| 25-922 |
Jean Frantz Guillaume v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
agency-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process shotgun-pleading statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
A. Whether certiorari should be granted to review
the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the District
Court's dismissal of Petitioner's claims for … |
| 25A857 |
John Paul Gomez v. David Ryan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
civil-rights dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se section-1983 vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified. |
| 25A583 |
Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction |
Whether a pre-filing injunction conditioning court access on monetary sanctions violates due process and the right to access courts under the All Writ… |
| 25A304 |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law chevron-deference fda-regulation market-exclusivity orphan-drug-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress implicitly ratified an FDA regulatory interpretation of the Orphan Drug Act's market exclusivity provision when it amended the statut… |
| 24-6684 |
Andrew Rick Lopez v. Correctional Officer D. C. Thomas |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
administrative-exhaustion constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial prison-grievance summary-judgment |
Whether lower courts deprive inmate plaintiffs of their right to jury trial by granting summary judgment for prison officials when prison officials mi… |
| 24-6553 |
Ramon Caldwell v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process jury-determination prior-convictions recidivism sentence-enhancement |
Whether a sentence enhancement based on prior convictions violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by not being submitted to a jur… |
| 24-586 |
Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
civil-enforcement constitutional-standing federal-courts ninth-circuit state-proceedings younger-abstention |
At what point or points in time should federal courts analyze the factors for application of Younger abstention? |
| 24-457 |
Bindya H. S. B. Singh v. Santa Clara County, California |
California |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights fair-trial hipaa-violation race-discrimination securities-exchange whistleblower-rights |
Does a Citizen Whistleblower lose the Constitutional right to a fair trial under Whistleblower claim that reports multiple concerns of illegal activit… |
| 24-271 |
Jerry Arnold Westrom v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy shed-dna sixth-amendment |
Whether society recognizes a reasonable expectation of privacy in shed DNA under the Fourth Amendment and whether scientific testimony violates confro… |
| 24-5401 |
Whitney Leigh Estep v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion witness-testimony |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Ms. Estep's arguments regarding a witness's Fifth Amendment objection and the district court's sentencing … |
| 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… |
| 23A961 |
John W. Patton v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-04-26 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-procedure court-costs in-forma-pauperis indigent-status prisoner-litigation pro-se |
Whether a pro se prisoner's in forma pauperis application satisfies the legal standard for proceeding without prepayment of court costs in federal cou… |
| 23A842 |
Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Quentin Freeman's petition for rehearing in a criminal case involving procedural or subs… |
| 23-6014 |
Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing |
Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan law |
| 23-440 |
S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 |
Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983? |
| 23-339 |
J. M. F. v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Pensions and Benefits |
New Jersey |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
administrative-hearing administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility credibility-determination disability disability-benefits due-process first-amendment |
Whether ALJs violate the rule-of-law by depriving petitioners of their disability-pensions on credibility-grounds |
| 23-5582 |
Juan Manuel Reyes v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
4th-amendment accrual-of-discovery civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-notice due-process fourth-amendment governmental-action section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Does a Fourth Amendment or any other United States Constitutional Amendment violation have a federal expiration date or time limitation other than the… |
| 23A126 |
Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 23A46 |
Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
California |
2023-07-18 |
Presumed Complete |
anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement |
Whether the First Amendment protects the use of a person's likeness in a commercial film from liability under the Lanham Act and state right of public… |
| 22-5946 |
Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 21-6421 |
Shirlene Bailey v. Suffolk Public Schools, et al. |
Virginia |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure civil-rights doctor-patient-relationship due-process employment employment-rights medical-evidence physician-abandonment workers-compensation |
Question not identified |
| 21-6330 |
S. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
administrative-procedure child-welfare civil-rights custody-requirements department-of-children-services due-process family-law judicial-procedure judicial-review |
Whether the requirements for placing children in foster care were properly followed in this case, including whether background checks were conducted o… |
| 21-626 |
Boyd & Associates v. Bryan K. White, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act first-to-file-bar jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal medicaid-fraud sebelius-v-auburn-regional-medical-center |
Whether the First-to-File Bar of the False Claims Act is jurisdictional |
| 20-1627 |
S. S., et al. v. S. B. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness |
Is such a 'gag order' an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f… |
| 20-7097 |
Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings |
Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-1007 |
Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. |
Ohio |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws? |
| 20-541 |
James MacDonald v. Louis E. Kempinsky, et al. |
California |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection petition-for-redress |
Question not identified |
| 20M16 |
M. S. v. Dave S. B. Hoon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-10 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-1072 |
Scott Rothstein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
cooperation cooperation-credit criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing government-withdrawal plea-agreement rule-35 rule-35-motion |
Whether the Government's right to withdraw a previously earned and filed Rule 35 Motion violates the defendant's due process rights |
| 19A683 |
M. S. v. Dave S. B. Hoon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-313 |
Neringa Venckiene v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
atrocious-procedures-or-punishments constitutional-limitations due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-law-political-offense-exception international-law judicial-review political-offense political-offense-exception state-department terrorism war-like-insurrection |
Whether the Seventh Circuit has correctly construed the 'political offense' exception to extradition by limiting the term only to offenses committed i… |
| 19-302 |
Michael Bornemann v. Tamae M. Kekona, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Paul Kekona, Deceased |
Hawaii |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment double-penalty due-process due-process,punitive-damages,14th-amendment,excess fourteenth-amendment hrs-657-5 judicial-review legal-appeals punitive-damages statutory-interest |
Whether the Hawaii Court gravely erred when it upheld a grossly excessive punitive damages award |
| 18-1557 |
William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism |
Whether literary works are protected under copyright law similarly to music sampling |
| 18-9149 |
John David Brookins v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
equal-protection evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights of due process and equal protection were violated in the lower court proceedings |
| 18-9054 |
Sandra Forquer v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Maryland |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
access-to-courts court-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection legal-remedy maryland-court-of-appeals replevin replevin-action writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petition for Writ of Certiorari regarding the improper dismissal of the Petitioner's Verifi… |
| 18-967 |
Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power |
Whether the First Circuit deprived Petitioner of her constitutional right to a jury trial |
| 18-6745 |
In Re Donald L. Spencer |
|
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act district-court-judge due-process federal-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations tolling-provision |
Whether the Honorable Richard Williams, U.S. District Court Judge has a clear duty to afford Petitioner the full one-year statute period from the enac… |
| 18-6489 |
Guetatchew Fikrou v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement Division, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-code child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute standing state-law supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the abuse of discretion standard applies to review of the issues presented in the petition |
| 18-357 |
Dragomir Taskov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process,ineffective-assistance,innocence,prose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Whether Petitioner's substantive claim of innocence and constitutional violations are barred as untimely due to prosecutorial interference, miscarriag… |
| 18-5176 |
In Re Winex Eugene |
|
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure |
Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement |