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25-962 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending anderson-burdick constitutional-law election-integrity mail-voting rational-basis voter-fraud 1. Whether a non-discriminatory rule imposing the usual burdens of voting is constitutional; 2. Whether a mail-voting rule is subject only to rationa…
25A907 Samson K. Orusa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-12 Application certiorari federal-court good-faith judicial-misconduct prisoner-petition pro-se Question not identified.
25-6770 Heath W. Gray v. Pennsylvania Department of State Pennsylvania 2026-02-10 Pending first-amendment government-redress suffrage supreme-court-certiorari taxation-without-representation voting-rights Would this Honorable High Court, please REMAND this suffrage rights appeal to the Pennyslvania Supreme Court to adjudicate my "No Taxation Without Rep…
25A901 Eli Lilly and Company v. United States, et al., ex. rel., Ronald J. Streck Seventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Application average-manufacturer-price false-claims-act medicaid-rebate pharmaceutical-regulation qui-tam statutory-interpretation Question not identified. The petition text provided is an "Application for an Extension of Time" to file a petition for certiorari, not a petition fo…
25-928 Joseph Habib Goro v. Wassen Kanouno, fka Wassen Goro Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending divorce-settlement equitable-distribution financial-disclosure marital-assets property-division spousal-support 1. Does the Respondent have a right to 50% of Petitioner's finances after hiding her own finances and being absent for a greater portion of the marria…
25-926 Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe…
25-6702 Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup…
25-915 Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline Whether petitioner sustained his burden prohib iting United States Court of Appeals for Third Circuit exercising original jurisdiction from imposing…
25A840 Ryan P. Givey v. Alicia A. Givey Pennsylvania 2026-01-22 Application constitutional-due-process court-jurisdiction custody-dispute first-amendment parental-rights psychological-evaluation Question not identified.
25-6637 Elizabeth A. Hughes v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2026-01-21 Pending blood-test civil-consequence due-process fourth-amendment voluntary-consent warrant-requirement Whether the voluntary consent exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies where a person arrested for driving under the influence ag…
25-6634 Joseph D. Reaves v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2026-01-21 Pending due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea newly-discovered-evidence pcra-petition psychiatric-medical-history 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an Petitioner in a PCRA Petition, Notice of Appeal and Allowance of …
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…
25A783 Crystal Greenlaw v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-07 Application 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release district-court-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process sentence-reduction Question not identified.
25A781 Joquetta Riley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-06 Application conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil…
25A779 Malik Allah-U-Akbar, fka Odraye G. Jones v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-05 Application capital-case due-process extraordinary-relief federal-courts habeas-corpus writ-compliance Question not identified.
25A767 Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-02 Application brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
25A755 Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion Question not identified.
25-773 Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause…
25-6449 Cynthia Lynn Pollick v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-12-30 Pending constitutional-rights disorderly-conduct due-process legal-counsel pro-se sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated by Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania when it failed to honor…
25A731 Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-22 Application 922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release Question not identified.
25-710 Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. Pennsylvania 2025-12-18 Pending appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal? 2. Whether the Pennsylvania appellat…
25-704 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending breach-of-contract constitutional-authority elections-clause procedural-error standing voting-machines Article I, § 4, cl. 1 , the " Elections Clause " of the United States Constitution , delegates to the states, the Time, Manner, and Place of conduct…
25-6388 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-counsel suppressed-evidence voluntary-manslaughter Should a certificate of appealability have issued, where the suppressed evidence, considered cumulatively, would have placed a burden on the Commonwea…
25A688 Pennsylvania, et al. v. Jose Montanez, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-11 Application americans-with-disabilities-act medical-contractors prisoners-rights rehabilitation-act state-liability vicarious-liability Question not identified.
25-6346 Corey Gaynor v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Whether trial counsel was ineffective and the trial court s unconstitutional jury instruction derived from Pennsylvania's consolidated statute 18 P…
25A680 MFN Partners, LP, et al. v. New York State Teamsters Conference and Retirement Fund, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-09 Application agency-overreach erisa multiemployer-pension-plans pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability This document is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. It does no…
25M48 John Doe v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-12-09 Pending None
25-6296 Emmanuel Folly v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending arbitration-findings civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigant 1. Whether systemic barriers preventing a pro se litigant from securing counsel, where stigma impedes representation, constitute "extraordinary circu…
25A658 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-04 Application anderson-burdick election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting voter-rights Question not identified.
