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25-6766 Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause 1. Police Complaint as Arrest Warrant Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented a…
25A903 Nima Moradi v. Florida Florida 2026-02-09 Application deadly-force ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prejudice-prong self-defense strickland-standard Question not identified.
25-934 Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al. First Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending 28-usc-1359 assignor-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction federal-court-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff's in…
25-6684 Yehonatan Kapach v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Pending constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fairness jurisdiction traffic-court video-conference Was the traffic court in New Hampshire justified in denying a North Carlina resident and driver his application to appear by video conference, as it a…
25-858 Charlotte Chemuti v. North Carolina North Carolina 2026-01-20 Pending ancillary-proceeding criminal-defendant evidence-production law-enforcement-videos pennsylvania-v-ritchie trial-procedure 1) WHETHER THE A STATE MAY PROHIBIT A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT FROM COMPELLING THE PRODUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VIDEOS TO THE DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHERE THE S…
25-768 Charity Mainville v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending circuit-court extraordinary-writ judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus procedural-standard 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit may impose "undue delay" as a standalone prerequisite to mandamus relief when this Court's three-part test includes no s…
25-6284 Leonard W. Houston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-litigation individual-actions jurisdiction pleadings statutory-provisions WAS IT ABUSE OF DISCRETION ON ALL CLJA ACTIONS ON INDIVIDUAL DOCKETS, AS COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT NEED NOT FILE RESPONSIVE PLEADINGS IN STAYED INDIVI…
25A615 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-25 Application constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power non-severability presentment-clause separation-of-powers vaccine-act Whether the Vaccine Act's delegation of power to the Secretary of Health and Human Services violates the separation of powers and presentment clause o…
25-6186 Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-11-20 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the…
25-580 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence 1. Whether in determining whether a constitutional error had a prejudicial effect on the outcome of a trial a court must consider only that evidence t…
25-6034 Markus Odon McCormick v. Michael J. Crumpler, Individually and as a Detective for the City of Southern Pines, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied None (l)VJWUr <x 6>rnUF A~uaU*-V wffe<A^ fU<L? [iOwWKu- fc ftw\u>Aov<A ■ , ^A V,- ? ^IXkcWvcr ckwv, Wn-A °W
25A358 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance law-library prison-conditions section-2255 Whether a federal prisoner can obtain relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based on ineffective assistance of counsel when facing procedural barriers in acce…
25A315 Kiya Cunningham v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant summary-judgment Whether a federal district court violates a party's due process rights by striking a summary judgment opposition without providing an opportunity to r…
25-5673 Daquon Rollo Corrothers v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-09-18 Denied curtilage fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant The first Question Presented is whether the Fourth Amendment protects a citizen from a search of the curtilage surrounding his home, when that search …
25-302 Patsy Talley v. Dale R. Folwell, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied due-process fourth-circuit pre-deprivation procedural-rights property-rights state-treasurer Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in a published opinion has ignored decades of law establishing the right to pre-deprivation due process in…
25-285 Elizabeth White, et vir v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. North Carolina 2025-09-11 Denied adoption-assistance child-welfare-act federal-adoption procedural-interpretation special-needs-children state-agency-disclosure 1. Whether North Carolina misinterpreted the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 by reversing an Order granting Petitioners adoption ass…
25-5577 Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict "the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area" …
25-5512 Robert Andrew Bartlett, Sr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-09-02 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-review state-law Whether a trial in a state criminal case who is prevented by state law from raising a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, who has a state law …
25-5469 Bryan Christopher Bell v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-08-26 Denied batson-challenge equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether this Court may review the merits of an undisputable violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994) where the state court app…
25A211 Tamika D. Pless v. State Employees' Credit Union. et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete civil-rights eviction fair-housing-act housing-discrimination irreparable-harm pro-se-litigation Whether federal courts can provide emergency injunctive relief to prevent a potentially discriminatory eviction under the Fair Housing Act and 42 U.S.…
25-200 Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-08-19 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing-discretion Whether North Carolina, in conflict with this Court's precedents and those of other states, has violated the Eighth Amendment by creating a de facto m…
25A185 Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-08-14 Denied capital-punishment constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate when the state supreme court has denied constitutional protections that saf…
25A124 Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete appellate-reversal criminal-procedure felony-status jury-instruction prior-conviction standard-of-review Whether a district court's determination of a defendant's prior felony conviction status is a question of law to be decided by the court, not submitte…
25-5229 David Loren Waldeck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied fourth-amendment heien-standard judicial-gloss law-enforcement objective-reasonableness statutory-interpretation Is a reviewing court permitted to insert a "judicial gloss" in construing an unambiguous statute when determining whether a law enforcement officer's …
