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25A895 Charles Kakembo Sessanga v. City of DeSoto Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Application civil-rights criminal-prosecution malicious-prosecution pro-se-plaintiff probable-cause section-1983 Whether a plaintiff can successfully bring a malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when acquitted of criminal charges and alleging lack o…
25A854 Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violation excessive-force jury-verdict municipal-liability section-1983 supervisory-liability Whether a municipality or supervisor can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the absence of an underlying constitutional violation by an individu…
25-6683 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending due-diligence evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence-claim schlup-standard May evidence of innocence be 'new' under Schlup even if it was available at the time of trial?
25-889 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2026-01-29 Pending administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Did the court exceed their authority by affirming the concerning practice of agencies and courts acting outside their own statutory laws, when determi…
25A846 Marion Alexander Lindsey v. South Carolina South Carolina 2026-01-23 Application capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a court to consider the cumulative effect of mitigating evidence when assessing an ineffective assistance of coun…
25A684 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Application capital-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated by sustained conflicts between lead and co-counsel…
25A682 Medical Staffing of America, LLC, dba Steadfast Medical Staffing, a Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lori Chavez-Deremer, Secretary of Labor Fourth Circuit 2025-12-10 Application economic-realities-test employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor statutory-interpretation worker-status Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires courts to apply a uniform, predictable test for distinguishing between employees and independent contrac…
25-662 Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 Did the Seventh Circuit lack jurisdiction to deny qualified immunity by rewriting the factual record and creating an emergency exception to investigat…
25A640 Tetiana Semeniuk v. Abdelrahman Abouelmagd Second Circuit 2025-12-02 Application asylum-confidentiality child-protection domestic-violence family-separation immigration-law passport-restrictions Whether federal immigration law and confidentiality protections under VAWA and asylum regulations preclude forced family separation and document discl…
25A631 John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-01 Application child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin…
25A558 Chantel Mitchell v. Office Depot, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application equitable-tolling medical-emergency petition-for-certiorari pro-se statutory-deadline supreme-court-procedure Whether equitable tolling principles apply to statutory filing deadlines when a litigant experiences an extraordinary and unforeseeable family medical…
25A551 Michael Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment-benefits Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a state court decision involving federal CARES Act unemployment benefits under the Pandemic Unemp…
25A550 Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog…
25A548 Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-11-12 Application cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog…
25-6011 John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. California 2025-10-31 Denied appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer Whether a state court violates due process by issuing preemptive rulings before an appeal concludes, thereby denying a meaningful hearing
25-477 Aaron Jacob Mindiola v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied claim-construction eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-credit-reporting-act pro-se title-ii-ada Whether a federal court may dismiss a pro se complaint and deny leave to amend as 'futile' without liberally construing the allegations and performing…
25A430 Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid First Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent Whether a child's habitual residence under the Hague Convention can be modified by parental actions demonstrating shared intent to change jurisdiction…
25A403 Antonio Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete cares-act emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua state-court unemployment-benefits Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) bene…
25A364 Jwan L. Hardin v. Indiana Indiana 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete attorney-client constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's withholding of trial strategy information from a client violates the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments by rendering a guil…
25A346 Caylon James Washington v. Texas Texas 2025-09-25 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure hearsay-objection rebuttal-witness sexual-assault substantial-rights trial-court-discretion Whether the admission of a rebuttal witness's testimony over a defendant's hearsay objection constitutes a reversible error in a sexual assault prosec…
25A322 We The Patriots USA, Inc., et al v. Ventura Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete fetal-cell-lines first-amendment free-exercise religious-exemption school-attendance vaccination-mandate Whether California's mandatory school vaccination requirements violate the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause by excluding a student from school d…
25-5688 Linda Kay Twigg v. Allan Lee Twigg Maryland 2025-09-19 Denied divorce-proceedings dna-evidence evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct property-division retirement-benefits Question not identified.
