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25-6713 Nebraska, ex rel. Isaac D. Koch v. District Court of Nebraska, Platte County Nebraska 2026-02-04 Pending constitutional-law contract-clause dissolution-statute freedom-of-conscience remedy void-writ What harm must a void writ burden one with before a remedy obtains? Whether unilateral dissolution statutes may be held repugnant to the contract cla…
25A834 Abigail Lauters, et al. v. Robert B. Evnen, Nebraska Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-21 Application None Question not identified.
25-6512 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2026-01-07 Pending conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-rights ineffective-assistance post-conviction 1. Does a state violate this Court's precedent and the Due Process clause when it penalizes the request for the appointment of conflict-free counsel? …
25-752 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers 1. Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant? 2. Does…
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
25-6257 Eric L. Ramos v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-11-26 Denied brady-violation constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial supreme-court-review Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States Sup…
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
25-491 Gillian Filyaw v. Steve Corsi, in His Official Capacity as Chief Executive Officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied due-process ex-parte-young federal-law prospective-relief sovereign-immunity state-officials When a suit alleges that state officials are depriving a plaintiff of property in violation of due process, does the suit allege an ongoing violation …
25A434 James Saylor v. Rob Jeffreys, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eighth-circuit res-judicata serious-mental-illness solitary-confinement Whether res judicata precludes a prisoner with serious mental illness from bringing a new lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement based on …
25A423 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete equal-protection fourteenth-amendment home-birth medical-regulation midwifery rational-basis Whether a state law completely prohibiting certified nurse midwives from attending home births violates the Fourteenth Amendment's rational basis revi…
25-5858 Robert Peck, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied exclusionary-rule felon-in-possession fourth-amendment good-faith-exception marijuana-conviction second-amendment Does 18 U. S. C. §922(g)(l) violate the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm based…
25A18 Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-standard criminal-trial due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction reasonable-doubt Whether the Due Process Clause requires trial courts to provide a definition of 'reasonable doubt' to a jury upon request in criminal proceedings
24A1263 Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. v. Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete architectural-design commercial-use copyright-law fair-use intellectual-property transformative-use Whether the fair use doctrine under copyright law permits commercial appropriation of an architect's proprietary house plans without compensation or c…
24-7257 Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-05-21 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver Whether defense counsel's failure to offer medical evidence supporting a self-defense claim constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel, and whether…
24-863 Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota South Dakota 2025-02-12 Denied fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops
24-798 Kay E. Anderson v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-01-27 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-suppression fraudulent-misrepresentation search-warrant state-statute Whether a party can be convicted of a crime based upon evidence obtained under a search warrant that was declared invalid because it was procured by f…
24-615 HCI Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied None Question not identified.
24-600 Quiotis C., Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-12-03 Denied batson-challenge constitutional-rights jury-trial juvenile-justice prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment Whether juveniles are guaranteed a Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in juvenile court proceedings when prosecutors can unilaterally deny such a r…
24-5669 Becky M. Peterson v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-10-02 Denied child-welfare court-procedure due-process family-law parental-rights reunification-services Whether the trial court erred in terminating parental rights without providing adequate reunification services and case plan documentation
24-5447 Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-04 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation Whether the retroactive application of Oklahoma's two-stage parole hearing process violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution
24-5084 Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig Ohio 2024-07-16 Denied child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections violates substantive-due-process-and-privileges-and-immunities,takings-clause,due-process-and-e…
24-13 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-09 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States?
23-7676 Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a '…
23-7642 John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Is McCarthy V United States, Ex Parte Milligan, Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, Oregon v Hass, Vitak v. Jones still good law
23-1193 Favion Lara v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-05-06 Denied breach-of-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-breach plea-agreement police prosecutor prosecutorial-promise sentencing Where a plea agreement includes the prosecutor's promise that the State will recommend a particular sentence, does a police officer's recommendation o…
23-7364 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-05-02 Denied capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case?
