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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
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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… |