25-639 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending civil-procedure class-action district-court expert-evidence predominance rule-23 Whether, when putative class-action plaintiffs offer expert evidence to prove predominance under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) and the defe…
25-630 Ruth Moton v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-rights court-access due-process election-claims impartial-adjudication 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by dis…
25A623 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Application conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud
25A600 Raymon Walters v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-20 Application counsel-concession criminal-defense element-challenge mccoy-right sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether the Sixth Amendment permits defense counsel to concede an element of a charged crime over the defendant's objection
25A534 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying habeas corpus relief for a death-row inmate challenging the constitutiona…
25A533 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-07 Application capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-public-defender habeas-corpus post-conviction Whether a federal habeas petitioner may obtain a certificate of appealability when two complex areas of law intersect in a post-conviction review
25A528 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Application breach-of-warranty constitutional-authority election-administration election-contract subject-matter-jurisdiction voting-systems Whether a county election board and county commissioners have standing to bring a breach of contract claim against a voting machine vendor for alleged…
25-6052 David D. Richardson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S JUDGMENT WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO AP…
25-6048 Mark Brentley, Sr. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied 14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-service-commission federal-jurisdiction property-rights 1. WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURT HAS JURISDICTION OVER THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 2. CAN YOU APPEAL THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION IN FEDERAL COURT BASED…
25-6035 Ryan P. Givey v. Alicia A. Givey Pennsylvania 2025-11-05 Denied constitutional-rights custody-order due-process emergency-jurisdiction patient-privilege psychological-evaluation This case was initiated by Respondent solely based on the fact that Petitioner filed a court case (US Supreme Court, Givey v DOJ, 23-7063) claiming he…
25-5997 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-30 Denied brady-violation capital-punishment judicial-bias napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony 1. Should this Court, after independently reviewing the factual record, grant Mr. Wood a new trial based on the Napue violation at his trial, as it di…
25A490 Kimberly Hanley, et al. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Pennsylvania 2025-10-29 Application administrative-law advanced-metering due-process federal-preemption privacy-rights utility-regulation Whether state administrative utility policy decisions can conflict with federal statutes governing advanced metering infrastructure and raise constitu…
25-5961 Eva Marie Gardner v. Maryland Maryland 2025-10-27 Pending concealed-carry due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-travel second-amendment self-defense 1. Does Maryland's prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit, as applied to an interstate traveler with a valid Virginia concealed carr…
25-494 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Pennsylvania Department of Education, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-10-22 Denied administrative-discipline burden-of-proof confrontation-rights due-process educators-rights first-amendment 1. Do educators have the basic First Amendment right to communicate with their students free of a presumption that by doing so they are engaged in "…
25-490 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied asset-sale bankruptcy-code equitable-mootness nonconsensual-release reorganization-plan third-party-release 1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §363(m) applies to asset sales under reorganization plans —and if so, whether §363(m) immunizes Purdue-forbidden releases. 2. Wh…
25-5913 Rashun Rafael Suncar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied appellate-court-judgment circuit-split controlled-substances drug-statute federal-interpretation state-law-interpretation 1a. Whether a court of appeals may disregard an unpublished but considered judgment of Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court interpreting its ow…
25-5884 Derrick U. Jacobs v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation fabricated-prosecution first-amendment immunity-doctrine retaliation Philadelphia Police Detective Derrick Jacobs (Petitioner/Jacobs) observed newly elected Philadelphia District Attorney, Lawrence Krasner ("Krasner") a…
25A419 Banc of America Securities LLC, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete antitrust class-certification damages-class-action expert-evidence federal-rule-civil-procedure predominance Whether a district court must resolve disputes about expert evidence when determining class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(…
25-5876 William Housman v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-constitutional-claim judicial-review reasonable-jurists state-court-decision Does a state court's divided decision on the merits of a federal constitutional claim demonstrate that reasonable jurists would debate the claim's mer…
25A412 Jamaur Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-10 Presumed Complete certiorari legal-preparation petition-filing professional-obligations supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on counsel's professional obligations an…
25-5851 Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-09 Denied burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b…
25A395 Travis Schlotterbeck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete bruen-test circuit-split firearm-possession historical-tradition non-violent-felony second-amendment Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with non-violent felony convictions violates the Second Amendment under the hi…
25A392 Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error equitable-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether 38 U.S.C. § 503 permits equitable relief for veterans when a VA Regional Office commits clear and unmistakable error in adjudicating a benefit…
25-398 Adeayo O. Turton v. Saks Fifth Avenue, LLC Pennsylvania 2025-10-03 Denied appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review waiver-doctrine 1. Whether a state may constitutionally guarantee rights to appeal in all cases, then suppress that right by rigidly and/or arbitrarily applying proce…
