exploitation non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance unfair-business-practices | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios |
| 22-7151 | Courtney Green v. ABC Entertainment Inc. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | civil-rights cyber-stalking data-collection defamation electronic-communications-privacy invasion-of-privacy non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance | Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios |
| 22-7107 | In Re Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. | 2023-03-24 | Denied | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ministerial-duty missouri-supreme-court res-judicata section-1983 standing state-actor | Whether the state's highest court's denial of mandamus relief based on an unconstitutional unwritten policy violated the petitioner's civil rights | |
| 22-7083 | Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | 12b-6-dismissal 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse standing | Whether the petitioner received a fair and impartial proceeding that led to the 12(b)(6) dismissal of his civil rights complaint |
| 22A835 | Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-6920 | Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-03-03 | Denied | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction of the defendant for violating a court order when the defendant had not seen and was no… |
| 22-841 | Christopher H. West v. Robert May, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sandin-v-conner sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel | Question not identified |
| 22-6891 | Joseph Dingler v. Texas | Texas | 2023-02-28 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech indigent-defendant post-conviction-relief standing takings trial-transcript voting | Question not identified |
| 22-6713 | Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center | Missouri | 2023-02-06 | Denied | actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence | Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cognizable constitutional claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-648 | Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | due-process equal-protection forfeiture judicial-discretion ninth-circuit padgett-fraud pre-filing-order pro-se pro-se-appeals waiver | Whether the Ninth Circuit has been denying Due Process by applying a purportedly categorical rule |
| 22-569 | In Re Christopher Dunn | 2022-12-20 | Denied | actual-innocence clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process freestanding-actual-innocence habeas-corpus lincoln-v-cassady missouri post-conviction-relief | Does innocence matter? | |
| 22-510 | Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detainee-death due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct police-restraint qualified-immunity | Whether officers are entitled to qualified immunity when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and push into his back until… |
| 22A463 | Kevin Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-11-29 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22A414 | Kevin Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-11-10 | Denied | None | |
| 22-5993 | Malik Ross v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona… |
| 22-413 | Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2022-11-02 | Denied | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law | Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1? |
| 22A383 | Karen Gail Brainen Kleinman v. Cynthia A. Norton, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-02 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-5947 | Kevin Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-10-31 | Denied | criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias | Whether the retrial and death sentence of a 19-year-old offender with mental impairments remedied the constitutional violation from the first trial wi… |
| 22-352 | Missouri v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | american-rescue-plan-act article-1-section-8 constitutional constitutional-challenge standing tax-mandate tenth-amendment treasury-interpretation | Does Missouri have standing to challenge Treasury's interpretation of the Tax Mandate as inconsistent with the law? |
| 22-312 | Michelle Chapman, Clerk, Circuit Court of Missouri, Randolph County v. Jane Doe, by Next Friend Anthony E. Rothert | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-04 | GVR | abortion-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bypass minor-rights parental-notification quasi-judicial-immunity standing | Whether Clerk Chapman was properly denied quasi-judicial immunity |
| 22-297 | Kevin Llewellyn McGhee v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | administrative-law civil-rights combat-related-injury correction-of-records disability due-process federal-claims federal-employee-rights military military-disability | Whether a Court and an armed forces board of corrections can invalidate disability laws, disregard a service member's permanent disability combat-rela… |
| 22-5602 | Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-09-19 | Denied | constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony | Whether trial counsel can be held to have an objectively reasonable strategy in not making a legal argument when he never considered that legal argume… |
| 22A220 | Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-5542 | Johnny A. Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | capital-cases certificate-of-appealability cumulative-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington wiggins-claim Wiggins-v-Smith | Whether the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained summary denials of certificates of appealability in capital cases conflicts with 28-U.S.C… |
| 22-5563 | Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2022-09-12 | Denied | collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Right to counsel |
| 22-193 | Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Judgment Issued | circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii | Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer … |
| 22-165 | Samuel M. Howard v. Office of the Special Deputy Receiver, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-filing employment judicial-discretion standing title-vii | Whether the District Court and Magistrate Judge did not consider all of the brief, filing, company witnesses, and business location and area |
| 22A146 | Michelle Chapman, Clerk, Circuit Court of Missouri, Randolph County v. Jane Doe, by Next Friend Anthony E. Rothert | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22A109 | Gary Andrews, Jr. v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-08-09 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 21A835 | Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 21-8054 | Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden | Missouri | 2022-06-03 | Denied | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation | Whether criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings should be provided a more robust right to confrontation under the due process clause, … |
| 21-8038 | Alberic Nault v. California | California | 2022-06-02 | Denied | blood-draw breath-test fourth-amendment medical-condition probable-cause search-and-seizure unconscious warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment always permits a warrantless blood draw without consideration of the totality of the circumstances |
| 21-7956 | Timothy McClendon v. Chris Brewer, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-technique miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona missouri-v-seibert sixth-amendment | Whether jurists of reason could debate the district court's conclusion that the detectives' actions were not a coordinated two-step interrogation tech… |
| 21-1463 | Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | administrative-procedure-act anti-commandeering reliance-interests spending-clause statutory-authority tenth-amendment vaccine-mandate | Whether the CMS vaccine mandate for healthcare workers violates the Administrative Procedure Act, the Spending Clause, the anti-commandeering doctrine… |
| 21-1440 | Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel | Missouri | 2022-05-13 | Denied | 2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause permit attorney sanctions for professional misconduct based on a finding of 'moral turpitude' wher… |
| 21-7660 | Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-20 | Denied | capital-habeas cumulative-errors expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness opening-statement prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether a reviewing court should consider the cumulative effect of multiple errors by trial counsel in assessing Strickland deficiency and prejudice |
| 21-7620 | Arizona Hall v. United States, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-and-race constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection federal-judiciary missouri-laws racial-discrimination | Whether white federal judges of the Eastern District of Missouri under color of Missouri laws willfully subjected petitioner based on his color and ra… |
| 21-7603 | Glen S. Evans v. Bill Stange, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence motion-to-suppress prejudice reasonable-suspicion second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence | where-the-trial-court-has-erred-and-abused-its-discretion |
| 21-7556 | Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. v. Stephen R. Clark, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | administrative-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process federal-claim federal-damages fourth-amendment governmental-privilege search-and-seizure | Does violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure give rise to a federal claim for damages |
| 21-7542 | Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden | Missouri | 2022-04-05 | Denied | capital-sentencing constitutional-rights delay-in-sentencing due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness mitigation-evidence right-to-present-evidence sentencing-delay | Whether the inordinate delay between the defendant's conviction and capital sentencing proceedings prejudiced the defendant's ability to present mitig… |
| 21-7449 | Leonard S. Taylor v. Paul Blair, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | capital-punishment capital-trial closing-argument ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan mccoy-v-louisiana nixon-v-florida sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington | Whether the decision to forego a closing argument in the penalty phase of a capital murder trial is a tactical decision for trial counsel to make or a… |
| 21-7154 | John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Under the prejudice analysis in Missouri v. Frye and Strickland v. Washington, does the acceptance of a later, less favorable plea show prejudice even… |
| 21-7042 | Craig Nelsen v. Southern Poverty Law Center | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-02 | Denied | actual-malice constitutional-protection defamation diversity-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech public-figure summary-judgment | Whether the US Court for the 8th Circuit wrongly allowed the District Court's improper statement of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling |
| 21-1053 | Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference | Whether the Seventh Circuit's invalidation of Wilber's conviction comports with the limits on federal authority to overturn State convictions under th… |
| 21-6963 | Vincent X. Lee, aka Imam M. Khalifa Al-Amin v. Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Dismissed | administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese… |