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25-910 MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2026-02-03 Pending civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution 1. This Court has been grappling with the contempt due process requirements when a contemnor removes property from a receiver's control without author…
25-6489 Jason William Dobbs v. Nevada Nevada 2026-01-06 Pending computer-privacy consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement third-party-consent warrantless-search 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to make sufficient inquiries as to the authority of a third person to consent to a warrantles…
25A685 Gopher Media LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Corporation, fka Local Clicks, dba Doctor Multimedia, et al. v. Andrew Melone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order federal-courts interlocutory-appeal state-law-privilege Question not identified.
25A628 Operating Engineers Trust Fund of Washington, D.C., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-01 Application fifth-amendment government-program property-interest reinsurance-fund takings-clause trust-requirement Whether a government program that requires group health plans to pay into a reinsurance fund without receiving any benefits constitutes a taking under…
25-6214 Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada Nevada 2025-11-24 Denied None Question not identified.
25-6091 Sealed Appellant v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied None
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…
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…
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…
25-529 Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court 1. Do th is Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence "clearly establish," under § 2254(d)(1) , that a sta…
25-452 UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, et al. v. Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), Ltd., a Nevada Professional Corporation, et al. Nevada 2025-10-15 Denied erisa-preemption health-plan-administration out-of-network-care plan-reimbursement state-law-claims unjust-enrichment Whether ERISA § 514 preempts a claim asserting that the administrator of an ERISA-governed health plan was required by state law to reimburse out-of-n…
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…
25-404 Mark Hunt v. Zuffa, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied civil-procedure contract-law mma-sports performance-enhancing-drugs public-policy summary-judgment Firstly, did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming summary judgment on the Petitioner's battery and aiding-and-abetting battery claims by holding that co…
25-5783 Tanya Spurbeck v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Nevada 2025-10-02 Denied disability-rights due-process federal-claims indigent-litigants legal-representation supremacy-clause As of April 26, 2024, there is required federal funding, signed by the Nevada Attorney General, to promise required legal representation to indigent a…
25-5623 Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction D'.cL M-.rvllv Coiv^ of Ajpp-cals trr il a^ f'dfu^S'f or CxxA'f coAx- cf Appt atab'll' ly? Ji) iy d lk< lUd-cJ SUk-s DisUcd too*-/ for DiUricJ ' of ^…
25-266 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied drought-impact fifth-amendment property-rights reclamation-act takings-clause water-rights 1. Whether in accordance with Section 8 of the Reclamation Act, 28 U.S.C. § 372, the beneficial users of Reclamation Project irrigation water have com…
25A266 Amanda Luz Marin, aka Amanda L. Leon v. Gaston Leon Nevada 2025-09-05 Presumed Complete administrative-discretion alternate-payee due-process judicial-review qdro-modification retirement-benefits Whether a state retirement system administrator can unilaterally modify a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) without the alternate payee's cons…
25-5457 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-08-25 Dismissed appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction Wtetter 3 Con-Fl ict W* _a.ncl.. (n&.aza lez $. j- -5- $tak Court© / Ccla awl. ke-re ipply £ sfak ^loceduM I W to cwnte 3A U^cedeat kittd § 22S3 (cXz)…
25A217 Geronimo Velasco v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete court-integrity due-process federal-rules judicial-estoppel phantom-hearing sanctions Whether a federal district judge may commit judicial estoppel by issuing contradictory orders and imposing sanctions based on a legally non-existent '…
25-5350 Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada Nevada 2025-08-13 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity If a state asserts sovereign immunity against a civil rights complaint, should the court accept the submission as the state, "Pleading the Fifth," and…
25-167 Alvin Mansour, et al. v. Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Real Estate Division Nevada 2025-08-12 Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split commercial-real-estate facial-unconstitutionality licensing-restriction occupational-regulation Whether Article III standing to challenge a licensing restriction as facially unconstitutional requires that the challenger first submit to the challe…
25A129 UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, et al. v. Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), Ltd., a Nevada Professional Corporation, et al. Nevada 2025-07-31 Presumed Complete contract-rights due-process insurance-billing medical-billing out-of-network supreme-court-interpretation Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state insurance law governing out-of-network medical billing disputes can raise federal constitution…
25M11 Sealed Appellant v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete None
25A35 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-09 Presumed Complete antitrust enforcement-delegation market-competition no-commingling-rule sherman-act trade-association Whether a dominant national trade association may avoid antitrust liability under Section 1 of the Sherman Act by promulgating a facially anticompetit…
25-3 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada 2025-07-01 Denied financial-responsibility-law graves-amendment preemption rental-car-liability state-statute vicarious-liability Whether a state statute that imposes vicarious liability on rental and leasing companies through a provision governing insurance can evade Graves Amen…
25A6 Alvin Mansour, et al. v. Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Real Estate Division Nevada 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing constitutional-rights futility-exception judicial-review licensing-regime pre-enforcement-relief Question not identified.
