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25-6715 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending congressional-power constitutional-interpretation define-and-punish-clause high-seas international-jurisdiction maritime-law Under the Define and Punish Clause and the Founders' understanding of sea zones, does Congress have the authority to punish felonies that occur in ano…
25-6694 Donny Ray Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant 1. Whether the "materiality " prong of Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), is satisfied when a search warrant affidavit recklessly omits a confid…
25A852 John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. California 2026-01-29 Application docketing-fee extension-of-time filing-requirements in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court Question not identified.
25-879 American Gas Association, et al. v. Department of Energy, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending administrative-law agency-deference appliance-standards energy-policy performance-characteristics statutory-interpretation The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to applia…
25-694 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending judicial-immunity just-compensation permitting-monopoly property-rights res-judicata takings-clause 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's opinion citing res judicata allows the government to overextend and leverage its permitting monopoly to take private…
25-665 Colin R. Covitz v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-08 Denied appellate-procedure due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice Did the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals err when it held there was "no basis for relief" under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) merely because there was not …
25-6261 Joshua Adam Schulte v. D. Baysore, Warden, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied None Cos'-e- j^v&-ca| i(\<& arabk. inters ' USUe-5 r^div^ ai^Apr^ to Une A^missa^ ^Af-fUuUil^ M^a'-bn 'cus. 6&s^s no or oppMum'-H^. ' (2l> U/Mh^c JisM<4- …
25A527 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court has proper subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case when the defendant challenges the court's statutory au…
25A459 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Application fifth-amendment judicial-taking just-compensation permitting-authority property-rights takings-clause Whether a state court's judicial decree constitutes a taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause when the government leverages its permitting a…
25A313 Lairon Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit Whether an appellate court's sua sponte reliance on an unargued theory violates the party presentation principle and due process rights of a criminal …
25-5580 Moises Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied chemical-compound constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis sentencing Did the D-CA's forensic chemical compound analysis violate constitutional due process rights in sentencing?
25-5410 Kyle Syphax v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi…
25A74 Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon Second Circuit 2025-07-18 Application appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeal non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata substitute-trustee-deed Question not identified.
25A50 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from rejecting a foreign will that was validly executed and probated in …
24-7509 Jacob Mathias Rubinstein v. Eric Rardin, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied criminal-procedure custody-credit detention-definition federal-statute legal-restrictions statutory-interpretation Does 'official detention' under 18 U.S.C. §3585(b) include restrictive forms of 'release' under 18 U.S.C. §3142(c) when those restrictions severely li…
24A1266 Kyle Syphax v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the rule of lenity requires courts to resolve inherent textual ambiguity when multiple circuits have reached conflicting interpretations of a …
24-7363 Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman Whether a circuit split exists regarding Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application to void judgments and whether institutional manipulation violates due p…
24-1194 John Doe v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2025-05-22 Denied anonymous-investigation elected-officials first-amendment litigation public-figure speech-preparatory Are speech preparatory investigations expressive and subject to First Amendment protection?
