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25-6820 Troy LaFrost Decker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2026-02-13 Pending None
25A913 Linh Tran Stephens v. Child Support Services of Oklahoma Department of Human Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-12 Application None Question not identified.
25-6754 Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-09 Denied eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-civil-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 state-procedural-rule Whether Rooker-Feldman and the Eleventh Amendment jurisdictionally bar a § 1983 challenge to a state procedural rule announced in a state court decisi…
25-6726 William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2026-02-05 Pending abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante requir…
25-884 Dontae Terrell Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-01-23 Pending criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-appeals Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the TCCA's judgment, and remand to apply the correct 'materiality' standard for false and misleading…
25A838 United States v. Jason Robert Hopson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-21 Application felony-assault indian-country jury-instruction lesser-included-offense major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Major Crimes Act permits federal district courts to enter judgments of conviction for simple assault when a jury finds an Indian defendant…
25-6625 Roman V. Serpik v. Jill Weedon, former Judge, Second Judicial District Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending access-to-courts due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-threshold qualified-immunity sovereign-citizen Whether the Tenth Circuit erred by failing to address jurisdictional thresholds before permitting qualified immunity and denying access to courts whil…
25-854 Adam Holley v. Benjamin M. Lepak, in His Official Capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending ballot-access constitutional-rights elections-clause eleventh-amendment primary-election state-action Whether a State may enact election laws that make success in a State-run party primary a mandatory prerequisite to appearing on the November general-e…
25-6587 Jett Garriott Adams v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending ake-v-oklahoma harmless-error-analysis indigent-defendant psychiatric-assistance sanity-defense sixth-amendment When a defendant meets the threshold showing for psychiatric assistance under Ake v. Oklahoma, what conditions satisfy the showing and what standard o…
25-837 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit Whether the Government can establish a pyramid scheme by shortcutting its burden of proving conspiracy elements and intent to defraud, and whether jur…
25A761 Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas Texas 2026-01-02 Application brady-violation constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state appellate court to provide reasoned explanation when rejecting a lower court's favorable fact-findings…
25A758 Sean Paul Baker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-rule-412 sexual-abuse witness-credibility Whether the Confrontation Clause permits exclusion of evidence that a witness created online videos about fictional sexual conduct when the defendant …
25-764 Flintco, LLC v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-30 Pending arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legal-interpretation tort-claims Whether placing the 'tort' label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' contract
25A750 Joseph Allen Maldonado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-29 Application brady-violation criminal-procedure invited-error post-conviction-relief recantation rule-33 Whether an appellate court may invoke the invited error doctrine to preclude substantive review of a trial court's application of a novel legal standa…
25A730 Bina Islam v. Patrick R. Bodnar Oklahoma 2025-12-22 Application due-process estate-fraud national-security obstruction-of-justice probate-proceedings witness-tampering Whether federal obstruction of justice statutes and national security concerns can override state probate proceedings involving a decedent's estate wh…
25A724 Wade Reeves v. Alisha Gregorio Oklahoma 2025-12-22 Application appellate-review constitutional-authority contempt-proceeding due-process jurisdictional-challenge void-judgment Whether a state court violates due process and appellate review rights by dismissing an appeal without obtaining the full record and by proceeding wit…
25-644 Albert G. Gerhart v. Charity Linch, Chairwoman, Oklahoma Republican Party Oklahoma 2025-12-04 Pending anti-slapp derivative-action due-process judicial-bias procedural-conflict shareholder-rights Whether due process was violated in a derivative action lawsuit involving shareholder rights and procedural conflicts
25A638 William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-02 Application coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-techniques self-incrimination Whether a criminal defendant's confession was involuntary and obtained in violation of his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when law e…
25-6204 Brian N. Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-11-24 Denied appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to have appellate counsel raise every nonfrivolous issue, and whether searches of home and per…
25A595 Katy Elizabeth Kabha v. Texas Texas 2025-11-20 Application certiorari extension-of-time felony-conviction judicial-efficiency newly-discovered-evidence pro-se Whether a pro se petitioner's request for a 60-day extension to file a certiorari petition should be granted based on pending state-court motions and …
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 Whether a court must consider only trial evidence when determining the prejudicial effect of a constitutional error or if post-verdict evidence can be…
25-6042 Calvin Shaw v. United States District of Columbia 2025-11-06 Denied alibi-witnesses appellate-review criminal-procedure government-witnesses ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding trial counsel's representation ineffective based on failure to call alibi witnesses and impeach governme…
25-554 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability for alleged due process violations and federal habeas review issues