24-1321 Saul Lassoff, et al. v. MGM Resorts International Third Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied civil-procedure district-court first-to-file forum-shopping preclusion-order venue-transfer Whether the New Jersey District Court or Third Circuit Appellate Court erred in denying First to File Petitioners a Preclusion Order and preventing th…
24-1282 Robert Menzer v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit ninth-circuit void-judgment Does the full faith and credit clause and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 require an independent court analysis of a void judgment where due process rights are alleg…
24-1194 John Doe v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2025-05-22 Denied anonymous-investigation elected-officials first-amendment litigation public-figure speech-preparatory Are speech preparatory investigations expressive and subject to First Amendment protection?
24-1156 Maninder Singh, Individually and as Heir of the Estate of Jasvir Kaur, Kewal Singh, and Nirbhai Singh, et al. v. Nissan Motor Company, LTD., et al. Nevada 2025-05-12 Denied batson-challenge harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether discrimination against a potential alternate juror requires reversal without a showing of prejudice, or whether courts can review such claims …
24A1008 Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc., a Domestic Corporation v. Alelign Woldeyohannes Nevada 2025-04-21 Presumed Complete None
24-1077 Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew Nevada 2025-04-15 Dismissed constitutional-protections due-process excessive-fines fair-notice gore-guideposts punitive-damages Whether Gore's constitutional protections against excessive punitive damages are inapplicable in cases where statutes purportedly authorize such award…
24-6970 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-04-11 Denied appellate-authority constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction manifest-injustice supremacy-clause trial-court Whether the Supremacy Clause justifies a stay once the trial court had been provected and whether a state court of last resort maintains a constitutio…
24-6878 Reina Tea Wood-Jimenez v. Nevada Department of Motor Vehicle Office Ninth Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied None Question not identified.
24-947 Chanel Wiley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure jury-prejudice ninth-circuit physical-restraints Whether a criminal defendant whose government imposed restraint is perceptible to a jury must show actual prejudice, or whether prejudice inheres
24-829 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2025-02-04 Denied actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation first-amendment public-figure seventh-amendment Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual-malice standard for public figure defamation plaintiffs and whether applying this standard in ant…
24-6439 Amir Abdul-Alim, et ux., Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children A.A.A. and I.A.A. v. Clark County School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied constitutional-rights equal-access-to-justice federal-court-procedure mandatory-legal-counsel parental-authority pro-se-litigation Under what circumstances does a federal court exclude parents from receiving court-appointed legal counsel for their children in pro se litigation whe…
24-6440 Jondrew LaChaux v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-01-31 Denied child-custody due-process family-law guardianship procedural-fairness right-to-counsel Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's interpretation of child custody and guardianship proceedings violates due process rights and the right to assistanc…
24-6220 John F. Policastro v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. Nevada 2025-01-02 Denied administrative-law cares-act disability-rights due-process equal-protection nevada-constitution Did the Nevada courts purposely ignore facts related to CARES Act emergency pandemic benefits fund improprieties by the State of Nevada?
24-641 Gavin de Becker, et al. v. UHS of Delaware, Inc., dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center Nevada 2024-12-12 Denied covered-countermeasure healthcare-immunity medical-liability medical-negligence prep-act treatment-standards Does the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 provide immunity to medical providers for acts and omissions not directly related to …
24A508 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2024-11-22 Presumed Complete actual-malice anti-slapp defamation first-amendment jury-trial new-york-times-v-sullivan Whether the First Amendment's actual malice standard under New York Times v. Sullivan improperly limits a public figure's right to a civil jury trial …
24A442 Dale Scott Heineman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-04 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a sentencing hearing proceeds despite allegations of procedural defects and claims…
24-443 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure federal-circuit filing-date mandamus merit-systems-protection-board office-of-special-counsel Whether the Federal Circuit erred in failing to recognize the correct filing date and must correct case procedures related to MSPB and OSC proceedings
24-411 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada 2024-10-11 Denied compelled-government-speech constitutional-rights due-process free-speech interstate-commerce right-to-travel Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada denied due process and constitutional rights through reciprocal disbarment that allegedly violated free speech and…
24A344 Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability drug-trafficking ineffective-assistance jury-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find the specific drug quantity necessary to impose a Level III drug trafficking sentence beyond a reas…
24-5676 Henry Altamirano v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied antiterrorism-act due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus limitation-period subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits despite filing a federal habeas petition after the…
24-346 Robert Beadles v. Jamie Rodriguez, et al. Nevada 2024-09-27 Denied election-grievances first-amendment government-accountability petition-clause pleading-standards rule-12b5-dismissal Whether the failure of state and local officials to address election grievances violates a citizen's First Amendment right to petition the government …
24-299 Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering Is material fraud by attorneys purporting to be agents of an unregistered LLC law firm in a California Court insubstantial?