25A104 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2025-07-24 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a defendant whose death sentences were imposed by bare majority jury votes and judicia…
25-78 Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted this Court's opinion in Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick…
25-5164 Pierre Alexander Amerson v. Leslie Cooley Dismukes, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-intervention plea-negotiations Whether A post-conviction attorney should have been stopped from proceeding with ex parte exploratory and ask a disproportionate, the subsequent given…
25A31 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation erlinger-standard harmless-error jury-trial-right supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should establish a definitive standard for harmless-error review of constitutional violations in criminal cases, particularl…
24-7474 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-06-20 Denied arbitrary-denial constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto state-court Whether the State of Mississippi has run afoul of due process by arbitrarily denying an available state court forum to adjudicate a federal constituti…
24-7435 Antonio Nathaniel Davenport, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied criminal-law jury-instruction murder-statute north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Whether the Trial Court Erred by Failing to Give A Properly Requested Jury Instruction as to the North Carolina Crime of Murder in Violation of N.C. G…
24-7346 Seaga Edward Gillard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-06-03 Denied capital-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty felony-murder jury-instructions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated Supreme Court precedent regarding jury instructions for death sentences in felony murder cases in…
24A1175 Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-06-02 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits sentencing a juvenile offender to life without parole based solely on the nature of the crime without meaningfu…
24A1150 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of a death-sentenced prisoner's appeal violates his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel or du…
24-7279 Carlos Hernandez, aka Ra Saadi Lennox Hernandez El v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-government race-discrimination Whether a race-based constitutional challenge can be brought against a federal government action and whether the petitioner's constitutional rights ar…
24A1120 Anita Louise Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete criminal-charges criminal-conviction first-impression fourth-circuit medical-instrument physician-liability Whether a physician can be criminally convicted for adulteration of a medical instrument under circumstances presenting a novel legal issue
24A1116 Bryan Christopher Bell and Antwaun Kyral Sims v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-procedure north-carolina-supreme-court supreme-court-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court's decision in a criminal case warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court
24-1179 United States, ex rel. Ganesa Rosales, et al. v. Amedisys North Carolina, L.L.C., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied false-claims-act federal-civil-procedure first-to-file-rule government-intervention qui-tam subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an action asserting False Claims Act claims is a 'related action' under the First to File rule when the government declines intervention and t…
24-7056 Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied article-iii first-amendment judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata sovereign-immunity Whether judicial and prosecutorial immunities are consistent with Article III judicial power and constitutional due process
24-6861 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri…
24-6847 Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri Missouri 2025-03-25 Denied death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting …
24A883 Kalishwar Das v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-03-13 Presumed Complete None
24A882 Seaga Edward Gillard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-03-13 Presumed Complete None
24A872 Donat Caleb Porter v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-03-12 Presumed Complete None
24-6604 Siddhanth Sharma v. Alan Hirsch, Chairman of North Carolina State Board of Elections, in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied ballot-access candidate-qualifications election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment voter-privacy Whether a North Carolina law requiring felony disclosure for congressional candidates and displaying voter addresses violates constitutional rights an…
24-6568 Andrivia Frances Wells v. Mecklenburg County Clerk of Probate Estates, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-distribution probate-law section-1983 Can a court deny Equitable Distribution and violate Due Process Rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
24M56 Andrew D. Anderson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete None
24-6222 Donat Caleb Porter v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-01-02 Denied constitutional-rights controlled-substance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation state-police-powers Whether North Carolina's Controlled Substance Act and Federal Substance laws violate constitutional rights regarding marijuana possession and use
24-597 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied circuit-split heck-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 three-strikes-rule Whether dismissals under Heck v. Humphrey categorically constitute strikes under the Prison Litigation Reform Act's three-strikes rule
24A525 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties Whether a state's ballot access requirements that impose substantial financial burdens on minor political parties violate the First and Fourteenth Ame…
24-5828 Stanley Lorenzo Williams v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felons lifetime-ban second-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state lifetime ban on Second Amendment rights for felons, particularly in light…
24-5749 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-11 Dismissed appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court Whether the trial court erred in affirming the lower court decision based on failure to state a claim, failure to comply with federal rules, sovereign…
24-5607 Brandon Williams v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2024-09-23 Denied constitutional-violation due-process false-arrest probable-cause speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Supreme Court of North Carolina err in not addressing issues surrounding false arrest, due process violations, and potential constitutional in…
24-5585 Harry Sharod James-El v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied None Question not identified.