25-5997 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-30 Denied brady-violation capital-punishment judicial-bias napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Should the Court grant a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct involving knowingly false witness testimony and hidden benefits in a capital murd…
25-5949 Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-24 Denied constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Whether the Oklahoma courts' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual innoce…
25-5784 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-02 Denied capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment mitigation-testimony videoconference-testimony Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit preventing live mitigation testimony in a capital case based solely on financial considerations, and does video tes…
25-5770 Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-01 Denied appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional as applied to Petitioner because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution …
25-382 Alicia Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission Oklahoma 2025-10-01 Pending indian-country mcgirt-precedent reservation-rights state-taxation tax-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma may tax the income of a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen who lives and works within the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation that McGirt v. Ok…
25-5682 Damon Neal Dunbar, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-09-18 Denied actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-error jury-evidence napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals erred in rejecting constitutional errors under Brady and Napue and depriving the jury of critical evide…
25-5633 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance juror-unanimity prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias May evidence be so unduly prejudicial to 'one juror' in a capital sentencing proceeding that it renders it fundamentally unfair, particularly in juris…
25-5594 In Re Brian D. Dubuc 2025-09-10 Denied due-process equal-protection non-discretionary-mandate reservation-lands treaty-rights tribal-jurisdiction Whether a non-discretionary state supreme court mandate can be refused execution by a state trial court or restricted to tribal or US District Court j…
25-5582 Paul Curtis Pemberton v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction false-imprisonment indian-country treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma Criminal Statutes May Be Enforced Against An Enrolled Member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Tribe within the Indian Country, and whet…
25-5562 Brian Dale Dubuc v. First National Bank of Okmulgee, et al. Oklahoma 2025-09-05 Denied cherokee-nation due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction land-allotment treaty-rights Whether Registered Cherokee Nation members were deprived of lands, rights, and equity without due process and equal protection under treaties and cons…
25-5496 Alonzo G. Davison v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied None Question not identified.
25-5484 Corey Blaine Coggins v. Eric Cox, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied actual-innocence brady-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance joint-defense-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Did Coggins' Public Defender's joint defense agreement without his knowledge constitute ineffective assistance of counsel, potentially leaving him wit…
25-5448 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-08-22 Denied None Question not identified.
25-5428 Rodger D. Stevens v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant can obtain exculpatory evidence withheld by prosecutors and challenge due process violations through habeas corpus when potentiall…
25-5397 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Denied capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly applied a novel procedural bar to deny a habeas corpus petition alleging false testimony in a c…
25-5401 Gregory Matthew Seay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-08-19 Denied collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy equal-protection manifest-necessity mistrial Does the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' decision contradict the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Weston v. Kernan, thereby violating equal protection un…
25-162 Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-11 Granted administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause Whether the Supreme Court should vacate and remand the Sixth Circuit's decision as moot after HHS restored Tennessee's funding
25-5309 Tedor Davido v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-08 Pending criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony probable-cause self-representation warrant-exception In light of this Court's recent grant of certiorari in Case v. Montana to resolve the question of whether the emergency aid exception to the warrant r…
25-90 Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen…
25-30 Marvin Keith Stitt v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-09 Denied congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure indian-country indian-law tribal-sovereignty Whether a state may exercise criminal jurisdiction over an Indian for conduct in Indian country absent a valid congressional grant of authority
25-5048 Jeremy Wayne Holt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-08 Denied criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does a seven-year delay in bringing a sexual assault case to trial trigger a presumption of prejudice under Doggett v. United States, and does the pre…
25A28 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-protocol habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition and execution of a death sentence in light of systemic delays and potential constitutional errors …
25-5033 Wade Greely Lay v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-07 Denied administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes habeas-corpus prisoner-rights Question not identified.
25-5010 Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, and does the Fifth Circuit's opinion co…
25-5015 Justin Dale Little v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied None Question not identified.
