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25A825 Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-20 Application administrative-services-agreement circuit-split disclosure-requirement erisa plan-fiduciary third-party-administrator Question not identified.
25A824 Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Application circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 Question not identified.
25A803 Henry Wade v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Application constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Whether the Petition presents multiple preserved structural constitutional questions of exceptional national importance, including: constructive amend…
25A744 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. San Diego County Employees Retirement Association, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Application basic-presumption class-certification corrective-disclosure market-efficiency price-impact securities-fraud 1. This case warrants the Court's review because it presents an ideal vehicle for the Court to resolve two related splits of authority about the prope…
25A707 Edward C. Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Application child-pornography forensic-evidence knowingly-possessed metadata probation-violation supervised-release Whether the discovery of 75 thumbnail child pornography images in an inaccessible cache folder on an unreported cell phone constitutes knowing possess…
25A697 Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Application counsel-of-record criminal-conviction federal-appeal indigent-defendant petition-for-certiorari sixth-circuit Whether the district court's criminal conviction of Boyer-Letlow was procedurally sound given counsel's medical incapacitation and request for extensi…
25A687 Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2025-12-11 Application cell-phone-logs constitutional-privacy fourth-amendment government-employees privacy telephone-records Whether the Fourth Amendment and the Telephone Records and Privacy Act prohibit compelled disclosure of government employees' personal cell phone call…
25-615 Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation federal-enclaves legal-borrowing legislative-authority military-servicemembers state-law Whether federal law on federal enclaves borrows current state law, rather than state law only as it existed when the enclave was created.
25-6210 Ronnie James Monroe v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied None Question not identified.
25A535 Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application controlled-substance drug-possession felony-drug-offense ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant's prior state drug possession convictions qualify as 'felony drug offenses' under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) for purposes of imposing a ma…
25A538 Village of Scarsdale, New York v. Scott Bessent, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of the Treasury and Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-07 Application administrative-law charitable-contributions chevron-deference internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation tax-deduction Whether the Supreme Court should overturn an agency regulation interpreting Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code that limits charitable tax deduct…
25A507 William King, on Behalf of Himself and on Behalf of a Class of Others Similarly Situated, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-11-04 Application contractual-right fifth-amendment government-appropriation per-se-taking property-interest takings-clause Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause requires a per se taking analysis when a government action impairs a contractual right to draw on a pool …
25-6019 Juan Mendez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied criminal-procedure death-threats extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus plea-coercion sentence-reduction 1. Did both the United States District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal 3-judge panel fail to properly execercise its permissible authority to …
25-518 Canna Provisions, Inc., et al., v. Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General First Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied commerce-clause congressional-power economic-activity interstate-commerce marijuana-regulation rational-basis Petitioners brought this case to challenge the validity of the Court's ruling in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), that Congress may prohibit the …
25-5754 Biobele Georgewill v. Joshua M. Ball, et al. Tennessee 2025-09-29 Denied constitutional-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-recusal professional-relationship Whether a judge's 14-year professional partnership with a law firm now appearing as a defendant creates an unconstitutional appearance of bias under t…
25A306 Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete federal-enclave landlord-tenant military-housing property-rights state-law surrogate-law Whether the Federal Enclave Clause requires courts to apply only the state law in effect at the time a federal enclave was created, or whether more re…
25-5596 Ardy Merritt v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-10 Rehearing constitutional-interpretation due-process fourth-amendment ninth-circuit-jurisdiction property-rights statutory-definition Does the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit have the right to redefine words, disregard constitutional and state law statutes, and oversimplify felon…
25A192 Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete begging-laws first-amendment founding-era free-speech historical-tradition speech-categories Whether historical practice and tradition at the time of the founding categorically exclude begging from First Amendment free speech protection
25-175 In Re Andy Desty 2025-08-13 Denied administrative-law child-support constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power separation-of-powers Whether the Georgia Department of Human Services/Child Support Services violated constitutional due process rights through administrative hearings and…
24-7379 Andra G. Green v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-06-09 Denied criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) can be used to punish a person for a Hobbs Act robbery when the robbery is not located in § 924(c)
24-1238 Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-04 Granted common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver?