24A268 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause summary-judgment warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to immediately release a suspect from custody when probable cause dissipates due to newly discov…
24A262 Nevada Green Party v. Francisco Aguilar, Secretary of State of Nevada, et al. Nevada 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete ballot-access due-process equal-protection minor-party petition-signature state-election-law Whether the exclusion of a minor political party from a state ballot based on a petition form error caused by state officials' own instructions violat…
24-243 Michael Grant v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech public-forum religious-expression solicitation Whether a public preacher can be arrested for preaching in a public park with a religious sign and collection plate without violating First Amendment …
24-5385 Marc Anthony Colon v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel witness-preparation Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) for review of ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim…
24-5273 Nicholas Frank Wilcox v. Tim Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the state's interpretation of a criminal statute violates constitutional due process and statutory interpretation principles
24-5234 Nathaniel Travon Martin v. Nevada Nevada 2024-08-06 Denied good-faith-filing judgment-entry service-failure speedy-trial term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 time-limitations writ-of-certiorari speedy-trial-right,sixth-amendment,due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,statute-of-limitations
24-83 Martin Akerman v. National Guard Bureau District of Columbia 2024-07-26 Denied due-process enemy-combatant habeas-corpus military-detention userra whistleblower whistleblower-protection Due-process-violation
24-5107 Myron Motley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied 4th-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-split law-enforcement medical-records prescription-data prescription-drugs privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure Whether patients hold a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in prescription medication records
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…
23-7620 Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability
23-1196 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Tom Lawson, Chief, Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied apprendi certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus jones judicial-enhancement jury-trial ninth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability (COA)
23-1138 Angela Williams, et al. v. Joseph Lombardo, Governor of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied 13th-amendment article-iii-standing causation civil-procedure civil-rights government-liability section-1983 standing thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims-protection-act Whether codefendants in a lawsuit can be treated as independent third parties not before the court for purposes of Article III standing traceability
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 207.010 violates the due process clause of the Federal Consti…
23A911 George Leslie Vontress v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Presumed Complete indigent legal-research pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether an indigent pro se litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to limited access to legal research resources
23-7072 Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied accountability administrative-law civil-rights data-integrity due-process federal-employees federal-jurisdiction judicial-review transparency whistleblower-protection Did the Fourth Circuit Court's consolidation of appeals and selective review exacerbate the case's complexity, undermining the principles of thorough …
23-7052 Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders v. Nevada Nevada 2024-03-21 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights
23-6846 In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders 2024-02-28 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Nevada Supreme Court violated petitioner's fundamental due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment by denying her pet…
23-6839 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2024-02-27 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-strategy effective-counsel expert-testimony false-confessions ineffective-assistance police-interrogation sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard did-the-nevada-supreme-court-deprive-petitioner-of-his-sixth-amendment-right-to-effective-counsel
23-894 Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit is employing a new and incorrect standard for remand fees under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)
23-6755 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review Whether the rule announced in Wetzel applies where the rationales offered by the state court are so dependent upon one another that they cannot be acc…
23A746 Carlos Jackson v. Markel American Insurance Company, et al. Nevada 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete civil-rights complaint-amendment due-process judicial-discretion medical-emergency pro-se-litigant Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional due process rights are violated when a district court judge denies an opportunity to amend a complaint and …
23A748 Carlos Jackson v. Dickinson Wright PLLC, et al. Nevada 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete attorney-error certiorari extension-of-time legal-deadline pro-se-litigant supreme-court Whether equitable tolling of the certiorari deadline is appropriate when an attorney provides incorrect deadline information to a pro se litigant
23-6710 Martin Akerman v. Sherri Doiron District of Columbia 2024-02-09 Denied 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights federal-authority habeas-corpus jurisdiction military-custody military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus procedural-standards Does the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when the petitioner's…
23-846 City of Sparks, Nevada, et al. v. Rosa Ester Brizuela, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Rolando Antonio Brizuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied circuit-split clearly-established-law community-areas community-owned-areas curtilage multi-family-dwelling multifamily-dwelling ninth-circuit precedent Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage?