25A316 Patricia M. Cornell v. Ann Cornell California 2025-09-18 Application beneficiary-rights due-process life-estate property-rights trust-interpretation trustee-actions Whether a state court's interpretation of a trust instrument that allegedly deprives a beneficiary of a life estate and right of occupancy violates du…
25-5653 Oren Lewis v. Brand Huffman, Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance juror-bias trial-counsel Whether a defendant was deprived of a fair trial due to juror concealment of relationships and ineffective assistance of counsel's failure to investig…
25A245 Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete domestic-violence expungement federal-statute firearm-possession misdemeanor-conviction restoration-of-rights Whether a state court expungement that does not completely negate a prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction qualifies as an 'expungement' under…
25-231 Jon Wynn Jarrard, Sr. v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Was the conviction obtained through false testimony in violation of the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights, and was the petitioner's right to confront…
25A229 Allen Michael Sherrill v. Michigan Michigan 2025-08-27 Presumed Complete causation criminal-homicide due-process intent involuntary-manslaughter sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant's conviction for involuntary manslaughter violated due process when the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable d…
25-230 Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied child-custody constitutional-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion school-access videotaping-rights Whether a State Judge can constitutionally ban a parent from videotaping public interactions during child custody exchanges and school-related matters
25A184 Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether law enforcement may conduct a warrantless emergency mental health detention during a traffic stop based solely on subjective observations of '…
25-152 Paul Mula, Jr. v. Alan Mula, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice-doctrine rico-statute-of-limitations trust-law Does the inquiry notice doctrine allow a court to start the RICO limitations period before discovery of any actual injury?
25A143 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance no-contest-plea plea-bargain prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant's no-contest plea precludes challenging a conviction based on undisclosed impeachment evidence about a key witness under United St…
25-5257 Eric Sean Roloson v. Washington Washington 2025-08-01 Denied criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-alternative Whether the State's misrepresentation that the victims would support a SSOSA rendered Petitioner's plea involuntary, in violation of the Due Process C…
25A134 Estate of J. B., et al. v. Howard Muser, et al. New York 2025-08-01 Presumed Complete court-appointed-guardian due-process guardianship incapacity-determination medical-decision-making nursing-home Whether a court-appointed guardian can unilaterally declare an individual incapacitated and move them to a nursing home against their expressed wishes…
25A114 Scott Breimeister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete double-jeopardy fifth-amendment governmental-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal retrial when a mistrial was sua sponte declared due to government misconduct over the defendant's o…
25-5198 Corey Lee Butts v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied None Question not identified.
25A83 Jonathan Voorhis v. Cindy Digangi, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete absolute-immunity child-protective-services civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence investigative-misconduct Whether absolute immunity shields child protective service workers from civil liability for fabricating evidence during child welfare investigations t…
25-5066 Danielle Sposito v. Linda Rollins-Threats Texas 2025-07-09 Denied 42-U.S.C.-§-1988 child-custody civil-rights judicial-immunity malicious-actions parent-facilitator Whether a parent facilitator was entitled to judicial immunity when the actions she took in a child custody case were done maliciously and in excess o…
25-5026 C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2025-07-03 Denied child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires effective assistance of counsel in a dependency proceeding where parental rights w…
25-11 Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-07-02 Denied abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance Whether the systemic failure of judicial and medical professionals to address domestic violence and child custody issues constitutes a violation of co…
24-7482 Raphael Stein, Acting on Behalf of His Minor Children J. S., Z. N., and A. Z. v. Adeena Kohn Second Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied child-abduction custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-law one-year-exception Whether an actual breach of custody rights must occur to establish wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, or if mere notice of an intended fut…
24-7312 Leavon Z. Reeves v. Oluchi Akunne Maryland 2025-05-29 Denied 14th-amendment adoption-fraud child-custody due-process social-worker-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case involving alleged adoption fraud and fraudulent testimony by a social worker that prevented th…
24-1201 Crystal Ayon, Mother of M. R. A., a Minor Child v. Austin Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied bus-transportation deliberate-indifference institutional-liability school-safety sexual-assault video-surveillance Whether a public school district acts with deliberate indifference by installing bus cameras but not live monitoring them after a prior sexual assault…
24-1153 Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-relief strickland-standard Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapply Strickland, and its progeny, by failing to consider in its 'prejudice inquiry' the unrebutted, nonc…
24-6891 Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-03-31 Denied custodial-interrogation due-process involuntary-confession mental-health-crisis right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether a statement to a corrections officer made by an individual who has just attempted suicide while in custody is 'voluntary' when the prison has …
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 …
24-1003 Adam Brook, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Judith Brook v. Joseph Ruotolo, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-violation guardianship-immunity mental-hygiene-law power-of-attorney state-actor Whether a court-appointed guardian and attorney acting under color of state law are immune from liability under 42 USC §1983 for actions that allegedl…
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…
24-6729 Justin Lang Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied acceptance-of-responsibility drug-offense felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines Whether section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban for possessing a firearm violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner?