23-1064 Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2024-03-29 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-liability due-process imprisonment judicial-legislation state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction sudden-quarrel-provocation Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits imprisonment under a sentence derived from an unconstitutional law
23-7104 In Re Tonya Knowles 2024-03-29 Dismissed 14th-amendment civil-liability civil-rights disqualifications fair-credit-reporting-act insurrection rebellion sovereign-immunity Does the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously 'Waive' Sovereign Immuni…
23-6828 Warren J. Levering v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-02-26 Denied chevron-deference child-support economic-impact-payments federal-statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-law tax-refund treasury-offset-program Did the Nebraska Supreme Court violate the U.S. Supreme Court's rules of Federal statutory construction?
23A772 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing death-penalty eddings-standard eighth-amendment mitigating-circumstances youthful-offender Whether a trial court's refusal to consider a defendant's youthful age as a mitigating circumstance in a capital sentencing proceeding violates the Ei…
23-6779 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied 14th-amendment due-process greenholtz-v-inmates liberty-interest mathews-test mathews-v-eldridge parole parole-board-discretion parole-procedures Do Nebraska's current parole procedures still meet the requirements of the 14th Amendment's Due Process clause under the test set out in Mathews v. El…
23A706 Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete certiorari incarceration legal-resources pro-se procedural-barriers supreme-court-rules Whether a pro se, incarcerated petitioner who lacks legal resources and English proficiency should be granted an extension of time to file a Supreme C…
23-6618 Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters asser…
23-6472 Keith L. Allen v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-01-12 Denied constitutional-bar credible-threats impartial-jury juror-misconduct juror-threats no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation verdict-influence Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally bars evidence of credible threats of violence against the jurors influencing their verdict offered to p…
23A624 Nebraska, ex rel. Isaac Koch v. Lincoln County District Court Judges Nebraska 2024-01-05 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-6308 Ariel Garcia-Pelico v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-12-20 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-procedures judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen procedural-fairness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Were the trial counsel's actions below the Strickland v. Washington standards?
23-6064 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-11-20 Denied actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment whether-escobar-vs-texas-applies-retroactively
23A389 Guillermo Borboa aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability after being denied relief on federal habeas corpus claims
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…
23-5544 Juan L. Leonor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-09-07 Dismissed constitutional-rule due-process federal-law judicial-legislation procedural-rule retroactive-review retroactivity substantive-decision substantive-rule supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Constitution prohibits a state court from denying consideration of a federal claim brought after petitioner's convictions became f…
23-5305 John Vaughn v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-08-08 Denied automobile-exception commercial-trains confrontation-clause fourth-amendment plain-smell-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant-requirement Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment apply to commercial trains?
23A114 Jillian Ostrewich v. Clifford Tatum, in His Official Capacity as the Harris County Elections Administrator, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete electioneering-statutes first-amendment polling-places section-1983 unreviewable-discretion voter-apparel Whether Texas's electioneering statutes violate the First Amendment by granting election workers unreviewable discretion to prohibit voter apparel at …
23A98 Matthew Haney v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-08-02 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment final-decision regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine variance-request zoning-board Whether a property owner's as-applied regulatory takings claim is ripe for federal court review when a local zoning board has not issued a final decis…
22-7880 Maylesha S. Lewis v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-06-27 Denied blockburger blockburger-test criminal-prosecution diaz-exception diaz-v-united-states double-jeopardy driving-under-the-influence fifth-amendment motor-vehicle-homicide Is Diaz v. United States an exception to the double jeopardy rule announced in Blockburger v. United States?
22-7672 Marcus D. Winston v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-05-31 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-rhetoric Whether the Nebraska Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States …
22-1113 Merril Leroy Jessop v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing Whether the Texas courts' refusal to conduct an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's substantial constitutional claim of ineffective assistance of coun…
22-7306 Keith Thomas v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure rule-11 sanctions seventh-amendment standing Did the district court improperly apply Rule 11 sanctions against this petitioner basically stripping him of his 1st-amendment-rights and 7th-amendmen…
22-812 Isaac D. Koch v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-02-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal protection-order standing statutory-interpretation What is the government's interpretation of an order against all contact and communication and presence?