24-7516 Darrell Allen Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-26 Denied counsel-denial fraud-on-court habeas-corpus procedural-bars sixth-amendment state-ground Whether Oklahoma's application of successive postconviction procedural bars constitutes an adequate and independent state ground precluding federal re…
24A1253 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant was represented by pro bono counsel during post-convicti…
24-7427 Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden Georgia 2025-06-16 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar Whether Georgia's Habeas Corpus Act violates constitutional protections when procedural bars prevent meaningful review of a potentially wrongful convi…
24-7397 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-11 Denied brady-violation capital-murder diligence-standard evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether a court may impose a diligence standard rendering evidence inadmissible despite prosecutorial suppression under Brady v. Maryland, and whether…
24A1219 John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-06-11 Denied None
24-7401 Alvaro Quezada v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim state-court-review Did the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a COA here so clearly misapply Glossip's mandate regarding Napue and Buck's modest standard for granting a C…
24-7352 Robert Allen Benney v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied brady-doctrine constitutional-rights due-diligence equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-doctrine Since Youngblood & Brady are doctrines governing evidentiary preservation and focus on the prosecutions conduct, should courts be allowed to impose a …
24-7333 Daniel Del Brumit v. David Rogers, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied constitutional-rights federal-habeas indian-law post-conviction-review state-retroactivity treaty-interpretation Whether Congress can render the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek Art. 4 void through state post-conviction proceedings and AEDPA review
24-7319 James Hasten Franklin v. Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied None Question not identified.
24A1045 Damon Neal Dunbar, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-04-29 Presumed Complete None
24-6955 In Re Dexter Leemon Johnson 2025-04-10 Dismissed constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction legal-existence state-sovereignty tribal-rights Whether Oklahoma's legal existence and jurisdictional status can be challenged under U.S. Constitutional precedent as a separate and potentially inval…
24-6956 Jimmy Dale Stone v. David Louthan, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Due Process Clause by denying Jimmy Dale Stone's petition for a COA and findin…
24-1033 Maria Del Rosario Chico Vietti, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of A. R. V., P. F. V., and H. S. V., minor children v. Welsh & McGough, PLLC, an Oklahoma Professional Limited Liability Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied child-best-interests court-appointed-role due-process guardian-ad-litem quasi-judicial-immunity state-actor Whether a guardian ad litem violates due process by acting outside her statutory duties and advocating for one parent over another
24-6801 Birdell West v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-03-19 Denied None Question not identified.
24-956 Los Angeles County, California, et al. v. Peter Woods Nyarecha, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied cell-check-policy constitutional-violation monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 summary-judgment Whether video evidence from a single cell block on one night is sufficient to establish a municipal custom or practice under Monell liability
24-959 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-03-06 Denied ake-standard due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-expert sentencing-mitigation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court denied Petitioner due process by refusing to provide expert mental health assistance sufficiently independent of…
24-6677 Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White Tenth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied antiterrorism-act habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge statute-of-limitations ultra-vires void-ab-initio Whether a jurisdictional challenge to an Oklahoma state criminal conviction can be raised at any time in a proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 notwithst…
24-910 Charles Ray Crawford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied ake-standard due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-health-expert sixth-amendment Whether the trial court violated Ake v. Oklahoma by imposing preconditions on expert mental health assistance for an indigent criminal defendant raisi…
24-6617 Cedric Dwayne Poore v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-02-21 Denied constitutional-right counsel-appointment critical-stage dna-act hearsay-exception post-conviction-procedure Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling on an excited utterance hearsay exception violates the constitutional right to counsel, and whet…
24-6541 Bartholomew Granger v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied abuse-of-writ criminal-procedure federal-constitutional-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-law-ground Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained abuse-of-writ ruling constitutes an adequate and independent state-law ground for denying pos…
24-801 Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-28 GVR birth-certificate civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection gender-identity state-law Whether the Equal Protection Clause requires a State to alter its official certificate documenting a person's sex at birth to represent that person's …
24-6263 William S. Hurt, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-10 Denied due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals post-conviction-dna statutory-rights Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violated the petitioner's statutory rights under the Oklahoma Post-Conviction DNA testing statute and F…
24-6239 Charles Randy Bowlds, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-08 Denied appellate-review counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in its approach to re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, potentially contrad…
24-6159 Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied arbitrary-action clemency-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process procedural-fairness state-law Whether the due process clause provides any protection for petitioners in state clemency proceedings that are explicitly required by state law
24-6091 Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether the Tenth Circuit unreasonably determined the facts and violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights during a traffic stop
24A539 Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete birth-certificate bostock-interpretation equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination transgender-rights Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state from maintaining a birth certificate policy that does not allow individuals to change their biol…
24-5874 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied batson-challenge habeas-corpus jury-selection procedural-defense racial-discrimination tenth-circuit-ruling Does Jennings v. Stephens permit raising procedural defenses on remand after a Batson challenge in a criminal jury selection case?
24-5853 Chad William Reed v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-29 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process procedural-protections second-amendment self-defense Whether the method of criminal prosecution violates a citizen's Second Amendment right of self-defense and due process protections under the Constitut…
24-5806 Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Gentner F. Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied deportation habeas-corpus immigration-consequences in-custody-requirement ineffective-assistance padilla-v-kentucky Whether a petitioner detained by ICE due to deportation proceedings can satisfy the 'in custody' requirement under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 after completing a…
24-5793 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-21 Denied acquittal-standard case-law evidence-admissibility judicial-precedent procedural-review ultimate-issue Whether evidence which resulted in acquittal should have been deemed inadmissible based on a prior acquittal's determination of an ultimate issue cont…
24-437 Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-10-18 GVR abortion-regulation administrative-law federal-agency funding-condition spending-clause statutory-interpretation Whether a federal agency can impose funding conditions on states under the Spending Clause when the underlying statute is ambiguous
24-420 Bill H. Walmsley, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-15 GVR administrative-law constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-trade-commission private-enforcement rulemaking-authority Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act unlawfully delegates enforcement and rulemaking power to a private corporation
24-5740 Douglas O'Neal v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-10 Denied appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process jurisdictional-issues pro-se-petition procedural-limitations Whether the lower court's procedural limitations improperly precluded petitioner's substantive constitutional claims and denied meaningful appellate r…
24-394 Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, et al. v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Judgment Issued charter-schools educational-rights establishment-clause free-exercise-clause religious-discrimination state-action Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from a charter-school program solely based on religious…
24-396 St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Judgment Issued charter-schools establishment-clause free-exercise-clause pedagogical-choice religious-discrimination state-action Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from the state's charter school program solely because …
24-5728 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-09 Denied appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court final-judgment post-conviction procedural-rules Whether the trial judge and state's attorney improperly created an impediment to a timely post-conviction application appeal
24-5667 Willard Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-30 Denied court-judgment legal-proceeding parties related-cases scotus-petition writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5552 Roy Dean Harjo v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-16 Denied court-review evidence-distortion jurisdiction legal-standing petition-claims procedural-irregularity Whether the Petition Court has jurisdiction to review the Petition's claims of distorted evidence and procedural irregularities
24A264 St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete educational-funding first-amendment free-exercise religious-school school-choice state-funding Whether a state may constitutionally deny a religious school's application for a generally available educational funding program based solely on its r…
24A254 Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, et al. v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-11 Presumed Complete administrative-law charter-schools educational-governance oklahoma-constitution state-board virtual-education Whether a state charter school board's regulations regarding virtual charter schools violate state constitutional provisions or statutory limits on ed…
24-5447 Wilbert Lee Nubine v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-04 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole-hearing statutory-interpretation Whether the retroactive application of Oklahoma's two-stage parole hearing process violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution
24-5450 Anthony H. Warnick v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-09-04 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution mcgirt-decision state-law tribal-jurisdiction tribal-lands Whether Oklahoma can prosecute a defendant under state law for crimes committed on tribal lands after the McGirt decision expanded tribal jurisdiction
24-5424 Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Oklahoma 2024-08-30 Denied brady-violation criminal-statute due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State of Oklahoma violated due process by suppressing material exculpatory evidence and retroactively applying an expanded judicial interp…
24A213 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-authority epa-regulation regulatory-overreach state-sovereignty Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that impose substantial burdens on states' enviro…
24-5370 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-08-22 Denied court-of-appeals federal-court judgment petition writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A185 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the improper dismissal of prospective jurors and whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
24-5334 Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. Oklahoma 2024-08-15 Denied child-support constitutional-challenges criminal-procedure due-process judicial-recusal state-taxation Whether a court can convict an American citizen without trial after pleading not guilty, whether a judge can rule on matters during a recusal action, …
24A146 Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete abortion-referral dobbs-decision federal-funding spending-clause title-x weldon-amendment Whether the federal government may condition Title X family planning funds on a state health agency's willingness to refer for abortions despite statu…
24-5221 Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas Texas 2024-08-04 Denied atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' refusal to authorize plenary review of an unrebutted prima facie case of intellectual disability rendered…
24-44 West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority?
24-5066 Lynual McElroy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-12 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel constitutional-amendment constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender speedy-trial speedy-trial
24-5024 Timothy John Miers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER…
24-5010 Bryon Keith Creech v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-03 Denied competency due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction withdrawal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing-mitigation Question not identified
23-7744 In Re William F. Laffoon 2024-06-18 Denied civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mcgirt-ruling native-american native-american-rights reservation-law retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-7755 Anthony Raymoné Clark v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-18 Denied appeal appeal-process criminal-procedure district-court due-process due-process,civil-procedure,post-conviction,appeal final-judgment impediment post-conviction post-conviction-procedure procedural-rules Whether the trial judge and state's attorney unreasonably created an impediment to the timely submission of a post-conviction application, contrary to…
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…
23-7629 Robert Randall Ziegler v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-06-04 Denied constitutional-rights conviction-relief criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel state-court-appeal whether-the-oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals-holding-that-the-oklahoma-current-post-conviction-procedure-act-has-precluded-the-conviction-relief
23A1052 Richard E. Glossip v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-appeals death-penalty eighth-amendment execution supreme-court Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate who challenges the constitutionality of the state's method of execution
23-7516 Anthony Roy Spain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-20 Denied creek-nation criminal-procedure direct-appeal flores-ortega ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma sixth-amendment Were trial counsel ineffective for failing to consult with Mr. Spain about taking a direct appeal from his conviction, where doing so would not have b…
23-7476 Julius Jerome Walker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-15 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct registration-requirements Whether the District court in Muskogee county denied me my fundamental rights because of PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT
23-1213 Glen Mulready, in His Official Capacity as Insurance Commissioner of Oklahoma, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Tenth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied civil-rights due-process erisa-preemption medicare-part-d network-participation pharmacy-benefit-managers pharmacy-choice preemption rural-patient-access rutledge-v-pcma state-regulation Whether ERISA preempts state laws regulating PBMs
23-7465 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit Whether a federal habeas court's failure to review the last reasoned state court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is a defect under Rule 60(b)
23-7377 Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-03 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-procedure local-court procedural-fairness recusal standing whether-a-biased-judge-must-recuse-themselves
23A981 Alberta Rose Jones v. Donald David Jones Oklahoma 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure jurisdictional-timeliness motion-to-strike procedural-rules supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a state supreme court can dismiss a petition for writ of certiorari as untimely under procedural rules without addressing the underlying merit…
23-7364 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-05-02 Denied capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case?
23-7231 Bryan Christopher O'Rourke v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-16 Denied 18-usc-921a33b 18-usc-922g9 constitutional-rights domestic-violence effective-assistance-of-counsel firearms-prohibition ineffective-assistance misdemeanor-domestic-violence padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky second-amendment Whether counsel is constitutionally deficient for failing to notify a U.S. citizen of the loss of Second Amendment rights due to a misdemeanor domesti…
23-7210 Marqese Lynn Payne v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied civil-jurisdiction civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-civil-rights-act indian-law reservation-boundaries self-governance statutory-interpretation territorial-law Did Congress pass the Organic Act of May 2, 1890, for State laws in Oklahoma, or did Congress pass the Territory Certain general laws of Arkansas (C. …
23-7136 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-04 Denied confession confession-corroboration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial false-testimony murder-conviction perjured-testimony Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due process …
23A878 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-03 Denied capital-murder confession corroboration due-process false-testimony post-conviction Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated by the admission of false testimony that corroborated his confession in a capital murder tria…
23-7112 Christopher J. Barnett v. Doug Drummond, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process elected-official freedom-of-information judicial-records legal-standing oklahoma-supreme-court public-record public-records Did the Tulsa County District Court err in sealing a public police report?
23-7116 Ricky L. Reese v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-01 Denied competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing-error statute-of-limitations Does a person who is convicted have the right to judicial review from the courts even if they did not file within one year of their sentence becoming …
23-1067 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C…
23-7085 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default Where a state habeas court considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required post-conviction counsel was ineffe…
23-7066 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion is an unauthorized s…
23-7060 Marcus D. Ford v. David Buss, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-civil-rights-act indian-territory oklahoma organic-act state-law tribal-sovereignty Did Congress establish state laws or certain general laws for Indian Territory Oklahoma?