24-919 Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock Ninth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to a police canine officer for the duration of a canine bite during an arrest of an arme…
24-6599 William J. Trengove, Jr. v. Department of Justice Third Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied appellate-court-circuit-split discretionary-function-exemption federal-tort-claims-act government-negligence legal-duty statutory-interpretation Whether the Department of Justice can claim the discretionary function exemption (DFE) under 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a) when demonstrating total negligence i…
24-6317 James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-01-15 Denied alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a …
24-746 John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied cross-examination due-process mixed-motive procedural-fairness sex-discrimination title-ix Whether Title VII's mixed-motive analysis applies to Title IX claims when a decision-maker explicitly admits to using 'sex' as a factor in determining…
24-6207 Daniel Cohen v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health-expert state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of funds for a mental health expert and refusal to hold a hearing on ineffective assistance of counsel constitutes an u…
24-6004 In Re Aliyah Monroe 2024-11-20 Denied child-custody due-process emergency-order-of-protection jurisdiction parental-rights uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-enforcement-act Whether a state court's child custody determination violates due process and jurisdictional requirements when modifying an out-of-state emergency orde…
24-410 L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied first-amendment ideological-speech personal-identity school-censorship student-speech tinker-standard Whether school officials may presume substantial disruption or a violation of the rights of others from a student's silent, passive, and untargeted id…
24-5680 P. H., Mother v. Cumberland County Children and Youth Services, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-10-02 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-health parental-rights state-court-action Was the state court's termination of parental rights based on mental health issues a violation of the fundamental constitutional right to parent under…
24-5665 Shari Lynn Oliver v. Julie A. McDonald, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights family-court-enterprise parent-child-rights racketeering title-iv-d Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged constitutional violations in a family court federal-state enter…
24-315 Troy Pasulka v. Saraa Doris Lee California 2024-09-19 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights custody-order domestic-violence due-process equal-protection Whether a state appellate court violates constitutional due process and equal protection by disregarding mandatory custody procedures and evidence of …
24-301 William French Anderson, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied business-expenses economic-espionage intellectual-property legal-deductibility sixth-amendment trade-secrets Whether attorney fees incurred in defending against a false criminal claim intended to steal intellectual property are deductible business expenses un…
24-5423 Cessaly Denise Hutchinson v. State Bar of California California 2024-08-29 Denied civil-rights corporate-liability legal-ethics medical-malpractice racial-discrimination settlement-dispute Whether a mesothelioma plaintiff alleges corporate misconduct and legal malpractice involving racial targeting and settlement manipulation
24-208 Thomas M. Gatz v. Thomas Zupko, et ux. Pennsylvania 2024-08-26 Denied deed-chain judicial-code land-rights property-transfer quiet-title statutory-interpretation Whether Pennsylvania's quiet title statute Section 5527.1 can be executed despite an existing 1950 deed chain transferring property to the petitioner'…
24-204 Raynu Clark, Mother of Tyler M. Gergler, et al. v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence policy-judgment sovereign-immunity Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes government conduct that no reasonable observer would deem to be …
24-5292 Shawn Paul O'Brien v. Kansas Kansas 2024-08-09 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offense Whether the Kansas Court of Appeals improperly upheld a conviction without requiring independent evidence of intent and improperly excluded exculpator…
24A161 L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard Whether a public school's disciplinary actions against a student for off-campus, online speech violate the First Amendment's protection of free speech…
24-146 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-09 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-code restraining-order sex-trafficking Whether a male Catholic father can obtain a restraining order under equal protection and due process principles despite familial connections to allege…
24-145 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-09 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-code restraining-order sex-trafficking Whether a male Catholic father can obtain a civil restraining order under equal protection principles despite being an Air Force affiliate with allega…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal tha…
24-5174 Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa…
24-44 West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority?