22-6811 A. B. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-17 Denied 28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte…
22-6650 Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska Nebraska 2023-01-27 Dismissed appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court whether-the-fourteenth-amendment-prohibits-a-state-appellate-court-from-adjudicating-an-application-or-motion-in-complete-absence-of-all-jurisdiction
22-6538 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-17 Denied capital-successor-statute collateral-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-review sixth-amendment state-prisoners successor-postconviction Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to afford state prisoners some adequate corrective process for the hearing and determination of claim…
22A585 Isaac Koch v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-30 Presumed Complete None
22-6311 Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-15 Denied criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict under Jackson-v-Virginia
22-6297 Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6th & 14th Amendment right to conflict free counsel?
22-506 Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et al. v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied None
22-6191 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-01 Denied atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
22A444 Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, et al. v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied None
22-341 Nebraska, ex rel. Timothy L. Ashford, P.C. L.L.O., et al. v. Donald Kleine, et al. Nebraska 2022-10-13 Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process prosecutorial-recusal racial-discrimination standing Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of constitutional law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court whi…
22-5649 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Corrections, et al. Nebraska 2022-09-22 Denied arraignment court-filing criminal-procedure due-process personal-jurisdiction service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-rights Whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction when the amended information was not filed until after the petitioner appeared in court and…
22A236 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-09-19 Presumed Complete None
22-236 Jake J. McGovern v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-09-13 Denied cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception overbroad probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-scope Is a warrant to search a cell phone overbroad, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, if it authorizes the search of evidence on the phone in addition …
22-237 Sandra K. Nieveen v. TAX 106, et al. Nebraska 2022-09-13 GVR due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-sale Does the government violate the Takings Clause when it confiscates property worth more than the debt owed by the owner?
22-160 Kevin L. Fair v. Continental Resources, et al. Nebraska 2022-08-22 GVR due-process equity-forfeiture excessive-fine excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-foreclosure Does the government violate the Takings Clause when it confiscates property worth more than the debt owed by the owner?
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?
21-8222 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits federal courts from holding pro se litigants to the same stringent standards as attorneys
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…
21-1461 Nathan Vercellino v. Optum Insight, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied equitable-lien erisa medical-expenses minor minor-rights real-party-in-interest statute-of-limitations subrogation Can an ERISA fiduciary claim an equitable lien for medical expenses paid for the benefit of the parents against a judgment or settlement of their chil…
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is the State Court required to hear and make a determination on the Petitioner's U.S. Constitutional Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective…
21-7642 Brandon J. Weathers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-18 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-court-conviction Whether the petitioner was denied counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
21-7461 Antonio D. Rooks-Byrd v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-24 Denied amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure plea-agreement sixth-amendment speedy-trial Do the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment's under the U.S. Constitution apply for Sixth Month Speedy Trial violation?
21-7400 Derrick U. Stricklin v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-17 Denied alibi-evidence capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-tactics Whether the failure of defense counsel to file a notice of alibi and present ample alibi evidence when instructed to do so by the defendant in a capit…
21-6682 Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-12-21 Denied constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon Whether a reviewing court should ignore the Fourth Amendment analysis and go directly to a good faith analysis under United States v. Leon when an aff…
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appealability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition where there was a dispute in the U.S. District…
21-6063 Jason William Custer v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied 5th-6th-14th-amendments due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miranda-rights pauper-defendant postconviction procedural-bar self-defense When trial and direct appeal counsel are one and the same, can a pauper defendant's due process rights be undermined when the state refuses to appoint…
21-578 John Raynor v. Dennis Walker, et al. Nebraska 2021-10-20 Denied appellate-procedure color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection internal-affairs-doctrine nebraska-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Equal Protection Clause circumscribe the Nebraska Supreme Court's discretion to disregard a Color of Law adjudication?
21-5901 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal judgment toll the limitation period under the 'properly filed' clause of 28 U.S.C…
21-5807 Christian Estrada Comacho v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-29 Denied confrontation-clause covid-19 covid-19-exception criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process interpreter-testimony two-way-video video-testimony witness-demeanor witness-testimony Did the district court err in allowing testimony via two-way interactive video over confrontation objections due to witness' COVID-19 concerns?