25A382 United States v. Erik Matthew Harris Third Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete as-applied-challenge drug-users firearms-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by unlawful drug users violates the Second Amendment when applied to a specific individual ba…
25-5786 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-02 Dismissed coram-nobis criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review I. Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause by abolishing the writ of error coram nobis and then rigidly applying a post-conviction custody re…
25A371 Rashun Suncar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the categorical approach in interpreting a state controlled substance statute and disreg…
25-5769 Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi…
25-5766 Jonathan Valentin v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industries Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation Should the First Amendment provisions to the U.S. Constitution addressing the making of any law abridging the freedom of speech; and to petition the G…
25-379 Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Pending administrative-law article-three-standing election-integrity public-records statutory-interpretation voter-registration Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA") to increase and enhance registration and voting by "eligible citizens," "protect the int…
25-5751 Jamiel Johnson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-09-29 Denied None Question not identified.
25M29 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Pennsylvania Department of Education, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-09-24 Pending None
25A342 Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont…
25A337 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete clean-water-act environmental-regulation permit-violation sackett-precedent waters-of-united-states wetlands Whether the Second Circuit's test for determining 'waters of the United States' under the Clean Water Act conflicts with the Supreme Court's interpret…
25-322 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver 1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo…
25-323 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was properly invoked involving a continuing violation of Title VII, 1983 etc. in the underlying claims…
25A303 G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families Pennsylvania 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete allocatur certiorari petition-extension procedural-review supreme-court time-limitation Whether a state supreme court's denial of allocatur precludes or impacts a petitioner's ability to seek certiorari review in the U.S. Supreme Court
25A289 Mary E. Hill v. Malcolm S. Spratley, Sr. Virginia 2025-09-12 Presumed Complete attorney-withdrawal legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari after experiencing an attorney's alleged breach of professional…
25-288 Vinaykumar Patel v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment 1. Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer, asserting a staged robbery without personal knowledge or expert…
25A262 Vincent Cannady v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n…
25A261 William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit improperly denied a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal convictio…
25-252 Jalina Fluellen v. David Krasn, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied administrative-procedure-act article-iii-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure rule-5.1 1. Whether the District Court violated Rule 5.1 and due process by dismissing a constitutional challenge to Local Rule 26.1 without notifying the stat…
25-5502 Aisha Asha Bradley v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied 28-usc-1443 federal-appellate-court jurisdiction-determination removal-procedure statutory-directive third-circuit Did the Federal Appellate Court for the Third Circuit, ignore statutory directive 1443(1), by NOT doing a jurisdiction determination under 28 U.S.C. §…
25A223 Dmitry Kruglov v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete appellate-timeline electronic-filing jurisdictional-deadline petition-nunc-pro-tunc procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's procedural rulings improperly denied a litigant's substantive due process rights by creating confusion about …
25-5425 Keith Lamar Foster v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-08-21 Denied due-process interrogation-tactics police-misrepresentation self-incrimination statement-voluntariness suspect-status Where a police officer misrepresents the fundamental nature of an individual's interaction with police by lying about his status as a suspect, does th…
25-5398 Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-19 Rehearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment (1) DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN VIOLATION OF A MYRIAD OF SUPREME COURT SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY PRECEDENTS MISAPPREHEND …
25-5364 David R. Kauffman v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations federal-procedure judicial-misconduct mandamus-petition rule-16 On October 3,2023, Petitioner David Ryan Kauffman ("Mr. Kauffman ") filed a civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court f…
25-176 Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication Pennsylvania 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera 1. Whether Section 3370 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3370, the Automated Speed Camera Enforcement Program, and an implementing…
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 1. 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 warran…
25-5275 Kayla Williams v. Pennsylvania State University, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-recusal 1. ) Does the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require public universities to allow accused students a meaningful opportunity to cross examine…
25-124 Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 1. Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury? 2. Whether dism…
25-5216 Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-07-29 Denied abuse-of-discretion counsel discretion drug-addiction ineffective-assistance legal-representation Did Court abuse discretion by Not agreeing With Fact that, at Juvenile Lifer appellant's Resentencing iN 2ol8, pesenten cing gudge Yecanted the only F…
25A116 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library Whether the First Amendment protects a right to receive information from a public library and how the government speech doctrine applies to library co…
25A82 Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete ai-authorship copyright-office copyright-protection creative-works intellectual-property machine-generated-work Question not identified.