23-7029 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-19 Denied aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme…
23-7012 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-18 Denied civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure morris-defendant post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers standing treaty-rights Whether Oklahoma's Post-Conviction Procedure Act is adequate
23-7018 Julian Ash v. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied administrative-law civil-rights consolidation-of-cases constitutional-challenge due-process federal-agency government-oversight personnel-management title-v-exemption whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the Title V Exemption extended to the Federal Aviation Administration from the Office of Personnel Management be considered Unconstitutional?
23-1013 Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied brady-violation brady-violations drug-trafficking invited-error invited-error-doctrine jury-instructions napue-violation napue-violations ruan-v-united-states section-841 state-of-mind Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the petitioners' drug distribution conviction despite the conflict with Ruan v. United States
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine Question not identified
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 …
23-6926 Pidy T. Tiger v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied constitutional-precedent federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-law jurisdictional-dispute native-american-rights statutory-interpretation treaty-abrogation treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Can the Kansas Act 18 U.S.C. 3243 be read to abrogate the Creek Nation Treaty of 1856?
23-966 Oscar Amos Stilley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-appointments judicial-assignment judicial-cross-designation judicial-ethics statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 13 consecutive cross-designations of Oklahoma district judges are 'temporary' under 28 U.S.C. 292(b)
23M68 Christopher J. Barnett v. Doug Drummond, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-06 Presumed Complete None
23-6873 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty Did Congress pass the Organic act for Oklahoma on May 2,1890, to establish State laws, or did Congress pass Certain general laws of Arkansas on May 2 …
23-6883 Shawn David McMinn v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-01 Denied certiorari constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea indian-law judicial-review post-conviction preemption supreme-court Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny a Petitioner his right to due process of law pertinent to the post-conviction proceedings
23-6874 Kendall Dean Mitchell v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-29 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction retroactive-application state-law state-prosecution supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny Petitioner's right to due process of law pursuant to the 14th Amendment
23A788 Glen Mulready, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete erisa-preemption health-care-access insurance-law patient-rights pharmacy-benefit-managers state-regulation Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts state regulations of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that govern plan administra…
23A772 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing death-penalty eddings-standard eighth-amendment mitigating-circumstances youthful-offender Whether a trial court's refusal to consider a defendant's youthful age as a mitigating circumstance in a capital sentencing proceeding violates the Ei…
23-885 Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-16 Denied anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is an unwarranted extension of the community caretaking function of Cady, and also in d…
23-6718 Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-09 Denied appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether Oklahoma violated its own rules of criminal procedure retroactively by applying a new rule to Petitioner's post-conviction proceedings
23A734 Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete brady-challenge controlled-substances drug-distribution ninth-circuit ruan-standard supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied the Supreme Court's Ruan decision by vacating only some drug convictions and refusing to apply the 'knowi…
23-6679 Quaysean Tikii Williams v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-06 Denied conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence firearm jackson-v-virginia robbery sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals determination that there was sufficient evidence to support petitioner's conviction for conspiracy to c…
23-829 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Deer Creek Water Corporation Tenth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied 1926(b) 82-o.s.-1324.35 civil-procedure federal-obligations oklahoma-law private-corporation standing state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation waiver Whether a private corporation may waive State sovereignty without the permission of the State
23-6572 Mark E. Sells v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied circuit-court-precedent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-law judicial-review statutory-law Did the Federal District Court and United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Constitution by enacting and applying a judicial law that …
23-6573 Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 GVR criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process gender-presentation gender-stereotyping miranda-rights miranda-violation motherhood prosecutorial-misconduct sex-based-stereotypes sexual-discrimination sexual-history Whether clearly established federal law as determined by this Court forbids the prosecution's use of a woman's plainly irrelevant sexual history, gend…
23A689 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction federal-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60(b) statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to review a district court's threshold determination that a Rule 60(b) motio…
23A654 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Acting Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary Tenth Circuit 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial sentencing-review Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence that may involve constitutional error warranting further judicial review
23-6482 Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-01-12 Denied appellate-review brady-rule constitutional-provisions conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-jurisdiction petition-review prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the trial court and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in continuing to hold that the defendant's conviction stands despite a violat…
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient?