24-1060 Leticia T. Moreno, et al. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. California 2025-04-08 Denied alien-registration confidentiality federal-preemption immigration-law regulatory-authority standing Whether a state may create a private cause of action allowing a non-aggrieved, non-governmental entity to regulate federal practitioners
24-6366 Steven Douglas Freno, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied 3553a-analysis appellate-review booker-standard gall-factors judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether appellate courts can dispense with analyzing guideline issues when a district court would have reached the same result by varying under Booker…
24-772 Jeffrey Solomon Chijioke-Uche v. Chapman Chevrolet LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied constitutional-fairness evidence-presentation federal-questions interlocutory-orders judicial-procedure pro-se-rights Whether conflicting interlocutory orders from two district court judges violate a pro se litigant's constitutional rights and judicial procedural cons…
24-6268 Ramon Moreno-Cuevas v. Town Sports International, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied article-iii bankruptcy-court due-process jury-trial non-core-proceeding seventh-amendment Whether a litigant in a non-core bankruptcy case loses Seventh Amendment rights to a jury trial by not objecting to a bankruptcy Plan, and whether suc…
24-5829 Ricky Donnell Abner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process geographical-location section-924c Whether a §924(c) 'Possession In furtherance of' offense requires geographical location proof when possession is alleged to have occurred simultaneous…
24-5733 Brent Evan Webster v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied appellate-review bankruptcy-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process property-dispute title-fraud Was it fair and just, or a misinterpretation of the law that Circuit Judges dismissed an appeal for failure to prosecute without further notice despit…
24-5644 Jose Moreno v. Jim Robinson Ninth Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied actual-innocence aedpa-statute constitutional-error effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus legal-innocence Whether the actual-innocence exception to AEDPA's statute of limitations applies to legal or statutory innocence when an individual is convicted under…
23-7743 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Territory of the Virgin Islands, et al. Virgin Islands 2024-06-18 Denied civil-procedure due-process government-delay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing Question not identified
23-7516 Anthony Roy Spain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-05-20 Denied creek-nation criminal-procedure direct-appeal flores-ortega ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma sixth-amendment Were trial counsel ineffective for failing to consult with Mr. Spain about taking a direct appeal from his conviction, where doing so would not have b…
23-7507 Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-extend ninth-circuit standing time-extension Did the United States District Court Judge Abuse his discretion in denying the Plaintiff's motions?
23A748 Carlos Jackson v. Dickinson Wright PLLC, et al. Nevada 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete attorney-error certiorari extension-of-time legal-deadline pro-se-litigant supreme-court Whether equitable tolling of the certiorari deadline is appropriate when an attorney provides incorrect deadline information to a pro se litigant
23-6712 Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate …
23-6518 Anthony Bailey v. Nevada Parole Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's private digital data violates the Fourth Amendment
23-6464 Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness Whether the dismissal of a criminal appeal as untimely violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counse…
23-6452 Shannon R. Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a person who does not qualify for relief under the First Step Act can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) without jurisdiction
23-737 Roman Melikov v. Ghilotti Bros., Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied automobile-accident federal-aid-highway-act federal-funds highway-construction highway-renovation private-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation Does the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 grant a private cause of action for an automobile accident?
23A635 Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when a juror with a potential familial connection to a witness i…
23-6419 Anthony Harris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Question not identified
23A599 William Phillip Neidinger v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing identity-preservation judicial-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposing a federal prison sentence that effectively destroys a defendant's identity and constitutes cruel and u…
23-5989 In Re Kevin McKenna 2023-11-09 Denied case-history civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court voting-rights Should this Court find that the First Amendment prohibits the government from interfering with a person's right to vote or 'adel vsti o liberally ares…
23-5959 Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law
23-5920 Leopoldo Ramirez-Moreno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-authority firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce scarborough state-affairs united-states-v-lopez Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because the firearm crossed state lines at some point before the defendant …
23-5841 James Franklin Snyder v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction inmate-rights judicial-review legal-materials prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation Can the State Department of Corrections terminate an inmate's access to legal materials and services in retaliation for the inmate's filing of a civil…
23-5747 Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-11 Denied 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals properly denied Petitioner due process and Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to consider newly discov…
23-5452 In Re Reinard Smith 2023-08-25 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process fraud fraud-upon-court injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct perjury standing Did the District Court conspire to have jurisdiction over Petitioner's Motion for Injunctive Relief?
23-5399 Milton Melvin Rodgers v. California California 2023-08-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue legal-writ search-and-seizure statutory-provisions Whether the trial court erred by admitting evidence taken in violation of the Fourth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Const…
23-5047 Omar Javier Torres v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice state-court-findings Whether the federal court of appeals abused its discretion
22-7849 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure damages due-process free-speech judicial-discretion legal-standards religious-claims standing state-court-review Whether the regional ombudsman and the officials of the Common Cause Task Force violated the Petitioner's First Amendment rights under the U.S. Consti…
22-7724 Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing Whether the petitioner's physical injury and resulting disability are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
22-7515 Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is unconstitutional under the United States Constitution?
