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25-6379 Kevin Ogden v. George Stephenson, Warden, et al. New Mexico 2025-12-16 Pending constitutional-rights corrections-department disciplinary-procedures double-jeopardy legal-process witness-treatment Does the State of N.M. practice illegal Law violating the N.M. Corrections Department and its facilities? Does the State of N.M. commit fraud by fili…
25-6318 Edward Bingham v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-12-09 Denied None Question not identified.
25-279 Matthew Wood v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-09-10 Denied criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment proportionality Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourt…
25-5498 Jason Strauch v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-28 Denied due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-appeal writ-of-mandamus Was the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of Mr. Strauch's State Writ of Mandamus contrary to the United States Constitution's First Amendment and Fou…
25-5326 Geneva Langworthy v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-12 Denied court-access disability-rights due-process judicial-bias legal-representation self-representation Can a judge with personal bias deny access to courts as punishment for disrespectful language, and can a judge deny self-representation or require an …
25-151 Kim H. Peterson, Individually & as Trustee of the Peterson Family Trusts, et al. v. Krista Freitag, Receiver for ANI Development, LLC, American National Investments, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied circuit-split equitable-receivership federal-court-authority non-consensual-release sec-enforcement third-party-claims Whether a federal court overseeing an equity receivership has equitable authority to dispose of claims that belong to a third-party against non receiv…
25A165 Edward Bingham v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete None
25-5273 Jordan Padilla v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-05 Denied due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether law enforcement officials violated Petitioner's Right to Due Process when they seized his personal tablet device and held it for 19 days due t…
25-113 Breanna Renteria, et al. v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-30 Pending employment-division-v-smith first-amendment health-care-sharing-ministry preemption religious-exercise strict-scrutiny Whether state laws regulating health care sharing ministries must be deemed neutral under Employment Division v. Smith and whether federal ACA exempti…
24A1125 Joe D. Chavez, Jr. v. New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2025-05-21 Presumed Complete None
24-7175 In Re Kevin Ogden 2025-05-12 Denied appellate-review due-process jurisdiction legal-standard self-representation trial-rights Whether the Supreme Court of New Mexico lacks jurisdiction to rule on the petitioner's case prior to trial and applied the wrong legal standard when d…
24-1071 Jose Angel Garcia v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2025-04-10 Denied criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-instruction medical-evidence sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether Petitioner Garcia's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was deprived by his trial attorney's failure to present exculpatory evidence and challeng…
24A876 Salvador Bravo v. Raul Torrez, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-12 Presumed Complete None
24-791 Barry J. Byrnes v. Sylvia Marie Byrnes Tenth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-review eighth-amendment judicial-sanctions jury-trial-right Did the bankruptcy judge enter an illegal judgment and violate Petitioner's right to a jury trial in district court on the tort claims?
24-6176 Martin Gonzales v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2024-12-19 Denied amendment-rights certiorari-denial constitutional-due-process fundamental-rights state-petition supreme-court-review Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of a state petition for certiorari violated constitutional due process and fundamental rights under the …
24-5966 Joey Deal v. Hector Rios, Warden New Mexico 2024-11-13 Denied certiorari constitutional-amendment due-process legal-precedent state-petition supreme-court-review Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of a state petition for certiorari violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and conflicted with prio…
24A299 Martin Gonzales v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2024-09-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation criminal-convictions double-jeopardy incidental-restraint kidnapping state-law Whether a criminal defendant's kidnapping convictions violate double jeopardy principles when based on incidental restraint under New Mexico state law
24-328 Joseph Marion Rywelski v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied constitutional-rights equal-footing-doctrine federal-jurisdiction governmental-regulation second-amendment territorial-law Whether the Supreme Court will resolve disputes regarding governmental regulation of citizens' Second Amendment rights across municipal, state, federa…
24-5044 In Re David Brian Derringer 2024-07-10 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice rico civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation Question not identified
23-1352 Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-27 GVR administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action
23-7677 Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling rejecting a person's right to a due process evidentiary hearing conflicts with the Due Process and Equal Protection…
23-7363 Orin Kristich v. United States District Court for the District of New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied 10th-circuit-court-of-appeals access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment legal-mail prison-officials Whether the First Amendment applies to legal mail
23A853 Christopher Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete collateral-review crime-of-violence first-step-act ineffective-assistance plea-agreement section-924c Whether a defendant's guilty plea to a § 924(c) charge precludes collateral review of the underlying crime of violence in light of the Supreme Court's…