23-787 Sierra Nevada Transportation, Inc. v. Nevada Transportation Authority Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-U.S.C.-1985 dormant-Commerce-Clause federal-licensing federal-preemption interstate-commerce public-necessity state-regulation transportation-services Does a federally-licensed limousine company state a valid claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 against state regulators for violating the…
23-6518 Anthony Bailey v. Nevada Parole Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's private digital data violates the Fourth Amendment
23-6431 Mariano Madrid v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-law judicial-review juvenile-justice legal-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person who was a juvenile at the time of the o…
23A599 William Phillip Neidinger v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing identity-preservation judicial-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposing a federal prison sentence that effectively destroys a defendant's identity and constitutes cruel and u…
23A593 Martin Akerman v. United States Armed Forces 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete due-process federal-service habeas-corpus military-suspension national-guard statutory-protection Whether a federal civilian employee suspended under military authority can challenge their detention and seek habeas corpus relief after mandatory exh…
23A564 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-safeguards sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when counsel fails to adequately investigate guilt-phase evidence and secure appropriate jury instruc…
23A539 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete administrative-suspension constitutional-rights detention-without-charge due-process habeas-corpus military-administrative-procedure Whether a federal employee's detention without criminal charges, under military administrative procedures, violates constitutional due process protect…
23-623 Martin Akerman v. Nevada National Guard Nevada 2023-12-11 Denied constitutional-rights detention detention-challenge due-process federal-law habeas-corpus military-jurisdiction nevada-supreme-court Whether the Nevada Supreme Court made an error in naming the Nevada National Guard as the sole respondent in a habeas corpus petition
23A526 Jacob Smith v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-right criminal-procedure faretta-right preliminary-hearing self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to self-representation established in Faretta applies to preliminary hearings in state criminal proceedings
23A508 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b Whether a death row inmate with an intellectual disability claim under Atkins v. Virginia can seek federal habeas relief through a Rule 60(b) motion a…
23-6089 Christopher Lenard Blockson v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing What is the proper course of action when a court ignores the record on appeal and engages in fraud on the court?
23M44 Martin Akerman v. Nevada National Guard Nevada 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete None
23-6027 Christy Kay Sweet v. Kathryn Sweet, et al. Nevada 2023-11-15 Denied foreign-will inheritance-law judicial-ethics nrs-133 nrs-133a probate probate-law testamentary-intent will-contest will-requirements Can a foreign will be admitted under NRS 133 if it fails to comply with the requirements of a foreign will as set forth in NRS 133A?
23-410 Estate of Gabriel Strickland, et al. v. Nevada County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights deadly-force graham-factors graham-v-connor objective-reasonableness section-1983 totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force Whether the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force should be evaluated solely upon the circumstances of the final moment or upon the 'tota…
23A355 Martin Akerman v. Nevada National Guard Nevada 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete and whether such challenges present unresolved co civil-forfeiture constitutional-jurisdiction due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus National-Guard-authority Whether a federal employee may challenge through habeas corpus and replevin actions the legality of civil forfeiture and alleged false imprisonment by…
23-5769 Brandon M. Jefferson v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights counsel-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance nevada-law right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-law Did the petitioner have the Sixth Amendment right to be represented by legal counsel during all stages of his criminal prosecution in the state of Nev…
23-5681 Justin Weible v. Kevin Provost, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied arbitrary-or-capricious civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-malpractice license-revocation procedural-due-process unlawful-procedure Question not identified
23-5611 David Stephen Middleton v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2023-09-19 Denied actual-innocence due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction state-court-procedure state-courts In a post-conviction proceeding, was Mr. Middleton's right to due process violated when the Nevada state courts failed to consider exculpatory evidenc…
23-5588 Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. Nevada 2023-09-14 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule Whether the due process and equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment render Nevada state laws unconstitutional
23-234 Nicholas Crystal v. Calvin Johnson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-deficiency ninth-circuit post-conviction Did the Ninth Circuit commit reversible error in denying a Certificate of Appealability to a mentally deficient appellant?
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Is there an exception to the Heck v. Humphrey rule for plaintiffs who are no longer in custody?
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…
23-5326 Latonia Smith v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus legal-detention speech-conduct standing Whether AOL A(C2I0B) targers_conduct lone_0f SPeecin.and.Conduck Can sir — —_ opinyvons among _. — tthe lowes Coutts ond signifreanty | -taising Fiest…
23A74 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights-damages former-inmate habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey section-1983 sentence-reduction-credits Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to § 1983 actions applies when a plaintiff seeks damages for the denial of sentence-reduction credits but can no long…
23A61 Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force Whether qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers from liability for excessive force claims when officers use force to prevent a suspect fr…
22-1206 Kyung Chang Industry USA, Inc., dba KCI USA v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2023-06-13 Denied civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine commerce-clause component-part firearm-components firearms-law gun-regulation interlocutory-review legislative-intent protection-of-lawful-commerce-in-arms-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether a magazine is a 'component part of a firearm' under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
22-1174 Michael Erwine v. Churchill County, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied due-process employment employment-discrimination ninth-circuit procedural-due-process public-employee public-employee-rights stare-decisis stigma-plus To state a viable 'stigma-plus' claim, must a plaintiff prove as a matter of fact 'effective exclusion' from a chosen profession?