24-5567 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-09-18 Dismissed constitutional-act criminal-statutes due-process general-assembly repeat-offenders state-court-jurisdiction Whether the North Carolina General Assembly's act of assembling criminal statutes into law conflicts with state court jurisdiction and due process for…
24-279 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-11 Pending as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation Whether, in an as-applied First Amendment challenge to a licensing law, the standard for determining whether the law regulates speech or regulates con…
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 …
24-242 In Re Peter K. Stern 2024-09-04 Denied congressional-intent fifth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction and whether prosecutorial misconduct and judicial bias warrant reversal of the petitione…
24-99 Dale Folwell, State Treasurer of North Carolina, et al. v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-30 GVR equal-protection gender-discrimination gender-dysphoria healthcare-exclusion medical-coverage sex-based-classification sex-discrimination state-health-plans transgender-rights Whether a State's decision to decline to provide health benefit coverage for treatments leading to sex changes violates the Equal Protection Clause
24-74 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2024-07-25 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment black-negro-colored-persons constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment jurisdiction property state-court Question not identified.
24-60 Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied coercive-questioning fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violation interrogation interrogation-tactics juvenile-suspect miranda-rights secret-recording unreasonable-application Whether a detective's act of placing a juvenile suspect in an interview room with a juvenile co-suspect while secretly monitoring and recording the co…
24-51 Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. First Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied judicial-immunity licensing-board market-participants professional-licensing quasi-judicial-immunity sherman-act sovereign-immunity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity supreme-court-precedent antitrust-law
24-5025 Delbert W. Hargis, Jr. v. Victoria A. Pritty-Pitcher New York 2024-07-09 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause-14th-amendment family-law non-parent-custody parental-rights standing Whether the decision of the lower courts, which awarded full custody of a child to a nonparent due to the existence of a strong bond, violates the fun…
23A1139 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete aerial-mapping communicative-content first-amendment licensing-board professional-regulation speech-restriction Whether a state licensing board can constitutionally prohibit a non-licensed individual from creating and distributing aerial photographic maps contai…
23-7742 Clifton William Batts v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure direct-review due-process finality habeas-corpus Question not identified
23-7600 Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-30 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process minimum-sentence north-carolina-v-pearce pearce-presumption presumption-of-vindictiveness resentencing sentencing-vindictiveness Whether increases in minimum sentences upon resentencing, when no new objective information since the previous sentencing exists to justify the increa…
23-7569 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-28 Denied conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance multiple-representation sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard sullivan-standard trial-court When counsel alerts the trial court to a conflict of interest not involving multiple representation, and the trial court fails to resolve the conflict…
23-7499 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-17 Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of showin…
23-1195 Brad Johnson v. PennyMac Loan Services, LLC North Carolina 2024-05-06 Denied chevron-doctrine due-process force-placed-insurance property-rights regulatory-interpretation servicer-prohibitions statutory-construction takings-clause Did the North Carolina Court of Appeals commit reversible error in interpreting 12 C.F.R. § 1024.37(b) and ignoring 12 C.F.R. § 1024.37(a)(1) and 12 U…
23-7353 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim federal-rules in-forma-pauperis motion-to-dismiss res-judicata sovereign-immunity Whether the trial court erred in dismissing the complaint
23-7362 Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State District of Columbia 2024-05-01 Denied affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the race-based admissions policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen…
23-1097 J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm or instead must prov…
23A842 Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas Fourth Circuit 2024-03-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Quentin Freeman's petition for rehearing in a criminal case involving procedural or subs…
23-6970 Kathy R. Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power civil-procedure court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel due-process erisa-claim federal-procedure mediation mediation-rights rule-52-findings statute-of-limitations Whether the USDC D.E. #51-52, #55 and USDC-COA4th's Doc. #23 Orders Have Reversible Err and/or Was an Abuse of Power and an Abuse of Discretion
23-6919 Raul Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied acceptance-of-responsibility alford-plea criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing inter-circuit-split memory-defense memory-loss plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines Does a plea of guilty pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), based on a complete loss of memory of the actions underlying the offen…
23-6886 Paul Francisco Torres, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trials pandemic pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did prolonged jury-trial bans during the pandemic violate the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause, especially as to those accused who were jailed du…
23A806 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-03-01 Presumed Complete batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Whether the prosecution's peremptory jury strikes of African American jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky, given evid…
23-6804 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-02-21 Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have 'broad discretion' to refuse to …
23A749 Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, et al. v. Donald Agee, Jr., et al. Michigan 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-statement legislative-maps redistricting remedial-process special-master Whether the district court's expedited redistricting remedial order impermissibly infringes on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commiss…
23A708 Brad Johnson v. PennyMac Loan Services, LLC North Carolina 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete academic-duties extension-of-time legal-filing petition-for-certiorari professional-obligations supreme-court Whether a tenured university professor may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari due to professional academic re…
23-6614 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss standing state-law supreme-court Whether NCCOA and NCSC improperly denied appellant's motions and orders, and whether the orders violate constitutional rights and state appellate rule…
23-6613 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rules due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss national-interest north-carolina standing Did the NCCOA and NCSC improperly deny appellant's motions or was it a violation of appellate rules and of national interest to court litigation and c…
23A684 Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete civil-procedure federal-courts motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard rule-12b6 sufficiently-alleged Whether a district court's dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim can be challenged when the court allegedly applied an improperly…
23-6533 James O. Bradley v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-23 Denied abuse-of-power access-to-courts administrative-appeal administrative-procedure administrative-remedy civil-rights conspiracy corrections-department due-process incarcerated-rights judicial-review Whether the North Carolina Court of Appeals erred in taking no action on the Petitioners' appeal
23-6508 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-01-18 Dismissed capital-crime civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury standing state-courts systemic-bias trial-bias Whether the state trial courts' failure to address and dispose of the Tumey biased trial judges issue constituted an error of law and an abuse of disc…
23A659 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a different standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel involving a trial court's failure …
23A610 Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete antitrust-law licensing-board market-participants midcal-test north-carolina-dental state-action-immunity Whether a state licensing board composed of active market participants can claim antitrust immunity without meeting the active supervision requirement…
23A579 Deonte Marques Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte Whether the exception to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) applies to a district court's sua sponte amendment of a final judgment when a defend…
23-6241 Mark Emmanuel Martinez v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the court erred in excluding exculpatory electronic evidence that could have proven the petitioner's actual innocence
23-644 City of Charlotte, North Carolina, et al. v. Azucena Zamorano Aleman, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Rubin Galindo Chavez Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement precedent qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in the process it used to find a 'clearly established' Fourth Amendment right
23-6243 Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public employee to speak on matters of public concern without fear of retaliation
23A541 Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Presumed Complete appellate-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-circuit Whether the Fourth Circuit's interpretation of a federal criminal procedural rule improperly limits a defendant's constitutional right to effective ap…
23A515 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Whether the use of a peremptory challenge to remove a Black woman from a jury panel violates the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky and …
23A503 Kathy Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-04 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process erisa judicial-explanation life-insurance rule-60-motion Whether the district court and appellate courts violated due process by failing to provide a substantive explanation for denying a Rule 60 motion in a…
23-6161 Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina applies to individuals on supervised release
23A490 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2023-11-30 Presumed Complete appellate-dismissal due-process pro-se procedural-fairness supreme-court-jurisdiction will-contest Whether a state court's unexplained dismissal of a pro se litigant's will contest appeal violates fundamental due process rights
23A482 Mark Anthony Crudup, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-deadline withdrawal-of-counsel Whether a criminal defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when his court-appointed attorney seeks to withdraw without ensuri…
23A484 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certiorari due-process judicial-explanation pro-se state-court Whether the North Carolina state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by dismissing her appeal without providing a substantive explanat…
23-5997 James Baxton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied criminal-enterprise ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interdependence jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering-conspiracy Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred in applying the harmless error review under Brecht v. Abrahamson
23A375 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-25 Presumed Complete almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-statute jury-finding prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Whether the different-occasions element of a criminal statute is subject to the Apprendi rule requiring jury finding or indictment, or falls under the…
23A356 Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-19 Presumed Complete burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly conflates the prima facie stage of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework with the employer's legitimat…
23-5836 Siddhanth Sharma v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights factual-innocence legal-innocence mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bar procedural-default sandstrom-claim slack-v-mcdaniel Does the claim of Factual Innocence qualify as a debatable claim for the denial of a Constitutional Right
23-363 Stephen R. Porter v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied academic-freedom causal-connection employment-retaliation faculty-hiring first-amendment free-speech garcetti-doctrine garcetti-v-ceballos public-concern scholarship teaching Were Petitioner's statements about the role that diversity and equity considerations should play in faculty hiring and evaluation protected by the Fir…
23-5659 Cedric Theodis Hobbs, Jr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-09-27 Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection post-hoc-justifications racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether a court conducting a comparative juror analysis can consider 'favorable characteristics' in otherwise comparable jurors when those characteris…
23-309 Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-09-26 Denied appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation Does the Confrontation Clause and/or Due Process Clause require a criminal court to modify policies to allow a disabled defendant to use prosthetic de…
23-296 Michael L. Kiser, et al. v. Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al. North Carolina 2023-09-25 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-takings just-compensation property-rights supreme-court-review takings takings-clause Is a state supreme court able to 'side-step' the just compensation requirement of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by simply removing preexisting p…
23A188 In re: Metcalf Fourth Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A185 Anthony Andrews v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-29 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5456 John E. Gilcrease v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-08-28 Denied appeal appellate-review consecutive-sentence constitutional-rights due-process judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargaining remand sentencing-modification Were John Gilcrease's due process rights violated when the court imposed a more onerous, consecutive sentence after his original sentence was vacated …
23-150 Ronald Preston Harper v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-08-16 Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech objective-reasonableness police-conduct swatting Is it illegal to criticize police in North Carolina?
23A139 Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation Whether state ballot access requirements—including voter registration, political party affiliation for a specified period, and felon disqualification—…
23-5313 Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when that court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability
23-5053 Joann Artis Stevens v. Town of Snow Hill, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied administration-of-justice civil-procedure civil-rights judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-remedies litigation-efficiency pre-trial-motions pretrial-motions rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether the recurring issues and conflicts in the judicial system regarding the use of pre-trial motions under Rule 12(b)(6) to thwart remedies for me…
23-5011 Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied None
22A1131 Ron Metcalf, et ux. v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-06-29 Presumed Complete None
22A1102 Cedric Theodis Hobbs, Jr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-06-21 Presumed Complete None
22-1148 North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied breach-of-loyalty content-neutral-statute first-amendment newsgathering private-property-rights property-rights trespass Whether a worker planted in a business to collect information for their true employer, and who does so in nonpublic areas of the business, is immunize…
22-1150 Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process duty-of-loyalty employee-rights employment-law first-amendment free-speech newsgathering property-protection standing tort-law Whether the First Amendment prohibits applying state tort law against double-agent employees who gather information, including by secretly recording, …
22-7649 Roderick Lamar Williams, aka Rox v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied civil-rights claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling fraud misconduct Whether the lower courts wrongfully and unjustly protected parties that engaged in fraud on the court, misrepresentation and misconduct by refusing to…
22-1128 Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-19 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro…
22-7581 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied access-to-records chilling-effect court-precedent due-process government-action grand-jury legal-relief legal-rights penalization procedural-limitation prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution Whether a person is precluded from doing what the law plainly allows them to do, as the government pursues a course of action to penalize a person's r…
22-7561 In Re Christopher Vigliotti 2023-05-16 Denied constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority Legality of 15-year state prison sentence following probation violation
22-7471 Renzo Alegre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment internet-access sex-offenders supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina apply to offenders on supervised release?