21-5710 Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Nebraska 2021-09-17 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant's initial habeas corpus action to determine the validity of the statutes under which they were convicted and sentenced is…
21-5602 Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-08 Denied 4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review Whether the 'inextricably intertwined' standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b)
21-5502 Lucio P. Munoz v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-27 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-in-limine postconviction-relief whether-the-nebraska-courts-decisions-concerning-hearsay-conform-to-the-established-rule-of-evidence
21-5445 Henryk S. Borecki v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied 1983 1985 1986 airline-passenger civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process self-incrimination standing travel-identification Does the plaintiff's complaint, based on Sections 1983, 1985 and 1986 of the Civil Rights Acts, state a claim for relief against both or either of the…
21-5366 Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-13 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony whether-the-nebraska-courts-reliance-on-witness-statements-induced-erroneous-or-prejudicial-hearsay-evidence
21-5313 In Re Juan Luis Leonor 2021-08-09 Dismissed collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-retroactivity-test retroactivity second-degree-murder state-v-ronald-smith sudden-quarrel-provocation supreme-court-review teague-standard Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court's decision not to hold State v. Ronald-Smith retroactive confines the petitioner to a lesser remedy than what the U…
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Whether a parent has a right to visitation and a case plan when there is no proof of life-threatening issues
20-8274 RaySean D. Barber v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-deficiencies district-court due-process equal-protection indigent-claims leave-to-amend meaningful-review prisoner-claims standing Whether the district court's finding with regard to Mr. Barber's equal-protection-claim conflicted with this-Court's-governing-determinations
20-8141 Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-05-26 Dismissed constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights Whether the state courts erred and abused their discretion by depriving and denying the defendant of his statutory rights to DNA testing
20-8022 Tillman T. Henderson v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
20-7677 Juan Manuel Fuentes-Morales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied attorney-speech constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt victor-v-nebraska Whether the Fourth Circuit's reasonable doubt charge conflicts with Victor v. Nebraska
20-7573 Merrickio D. Harris v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-26 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-review self-representation structural-error Whether the Nebraska State Courts committed structural error and violated the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights to Self-Representation and Du…
20-7512 Forrest R. Cox, III v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-19 Denied case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-statute fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine immutable-evidence independent-source-doctrine search-warrant Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court erred in applying the good-faith doctrine to a search warrant executed after the federal statute and relevant case …
20-7329 Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-05 Denied criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop
20-7149 Michael John Gaddy v. C. E. Ducart, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied due-process greenholtz-v-inmates liberty-interest minimal-protections parole prison-officials Whether petitioner was afforded minimal due process protections as set forth in Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, 442 …
20-7135 Lamont R. Reed v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied aedpa aedpa-limitations discovery discovery-hearing equitable-tolling habeas-corpus postconviction-petition postconviction-relief state-court-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-tolling Is the AEDPA one-year statute of limitations for filing a Federal Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus statutorily or equitably tolled when a State Co…
20-7044 Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir…
20-6825 Andrew Andersen v. Marisela Montes, Commissioner of California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment greenholtz-v-inmates-of-nebraska parole parole-denial prisoners-rights protected-freedoms swarthout-v-cooke Did this Court's ruling in Swarthout v. Cooke and Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska foreclose First Amendment challenges against statements of reasons…
20-6829 Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-01-11 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence?
20-6675 Augustine L. Cavitte v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-12-21 Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense self-incrimination voluntariness Did the lower courts err in finding Ms. Cavitte's statements admissible contrary to present Miranda standards?
20-6635 Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. Nebraska 2020-12-15 Denied collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review Did the district court judge error in denying the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled?
20-757 Timothy L. Ashford v. Office for Counsel for Discipline, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied attorney-discipline bad-faith-exception civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity race racial-discrimination standing younger-abstention Whether the federal court should abstain in an attorney disciplinary action
20-6385 Jason D. Devers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-11-19 Denied constitutional-claims conviction-of-sole-participant criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pinkerton-doctrine post-conviction-relief state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-attorney-affidavit Did the State of Nebraska commit error when it convicted the defendant of felony murder using the Pinkerton doctrine when there is no principal and th…
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the state or federal court the proper forum for this dispute?