25A61 Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones Virginia 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether an attorney's breach of professional duties and failure to file a writ of certiorari constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel warranting …
25-5082 Jake Bylsma v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied appellate-review bankruptcy-fraud judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud state-corruption third-circuit At its base root; this case involves a Real Estate and Bankruptcy Fraud racket OPERATED BY select members of the Pennsylvania judicial elite that incl…
25A21 Deago Lee Eddings v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete disarmament firearm-possession historical-tradition predicate-crime second-amendment supervised-release Whether the Second Amendment precludes disarming individuals on supervised release or state parole under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on historical tra…
25-7 Dawn Keefer, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied article-iii-standing constitutional-duty elections-clause federal-elections legislative-authority state-officials Whether individual legislators have Article III standing to sue state and federal executive officials for altering the manner of federal elections in …
25-11 Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-07-02 Denied abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance 1. How is it possible in the most revered judicial system in the world-the United States of America-that a woman/mother/primary caregiver of the marri…
24A1294 Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions, including non-violent offenses, violates the Se…
24-1329 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Second Amendment Foundation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-30 Pending age-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-interpretation founding-era-law gun-rights second-amendment Do firearms laws imposing a minimum age of 21 violate the purported Second Amendment rights of 18-to20-year-olds?
24A1286 Dion Horton, et al. v. Jill Rangos, Administrative Judge, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-26 Presumed Complete bail-hearing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty pretrial-detention Whether prolonged pretrial detention without individualized bail hearings violates the constitutional right to due process and equal protection
24-7483 DeAngelo Zieglar v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-06-24 Denied caldwell-precedent capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-selection moratorium-impact In light of Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985), where a state has instituted an indefinite and formal moratorium on the death penalty, wheth…
24A1271 Tedor Davido v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete None
24-7442 Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-06-17 Denied criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding procedural-rights summary-contempt Whether the Due Process Clause requires explicit notice and opportunity to be heard when a court delays criminal contempt punishment by one hour after…
24-1244 David A. McMaster, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-06-05 Denied emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search probable-cause protective-sweep-doctrine warrantless-entry Whether it is an improper expansion of the 'emergency aid exception' and/or 'protective sweep doctrine' to authorize a warrantless entry into a home w…
24A1182 Ayana Saunders v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-02 Presumed Complete constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud Whether a constructive variance or improper venue can serve as grounds for overturning a federal criminal conviction for wire fraud and money launderi…
24-7262 Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim When a state court issues a reasoned merits decision on only one component of a multi-component claim, does AEDPA require federal habeas courts to def…
24-7252 Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-05-20 Denied confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap…
24-7164 Martin B. Brown v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure procedural-fairness Whether the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violated due process and equal protection rights by granting an untimely brief extension and issuing a pote…
24-7144 Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does the narrow 'cause' requirement announced by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan preclude prisoners from establishing 'cause' for purposes of excusing …
24A1047 Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-29 Presumed Complete ada-title-ii disability-discrimination due-process essential-eligibility psychiatric-exam rehabilitation-act Whether a state university may impose a mandatory psychiatric examination as a condition of continued enrollment without violating a student's constit…
24A1033 Margaret Paulone v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-04-24 Presumed Complete None
24-1105 Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability
24A1003 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Madison M. Lara, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-18 Presumed Complete None
24-7021 Moises Garcia v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-04-17 Denied circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement presumptively-lawful reasonable-suspicion May the police conduct an investigative detention after observing a presumptively lawful act without additional information to suggest that criminal a…
24A978 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. New Jersey Conservation Foundation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-11 Presumed Complete arbitrary-and-capricious environmental-impact-statement greenhouse-gas-emissions natural-gas-act nepa public-convenience-and-necessity Whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must make a case-specific determination regarding the significance of greenhouse-gas emissions under …
24-6957 Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-04-11 Denied civil-suit evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity trial-court-error witness-testimony Whether the trial court erred by precluding Addie Brice's civil suit statement from evidence and improperly withholding crucial testimony
24-1067 John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams Third Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t…
24-1046 Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2025-04-03 Granted bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Hawaii may presumptively prohibit handgun carry by licensed concealed carry permit holders on private …
24-6891 Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-03-31 Denied custodial-interrogation due-process involuntary-confession mental-health-crisis right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether a statement to a corrections officer made by an individual who has just attempted suicide while in custody is 'voluntary' when the prison has …
24A930 Thomas Irwin Miles v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-03-27 Presumed Complete None
24-6852 Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-03-26 Denied double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause and Sixth Amendment Rights during sentencing and plea negotiations involving…
24-1028 Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association v. Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied constitutional-rights government-actor insurance-provider nonprofit-status private-function state-created-entity Whether a state-created entity that is privately funded, privately controlled, and performs a private function is a private entity that has constituti…
24-1009 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2025-03-21 Denied attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics procedural-rights Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated due process by denying an attorney the opportunity to rebut a disciplinary report containing alleged i…
24-6801 Birdell West v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-03-19 Denied None Question not identified.
24-6773 Jerry Jeron Daniels v. Pennsylvania Parole Board Pennsylvania 2025-03-14 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment parole-board sixth-amendment Whether the Pennsylvania courts erred in denying the petitioner's appeal of the Pennsylvania Parole Board's decision and violating his constitutional …
24-978 Kristopher Paul Hochendoner v. Michael J. King, Executor of the Estate of James E. King Pennsylvania 2025-03-12 Denied default-notice due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights sheriff-sale subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to set aside a sheriff's sale due to …
24-6742 Keeba Harris v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied constitutional-violation due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus state-remedies Whether a state court prisoner can seek habeas corpus relief under federal law when state remedies have not been fully exhausted and extraordinary cir…
24A850 Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-04 Presumed Complete controlled-substance-distribution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spousal-privilege Whether the admission of privileged spousal communications and erroneous role-in-offense determinations in a drug distribution prosecution violated th…
24A844 Elroy Wilkerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-03 Presumed Complete child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) requires that the depiction be made with intent to sexually arouse o…
24A837 Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 Third Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split ejectment-judgment fraud-exception property-rights rooker-feldman supreme-court-rules Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application in federal courts creates an impermissible barrier to reviewing state court judgments involving pote…
24-6651 Michael C. Romig v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-02-26 Denied constitutional-rights damages-claim due-process eleventh-amendment legal-mail-interference state-agency-immunity Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err by affirming a lower court order without discussing matters of public importance raised by Petitioner, potentia…
24-918 Exclusive Group Holdings, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied attorneys-fees civil-litigation court-procedure federal-removal judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether district courts are required to expressly determine 'unusual circumstances' when adjudicating motions for attorneys' fees and costs under 28 U…
24-6561 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied constitutional-review exceptional-circumstances exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Whether a state court prisoner can seek habeas corpus relief under exceptional circumstances when procedural defaults exist and state remedies have be…
24A769 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline certiorari disciplinary-proceeding due-process judicial-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state disciplinary proceeding against an attorney violates due process protections when challenging the procedural fairness of the disciplin…
24-838 Sol M. Leiner v. Dow, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-provisions federal-court jurisdiction product-liability supreme-court-review Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing the case involving product liability claims against Dow Defendants and jurisdiction over federal versus …
24-819 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-03 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau…
24-6432 Zemirah El v. Bernard Moore, dba Administrative Clerk Third Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied constitutional-authority diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity oath-of-office void-judgment Whether a judge refusing to take the oath of office loses judicial immunity and renders their orders void ab initio
24-6434 Justin Juan De La Cruz Martinez v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Seventh Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied None Question not identified.