22-7474 Quinton Markis Cuthbertson, aka Quinton Marquis Cuthbertson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-provocation spoliation subterfuge suppression-hearing unreasonable-seizure Do police violate a person's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure when they provoke, through subterfuge and intimidation, a person to …
22-7414 John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Erred When It Denied Certiorari to the District Court Proceedings
22-7417 Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection
22-1048 Joseph E. Blackburn, Jr., et ux. v. Dare County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Whether a governmental regulation prohibiting all physical access to a landowner's property is a 'per se' taking under the Fifth Amendment of the Unit…
22-1041 Kevin Brunner v. Megan Marie McMurry, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied 4th-amendment child-welfare children civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-custody qualified-immunity Whether a child left alone in a residence without adult supervision constitutes an exigent circumstance under the Fourth Amendment?
22-7372 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings When Article I, Section 9 of the North Carolina Constitution states that 'every person restrained of his liberty is entitled to a remedy to inquire in…
22-1013 J. R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-18 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure Whether the right to an impartial judge is violated when the trial judge also performs the role of the advocate for incarceration
22-7270 Lamont McKoy v. Todd Ishee, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied actual-innocence aedpa due-process federal-court-deference federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-findings Whether the presumption of correctness under § 2254(e)(1) requires a determination on a factual issue by a state court or whether merely presenting a …
22-7281 Steven Ray Rouse v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-13 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violations due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-identification How could lawyer (Rick Farqutte) send Steven Ray Rouse at discovery of 3 facts and 1? were duplicates?
22-7197 Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer and armed law enforcement is custodial for Miranda purposes
22-7173 Marty Tarell Gaston v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial motion-for-appropriate-relief state-court state-laws Did the North Carolina State Superior Court deny this Petitioner actual justice in the face of established 'State laws allowing the filing of a second…
22A857 Joann Artis Stevens v. Town of Snow Hill, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-31 Presumed Complete None
22-7128 James Cody McMahon v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-03-28 Denied child-sex-offender civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment free-speech sex-offender-registration social-media Whether Louisiana's statute prohibiting child-sex-offender registrants from using social media is meaningfully distinguishable from the North Carolina…
22-7103 George Lincoln Stanley, IV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied 28-usc-1291 confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction kidnapping kidnapping-charges sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Mr. Stanley's Sixth Amendment right to confront his witness was violated
22-7105 Jimmy Allen Roberts v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-access prison-library statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Circuit's bright-line rule denying equitable tolling to North Carolina prisoners who lack access to legal resources violates the co…
22-932 North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law Did the district court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in applying the 'Government Speech' doctrine?
22-7027 Lester Barnett v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner Was it unconstitutional for them to convict petitioner for a safecracking that happened while petitioner was confined at Mecklenburg County Jail on th…
22-890 Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process interstate-sales judicial-precedent out-of-state-sales precedent state-courts state-taxation supreme-court-precedent Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court was correct that state courts and taxing authorities no longer must follow Dilworth because this Court has im…
22-887 Rogelio Albino Diaz-Tomas v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-03-15 Denied criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indefinite-postponement north-carolina plea-bargaining prosecution-postponement speedy-trial Whether the indefinite postponement of prosecutions in North Carolina, for the purpose of coercing guilty pleas, violates the Speedy Trial Clause or t…
22-6950 Beatrice Newsome v. Festiva Resorts Real Estate Holdings, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied deed-transfer due-process homeowners-association maintenance-fees property-rights resort-fees resort-property state-jurisdiction takings Why didn't any of the previous courts made no mention our deeded property?
22-820 Lori D. McLaughlin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights doj-policy due-process fourteenth-amendment giglio-determination giglio-policy law-enforcement standing Are law enforcement officers entitled to due process rights prior to a Giglio determination?