23-1009 Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation Whether a federal agency can defeat a plaintiff's standing by adding non-statutory factors to benefit distributions that are purportedly race neutral
23-6953 Anthony Lamont Mason, II v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied federal-court federal-sentencing indian-major-crimes-act mandatory-minimum mcgirt-v-oklahoma sentencing-guidelines state-court state-sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts should treat a sentence that is optional in state court as mandatory in federal court under the Indian Major Crimes …
23-5976 Brian Heath Davis v. Randy Gibbs, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied autopsy autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure effective-assistance expert-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment To what extent are Sixth Amendment guarantees of Confrontation and Effective Assistance violated when an expert conducts an autopsy, prepares an autop…
23-279 Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al. New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress
23-5604 Ernesto Ordunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the elements cl…
22-7795 Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Laura B. Zuchowski, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Vermont Service Center Second Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-suppression civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-officials immigration-law Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the USCIS director's suppression of the plaintiff's appeal application, resulting in hi…
22-1133 Hugh Martin, et al. v. Sandoval County, New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2023-05-22 Denied due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation native-american-land-rights property-rights takings Did the New Mexico Supreme Court err declining to review and rectify the decisions of the lower courts that cut Petitioner's off from obtaining just c…
22-1086 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veteran Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied appeals civil-procedure court-authority due-process federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure jurisdiction procedural-defect service-of-process standing summons-requirements Did both the U.S. District Courts have a right to issue any ruling if the defendant was not properly served?
22-1068 Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability
22-7347 Kimberly S. Elkins v. Kathy Miller New Mexico 2023-04-21 Denied civil-rights court-procedure due-process eviction excusable-neglect forced-evictions judicial-bias standing vulnerable-litigants Are all the reasons for New Mexico Court of Appeals dismissal of this case justified according to Petitioner's Civil Rights?
22-7280 Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-13 Dismissed criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when he was misinformed about the length of his life sentence and parole eligibility require…
22-677 Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board New Mexico 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination judicial-review nmsa-1978-30-16-10 section-1983 standing title-42-usc-1983 Whether the courts of New Mexico have so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-640 David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code Is a search warrant that authorizes a search for violations of the entire federal tax code (26 U.S.C. §7201), plus any other numerous codes and laws f…
22-410 Chama Troutstalkers, LLC, et al. v. Adobe Whitewater Club of New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2022-11-01 Denied equal-footing-doctrine ideal-opportunity property-title public-easement recreational-access recreational-activities state-supreme-court-conflict takings territorial-lands water-rights Under the equal-footing doctrine, was the United States' title subject to a public easement for recreational activities?
22-401 Alaska v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied administrative-law alaska-national-interest-lands-conservation-act federal-preemption hunting-regulations national-wildlife-refuge state-authority state-police-powers statutory-interpretation wildlife-management Does ANILCA grant federal agencies plenary authority to preempt state law regulating how people hunt?
22-5797 Marie C. Russo v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee on Behalf of the Holders of the Harborview Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-12 New Mexico 2022-10-07 Denied due-process fair-adversarial-process jurisdiction stare-decisis constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-jurisdiction stare-decisis substantive-due-process Whether the Judiciary of the State of New Mexico violated my right of substantive due-process
22A161 Chama Troutstalkers, LLC, et al. v. Adobe Whitewater Club of New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2022-08-22 Presumed Complete None
22-5292 Isiah Trujillo v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-cause due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-review remedies state-courts statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court can provide guidelines regarding the material term 'state courts' embedded in the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Rul…
22-103 Gavin Clarkson v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied §1983-claim administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process sovereign-immunity summary-judgment Should an appeals court supplement the record when the government materially misleads the lower Court, either intentionally or unintentionally, regard…
22-5205 Layla Coriz v. New Mexico New Mexico 2022-07-27 Denied cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-7893 Paul Mueller v. Bert Parnall New Mexico 2022-05-17 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights discovery-rule due-process legal-malpractice section-1981 statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations on a legal malpractice claim can begin before any cognizable damages occur
21-1343 Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico 2022-04-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so…
21-951 Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine Did the Tenth Circuit err?