22-7558 Mike Vigil v. Midas International Corporation, et al Nevada 2023-05-16 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure default-judgment disability-act due-process elder-abuse elder-exploitation felony fraud intentional-fraud service-of-process standing Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the intentional fraud and felony conduct by the defendants in the lower courts
22-7548 Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment considered not denied where state actors purposefully fail to provide procedural protections and falsify…
22-1104 Shawn Talbot v. Louis Eric Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process facial-challenge federal-court federal-rules jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge material-allegations pleading-requirements standing Whether the United States District Court, District of Nevada lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 2:09CR-0078, and 2:10-CR-00520
22-1030 Gary Lewis v. United Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism insurance-law insurance-regulation judicial-procedure jury-trial rule-of-law Whether the constitutional right to a jury trial can be usurped by the trial court and appellate court interfering with the jury's fact finding role
22-1022 Evan Scott Grant v. Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners, et al. Nevada 2023-04-20 Denied amendment-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest parole state-law statutory-interpretation Whether two separate acts passed by a state legislature concerning the same topic should be interpreted harmoniously
22-7315 Gregory Dean Barren, Sr. v. Nevada Nevada 2023-04-18 Denied adjudication certification charges-dismissed due-process juvenile-court-act kent-v-united-states transfer-motion transfer-to-juvenile-jurisdiction unlawful-charges Did the State of Nevada violate the Juvenile Court Act announced in Kent v. United States by denying Petitioner's Motion to Transfer back to juvenile …
22-7282 David William Linder v. Brian Lammer, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-statute federal-cases jury-instructions mens-rea standing supreme-court-rule-14.1(b) Can the drug death statute, 21 § 841(b)(1)(c) be enlarged to include analogue drugs?
22-7274 Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied 10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene Whether the United States District Court violated the claimant's inalienable rights to due process and equal protection under the law within the meani…
22-995 Angelica Limcaco v. Steve Wynn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-evidence-rule foreign-agents-registration-act judicial-notice property-injury rico rico-act standing Whether a harm to an intangible property interest is a sufficient injury to a business or property interest under RICO
22-892 Guangyu Wang v. Nevada System of Higher Education Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied anti-retaliation anti-retaliation-standard civil-rights decision-making due-process hierarchical-network-processing network-processing retaliation statutory-remedies title-vii How to incorporate a human decision-making process and the anti-retaliation standard into a hierarchical network processing model and why it matters t…
22-872 Evans Creek, LLC v. City of Reno, Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-property due-process land-use-regulation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-claim Whether a property owner states a valid takings claim by alleging that a regulation substantially deprives the owner of the right to use property, or …
22-749 Andre Dow v. Nevada Nevada 2023-02-09 Denied 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege counsel-of-choice due-process fair-trial first-amendment prejudice sixth-amendment us-v-gonzalez-lopez Whether Mr. Dow's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
22-743 Nevada Irrigation District, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied certification-request clean-water-act federal-power-act ferc ninth-circuit regulatory-review state-jurisdiction state-waiver water-discharge water-quality-certification Whether California 'fail[ed] or refuse[d] to act' on petitioners' requests within one year as Section 401 requires
22A634 Ali Shahrokhi v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2023-01-12 Presumed Complete None
22A624 Evans Creek, LLC v. City of Reno, Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Presumed Complete None
22A562 Nevada Irrigation District, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Presumed Complete None
22-6224 Ali Shahrokhi v. Kizzy J. S. Burrow Nevada 2022-12-05 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias procedural-due-process recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial judge's refusal to recuse himself from presiding over the 3-day bench trial—while being an adverse party litigating against Shahrokhi— v…
22-494 Melodie DePierro v. Las Vegas Police Protective Association Metro, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied collective-bargaining consent first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-precedent janus-v-afscme union-dues Can the government and a union restrict when employees can exercise their First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech without the employees' a…
22A422 Richard W. DeOtte, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. v. Nevada Fifth Circuit 2022-11-14 Presumed Complete None
22-426 Transperfect Global, Inc., et al. v. Robert Pincus Delaware 2022-11-07 Denied contempt contempt-power corporate-litigation declaratory-judgment delaware-law due-process first-amendment judicial-declaration petition-clause Whether holding TPG in contempt because it filed a lawsuit in Nevada unconstitutionally burdened TPG's First-Amendment-right-to-petition
22-5426 Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. …
22-5416 James Montell Chappell v. Nevada Nevada 2022-08-22 Denied capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage prejudice prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When trial counsel in a capital case presents anecdotal evidence of prenatal exposure to alcohol and evidence of learning disability but not expert te…
22-62 Big Horn County Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Alden Big Man, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied civil-adjudicatory-jurisdiction electric-cooperative federal-regulation indian-tribes montana-exceptions montana-v-us nonmember-defendant nonmember-regulation subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-court tribal-jurisdiction Whether an Indian tribal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate a tribally created claim as an 'other means' of regulating a nonmember fe…
22-55 Leo Kramer, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-estoppel judicial-misconduct property-rights rule-60-motion standing Should lawyers be allowed to commit fraud upon the court?