22-6867 Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi…
22-6841 Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-02-22 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights due-process economic-freedom free-enterprise licensing-board market-participants sovereign-immunity Does Massachusetts' grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing board violate the Nation's free enterprise structure and the right of…
22-797 Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec…
22-787 Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer North Carolina 2023-02-21 Denied 11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio…
22-6811 A. B. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-17 Denied 28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte…
22-6770 In Re Alphonza Thomas Bey 2023-02-14 Dismissed 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 15th-amendment administrative-remedies constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions human-rights personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-imprisonment Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have government jurisdictio…
22-6737 John Edward Butler v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-02-09 Denied criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection parole sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and Eighth Amendment were violated by North Caro…
22-6726 Terrence Lowell Hyman v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied capital-murder-trial constitutional-violation criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process falsified-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a criminal defense lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington when she intentionally presents falsified e…
22-736 Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i…
22A722 J.R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-02-07 Presumed Complete None
22-6590 In Re Harry Sharod James 2023-01-20 Dismissed civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus procedural-standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for th…
22-6481 Courtney J. v. Beaufort County Department of Social Services, et al. North Carolina 2023-01-09 Denied child-welfare civil-death-penalty due-process equal-protection payment-obligation statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina's interpretation of a termination of parental rights statute deprives parents of due process and equal pro…
22A599 Rogelio Albino Diaz-Tomas and Edgardo Gandarilla Nunez v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-01-06 Presumed Complete None
22-6397 Alex Daniel v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-27 Denied ake-v-oklahoma appointed-counsel britt-v-north-carolina due-process fundamental-fairness griffin-v-illinois indigent-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment Whether an indigent defendant can be compelled to accept the representation of appointed counsel and give up his Sixth Amendment right to represent hi…
22-6275 Dalton Alonzo Dixon v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied 13th-amendment citizenship civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-labor-program government-program involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the statutory presumption of consent when participating in a government program violates the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and…
22-6217 Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana Montana 2022-12-05 Denied adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing Whether the 'basic tools of an adequate defense' include expert assistance in 'evaluation, preparation, and presentation' of a defense at sentencing p…
22-6123 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-blackmail judicial-independence judicial-misconduct special-master subpoena whistleblower Where the U.S. Court of Appeals did not properly and appropriately proceeded with two consolidated interlocutory appeals on the District Court's order…
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing Whether Ans Repellee's onmaddatery Response That Fully Riiefed The macs OF The Tesue Subject To Waiver Lohoot Realy Mew Or Vortec Gueerisa May Be The …
22-6040 William H. Wyttenbach v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied article-iii-court civil-procedure conclusions-of-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process findings-of-fact fourth-circuit-court jurisdiction rule-of-law Has the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court and the lower court violated all three foundational corner stones of Rule of Law; Jurisdiction, Finding of Fact…
22-5951 Cavon C. Clark v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied appeal concurrent-sentence consecutive-sentence criminal-appeal due-process recidivism recidivist-enhancement resentencing sentencing vindictiveness Whether a more severe sentence of incarceration must be numerically longer than previous sentences, and whether a consecutive sentence is considered m…
22-5857 Bango Benjamin Enyinnaya v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied armed-career-criminal-act breaking-or-entering burglary categorical-approach entry-requirement fourth-circuit generic-burglary mathis-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary
22-5841 Harry Sharod James v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied civil-procedure commerce-clause confrontation-clause constitutional-authority district-court filing-fee judicial-tax procedural-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Court of North Carolina, Eastern District abuse its discr…
22-5843 Clifton William Batts v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-protections criminal-sentencing custody-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-procedure What is the timeline for Ordeg_ habesS Corpys, Dy deadina, Judge. Assigued to hobers on liberty Bie Enterest oF STARS PUY sone 'Ni Custady LN A\\nolab…
22-5799 Anthony Andrews v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied civil-rights due-process failure-to-protect inmate-assault prison-litigation-reform-act standing Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) bars a civil action for damages against prison officials for failure to protect an inmate from assault…
22-285 B-21 Wines, Inc., et al. v. Hank Bauer, Chair, North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied circuit-split commerce-clause interstate-commerce nondiscrimination-principle public-health-and-safety retail-distribution retail-wine-distribution twenty-first-amendment wine-shipping Does the nondiscrimination principle of the Commerce Clause apply to and invalidate North Carolina's law allowing only in-state retailers to ship wine…
22-280 Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner
22-5659 Donovan Moenell Williams v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied administrative-law appellate-process case-jurisdiction civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-filing scotus-petition standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court's interpretation of the statutory provision is correct