21-6694 Lawrence S. Brantley, Jr. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-22 Denied abuse-of-discretion clear-and-convincing Colorado-v-New-Mexico due-process evidence-standard legal-precedent parental-rights trial-court-discretion witness-testimony Did the trial court abuse its discretion by allowing a witness with no firsthand knowledge to testify, conflicting with Oakley v. State?
21-6495 Pedro J. Amaro v. New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion prison-conditions procedural-fairness standing summary-dismissal Whether the court of appeals, under the 'abuse of discretion' standard of review, should have reversed the district court's judgment summarily dismiss…
21-629 Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, et al. v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process free-speech preemption radio-frequency-radiation right-of-access-to-courts right-to-petition takings telecommunications telecommunications-act Whether the preemption by 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv) of any State remedy for injury by telecommunications facilities without providing a substitute …
21-6118 Kevin Folse v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime Does New Mexico's aggravated battery statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines?
21-5661 Raymond Moya v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2
21-217 Marcy Britton v. Tim Keller, Mayor of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied civil-rights due-process inverse-condemnation penn-central-test property-rights qualified-immunity regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioner's Federal Takings claim and claim for inverse condemnation against Defendants with prejudice at the …
20-1768 Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' case on the basis of Qualified-Immunity
20-1524 Advantageous Community Services, LLC, et al. v. Gary King, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hope-v-pelzer legal-immunity medicaid-fraud qualified-immunity state-employees Should the doctrine of qualified immunity be limited or abolished?
20-7858 Michael Armendariz v. Leon Martinez, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial Does the state have an absolute preserve trial evidence which the state allegedly shows supports a conviction, even if the evidence is only partially …
20-7348 Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony Does a criminal offense without mens rea qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-7097 Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2021-02-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-7073 Donovan Muskett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied circuit-split criminal-consequences due-process fair-warning precedent retroactive-application Can a single decision from another circuit afford fair warning that the federal circuit in which an individual resides may overrule settled precedent …
20-6190 Bradley R. Freeman v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-11-02 Denied affirmative-defense brady-v-maryland constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Does the Constitution require the prosecution to disclose favorable, material evidence of an affirmative defense before entering a plea agreement?
20-5870 Demarcus Clark v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment Did the State's admission of the ill-court testimony and OWA report of a Surrogate DWA analyst in lieu of the actual testing DWA analyst and DWA repor…
20-5809 Albert Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable?
20-5798 Jose Velasquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony Does the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which ignores the common law requirements of constructive-force robbery, conflict with the Court's adoption of the …
20-5774 Archie Manzanares v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony Whether the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which relies on facts rather than elements, abrogates the Supreme Court's holdings that the categorical approach…
20-5626 Monte Whitehead v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-09-09 Denied bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining state-vs-federal-law Where New Mexico's anti-waiver statute violates double jeopardy
20-293 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. New Mexico, ex rel. Hector Balderas, Attorney General New Mexico 2020-09-08 Denied civil-procedure federal-judgment federalism government-intervention public-policy qui-tam res-judicata standing state-court Whether a state government is bound by a final federal judgment in a qui tam action when it declines to intervene
19-1341 Richard A. Van Auken, as Trustee and Beneficiary v. Fletcher R. Catron, et al. New Mexico 2020-06-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-property fraud fraudulent-taking judicial-denial judicial-determination judicial-review litigation-history property-rights trust trust-contract Whether the refusal of New Mexico State Courts to provide a final judicial determination of trust contract meaning and effect, a fact central to provi…
19-1225 Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,…
19-1215 Steven Sussex, et ux. v. City of Tempe, Arizona Arizona 2020-04-14 Denied civil-procedure enabling-act federal-defense federal-enabling-act federal-law federal-preemption judicial-procedure jurisdiction property-rights quiet-title state-law Can a state law bar a federal defense in a quiet title proceeding?