22M7 Reina Tea Wood-Jimenez v. Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Presumed Complete None
21-8263 John Matthias Watson, III v. Nevada Nevada 2022-06-29 Denied capital-murder criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy mccoy-precedent mccoy-v-louisana right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment trial-counsel unauthorized-concession Is it a concession of guilt by trial counsel which violated Mr. Watson's longstanding right to autonomy and the Sixth Amendment holding of McCoy v. Lo…
21-1560 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. Rochester City School District, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination issue-preclusion judicial-recusal pleading-standards pre-filing-sanctions Whether a judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned
21-1484 Arizona, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Judgment Issued arizona-v-california breach-of-trust colorado-river federal-jurisdiction federal-trust-responsibility indian-reservation indian-reservations water-rights winters-doctrine Whether the Ninth Circuit Opinion infringes upon the Supreme Court's retained and exclusive jurisdiction over the allocation of water from the Lower B…
21-7898 Emilio Evalio Arenas v. Nevada Nevada 2022-05-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process free-speech mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada erred when it concluded that the petitioner was not prejudiced by cumulative error after the district court abando…
21-7878 Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the petitioner's due process rights by misapplying the categorical analysis and relying on a non-retroactive state …
21-7814 Julia Ann Poff v. Warren Smith, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus standing structural-error trial-process Was the complete deprivation of Ms. Poef's fundamental rights to determine how to protect her liberty related to structural error that violated multip…
21A637 John Matthias Watson, III v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-25 Presumed Complete None
21-1371 Patricia Morrison v. Quest Diagnostics Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied administrative-procedures administrative-procedures-act civil-rights dna-act dna-evidence due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment hiv-testing innocence-protection-act Whether a petitioner from an estate may seek access to HIV/DNA testing on newly discovered, preserved, biological exculpatory evidence belonging to a …
21-7555 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-05 Denied double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to the class as pretrial d…
21-7504 Michael Bruce Bynoe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-31 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process equal-protection immunity-provision judicial-jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction racial-discrimination standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause
21-1282 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-23 Denied 6th-amendment apprendi-doctrine civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Whether this Court should overrule AlmendarezTorres in light of Apprendi and its progeny
21-7401 Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure Did the state district court judge's failure to abide by Nevada's state procedural laws violate my constitutionally protected liberty interest, Fourte…
21-7232 Lance Reberger v. Michael Koehn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-treatment prison prison-medical-care prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether the Nevada Department of Corrections officials violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical care to a prisoner during …
21-7209 Juan Alfonso Nuno-Velasco v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada Nevada 2022-02-25 Denied administrative-procedure civil-rights consular-agreement discretionary-decision due-process foreign-national-rights foreign-nationals immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge standing treaty-interpretation Whether the Consular Agreement between the United States and a foreign country provides access to foreign nationals with certain exceptions?
21-1061 Courtney Kristek v. The Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-discrimination diversity due-process jurisdiction removal standing Does the Ninth Circuit have jurisdiction over non-diverse parties when there is no federal question?
21-6760 Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divisibi…
21-6684 Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2021-12-21 Denied bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation reproductive-freedom state-supreme-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person's fundamental right to…
21-832 Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with Shady Grove?
21-805 Douglas Norberg v. Nevada Center for Dermatology, et al. Nevada 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights common-law court-rules due-process judicial-precedent precedent stare-decisis unpublished-opinions Is Nevada Supreme Court Rule 36 allowing appellate decisions to be unpublished and unable to the cited as precedent a violation of the rule of stare d…
21-6088 George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the rulings as to the issues related to the withdrawal of claims and related issues debatable of wrong
21-5939 Michael Luis Cota v. Nevada Nevada 2021-10-08 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing state-laws takings Whether state sodomy laws violate the Constitution
21-5888 Wes Joseph Pertgen v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2021-10-05 Denied administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing disciplinary-proceedings due-process due-process-violation evidence-disclosure habeas-corpus liberty-interest nevada Does Due Process and Liberty Interest exist when Nevada's Disciplinary Proceedings violate Due Process?