24-786 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-01-23 Denied constitutional-interpretation elections-clause electors-clause judicial-review legislative-power state-election-law What is the legal standard for determining whether a state court's interpretation of state election law exceeds the bounds of ordinary judicial review…
24A718 Kai D. Ingram v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole-revocation preliminary-hearing Whether a state parole board's failure to provide a preliminary hearing within fourteen days of a parole revocation arrest violates a parolee's proced…
24-6311 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias precedential-decisions pro-se-litigants supreme-court-review Whether judicial bias, potential bribery, and conflicts with precedential decisions constitute grounds for Supreme Court review of Court of Appeals pa…
24-722 Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. Tennessee 2025-01-10 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent Whether Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court constitutes a structural constitutional violation under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces…
24A667 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-08 Presumed Complete incarceration page-limit pro-se procedural-obstacles supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether procedural rules governing Supreme Court filings should be interpreted flexibly for pro se incarcerated litigants facing extraordinary circums…
24-708 Zafar Iqbal v. BPOA Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied appeal circuit-court jurisdictional-statute medicaid preclusion supreme-court Can the 34 Circuit Court and DCWPA overrule jurisdictional statute of limitations set by US Supreme Court?
24A637 Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-review Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant's intellectual disability substantially impairs his capaci…
24A615 Keeba Scott Harris v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge native-american sepric-reservation tribal-jurisdiction Whether the tribal jurisdiction of the SEPRIC Reservation precludes criminal prosecution by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for offenses committed on…
24A619 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction native-american tribal-sovereignty Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a state court fails to properly consider tribal jurisdiction and sovereig…
24-649 The Gun Range, LLC v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-12-16 Denied commercial-speech constitutional-rights gun-shop-regulation municipal-ordinance second-amendment zoning-restrictions Whether prohibiting a business that provides Second Amendment-protected goods and services from operating in substantially all of a city's land areas—…
24-644 Darrell E. Williams v. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied administrative-remedies appeals-council exhaustion-doctrine judicial-review Medicare-Act procedural-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should directly consider the issue of 'exhaustion of administrative remedies' under the Medicare Act when the Medicare Appea…
24-6073 Earlando Samuel v. Delaware County Housing Authority, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied disability-rights fair-housing-act judicial-discretion motion-to-alter-judgment procedural-due-process retaliation-clause Whether the lower court erred in denying appointment of counsel under the Fair Housing Act's retaliation clause and whether the Third Circuit Court of…
24-6032 Robert Gene Rega v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied brady-violation federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-findings witness-cooperation Does the decision below, which misstates and fails to afford any presumption of correctness to a state court's factual findings in a habeas case, warr…
24-5960 Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-13 Denied fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause Did the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights through improper judicial proced…
24-516 Kathrine Ann Detwiler, Gary Robert Krum, and Elaine M. Barnhart v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-06 Denied cdc-recommendations federal-funding public-health-regulation school-board-authority state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Is it constitutionally permissible for a local school board to implement CDC health recommendations as mandatory rules using federal funding condition…
24-5923 Justin Martinez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-06 Denied None Question not identified.
24A442 Dale Scott Heineman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-04 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a sentencing hearing proceeds despite allegations of procedural defects and claims…
24A427 Cornel West v. Pennsylvania Department of State Third Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete administrative-action ballot-access constitutional-rights election-law third-circuit voter-registration Whether a state election official's administrative actions in managing ballot access and voter registration can constitute a violation of federal cons…
24A379 Londell Bond v. Jasen Bohinski, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated by counsel's deficient performance during the pos…
24-5779 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-10-18 Denied appellate-procedure court-discretion error-waiver legal-interpretation procedural-rules rule-of-law Whether the Commonwealth Court abused its discretion by applying Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) to conclude waiver of error, conflicting with Pa.R.A.P. 1925 and pro…
24-5782 Harvey Miguel Robinson v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied federal-circuit-split habeas-corpus jury-instructions legislative-interpretation sentencing-law state-court-review Whether a court may instruct a jury about potential legislative changes to sentencing law, and whether a federal habeas court can substitute its own r…
24-389 Jean Coulter v. James P. Coulter, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct police-interference privacy-violation Do facts show a conspiracy involving judicial and police misconduct that violated Jean Coulter's privacy and due process rights?