19-8012 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Alameda Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied amended-complaint diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship fair-labor-standards-act government-agency governmental-agency governmental-investigation labor-code retaliation retaliation-claim statute-of-limitations unlawful-termination Shall the District Court toll the statute of limitations under the FLSA
19-1065 Teresa Ann Johnson v. Alaska Alaska 2020-02-28 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-report sixth-amendment surrogate-expert testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits the prosecution from introducing into evidence at trial a certified lab report reflecting statements of non…
19-975 Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2020-02-04 Denied administrative-law border-wall constitutional-challenge homeland-security immigration-law immigration-reform non-delegation-doctrine Presentment-Clause separation-of-powers Whether ITRIRA § 102(c) violates the separation-of-powers, the non-delegation-doctrine, and the Presentment-Clause
19A860 Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Presumed Complete None
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution Whether petitioner Boyett's constitutional rights were violated by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court of New Mexico under the Due Process Clause o…
19-6896 Jeffrey Antonio v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the federal criminal jurisdiction over the Pueblo of Sandia lands was terminated by the 2005 Pueblo Lands Act Amendment
19-6715 Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi…
19-637 Emma Serna v. Margette Webster, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied arbitration arbitration-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute default-judgments deprivation-of-rights due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure mandamus misconduct standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued to obtain a written judgment to execute, which has money issued with it, after the state supreme court had…
19-6532 Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds Whether the lower courts prejudicially abused their discretion in denying both COA and the Rehearing request to review the district court's summary di…
19-577 Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey New Mexico 2019-11-04 Denied best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard best-interests-standard child-custody due-process due-process,child-custody,parental-rights,pre-depr imminent-harm parental-rights post-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-hearing Can a court temporarily remove a child from her parent's custody without a pre-deprivation hearing whenever the court deems it in the child's best int…
19-6287 Seferino Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidelines
19-6037 John Anzures v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach commercial-burglary generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause sentencing-enhancement stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states Whether a commercial burglary conviction under New Mexico law categorically does not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's…
19-292 Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a 'seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment?
19-178 Jagdish C. Laul v. Los Alamos National Laboratories Tenth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination inference-weighing jury-competency jury-trial-right mcdonnell-douglas motive motive-determination seventh-amendment summary-judgment Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony depriv…
19-56 Mark Milner, et al. v. Vincent Mares, Executive Director, New Mexico Racing Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-accountability harlow-v-fitzgerald new-mexico qualified-immunity Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' cases on the basis of Qualified Immunity in the face of US Supreme Court precedent and New Mexico …
19-26 Darlene Collins, et al. v. Charles W. Daniels, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied bail-reform constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment judicial-immunity legislative-immunity new-mexico-constitution sovereign-immunity Was the application of legislative immunity to actions of the New Mexico Courts to legislate policy outside of the authorities granted to them by the …
19-3 Ryan Begay v. New Mexico New Mexico 2019-06-28 Denied blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-protection double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reckless-abuse reckless-child-abuse self-defense Whether the 'same elements' test adequately protects against multiple punishments for 'the same offence'
18-9555 Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence Whether the introduction of an autopsy report which was presented as substantive evidence but not testified to by its author violates the Sixth and Fo…
18A1271 Nathan Boyd Estate, et al. 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete federal-claimants interstate-dispute intervention original-jurisdiction supreme-court water-rights Whether the Supreme Court should grant intervention to pre-federal claimants in an original jurisdiction water rights dispute between Texas, New Mexic…
18-1458 Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos New Mexico 2019-05-22 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit…
18-1452 Jose A. Perez v. Physician Assistant Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 amendment civil-procedure constitutional-amendment constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations takings williamson-county Whether Mr. Perez can amend his complaint to allege that a State cannot exclude a person from the practice of medicine in a manner that contravenes th…