21-494 Ralph Lewis v. Power Research, Inc., et al. Nevada 2021-10-04 Denied calder-effects-test conflict-of-laws corporate-officer due-process forum-activities nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction walden-v-fiore Whether the Nevada Supreme Court correctly held that a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant where the defendant does not…
21-5680 Heather Matthews v. California State University Nevada 2021-09-15 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity due-process first-amendment sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction Does a large public entity or state university or government agency have the right to claim sovereign-immunity when committing criminal-activities aft…
21-396 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Dev Anand Oman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied airline-deregulation-act commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce multi-state-work-shifts transportation-workers wage-and-hour-laws Whether California may extend its wage-and-hour laws to flight attendants who spend the vast majority of their workweek outside of California
21-5658 Elias G. Montalvo v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied constitutional-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instructions lesser-included-offense motion-to-suppress open-murder voluntary-manslaughter Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to instruct the jury on Voluntary Manslaughter as a lesser-included offense of Open Murder?
21-5525 Thomas Richardson v. Nevada Nevada 2021-08-31 Denied aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati…
21-180 Michael Patrick Lathigee v. British Columbia Securities Commission Nevada 2021-08-09 Denied civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement-order due-process foreign-judgment-enforcement foreign-judgments international-law international-legal-comity penalties penalty-characterization supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's opinion enforcing the BCSC's $21.7 million (CAD) Canadian 'Disgorgement Order' against Lathigee as a judgment in…
21-5317 Mauricio Melendez v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-08-09 Denied attorney-concession criminal-autonomy criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-defense stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Whether the right to secured autonomy over one's defense requires express objection to an attorney's concession of guilt
21-125 Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded
21-112 Juliet Erickson, et al. v. Nevada County, California California 2021-07-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights deed-restriction due-process exaction land-use municipal-ordinance permit-denial property-rights takings Does an exaction occur when a County refuses to issue a building permit it previously approved unless the applicants consent to record an ad hoc deed …
21-5159 Alfred P. Centofanti, III v. Nevada Nevada 2021-07-21 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus medical-disability pro-se stay-proceedings Whether the denial of a pro se inmate with stage IV cancer's requests to extend filing deadlines, stay the proceedings, refer the appeal to a pro bono…
21-5019 Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already …
21-5024 Gary E. McKinley v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2021-07-07 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence exhibits pleadings prisoner-rights pro-se standing state-court-system Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for relief
20-8468 Deborah Petty v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-venue district-court due-process identity-theft interstate-crime jurisdiction venue Was venue proper in the Northern District of Texas when the crimes were actually committed in Nevada and Florida?
20-8271 Jess Howard Kriehn v. Lancer Insurance Nevada 2021-06-10 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel due-process fee-waiver poll-tax pro-se-litigation state-counsel Should a litigant be denied access to civil courts over monetary restrictions?
20-8095 Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and a fundamentally fair trial were denied
20-1435 Glenn Galvan v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Nevada 2021-04-14 Denied civil-procedure compulsory-counterclaim constitutional-rights court-discretion deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-assignment procedural-due-process standing vexatious-litigant Whether Nevada courts abused discretion and made errors in fact and law
20-7614 Gerald Von Tobel v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied 28-usc-2254(d)(1) criminal-trial federal-review habeas-corpus juror-misconduct mattox-remmer-test mattox-v-united-states presumption-of-prejudice remmer-v-united-states state-court-procedure Whether the Nevada state court's juror misconduct formulation, which conditions relief on juror misconduct being egregious to trigger the presumption …
20-7572 Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the use of a Brecon ment / wmnte wukecwautt Seven s\\k ¢ QQ violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
20-1347 Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-25 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a f…
20-7470 Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-16 Denied actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure Whether a Batson-McCollum proven violation qualifies as a structural error
20-7428 Aldo Marones v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied appeal civil-rights due-process evidence firearms sentencing Whether the sentencing court erred in imposing a 100-year sentence for a weapons-related conviction
20-7358 Mariann Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-08 Denied access-to-courts assets civil-rights due-process employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of her motion to proceed in forma pauperis
20-7299 Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-02 Denied consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con…
20-1168 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention Whether any standard should guide the courts of appeals' discretion to raise Younger abstention sua sponte
20-932 Bobby L. Franklin v. D. J. Laughlin, et al. Nevada 2021-01-11 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fraud patent patent-rights quiet-title standing stare-decisis takings Has Petitioner Franklin's existing stare-decisis patent-rights been addressed or examined in any judiciary court to be enjoined from NRS-40.010-et-seg…
20-874 David Lee Phillips v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada 2020-12-31 Denied african-american attorney-discipline constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process nevada-supreme-court procedural-fairness professional-conduct suspension withdrawal Was Petitioner denied constitutional procedural due process
20-846 Club One Casino, Inc., dba Club One Casino, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied administrative-procedure-act federal-enclave federal-trust-acquisition indian-commerce-clause indian-reorganization-act land-transfer state-sovereignty tenth-amendment tribal-jurisdiction Does the Indian Reorganization Act unilaterally transfer state jurisdiction to the federal government and tribes?