24-43 West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Granted biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth
23-1267 David W. Murphy, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. Washington 2024-06-04 Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection medical-negligence patient-relationship patient-treatment standing voir-dire Whether the plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment right to due process was violated by seating a juror whose brother had been successfully treated by, and w…
23A1083 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-04 Presumed Complete custody-rights equal-protection gender-discrimination parental-rights social-services welfare-benefits Whether California's CalWORKs welfare regulations violate the Equal Protection Clause by creating disparate eligibility criteria for fathers and mothe…
23-7633 Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III Maryland 2024-06-04 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights Have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the rights of this Mother and Child under the United States Constitution?
23-7548 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute and in absen…
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j…
23-7550 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay about actions prohibited by state statute in secret …
23-7385 Jacob Paul Bermel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied consent electronic-device failure-to-object fourth-amendment implied-consent minor-consent search search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the failure to object to law enforcement search establishes implied consent to search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment?
23A964 Peter Paul Mitrano, et al. v. Cary Cucinelli Virginia 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court-of-virginia Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia violated the petitioners' constitutional due process rights by refusing to grant a petition for rehearing in a c…
23-7137 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton Texas 2024-04-04 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal Can a state district judge be removed from a child-custody case for violation-of-due-process-clause, 14th-amendment, when the judge omits exception-28…
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?
23-7092 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Dismissed child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency Can a state court prohibit a family's statutory right to communicate, visit, and reunify solely based on hearsay accusations?
23A863 Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Presumed Complete deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-standard reasonableness-test traffic-stop use-of-force Whether the Fifth Circuit's narrow standard for evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force under the Fourth Amendment impermiss…
23-6970 Kathy R. Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power civil-procedure court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel due-process erisa-claim federal-procedure mediation mediation-rights rule-52-findings statute-of-limitations Whether the USDC D.E. #51-52, #55 and USDC-COA4th's Doc. #23 Orders Have Reversible Err and/or Was an Abuse of Power and an Abuse of Discretion
23-6967 Victor Chen v. Ashwin Vasan, Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied british-monarchy civil-rights conspiracy-theory due-process elizabeth-ii government-liability new-yorker oxford-university royal-family sexual-abuse standing Whether Elizabeth II was responsible for the sexual abuse and death of the petitioner's family members
23-6944 In Re Bob Eugene West 2024-03-08 Denied 14th-amendment due-process federal-relief habeas-corpus jury-unanimity oregon post-conviction-relief ramos-ruling ramos-v-louisiana state-inmate Can an Oregon State inmate file a federal habeas corpus petition to vacate a conviction under Ramos v. Louisiana?
23-6932 Tremond Thomas v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied coerced-waiver confession-suppression due-process-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation involuntary-confession juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-cut-off-questioning Whether a juvenile's right to stop an interrogation is violated when the interrogator refuses and insists that the questioning continues
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…
23-972 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause
23A776 Cynthia L. Montoya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-right due-process oral-pronouncement remedial-approach sentencing-conditions supervised-release Whether a district court's failure to orally pronounce standard conditions of supervised release during sentencing requires a full resentencing or onl…
23-6792 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-21 Denied abstention child-abuse child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether state residents can be prohibited from intervening in child custody cases based solely on hearsay accusations, while the same state is involve…
23-6773 Rita R. Smith v. Mount Sinai Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidence-suppression labor-relations termination termination-dispute workplace-policies workplace-retaliation Why was I not allowed to submit proof of where & when job assignment
23-6762 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Dismissed abuse-neglect child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-intervention Whether a state trial court can open a PFA proceeding against a defendant without the requisite family/household relationship and persistent conduct r…
23-6760 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Dismissed child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention Can a State Trial Court open a CHINS proceeding against Defendant without the pre-requisite family/dating/household relationship + persistent conduct …
23-6738 Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied capital-murder capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a death row inmate is precluded from establishing prejudice from his trial counsel's deficient performance during the penalty phase if his cou…