22-7443 Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and its…
22-872 Evans Creek, LLC v. City of Reno, Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-property due-process land-use-regulation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings takings-claim Whether a property owner states a valid takings claim by alleging that a regulation substantially deprives the owner of the right to use property, or …
22-6950 Beatrice Newsome v. Festiva Resorts Real Estate Holdings, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied deed-transfer due-process homeowners-association maintenance-fees property-rights resort-fees resort-property state-jurisdiction takings Why didn't any of the previous courts made no mention our deeded property?
22-6929 Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration Whether the sex offender classification policies as applied to Petitioner, convicted of a non-sexual offense, violate substantive due process
22A761 Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-21 Presumed Complete None
22A624 Evans Creek, LLC v. City of Reno, Nevada Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Presumed Complete None
22-602 Ellizzette McDonald v. Shawn McDonald Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights guardianship guardianship-rights marriage marriage-competency ward-autonomy Whether a state statute impermissibly interferes with the fundamental rights of wards to marry under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of t…
22-6371 Michael Jarrow v. Ashly Nunnery Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
22-555 NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Judgment Issued content-moderation editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech free-speech-rights social-media social-media-regulation viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about…
22-5641 Jay Eugene Reed v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied charging-instrument constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-reasonableness sixth-amendment Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution by allowing an i…
22-5564 Michael Muthee Munywe v. Washington Washington 2022-09-14 Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment trial-rights Question not identified
22-5507 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2022-09-06 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard Whether a judge can dismiss the charges after finding the defendant guilty of a second-degree felony robbery charge
22A43 Mike Moreno Quintana v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-19 Presumed Complete None
21-7872 Steven Guardado v. Billy K. Sipe, Jr., et al. Arizona 2022-05-13 Denied compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution federal-question judicial-remedy pandemic-court state-courts Whether the decision of the Arizona Supreme Court prevents application of the Confrontation, Due Process and Compulsory Process Clauses of the US Cons…
21-7820 Darron Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus-petition probable-cause standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to recuse a judge who engaged in wrongful, excessive, inappr…
21-7315 Michael Lynn Cash v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as successive without considering the petitioner's claims on t…
21-7249 Jacob Ivan Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied capital-punishment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel self-defense sentencing-phase sixth-amendment Whether the failure of Tezai Covnser's to Jueoerm fys Cizenr Juwr He feces fh 'Menanrony' Lee Seusence Le He Cnwases To bo to Tarn) & hse, Nor fi elro…
21-7160 Edward R. Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-18 Denied attorney-client-relationship attorney-obligations civil-rights court-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-ethics professional-misconduct Why hasn't my lawyer answered any of my phone calls or come to see me?
21-6949 Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying all claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255 related to th…
21-6944 Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
21-6263 Gary Aaron Coble v. David Anderson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-review self-incrimination supreme-court-jurisdiction takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights under the U.S. Constitution were violated by the state's refusal to allow him to remain silent at trial
21-6206 Joel Barcelona v. Sergeant Parish, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-threatening life-without-parole medical-treatment refusal-of-care Whether the Respondents, Nurse J.M. Chunnu and Nurse M.M. Kelly, exhibited deliberate indifference to Petitioner's life-threatening medical condition …
21A37 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-23 Presumed Complete None
21-5704 Antoine Martwain Hill-El v. Calvin Johnson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines incorporation Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
21-5297 Kurzie Lee Curtis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied 8th-amendment bureau-of-prisons civil-rights compassionate-release due-process first-step-act Whether the Bureau of Prisons' policy of denying compassionate release to inmates who have not served at least 50% of their sentence violates the Firs…
21-5218 Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default Whether the petitioner was denied the same review of the game law that was applied to a similarly situated defendant by the state district court of ap…
20-8477 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release Whether the Second Circuit wrongly dismissed petitioner's appeal prematurely as moot before allowing him the opportunity to show that his appeal meets…
20-1705 Renovo Services, LLC, et al. v. George Badeen, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied amount-in-controversy class-action-fairness-act district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federalism-separation-of-powers removal-statute rules-enabling-act separation-of-powers statutory-deadline statutory-deadlines Whether a district court can extend the mandatory statutory deadline to file a motion for remand under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c) without violating the const…