23A627 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit the imposition of a death sentence based on vague and overly broad continuing threat testimony tha…
23-6388 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-28 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-pro-se ineffective-assistance judicial-bias post-conviction-relief standing Whether the judge's bias against the petitioner justifies recusal and whether the court's denial of access to the courts based on the petitioner's ind…
23-6390 Jose Guadalupe Ramirez v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-28 Denied adolescent-brain-development due-process expert-assistance indigent-defendant mandatory-life-sentence right-to-present-defense sentencing Does a trial court deprive an indigent defendant of due-process, right-to-present-defense by failing to appoint an adolescent-brain-development expert…
23-6369 Joseph R. Cyr v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied burden-of-proof conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions malice-aforethought sandstrom-standard sandstrom-v-montana Whether the trial court's jury charge violated the defendant's due process rights by creating an impermissible conclusive presumption that relieved th…
23-6375 Mark E. Sells v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure plea-agreement supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit-court united-states-supreme-court-law due-process-access-to-court
23-687 MRP Properties Company, LLC, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied cercla cercla-liability corporate-disclosure environmental-regulation environmental-regulations facility-operator operator-liability pollution-producing-activities statutory-interpretation waste-disposal waste-disposal-activities When analyzing whether an entity is a facility 'operator' under CERCLA, should courts consider pollution-producing activities that the entity managed,…
23A587 Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. Oklahoma 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete child-support commerce-clause due-process equal-protection health-insurance origination-clause Whether Oklahoma's state statutes governing child support, health insurance, and medical benefits for divorced or separated parents violate the Origin…
23-6334 Nira Woods v. Department of Housing and Community Development, et al. California 2023-12-22 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution interlocutory-order judicial-procedure state-court state-courts statutory-provisions Is the Existence of the State Courts Interlocutory Order(s) in this case impairs / offense / invalidate Federal Constitution and Due processes?
23A572 Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-sentencing habeas-corpus Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence in a manner that potentially violates fundamental principles of fair and relia…
23-6301 Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-19 Denied civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res-judicata,whether the District Court exceeded its authority,whether the trial court …
23-6205 Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied criminal-jurisdiction due-process ex-post-facto federal-prosecution indian-country major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma self-defense Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied due process of law — based on ex post facto pri…
23-6171 Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-06 Denied actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction Whether Oklahoma Courts can exercise criminal jurisdiction over veterans detained in state custody based on state medical examiners' opinions when fed…
23-6174 Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-12-06 Denied ake-v-oklahoma collateral-proceedings constitutional-claims due-process expert-assistance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel state-prisoners Does a prisoner have a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings that provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assistance…
23-6160 Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause Racial-discrimination-in-grand-jury-selection
23-6119 Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at the D…
23-6073 William Shirley, IV v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief have-petitioner's-5th-and-14th-amendment-rights-been-violated
23-6064 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-11-20 Denied actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment whether-escobar-vs-texas-applies-retroactively
23A388 Quaysean Tikii Williams v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete counsel-diligence deadline-extension petition-preparation supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a criminal defendant may seek an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari when counsel has not been diligent in preparing…
23-5890 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-26 Denied ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent…
23A359 Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-20 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Walker improperly interpreted or applied a federal criminal law or constitutional standard
23-402 Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-17 Rehearing administrative-law anti-commandeering federal-rulemaking federal-trade-commission horseracing-industry non-delegation-doctrine private-non-delegation regulatory-power state-funding state-taxation Does the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 violate the private non-delegation doctrine and the anti-commandeering doctrine?
23-5747 Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-11 Denied 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals properly denied Petitioner due process and Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to consider newly discov…
23A287 Eulandas J. Flowers v. James Kimble, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-02 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A254 Anthony Castillo Sanchez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied access-to-files constitutional-violations death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief stay-of-execution Whether a death row inmate has a constitutional right to adequate access to his complete case files and effective assistance of counsel in the final s…
23-5577 Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-09-14 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to judicial bias and misconduct
23-5489 Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-30 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United States S…
23-5463 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-29 Denied 14th-amendment bills-of-attainder due-process impartial-judge indian-territory issues-of-first-impression jurisdiction legal-standard state-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma lacks jurisdiction in Indian territory due to its status as a state being void, whether Oklahoma's prosecution of the petitioner was …
23-5436 Christopher J. Barnett v. David Guten, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-24 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-petition self-representation supreme-court timeliness writ-of-certiorari Does Bo Pep have a right to access the court for fee waiver?