20-6176 Brandon J. Weathers v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel standard-of-justice standard-of-review Did the Court of Appeals correctly apply the 'interests of justice' standard to the Petitioner's substitution of counsel claim where the trial court m…
20-6024 Keinald V. Parnell v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability
20-5781 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-24 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction habeas-corpus
20-5699 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-15 Denied constitutional-error court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement void-conviction void-judgment issues-being-raised
20-321 Walter D. Barnette v. HBI, L.L.C., et al. Nebraska 2020-09-10 Denied administrative-foreclosure constitutional-rights due-process notice notice-requirements property-notice property-rights reasonable-steps takings windfall windfall-incentive Did the Nebraska Supreme Court err in holding that the due process requirements announced in Jones v. Flowers apply only to land containing homes?
20-5562 Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, are violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be …
20-5591 Joseph G. Edwards v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied competency compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection material-facts nebraska-supreme-court precedential-authority sexual-assault vulnerable-adult Did the Nebraska Supreme Court omit material facts and circumvent the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights?
20-5339 Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-08-12 Denied 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon Whether the reviewing court must use the test set forth in United States v. Leon or the test set forth in Illinois v. Krull to determine if good faith…
20-5263 Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-08-05 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence despite the defendant's refusal to i…
20-5215 Jessica Lang v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-07-30 Denied automobile automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger passenger-rights probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search a passenger's purse, while on her lap, inside an automobile where probable cause…
19-1418 Zoie H. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-06-25 Denied 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-consequence constitutional-rights due-process firearm-rights jury-trial juvenile-court second-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Second and Sixth Amendments permit a state to deprive an individual of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms based on the commi…
19-1394 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
19-8700 Cody Strodtman v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing supreme-court Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying review of a district court's dismissal of a civil rights claim contrary to established U.S. …
19-8600 Marco E. Torres, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-06-04 Denied bill-of-attainder cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection media-campaign referendum Whether the successful media campaign and referendum culminating in affirmance of Mr. Torres' death sentences qualify as cruel-and-unusual-punishment
19-8519 James E. Myers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-05-21 Denied civil-rights confrontation-clause dna-testing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus substantive-due-process writ-of-certiorari Whether Procedual Due Process, Substantive Due Process, Equal Protection, and Confrontational Clause have been violated
19-8501 Jimmy L. Livingston v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-05-19 Denied civil-rights collateral-attack due-process jurisdiction standing void-or-voidable Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court abused its discretion or committed reversible error in denying further review of the Nebraska Court of Appeals' dec…
19-8482 Graylin Gray v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied conviction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction petition-for-writ procedural-error sentence state-custody Whether petitioner is in state custody pursuant to a sentence, not pursuant to the judgment, which includes both the conviction and sentence?
19-1209 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes Eighth Circuit 2020-04-11 Denied actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process Question in Conflict with the Certiorari Decis…
19-8045 Raymond Mata, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-19 Denied constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment legislative-veto nebraska nebraska-legislature referendum referendum-power standing veto Whether the citizens of Nebraska through improper use of their referendum power, or the trial court or Nebraska Supreme Court through erroneous approv…
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception?
19A791 Raymond Mata, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-01-14 Presumed Complete None
19-6851 Lena Lasher v. Nebraska State Board of Pharmacy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Dismissed administrative-agency administrative-discretion civil-rights due-process equal-protection ethnic-discrimination independent-agency independent-review licensing pharmacist pharmacy-licensing state-board-of-pharmacy witness-credibility Did the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy (NE BOP) err by not acting independently in considering the matter concerning the appellant's pharmacist license on…
19-6406 Clifford L. Rush v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-28 Denied conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion nebraska-supreme-court pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment withdrawal-of-counsel Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court's denial of the petitioner's right to proceed pro se violated the Sixth Amendment
19-514 Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-21 Denied capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration and…
19-6267 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-15 Denied 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-privacy crime-investigation criminal-investigation fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of the content of a suspect's cell phone when the affidavit in support of the search provides no nex…
19A346 Lena Lasher v. Nebraska State Board of Pharmacy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-27 Presumed Complete None
19M52 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-09-13 Presumed Complete None
19-5739 Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2019-08-29 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine Does the 'separate sovereigns' doctrine permit multiple punishments that are exempted from the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual p…
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-07-26 Denied black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute that is void on its face?
19-88 Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Can an unverified tip constitute probable cause for arrest?