24A329 Robert Wharton v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Third Circuit 2024-10-04 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing counsel-performance ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prison-behavior sixth-amendment Whether a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to present mitigating evidence o…
24-363 Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied ballot-counting civil-rights-act election-law mail-ballot materiality-provision voter-disenfranchisement Whether voters who cast a mail ballot may have their ballots excluded for immaterial errors on accompanying forms under the Materiality Provision of t…
24-353 Elelake James Jefferson, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-09-30 Denied consent-doctrine fourth-amendment schneckloth-standard subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances warrantless-search Whether a court should consider a defendant's subjective intent when assessing consent to a warrantless search under the totality of the circumstances…
24A296 Farida B. Rahman v. Foster Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-09-25 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
24-5622 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied circuit-conflict constitutional-rights district-court fundamental-rights injunctive-relief judicial-overreach Whether the U.S. District Court erred in denying injunctive relief for alleged constitutional rights violations and potential judicial overreach
24-5589 In Re Joseph G. Aulisio 2024-09-20 Denied cause-and-prejudice confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Whether prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony, and failure to correct known false evidence constitute a violation of due process and grounds for o…
24-5579 John F. Kodenkandeth v. UPMC Health Plan, Inc., dba UPMC for Life, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion removal-jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court of Western Pennsylvania erred through arbitrary and capricious abuse of discretion in hand…
24-5536 Jose Reyes Ochoa v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied appellant-rights court-ruling criminal-procedure duress-defense judicial-discretion legal-error Did the Court err in precluding Appellant's 'duress' defense?
24-5477 Gustavo D. Velez-Hernandez v. District Attorney of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied None Question not identified.
24-246 James W. Miller v. MBC Development, LP, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-09-05 Denied None Question not identified.
24-5471 In Re Keith Girvan 2024-09-05 Denied appellate-procedure eyewitness-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition state-court-findings Whether 3rd Circuit Local Appellate Rules, Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(e), and 28 U.S.C. 2254 apply to Habeas Corpus Proceedings and provide…
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 …
24-222 Kathryn Dana Papp v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-08-29 Denied constitutional-rights first-amendment harassment-law speech-criminalization state-supreme-court strict-scrutiny Whether the First Amendment permits the government to criminalize speech on the basis that the speaker intends to harass, annoy, or alarm
24-208 Thomas M. Gatz v. Thomas Zupko, et ux. Pennsylvania 2024-08-26 Denied deed-chain judicial-code land-rights property-transfer quiet-title statutory-interpretation Whether Pennsylvania's quiet title statute Section 5527.1 can be executed despite an existing 1950 deed chain transferring property to the petitioner'…
24-200 Hamett Diaz v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied criminal-conviction due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to find that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by not objecting to inadmissible hearsay testimo…
24-150 John R. Stensrud, et ux. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority Second Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied condemnation federal-forum just-compensation knick-exception res-judicata state-court-litigation Whether the Supreme Court should recognize an exception to res judicata when post-Knick condemnees are denied a federal forum due to timing and state …
24-5277 Robert Scott v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied constitutional-provisions jurisdiction opinions reasons-for-writ statement-of-case Question not identified.
24-5251 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied counsel-conflict due-process judicial-determination probable-cause property-seizure sixth-amendment Whether an independent judicial determination of probable cause was made prior to entry and seizure of property, and whether the trial court erred in …
24A137 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete appellate-process extension-of-time incarceration pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted due to unique incarceration c…
24-117 Todd Berman v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, dba Fedloan Servicing Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied affirmative-defense circuit-conflict federal-contractor federal-contractor-liability government-instructions merits-trial qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Derivative-sovereign-immunity
24-5217 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the Third Circuit's Brady materiality test—under which suppressed evidence is immaterial if it contradicts the prosecution's trial evidence—co…
24-5209 Charles S. Renchenski v. Frederic J. Ammerman, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Clearfield County Third Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied due-process impartiality objective-bias public-confidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-bias third-circuit Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western District Court for Pennsylvania entered a decision that is in direct conflict with the United S…
24-106 Patricia Fritz v. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-amendment media-harassment public-employment retaliation title-vii wrongful-termination employment-discrimination
24-93 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Madison M. Lara, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-30 GVR 2nd-amendment age-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms-law founding-era gun-rights historical-analysis historical-evidence rahimi second-amendment Do firearms laws that restrict the rights of 18-to-20-year-olds comply with the Second Amendment?