18-9352 Donald C. Ridley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting Bullcoming-v-New-Mexico confrontation-clause Crawford-v-Washington due-process griffin-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions rosemond-v-united-states strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington yates-v-united-states Does a lower Court's admission that a aiding and abetting jury instruction was erroneous in light of this Court decision in Rosemond v. United States,…
18-1357 Randy Cummings, et al. v. Celina Bussey, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 clearly-established-law discretionary-function federal-court-interpretation federal-court-review ministerial-exception property-rights qualified-immunity state-law state-law-interpretation state-supreme-court-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court interpreting a state statute can conclude that it grants the state agency discretion such that the 'ministerial exception' to …
18-8865 Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue…
18-8498 Oryan Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis…
18-1208 William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations
18-8111 Rossahn Black v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied bullcoming confrontation confrontation-clause evidence-admissibility expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent ninth-circuit-interpretation sixth-amendment testimony Whether this Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts and Bullcoming v. New Mexico created a bright line rule excluding the testimony of an …
18-7785 David Derringer v. Isidro Saenz New Mexico 2019-02-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct rico rico-acts standing supremacy-clause Whether any court can deprive Constitutional rights and violate the Supremacy Clause, and use RICO racketeering acts to stop legal court filings
18-7774 Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether petitioner Boyett was denied effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment
18-7398 Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt New Mexico 2019-01-14 Denied amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summary judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues?
18-894 Harold McNeal, et ux. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied congressional-policy contract-negotiation federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction gaming-enterprise indian-gaming-regulatory-act sovereign-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction tort-claim tort-claims tribal-sovereignty Whether the Tenth Circuit panel violated the current jurisprudence of this Court and the Congressional policy underlying IGRA by precluding the Nation…
18-7232 Arthur Sanchez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied aggravated-assault aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force force-clause johnson-definition mens-rea physical-force state-appellate-courts state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony Whether a state robbery offense that includes overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's e…
18-7010 Jermaine Mitchell v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied confrontation-clause expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence lab-reports law-enforcement-testimony lay-testimony narcotics narcotics-testimony scientific-evidence sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether law enforcement (lay) testimonies about the narcotics character of certain substances may be shined with the expert testimonial gloss of unpro…
18A584 Bradford J. Dalley, Judge, Eleventh Judicial District, New Mexico v. Navajo Nation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-12-04 Presumed Complete None
18-6804 Shane Roach v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou…
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6498 Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in denying the motion for sentence reduction under Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) despite the minimal quantities of drugs …
18-6397 Angel Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated
18-6097 Leonard G. Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is burglary' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i1) in a way that contravenes this Court…
18-5425 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. New York 2018-08-02 Denied access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing Whether the New Mexico state bail law as applied ($30.42) to a bill of rights violation, purposely keeping a recluse out of the court process in viola…
18-5288 Robert Serrano v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force johnson-definition physical-force state-robbery state-robbery-offense victim-resistance violent-felony Whether a state robbery offense that includes as an element the requirement of overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under …
18-89 AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation Whether state anti-SLAPP fee-shifting provisions apply in federal court
18-5224 Frank Costelon v. New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel cronic-violation custody due-process equitable-tolling federal-custody gideon-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing state-court-conviction Whether the District Court erred in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction because the petitioner was no longer in custody of the state court ju…
18-5131 Tu My Tong v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2018-07-06 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-action qualified-immunity standing state-action Whether plaintiffs can bring civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of their constitutional rights by state defendants
22O147 New Mexico, Plaintiff v. Colorado 2016-06-22 Denied None
22O141 Texas, Plaintiff v. New Mexico and Colorado 2013-01-10 Pending None
22O65 Texas, Plaintiff v. New Mexico 1974-06-27 Denied None