20-8194 Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the BOP violated the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of …
20-8097 Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct Does the defendant have the right to effective assistance of counsel
20-7843 Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-04-26 Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony Whether the state district court lost subject matter jurisdiction by rendering the judgment of conviction void when it failed to comply with the requi…
20-7803 Jonathan S. Hall v. Delaware Delaware 2021-04-19 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the federal and state laws predicated on the Constitutionally-questionable Gun Control Act of 1968 are unconstitutional or illegal, and whethe…
20-7658 Johnny Rice v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance standing Was trial counsel ineffective when he failed to suppress the affidavit due to the insufficiency of Count I and Rape, and when counsel failed to seek a…
20-1384 Amy Everett v. Cobb County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied cease-and-desist civil-rights constitutional-rights custom-and-practice due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-discretion malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity speech-protection Question not identified
20-7537 Christopher D. Thieme v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-03-23 Denied cyber-harassment due-process free-speech libel obscenity overbreadth reasonable-person-standard scienter vagueness victim-impact-statements Is New Jersey's 'cyber-harassment' statute constitutionally invalid?
20-1260 Maria Rita Castillo, aka Maria Rita Moreno Velasquez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied None
20-7334 Raymond E. Carr v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Fifth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied ada civil-rights employment perceived-disability record-of-disability rehabilitation-act Whether the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit discrimination against a federal employee based on the employee's perc…
20-6811 Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether a sentence may be enhanced for an offense tried to but not found by the jury
20-855 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied certification certification-doctrine constitutional-interpretation due-process horne-v-department-of-agriculture maryland-constitution personal-property property-rights takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause protects lawfully acquired personal property banned by the State legislature
20-6702 Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied 18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights whether-district-court-must-address-mitigation-arguments
20-6609 Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6610 Luis Sanabria-Robreno v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied 18-usc-922g constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states When defendants plead guilty, can a court treat a plea as constitutionally valid when it was entered without knowledge of an offense element?
20-6613 C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-12-11 Denied constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the construction of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses o…
20-791 Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale, Inc., et al. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied access-act civil-remedies civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause freedom-of-access-to-clinic-entrances-act off-reservation-conduct religious-worship tribal-sovereign-immunity Is a Native American tribe sovereignly immune from a civil suit for damages caused by the off-reservation violations by its police officers of the 'pl…
20-6464 Benito Moreno-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Did the immigration court lack authority to remove Mr. Moreno because he was not served a notice to appear that had a hearing time?
20-716 Jorge Alfredo Flores-Moreno v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied None
20-6374 Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied the harmless error doctrine announced in United States v. Harchulik, regarding Brown's sentence for drug consp…
20-6073 Desmond Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied 18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from using a person's prior convictions for a crime of violence as a basis to enhance the senten…
20-6026 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied 8th-amendment civil-matter civil-rights court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-proceeding medical-care pattern-of-misconduct physical-injury standing Whether the petitioner should be subjected to deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eighth Amendment, even though the petitioner …
20-5990 Martin Moreno-Ruiz v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied None
20-5791 Anthony Moreno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearms-possession home-defense interest-balancing risk-assessment second-amendment sentencing-guidelines standing Does the use of an interest-balancing test to evaluate the Second Amendment rights of a person to keep and bear arms in his home (or vehicle where pos…
20-5720 Martin Garcia-Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense immigration-law jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Should the Court finally overrule Almendarez-Torres?
20-265 Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Texas 2020-09-02 Denied common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit common law courts from eliminating property ownership by changing or disregarding their common la…
20-95 Carolyn Hicks-Washington v. The Housing Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination institutional-racism judicial-conspiracy judicial-misconduct race-discrimination Do the actions of federal judges constitute a conspiracy to interfere and deprive the petitioner of constitutional and civil rights?