23-841 Emily Evans, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud perjury rooker-feldman rule-60d state-court-judgment Whether a federal court had the authority and obligation to vacate a state court judgment obtained through perjury suborned by the prevailing party's …
23-6613 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rules due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss national-interest north-carolina standing Did the NCCOA and NCSC improperly deny appellant's motions or was it a violation of appellate rules and of national interest to court litigation and c…
23-6614 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss standing state-law supreme-court Whether NCCOA and NCSC improperly denied appellant's motions and orders, and whether the orders violate constitutional rights and state appellate rule…
23-6604 Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families Massachusetts 2024-01-29 Denied 7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights Whether the petitioner's right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts rule 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated
23-6573 Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 GVR criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process gender-presentation gender-stereotyping miranda-rights miranda-violation motherhood prosecutorial-misconduct sex-based-stereotypes sexual-discrimination sexual-history Whether clearly established federal law as determined by this Court forbids the prosecution's use of a woman's plainly irrelevant sexual history, gend…
23-6439 Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity
23-6452 Shannon R. Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a person who does not qualify for relief under the First Step Act can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) without jurisdiction
23A617 Yi Tai Shao v. John Roberts, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete bar-license child-custody due-process judicial-conspiracy procedural-irregularity void-order Whether due process requires vacating a state bar license suspension based on a purported order lacking notice, hearing, and jurisdictional validity
23A603 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A.S., a Minor v. The County of Harrison, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-assessment juvenile-shackling Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require an individualized assessment of need before shackling a juvenile defendant during pre-trial or non…
23-6398 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional?
23-6322 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2023-12-21 Denied dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape Whether petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair parole hearing
23-6173 Akosua Aaebo Akhan v. Kwesi Akhan District of Columbia 2023-12-06 Denied anti-stalking-order civil-rights dna-testing forced-agreement human-trafficking legal-standing necessity-defense power-of-attorney restitution standing Was Petitioner legally bound by the Anti-Stalking Order
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…
23A465 Peter Kleidman v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2023-11-22 Presumed Complete citation-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-precedent legal-citation state-court-procedure Whether a state court judicial system can constitutionally adopt a rule prohibiting judicial decisions from being cited as precedent in subsequent leg…
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-6055 Debora D. v. John D., et al. California 2023-11-20 Denied custody due-process ex-parte ex-parte-orders idea-law jurisdiction parental-rights special-education state-encroachment Did the court make a mistake rendering orders on an ex-parte basis?
23-6035 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2023-11-16 Dismissed child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations Can a judge of two appeal courts open a child protective custody case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state law, then set bail/bond …
23-5969 Semaan Makdissi v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
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
23-452 Michigan v. Anthony Joseph Veach Michigan 2023-10-30 Denied 6th-amendment child-rape child-victim courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment technicality trial-court trial-procedure victim waller-standard Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial require subjecting the child rape victim to an automatic retrial based on a technicality when there a…
23-451 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-10-30 Denied can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention Whether a court can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical treatment without finding that the treatme…
23A383 Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-26 Presumed Complete first-amendment garcetti-pickering group-speech public-concern public-employees summary-judgment Whether the First Amendment protects group speech by public employees petitioning elected officials about workplace concerns under an expanded Garcett…
23-5789 Jean Max Darbouze v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure csaas-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony free-speech habeas-corpus translation-accuracy witness-credibility Whether the introduction of CSAAS testimony is unconstitutional junk science
23-392 Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause prohibit schools from maintaining separate bathrooms on the basis of students' biological sex
23A327 Sohail M. Abdulla v. Southern Bank Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A318 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary Whether the domestic relations exception to federal question jurisdiction bars federal courts from adjudicating breach of contract claims arising from…
23A292 Kristin Guardino v. Jim Hart, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-247 S. C., Mother v. Philadelphia Department of Human Services, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-09-14 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-findings judicial-review legal-error misapplication-of-law state-court-opinion Did the Pennsylvania Courts' decisions constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplications of law, and deny Petitioner due process?