22-5624 Tiffany Leigh Marion v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-09-20 Denied batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny apply to equal-protection claims challenging a prosecutor's decision on plea-offers based on race
22-5592 Harry Sharod James v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation court-authority due-process federal-courts jurisdictional-challenge legislative-power state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Suloskantial and Procedure Due Process of the 5th and 14th Amendments establish Subject Matter Jurisdiction, and do Courts (Federal and STATE) ha…
22-238 Charter Day School, Inc., et al. v. Bonnie Peltier, as Guardian of A. P., a Minor Child, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied charter-school charter-schools civil-rights educational-policy government-contract government-contracts nonprofit-corporation policy-formulation private-entities public-education state-action Whether a private entity that contracts with the State to operate a charter school engages in state action when it formulates a policy without coercio…
22M18 Anthony Andrews v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-09-12 Presumed Complete None
22-5438 Winfred Scott Simpson v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied and ineffective assistance of counsel unlawful detention compulsory-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jencks-act miranda-rights right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Violation of Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights regarding suppressed evidence
22-5340 Jonathan Wells v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders supervised-release Whether the same First Amendment principles in Packingham apply to sex offenders on supervised release and prohibit untailored bans on internet use du…
22-5328 Justin Michael Tyson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-08-10 Denied criminal-procedure due-process indictment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the indictment for File No. 18 CRS 55155 is fatally defective
22-87 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to deprive the appellant of liberty and property without due process
22-8 Anthony Momphard, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Deputy Sheriff of the Macon County Sheriff's Department, et al. v. Melissa B. Knibbs, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Scott Knibbs Fourth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that a reasonable officer in Deputy Momphard's position would not have perceived a danger that justified l…
21-8221 Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson Whether the North Carolina crime of breaking and entering can be a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act
21-1538 Cleveland County, North Carolina, aka Cleveland County Emergency Medical Services v. Sara B. Conner, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied agency-interpretation fair-labor-standards-act minimum-wage overtime-pay skidmore-deference skidmore-v-swift statutory-interpretation straight-time-wages whether-the-fair-labor-standards-act-allows-an-employee-to-sue-for-unpaid-straight-time-wages
21-1513 Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III Fourth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an applicable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an exemption under said statute?
21-8006 Charles A. Inko-Tariah v. Federal Medical Center Butner, NC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment medical-malpractice unreasonable-search-and-seizure Was the U.S Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit correct in affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit against Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Caro…
21-7992 Reginald Andre Molette v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B) Gi)?
21-1482 Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams's Motion to Supress evidence related …
21A762 Leslie Ann McNeill, et al. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-05-24 Presumed Complete None
21-7901 Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts
21-7884 Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Garcia v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. North Carolina 2022-05-16 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-court state-jurisdiction Whether the State of North Carolina's continued confinement of the Petitioner is unconstitutional under the Court's prior rulings
21-1383 Alejandro Asbun v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2022-04-26 Denied due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-activities property-interest state-courts state-created-property sua-sponte whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the Due Process Clause protects a state-created property interest in whistleblower protections
21-1354 Bast Amron LLP v. United States Trustee Region 21 Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-18 GVR bankruptcy-administrator bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-uniformity chapter-11-bankruptcy congressional-power constitutional-interpretation fee-disparity judicial-districts Whether the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act violates the uniformity requirement of the Bankruptcy Clause
21-7633 Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication government-misconduct judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-treatment pro-se-representation self-representation Was the Supreme Court ruling in Faretta vs California violated or trampled
21-7583 Larry Lowery, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi…
21-7565 Brandon James Lee v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the district court's fact-finding procedures were unduly prejudicial and denied petitioner a constitutional right
21A557 Cleveland County, North Carolina, aka Cleveland County Emergency Medical Services v. Sara B. Conner Fourth Circuit 2022-03-31 Presumed Complete None
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the 'Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives .. . prescri…
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Whether the unrecognized transfer of a case from the Guam Superior Court to the Guam District Court, despite a lack of jurisdiction, led to a default …
21-7210 James Thomas Webb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida 2 Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case S…
21A455 Timothy Moore, in his official capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-02-25 Presumed Complete None
21-7103 Roger D. Ream v. Florida Florida 2022-02-11 Rehearing civil-rights due-process first-amendment internet-access liberty-interest liberty-rights packingham-v-north-carolina probation-conditions property-rights supervised-release Does a person on probation have a constitutional right to access the Internet?
21-6968 Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016) afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. …