20-5190 Christian Rodriguez v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Reno, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule miranda-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Court recognizes that Law Enforcement and the Court cannot simply expect to use illegally obtained evidence despite Miranda violations
20-5209 Robert L. Clark v. Chiquita A. Fye, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-29 Dismissed civil-procedure civil-rights due-process false-information precedent standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals in Georgia erred in refusing to vacate its judgment based on false information provided by the defendants, in contra…
20-5152 Joel Arredondo-Moreno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8852 Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera California 2020-06-29 Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights document-access due-process judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing transcript transcript-denial Whether dismissal of appeal for refusal of the lower courts to provide designated records and transcripts for appeal constitutes deprivation of civil-…
19-8609 Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights damages declarative-relief district-court due-process injunctive-relief legal-malpractice standing unconstitutional-judgment void-judgments Whether District Court's Characterisation of a suit seeking injunctive, declarative relief and damages against making of Unconstitutional and Void Jud…
19-8329 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights competency constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-procedure psychiatric-evaluation standing Is it unconstitutional that no Article III District Court Judge has been assigned to this case?
19-7974 Jesse Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-7702 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-retaliation court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation retaliation retaliation-claims standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court decisions conflict with the formulation describing retaliation claims within the U.S. Circui…
19-983 Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing Whether Reed v. Town of Gilbert overruled Hill v. Colorado
19-7518 Baltazar Reyes Garcia, Angel Serrano Carreno, and Hector Contreras Ibarra v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied 6th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process juror-bias juror-inquiry juror-safety jury-bias jury-inquiry ninth-circuit-precedent standing Whether a district court must hold a requested jury inquiry after a juror makes statements indicating the juror has a potential source of bias because…
19-7187 Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-01-09 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to raise certain evidentiary clai…
19A745 Robert Carreno, Jr. v. Calvin Johnson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-06 Presumed Complete None
19-624 Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones qualified-immunity seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners' interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones
19A540 Robert Carreno, Jr. aka Lil Bit, aka Roberto Carreno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-15 Presumed Complete None
19-6503 Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje…
19-554 50 Murray Street Acquisition LLC v. John Kuzmich, et al. New York 2019-10-30 Denied due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-takings lower-manhattan-revitalization-plan property-rights rent-stabilization section-421-g takings-clause Whether courts can eliminate established property rights without just compensation
19-6345 William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion Whether the Mobile County Circuit Court abused its discretion in granting an eviction order while the petitioner was in bankruptcy
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the exclusion of all reliable and relevant material evidence, including the testimony of the defendant's first-hand witness, violated the defe…
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and interstate commerce…
18-9791 Luis David Moreno-Pena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leniency preservation-of-error sentencing-argument sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence rooted in a court's failure to address arguments for leniency must be preserved by specific obj…
18-9520 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2019-06-03 Dismissed constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search Whether in light of Bollinger v. New Hampshire, 390 U.S. 1020, the Arizona based conviction of petitioner violates his Fourth Amendment rights where t…
18-9416 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense Whether the district court judge's order of denial, denying the petitioner's habeas petition and claim, was contrary to or involved an unreasonable ap…
18-9236 Amy Gonzalez and David Thomas Matusiewicz v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied 18-usc-2261a,overbreadth,free-speech,first-amendme 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-unanimity,criminal-procedure,jury-in 6th-amendment,5th-amendment,sentencing,jury-trial, actus-reus criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,evidence,character-evidence,pre criminal-procedure,evidence,polygraph,crane-v-kent criminal-procedure,jury-instructions,causation,act criminal-verdict due-process jury-instruction jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2261A is unconstitutionally ov Whether a person can be convicted for stalking res Whether Crane v. Kentucky 476 U.S. 683 690 (1986 Whether sentencing courts may continue to violate Whether the admissibility of a civil judicial opin Whether juries must unanimously agree on the actus reus element of offenses
18-9125 Luzetha Wardrick v. Brooks Benton, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-court-decision civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-court legal-dispute patent procedural-irregularities standing supreme-court-review takings Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this case?