23A244 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-14 Presumed Complete birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination Whether a state statute that presumes maternity based solely on gestation and refuses to recognize biological mothers as legal mothers when children a…
23-239 Stuart Barnes v. Shawn A. Allen West Virginia 2023-09-13 Denied appointed-guardian doctrine-of-chances estate-mismanagement financial-exploitation guardian-ad-litem guardianship protected-person trustee-conservator wrongful-death-settlement whether-the-doctrine-of-chances-theory-or-character-evidence-is-supported
23A218 Charles David Roberts v. Randy's Sanitation, Inc. Minnesota 2023-09-07 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5536 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine First Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing Whether a state trial court can open a child protection case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, set bail/bond conditions…
23-5508 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2023-09-01 Denied child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief standing state-court-review systemic-judicial-misconduct Can a family court open and remove children in protective custody based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, in secret and in ab…
23A179 Alexander Eugenio Moskovits v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. Florida 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreclosure standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether state courts may deny a foreclosure defendant due process and equal protection by deciding the foreclosure plaintiff's standing to invoke subj…
23A175 Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice structural-error voir-dire Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial is violated by a trial court's closure of the courtroom during voir dire, and whether such a viola…
23A170 Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida Florida 2023-08-24 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A160 Brian Williams, Warden, et al. v. Reynaldo Agavo Ninth Circuit 2023-08-22 Presumed Complete attorney-misconduct clearly-established-law confrontation-clause equitable-tolling habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) in holding that Nevada courts unreasonably applied clearly established Confrontation…
23-161 Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton Georgia 2023-08-18 Denied 14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights?
23A113 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split deed-restrictions disability fair-housing-amendments-act property-owners-association reasonable-accommodation Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires a housing provider to have knowledge of a disability at the time of an initial denial of a reasonable…
23-86 Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation Whether HBH's concealment of its family relationship with the adverse party violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to freely associate and ma…
23-5217 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine Maine 2023-07-26 Denied bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute Can a judge in a child protective custody case base a decision solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, then set bail/bond condition…
23-5216 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'preserve custody' case based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute in secret and …
23-5186 Kinley MacDonald v. Jeanne Lambrew, et al. Maine 2023-07-25 Denied child-removal civil-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling family-law federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction transcript-accuracy Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute and in the absence of j…
23-5184 Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Can a final court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute in secret and in ab…
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 …
23A46 Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. California 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement Whether the First Amendment protects the use of a person's likeness in a commercial film from liability under the Lanham Act and state right of public…
23A43 Benzo Rudnikas v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
22-7730 Israel C. Salazar v. Ricardo Salazar, as Trustee California 2023-06-07 Denied appeals civil-rights clerical-error clerical-errors court-filing due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure notice-of-appeal standing trust-document writ-of-certiorari Will the Supreme Court of United States address the concerns of many United States citizens of the published and/or unpublished cases which involve er…
22-1171 James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-elec…
22-7671 Eduardo Catarino Palacios v. Texas Texas 2023-05-31 Denied brady-violation chain-of-custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure Was the prosecutor allowed to override the habeas court's findings of fact and conclusions of law?
22-1156 Donnitta Sinclair, Mother of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, Jr., Deceased v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied age-of-majority child-companionship civil-rights companionship constitutional-dimension constitutional-rights due-process parental-rights standing Whether parental rights to the companionship of a child retains its constitutional dimension after the child reaches the age of majority
22-7625 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-05-24 Denied brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who …
22-7611 George Cunningham v. Maria Quinn, et vir Sixth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied 14th-amendment becker-v-montgomery child-custody civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure icara material-evidence notice-of-appeal standing Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have accepted a corrected notice of appeal involving failure to sign, in conflict with…
22-1017 Sheila Mikel v. Jennifer Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied adoption civil-rights due-process foster-care liberty-interest notice-of-removal parental-rights procedural-due-process standing Whether a pre-adoptive foster mother has a constitutionally protected liberty interest right to procedural due process
22-7117 Noel Macapagal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied adult-intermediary commerce-clause criminal-enticement enticement federal-crime interstate-commerce minor minor-protection state-authority statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) exceeds Congress's commerce-clause-authority by reaching in-person enticement of a real or fictive minor that is arranged o…
22-933 Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st…
22A800 West Virginia, et al. v. B.P.J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson Fourth Circuit 2023-03-13 Presumed Complete None
22-6821 James Mammone v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied change-of-venue fair-trial habeas-corpus prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity rideau-v-louisiana sixth-amendment In determining whether to presume prejudice under Rideau and Skilling, are courts permitted to consider (1) the defendant's role in creating the pretr…
22M80 A. H., Mother v. S. W. Ohio 2023-02-16 Presumed Complete None
22-6701 In Re Astarte Davis 2023-02-03 Denied abuse-of-discretion accountability civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct public-importance vexatious-litigant Whether the Respondents' decisions in Astarte's case is non-judicial conduct under color of law and constitution, failed in their judicial ethics, and…
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
22-635 D. B. v. Colorado, et al. Colorado 2023-01-09 Denied appellate-standing child-welfare civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-separation non-parent-rights standing Can the Colorado appellate courts constitutionally deny such special respondents the right to appeal adverse judgments?