24A45 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete civil-rights declaratory-relief eleventh-amendment pro-se-litigation state-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a pro se litigant from seeking injunctive and monetary relief against a state court for alleged constitutional vio…
24A46 Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access circuit-split federal-statute mail-ballot materiality-provision voting-rights Whether the Materiality Provision of federal voting rights law prohibits excluding mail ballots due to immaterial paperwork errors beyond voter regist…
24-5060 Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania 2024-07-12 Denied constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes Whether Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes for second-degree murder, which provide for a mandatory maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a requir…
24-5049 Irena Shie v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-07-11 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act communication-disability deprivation-of-constitutional-rights-under-color-o equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech judicial-procedure meaningful-participation-in-justice-system petition-government-for-redress-of-grievances reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations equal-protection-under-law
24M5 Abbott Laboratories, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete None
24-22 Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-09 Denied child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act violate a fit parent's due-process-rights,
23-7789 In Re Glenn A. Holder 2024-06-24 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violations fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard structural-error Wrongful-conviction
23A1124 Kathryn Dana Papp v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete communication-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute intent-to-harass Whether a state statute criminalizing communications intended to harass, annoy, or alarm constitutes an impermissible content-based restriction on spe…
23A1127 Sheldon Hannibal v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Presumed Complete capital-case criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction or sentence
23-7710 William Anderson v. L'Oreal Snell, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-06-13 Denied ballot-access ballot-access-laws civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment signature-challenge voter-disenfranchisement voting-rights Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate Petitioner's Constitutional Rights by affirming the Lower Court's order Removing Petitioner's Name from the…
23A1107 Abbott Laboratories, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete attorney-client-privilege crime-fraud-exception mandamus patent-litigation sham-litigation work-product-privilege Whether the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege can be applied to sham litigation or other non-criminal conduct beyond traditional frau…
23-7657 Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied due-process due-process,14th-amendment,judicial-misconduct,bia equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct lgbtq-rights Ongoing violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights,judicial-misconduct,bias-and-prejudice,disqualification,perpetuation-of-evidence,trust-do…
23-7639 Louis C. Bouie v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Pennsylvania 2024-06-05 Denied drug-treatment-program due-process ex-post-facto executive-branch judicial-review sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers stare-decisis statutory-construction Did the Pennsylvania High Court unconstitutionally permit the statutory construct at 61 Pa.C.S.A. § 4105 to grant the executive branch carte blanche s…
23-1266 Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. Texas 2024-06-04 Denied campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, violate the Fo…
23-7618 Jesse A. Reynolds v. Titus County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing fair-housing-act judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations takings Question not identified.
23-7593 Kaleel Hinton v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard petition-for-writ post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process standing time-limitations Whether the PCRA court erred in dismissing the PCRA petition as untimely, where the petitioner was abandoned by plea counsel who failed to file a moti…
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…
23-1256 Donna Davis Javitz v. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment-retaliation free-speech judicial-misconduct mistrial trial-fairness Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case
23-7582 Manna Massaquoi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-29 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in finding that the FORA Consent Decree entered by the Pennsylvania Governor was not violated by the granting o…
23-7584 Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-29 Denied brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense?
23-1237 County of Fulton, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-05-24 Denied article-i-section-4 constitutional-authority county-boards-of-elections due-process election-integrity election-law elections judicial-sanctions pennsylvania-general-assembly pennsylvania-supreme-court voting-equipment voting-machines Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in allowing a special master to order voting machines owned by the County of Fulton to be placed in custody of …
23-1211 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-discovery federal-claims fraud judicial-notice prima-facie-evidence rule-60-motion standing void-order Whether the Court below misconstrues Petitioner's principal cause of action?
23-7424 Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied appellate-review brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether an unreasoned blanket denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 2253 and Supreme Court precedents
23-1198 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied civil-procedure first-amendment frcp-56 independent-review local-rules material-facts religious-harassment statement-of-material-facts summary-judgment supreme-court-precedents workplace-discrimination Do the United States Court of Appeals have obligations to enforce FRCP 56 and the Supreme Court's precedents when Statement of Material Facts and supp…