18-1257 Peter Lee, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied civil-rights district-boundaries hunt-v-cromartie legislative-privilege racial-gerrymandering redistricting shaw-claim shaw-v-reno summary-judgment united-states-v-gillock village-of-arlington-heights-v-metropolitan-housin Whether legislators drew boundaries with a predominant racial intent
18-8351 Arek Fressadi v. Arizona Municipal Risk Retention Pool, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied due-process judicial-takings just-compensation nollan-dolan notice ongoing-violations property-rights statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations takings takings-clause Whether a failure by government to provide Mullane notice, Nollan/Dolan burden-shifting protections, and/or Lucas/First English just compensation are …
18-8208 In Re Donivan Diaz 2019-03-01 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act Whether the California Supreme Court abused its discretion and/or committed plain error by failing to follow the State Bar Act, Rule 3-700(a) and depr…
18-8221 Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel by counsel's failure to adequately investigate the facts of the case, interview eyew…
18-7669 Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments?
18-7599 Jesus E. Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-witness discovery discovery-order due-process exclusion non-disclosure sixth-amendment tactical-advantage willful-nondisclosure Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment precludes exclusion of an undisclosed defense witness to enforce a discovery order if the…
18-7138 Antonio Alvarez-Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process firearms law-enforcement-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness weapon-possession Are these conditions unconstitutionally vague?
18-661 Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno Sixth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr…
18-6680 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied calderon-v-thompson circuit-court conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in applying the 'miscarriage of justice' standard and demanding clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable juror would…
18-6682 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Texas Texas 2018-11-14 Denied collateral-review due-process due-process-rights habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-procedures trial-ineffectiveness trial-rights When a State chooses to create a mechanism for post-conviction relief, what due process is required to afford a habeas applicant an adequate and effec…
18A512 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Texas Texas 2018-11-14 Presumed Complete None
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs Whether the district court erred in denying plaintiff's claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs, its directors, the hospital staff, the stat…
18-6438 Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler California 2018-10-26 Denied confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to confront and cross-examine his accusers were violated
18-6415 Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory…
18-6376 Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-19 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei…
18-6373 Erwin Eugene Semien v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied 18-usc-3585 5th-amendment board-of-pardons-v-allen constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing greenholtz-v-nebraska-penal-inmates liberty-interest official-detention sentencing-credits Does the Federal time credit Statute 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b) create a liberty interest protected by the 5th Amendment due process clause?
18-6261 Ilich Vargas, aka Ilich Ernesto Vargas Romero v. John McMahon Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether a district court magistrate acts in excess of her discretion and outside the bounds of reason during the initial screening of a pro-se petitio…
18-6231 Dawud Rahim v. South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services Fourth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-circuit notice notice-requirement parole parole-revocation procedural-rights standing state-deference Was the petitioner denied procedural due process when the respondent failed to notify him prior to the reconvening of the Parole Board to reconsider a…
18-6191 Quordalis V. Sanders v. Carlo Esqueda, Dane County Clerk of Court Wisconsin 2018-10-03 Dismissed 2nd-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process felon-in-possession free-speech mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in upholding the conviction of Quovadis Sanders for violating the Wisconsin statute prohibiting the possessi…
18-6121 Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
18-6045 Corey Levon Beckham v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied drug-abuse equal-protection fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington unprofessional-conduct Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that the District Court failed to accept the showing of the two-prong test in Strickland v. Washington on counse…
18-245 Marlon Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception religious-institution title-vii Whether the ministerial exception applies to an avowedly secular hospital that employs an ecumenical chaplain
18M25 Bani Moreno v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-14 Presumed Complete None
18-5570 Ilich Vargas v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County California 2018-08-13 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-informants due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether district attorneys/prosecutors have a free-standing obligation to investigate and inquire into the backgrounds of criminal jailhouse informant…
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Inmate-trust-fund-management
18A510 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None