22-556 N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
22-6299 Judith Yigal, et vir, on Behalf of Their Minor Child, R. Y. v. Julia A. Butler, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied administrative-discrimination brandenburg-v-ohio child-trafficking civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process family-separation free-speech government-speech racketeering Does the targeting of a specific child, mother, father, and Jewish family and manipulating government authority to harm the well-adjusted child (with …
22-6070 Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2022-11-16 Denied aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct, in…
22-5861 Brent Evan Webster v. Oregon Division of Child Support Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied administrative-closure bankruptcy bankruptcy-dismissal child-support civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process standing trafficking trafficking-allegations Did the United States Bankruptcy Court error in dismissing the bankruptcy case of Brent Evan Webster?
22-350 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2022-10-13 Denied appellate-review civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief procedural-irregularities recusal recusal-issues standing Do the issues presented constitute exceptional circumstances warranting a Writ of Mandamus?
22A280 N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-04 Presumed Complete None
22-251 Michael Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, as Trustee, et al. California 2022-09-16 Denied california-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing guardian-ad-litem minor-rights settlement-authority standing Is a near-adult ward's right to due process violated by California's law allowing courts to settle actions involving the minor without the minor's kno…
22-5592 Harry Sharod James v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation court-authority due-process federal-courts jurisdictional-challenge legislative-power state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Suloskantial and Procedure Due Process of the 5th and 14th Amendments establish Subject Matter Jurisdiction, and do Courts (Federal and STATE) ha…
22-5536 Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t…
22-5465 LaRoyce McFadden v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-30 Denied constitutional-protections due-process interrogation-rights involuntary-confession juvenile-justice juvenile-suspect police-interrogation police-procedure right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignor…
22-5357 Deanna D. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2022-08-16 Denied child-welfare civil-rights due-process ex-parte-order iv-e-funding parental-rights removal state-intervention What is the purpose of the removal of children from the mother's care when there is no reason for the removal?
22-141 Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 Whether a probation officer's actions violate the disabled person's rights under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, giving rise to a c…
22-5296 Ryan T. Carleton v. Maine Maine 2022-08-05 Denied administrative-procedure agency-documents civil-rights disclosure-requirements due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel internal-communications prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial staff-communications Does Carleton's public defender have a history of incompetence or misconduct?
22-109 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-08-03 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-education racial-discrimination school-segregation Whether a Black mother and her Black child/student who walks through the main entrance of the public school doors every every morning as does the non-…
22-5233 Carina Conerly v. Yee Yang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion
22-91 Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav…
22-5171 Rebekah Werth v. Stuart Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied access-to-justice civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff legal-standards pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal Do the sua sponte dismissals by the lower courts under the in forma pauperis statute 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) (2) (B), in which the reviewing court merely…
22-5175 A. W. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia 2022-07-25 Denied abuse-of-power adoption-proceedings child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-integrity family-preservation federal-adoption-act guardian-ad-litem perjury Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals abided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Co…
22-5114 Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2022-07-15 Denied child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare…
22-5038 Kevin Lee Kennedy v. Dan Watts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the U.S. District Court's Summary Judgment is defective or void due to only naming one of the three parties: The White Pine Sheriff's Dept, an…
22-12 D. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia 2022-07-05 Denied 14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-welfare due-process parental-rights state-intervention Whether the termination of a natural mother's parental rights based on her refusal to confess to allegations when the state bears the burden of proof …
21-1610 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-06-29 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parental-rights racial-discrimination school-access school-segregation truancy-law Whether a Black mother of a public school student has a Fourteenth Amendment right to walk her student through the main entrance and not receive truan…
21-1588 Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-06-24 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis Does a trial court violate the Equal Protection clause when it bases a child custody order on a racially discriminatory theory?