23-5415 Derrick Jackson-Stith, Sr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-23 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-delay jurisdiction-challenge mandamus mandamus-relief oath-of-office standing state-constitution statutory-law statutory-mandate Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Mr. Jackson-Stith's request for mandamus relief to compel dismissal under a state stat…
23-5393 Shaun N. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2023-08-18 Denied ake-v-oklahoma criminal-procedure due-process expert-appointment expert-witness fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant insanity-expert mental-competency mental-health right-to-counsel Do this Court's decisions in Ake v. Oklahoma and McWilliams v. Dunn require the appointment of a second insanity expert for an indigent defendant wher…
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability
23-5370 Charles Alan Dyer v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-16 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights due-process legal-research lewis-v-casey post-conviction-appeal pro-se-prisoner procedural-bar procedural-bars Whether a state can place procedural bars on a pro se prisoner's initial post-conviction appeal after denying the prisoner access to legal research fa…
23-5315 Jesse Dean Redfearn v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment witness-obstruction Did the trial court and/or the prosecution violate the Sixth Amendment confrontation-clause and clearly-established-law by concealing the location of …
23-5233 Randall Lamont Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-28 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals standard-of-review supremacy-clause supreme-court-standard Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals failed to apply this Court's standard for insufficiency of evidence as described in Jackson v. Virginia…
23A73 City of Tulsa, Oklahoma v. Justin Hooper Tenth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5161 Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-21 Denied 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation Are Oklahoma statutes conformity with U.S. Constitution, Amendments IX and XIV?
23-5119 Nawllah Shayanne Tiger v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-17 Denied federal-jurisdiction law-of-the-case major-crimes-act mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma postconviction-relief retroactivity state-procedural-law subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-jurisdiction Was the Oklahoma court's decision to approve reinstating Ms. Tiger's convictions based on such a novel and unforeseeable change in state procedural la…
23-5109 Carl Lindsey v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus key-witness overwhelming-evidence post-judgment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-immunity witness-credibility Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the proper materiality standard under Brady v. Maryland
23A34 Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Presumed Complete commandeering-states federal-preemption horseracing-integrity-and-safety-act private-entity-delegation tenth-amendment Whether Congress violates the non-delegation doctrine and the Tenth Amendment by delegating the creation and enforcement of federal regulations to a p…
23-5054 Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison Whether the Oklahoma state courts had jurisdiction to prosecute the petitioner after the federal court refused to hear the case and dismissed the char…
23-5018 Richard P. Spaulding v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-03 Denied appeal appeal-rights court-order court-orders covid-quarantine due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-notice post-conviction Did the Tulsa Court deprive itself of jurisdiction in the subsequent matters
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
22-7836 Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation Can the mere passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction?
22-7790 Lancey Darnell Ray v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-15 Denied active-duty-service-members actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forensic-pathology medical-examiners military-jurisdiction state-medical-examiners veterans Whether Oklahoma Courts can exercise criminal jurisdiction over active duty service members and dependents, and Veterans, based on opinions of state m…
22-7765 Michael Tanner Lank v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-12 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals petition-for-writ-of-certiorari state-constitution state-law-interpretation trial-by-jury Is the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Court, Rule 5.5 in conformity with the DUE PROCESS OF LAW standards of the United States Constitution?
22-7743 Mac Truong v. Kevin Stitt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation copyright copyright-law due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing Does Petitioner have standing to sue Defendants for violating Petitioner's copyrighted intellectual property and constitutional rights?
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge Did former Judge Henderson's secret extramarital affair create an unconstitutional potential for bias?
22-7700 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-06-04 Denied death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus juror-disqualification jury-selection procedural-claim state-concealment statutory-disqualification statutory-violation voir-dire Whether a federal petition raising a Hicks v. Oklahoma, 447 U.S. 348 (1980) claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)
22-7663 Aaron David Waldon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-30 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission fair-trial horn-v-state prejudicial probative propensity-evidence sexual-assault trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the admission of evidence of a recording believed to be the petitioner and an unknown male a…
22-7641 Carl Dean Wyatt, Jr. v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Is it proper for the prosecution to withhold the fact that a deal has been made with the witness for their testimony against a defendant
22-7624 Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-24 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process When was Mr. Smith's substantive due process right(s) or XIV Amendment violated?
22-7608 Phillip L. Horrell v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-22 Denied 14th-amendment ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process mental-illness plea-bargaining plea-hearing sanity-examination supervisory-power Whether the plea of guilty but mentally ill violated due process