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-6582 Curtis Ward v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery force-clause mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation Does federal armed bank robbery qualify as a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)?
20-777 In Re Darren Heyman 2020-12-08 Denied 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment Whether a presiding judge must recuse/disqualify themselves when the judge has active teaching ties with a named-party university
20-6510 Lawrence W. Ford v. Anita L. Budde Nevada 2020-12-02 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process judicial-discretion judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error pro-se Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in mischaracterizing the trial court record and relying on erroneous facts
20-6447 Michael Anthony Cernak v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause extortion federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intimidation mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(…
20-6386 James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada Nevada 2020-11-19 Denied batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin…
20-6287 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-11-12 Dismissed certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-review habeas-corpus mandamus procedural-default Whether the United States and a pattern of utilizing an erroneous certificate of appealability is the only appropriate remedy, where petitioners have …
20-639 Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied covid-19 covid-19-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-assembly free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-liberty strict-scrutiny Whether the Governor's favoring of secular over religious gatherings violates the Free Exercise Clause
20-483 Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions Did the district court err in imposing case-terminating sanctions?
20-5632 Rick Shawn v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County Nevada 2020-09-09 Denied criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a new trial when defense counsel fails to raise a meritorious defense
20-210 Jing Shu Zheng v. Christina Ellis, et vir Ninth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied civil-penalties civil-rights due-process false-claims-act promissory-fraud section-8-housing treble-damages Whether the number of FCA civil penalties is based upon the number of overpayments received by a Section 8 landlord or whether they are based upon the…
20-5383 Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Su…
20-5334 Dennis K. Kieren, Jr. v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rule due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability
20-5282 Alla A. Zorikova v. Realvest, Inc. Missouri 2020-08-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial falsified-facts foreign-corporation judicial-discretion missouri-statutes usurious-interest weight-of-evidence Did the Circuit Court deny Petitioner's Constitutional right for fair Trial?
20-5190 Christian Rodriguez v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Reno, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule miranda-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Court recognizes that Law Enforcement and the Court cannot simply expect to use illegally obtained evidence despite Miranda violations
20-86 Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Ronald Ross Ninth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied but never mentioned in his original federal habeas petition to supply th civil-procedure court-order federal-habeas federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus habeas-petition mayle-v-felix relation-back statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c) permits a habeas petitioner to rely on a state court order appended to, but never mentioned in, his original federal hab…
20-5134 Donald Robin Barren v. Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability was improperly denied
19-1469 Eric Hasbrouck v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada 2020-07-08 Denied abuse administrative-procedure bar-admission bar-exam due-process fraud judicial-review nevada-state-bar state-bar-practices Does Petitioner have the right to judicial review of the practices of the Nevada State Bar, regarding the administering and grading of the bar exam, a…
19A1070 Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Presumed Complete None
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
19-1375 Aaron L. Katz v. Incline Village General Improvement District Nevada 2020-06-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights fee-shifting first-amendment litigation-immunity petition-clause public-concern public-grievances punitive-statute sham-litigation standing Can a petitioning litigant be held liable for their adversary's litigation costs and attorney's fees based upon a punitive statute, where the litigant…
19-8580 Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden Nevada 2020-06-02 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states Whether a state court is required under the federal constitution to retroactively apply interpretations of a substantive criminal statute that narrow …
19-1315 Nevada, et al. v. Donald Walden, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-removal judicial-procedure removal sovereign-immunity state-courts state-immunity Whether a state remains immune from suit after voluntarily removing a federal claim to federal court when the state is immune from such claims in its …
19-8542 Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments?
19-8438 Rodney Lyn Emil v. Nevada Nevada 2020-05-12 Denied aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-finding jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt Is Nevada's capital sentencing procedure unconstitutional after Hurst v. Florida?
19-1255 Renee Baker, Warden, et al. v. Jeff N. Rose Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied aedpa credibility criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus impeachment nevada-v-jackson ninth-circuit prior-acquittals state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violates AEDPA