21-1549 Isaac D. Koch v. Andela S. Koch, et al. Nebraska 2022-06-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights communication-restriction constitutional-rights due-process family-law free-speech injunction standing state-court-jurisdiction Shall any State, by her Legislature, heedlessly dictate with equity's injunction — that any one person is not protected by state and federal Constitut…
21-1467 Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. Hawaii 2022-05-23 Denied constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require further efforts by the government to locate an absent father before permitting constructive…
21-7800 Mark P. Donaldson and Peggy Hampel v. Nick Lyon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-petition judicial-procedure liberal-pleading-standard liberal-pleading-standards pro-se-pleading procedural-rules sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-rules standing Was the Sixth Circuit panel's actions in changing and discarding Peggy Hampel's en banc petition appropriate?
21-7736 Bertha Montes de Oca v. Park Way Baptist Church Florida 2022-04-28 Denied baptist-church civil-rights complots conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-justice discrimination due-process government-agencies legal-proceedings murder-case Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated through a conspiracy and complots by the Park Way Baptist Church and government agencies
21-7643 Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory definition of duress under Penal Code Sections 26 and 288 is analogous
21-1331 Marcus A. Murphy v. Amanda Cameron Dalton, aka Mandy Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-discretion due-process energy-company pro-se-plaintiff sanctions tort-law Whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the plaintiff's claims and imposing sanctions
21-7515 Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. Louisiana 2022-03-31 Denied bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal Did the family court judge commit human-trafficking,violate-equal-protection,violate-due-process,find-grandmother-guilty-of-contempt,issue-bench-warra…
21-7374 William A. Noguera v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied conflict-of-interest constitutional-right counsel-representation cuyler-v-sullivan holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-representation Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with relevant decisions of this Court in concluding that Sullivan's standard applies only when a def…
21-1221 S. U. v. C. J. West Virginia 2022-03-08 Denied biological-parenthood civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law family-separation fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy maternity-presumption reproductive-rights standing surrogacy Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires equal protection of biological parents, and their resulting children, who utilize gestational surrogacy to p…
21-1205 Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-03-03 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action Whether a parent has a constitutional right to a jury trial in a child custody proceeding initiated by the state
21-7255 James Robert Hope v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence jurisdiction jury-instructions mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the lower courts erred in finding that Mr. Hope was not prejudiced by mistrial counters due to his failure to object to the trial court's lack…
21-7018 Jose Fuentes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied character-evidence criminal-procedure deposition due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense medical-records subpoena trial-counsel witness-testimony Was counsel's failure to subpoena an important witness considered ineffective assistance of trial counsel?
21-7027 Raul Mendez v. Ada County, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection-clause frcp-12(b)(6) mandatory-services motion-to-dismiss pro-se property-tax-lien standing Is a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to FRCP 12(b)(6) a ruling on a question of law? If so, is this Motion inappropriate when applied to Pro se complaints?
21-1045 I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent…
21-6973 Larry Lee Jacks v. Warden Lynch Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied brady-v-maryland case-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion for a new trial based on the government's failure t…
21-927 Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree South Carolina 2021-12-22 Denied 1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men?
21-6678 Raul Mendez v. City of Boise, Idaho, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied 1983-statute 42-usc-1983 administrative-procedure due-process mandatory-billing municipal-liability pleading-standard pro-se property-tax-roll utility-services Can local government entities take adverse actions against its citizens without Due Process for not using the provided utility services?
21-820 Louisiana v. Christopher Alexander Louisiana 2021-12-02 Denied circuit-split coerced-confession due-process fifth-amendment fruits-doctrine miranda-violation Whether a later voluntary statement must be suppressed as the fruits of statement taken in violation of Miranda?
21-804 Philippe Zogbe Zatta v. Steven Charles Eldred, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied child-support civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud immunity parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine state-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner can be prosecuted for not providing support to his child
21-6420 Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
21-6248 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-10 Dismissed civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil-rights, due-process, and equal-protection laws