18-9751 Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2019-06-21 Dismissed actual-innocence aedpa brady-violation castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process question in conflict with the Certiorari decis…
18-1422 Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-05-14 Denied civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a…
18-9174 Warren Myles v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-05-07 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-history due-process federalism law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause reciprocity state-reciprocity state-rights welfare-check Does the State of Nebraska have the option to respect some but not other states' concealed carry permits?
18-9128 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2019-05-03 Denied 14th-amendment arbitrary-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights privileges-and-immunities standing state-action Does the State of Nebraska violate the 14th Amendment's privileges and immunities clause by arbitrarily denying committed offenders the privilege of a…
18-9061 Joseph B. v. Nebraska, on Behalf of Brooklyn H. Nebraska 2019-05-01 Denied due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p…
18-9037 Rolander Brown v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-04-30 Denied 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act
18-9014 Jamaal A. McNeil v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-clerk-failure-to-forward-record district-court-judgment-dismissal-stay due-process ecclesiastical-court ecclesiastical-court-letter-of-rogatory-registered exhaustion expand-record habeas-corpus standing writ-of-certiorari Can the Ecclesiastical Court, Letter of Rogatory, Registered Deed Poll be admissible and applied in this Writ of Certiorari
18-1344 LaMarcus Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, (2) only that information …
18-8973 Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-04-23 Denied civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell Has the petitioner been validly sentenced under the Virginia statute on earned sentence credits?
18-8864 Joseph B. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-04-17 Denied 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p…
18-1228 Barbara Mrzlak Brundo v. Christ the King Church of Omaha Eighth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied civil-rights defamation due-process employment estate-administration estate-litigation frivolous-litigation judicial-retaliation ministerial-exception probate-court retaliation rule-11-sanctions Whether Rule 11 sanctions paid by petitioner for alleged frivolous complaints should be returned with interest
18-8415 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-03-13 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amendmen…
18-1166 Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-03-08 Denied 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop Whether Illinois v. Lidster allows the police to stop a criminal suspect without reasonable suspicion on the ground that the stop is merely 'informati…
18A807 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-02-05 Presumed Complete None
18-7523 Charles James v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felony-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Iowa state court decision in State v. Heemstra, that it is an interpretation of the statute, is contrary to the decision in State v. Goosm…
18-7411 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied 42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 Can the U.S. District Court, after first finding the Federal Petition does in fact allege federal constitutional claims, summarily dismiss the Federal…
18-7179 Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2018-12-27 Denied 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that pe…
18-6405 Sydney L. Thieszen v. Nebraska Nebraska 2018-10-23 Denied eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana tatum-v-arizona Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a juvenile convicted of a homicide offense to be sentenced to the functional equivalent of life without parole
18-6373 Erwin Eugene Semien v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied 18-usc-3585 5th-amendment board-of-pardons-v-allen constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing greenholtz-v-nebraska-penal-inmates liberty-interest official-detention sentencing-credits Does the Federal time credit Statute 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b) create a liberty interest protected by the 5th Amendment due process clause?
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-5632 Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska 2018-08-17 Denied collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness Whether a new substantive rule of constitutional law must be applied retroactively to final cases
18-5616 Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process and effective assistance of counsel when the state court refused to hold a competency hearing despite ev…
18-166 John M. Probandt, et al. v. Dennis P. Walker Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law deprivation-of-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment internal-affairs-doctrine negotiable-instrument preemption state-courts uniform-commercial-code Is the State Courts' intentional refusal to apply the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Commercial Code a violation of the U.S. Constitution, Amend. …
18-167 MCC (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. v. Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment, Inc., dba Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. Virginia 2018-08-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights co-conspirators constitutional-law due-process forum-state nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause permits a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant based on the contacts of the defendant's…
18-5473 Justin Michael Credico v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" Whether the jury instructions on subjective intent for 18 USC § 875(c) were proper in light of the Elonis case
18A115 William E. Smith v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-01 Presumed Complete None
22O108 Nebraska, Plaintiff v. Wyoming and Colorado 2011-11-09 Denied None
20A69 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Nebraska Nebraska Presumed Complete None
23A55 Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None Question not identified.