24-1208 Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case meets the substantiality threshold for federal question jurisdiction under …
24-7054 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether uncorroborated hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(E) without independent proof of conspiracy violates the Sixth Amendment's Conf…
24-6985 R. V., Jr. v. S. V. Texas 2025-04-14 Denied court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness indigent-parent parental-rights Whether an incarcerated and indigent parent in a parental rights termination suit is entitled to court-appointed counsel under the Fourteenth Amendmen…
24-6974 Michael Mejia v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied accountability-law appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process mere-presence Whether the Illinois state accountability law at the time of petitioner's conviction, which omitted 'mere presence' as insufficient to convict, was un…
24-6910 In Re Edward Greeman 2025-04-01 Denied brady-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus speedy-trial warrantless-arrest Whether the warrantless arrest violated due process and if arresting officers had jurisdiction, whether exculpatory evidence was withheld from the Gra…
24-1033 Maria Del Rosario Chico Vietti, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of A. R. V., P. F. V., and H. S. V., minor children v. Welsh & McGough, PLLC, an Oklahoma Professional Limited Liability Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied child-best-interests court-appointed-role due-process guardian-ad-litem quasi-judicial-immunity state-actor Whether a guardian ad litem violates due process by acting outside her statutory duties and advocating for one parent over another
24-1009 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…
24-6673 Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,…
24-932 Pierre Kory, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Pending content-neutrality first-amendment medical-communication physician-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that all physician communications with patients are unprotected by the First Amendment is consistent with NIFLA and s…
24-6377 Marland Henry Gibson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied citizenship-clause constitutional-rights due-process legislative-acts natural-rights self-defense Whether the challenged legislative acts violate constitutional protections for U.S. citizens' rights to self-defense and personal security
24-764 Harris Brumfield, Trustee for Ascent Trust v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied civil-procedure diligence-requirement fraud-motion judgment-relief judicial-discretion rule-60b3 Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by denying the meritorious Rule 60(b)(3) motion, and whether Rule 60(b)(3) requires a showing that a …
24-6225 Dennis Mischler v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit deprived Mischler of Due Process by failing to afford an evidentiary hearing on disputed facts when no hearing was provided …
24-642 Lamel Jeffery, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied constitutional-scrutiny curfew-restrictions due-process emergency-powers fundamental-rights judicial-notice Whether the constitutionality of a mass curfew can be determined at the pleading stage without record evidence based solely on a government emergency …
24-5961 James A. Bell v. Michele Dauzat, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-vouching Whether a prosecutor's 'bolstering' of a witness's testimony constitutes an impermissible vouching exception and violates due process under the 14th A…
24-487 James G. Collins v. Monterey County, California Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied economic-deprivation government-regulation lucas-doctrine penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking Does a regulatory taking under Lucas require complete economic deprivation, and how do recent Supreme Court precedents impact the Penn Central takings…
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2024-09-10 Denied attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court and impose disbarment without due process
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 …
24-5375 Michael Antrantrino Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied constitutional-law criminal-law due-process retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-interpretation Does retroactive application of sentencing guidelines violate due process as construed by the Supreme Court?
24-5364 Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied attorney-abandonment fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-motion maples-v-thomas rule-60b-motion Did the Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion by misinterpreting a Rule 60(b) motion as a jurisdictional Rule 4(a) motion, and did the circuit court's de…
24A141 Mohammed Jibril, Individually and on Behalf of Their Minor Children Y.J. and O.J., et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-deference article-three-standing civil-rights dhs-trip terrorist-screening-dataset Whether individuals challenging government travel restrictions have Article III standing to pursue claims under the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Progr…
24-5074 Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule?
23-1281 Ryan G. Carter, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine judicial-precedent medical-malpractice military-medical-malpractice military-service-members service-member-rights sovereign-immunity tort-claims Should the Feres doctrine be limited and not bar tort claims brought by service members alleging medical malpractice where the service member was unde…
23-7648 Jennifer Dupree, et al. v. Pamela Owens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied 11th-amendment ada congress-abrogation congressional-power eleventh-amendment retaliation sovereign-immunity title-v Did Congress validly abrogate states' sovereign immunity for retaliation claims under Title V of the ADA?
23-1259 BLOM Bank SAL v. Michal Honickman, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-03 Judgment Issued amendment-standard civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgments judgment-finality rule-15(a) rule-60(b)(6) second-circuit Whether Rule 60(b)(6)'s stringent standard applies to a post-judgment request to vacate for the purpose of filing an amended complaint
23-7580 Joseph Moraga v. Texas Texas 2024-05-29 Denied 4th-amendment advisory-opinion contemporaneous-to-arrest custodial-arrest fourth-amendment possession probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search of luggage stored in a motel closet was valid as incident to arrest
23A1041 Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception material-misrepresentation probable-cause search-warrant Whether the good faith exception to the Exclusionary Rule under U.S. v. Leon impermissibly erodes Fourth Amendment protections when applied to search …
23-1225 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied 303-creative-llc-v-elenis commercial-speech compelled-speech content-based-regulation expert-testimony first-amendment nifla zauderer zauderer-standard Whether the court of appeals impermissibly allowed the County to violate Petitioners' First Amendment right 'to remain silent,' as reaffirmed in 303 C…
23A1031 Ryan Welter v. Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Company, dba Coverys, et al. First Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1446 federal-question removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction subsequent-paper timeliness Whether a federal district court may retain jurisdiction over a case removed beyond the 30-day statutory window when the defendants were aware of fede…
23-7361 Sean A. Gray v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied burns-v-wilson constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus military-habeas military-justice suspension-clause tenth-circuit Are the Dodson factors a violation of the Suspension Clause and therefore an unconstitutional bar to habeas for military prisoners?
23-1126 David Streeter, et al. v. USAA General Indemnity Company Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied certification-of-questions certification-of-state-law comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine insurance-law judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-interpretation Have Ninth Circuit Panels and Montana federal district courts abused their discretion by denying certification to the Montana Supreme Court of 'first …
23-1065 Robert A. Eaton v. Montana Silversmiths Ninth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation standing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit had power to waive Eaton's constitutional rights
23A859 Lester Dobbey v. Uptown People's Law Center, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies constitutional-rights legal-services mail-handling prison-grievance tax-documentation Whether a legal services organization and state corrections officials can be held liable for alleged constitutional violations when assisting an incar…
23-6924 Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error Does a federal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v. Perkins, 133 S.C…
23-973 Randy Tarum, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert L. Lindsay, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied certification-of-state-law-questions comity cooperative-federalism divergent-decisions diversity-jurisdiction efficient-federal-practice erie-doctrine federal-procedure first-impression judicial-comity lehman-bros-v-schein state-law-certification Should cooperative-federalism, comity, efficient-federal-practice, divergent-decisions, lehman-bros-v-schein, certification-of-state-law-questions
23-972 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause
23-957 David Michael Bishop, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied administrative-investigation civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech irs irs-summons judicial-review powell-factors standing tax tax-procedure Whether the IRS summons process is subject to quashing and constraint by the First Amendment's protections against chilling or retaliatory government …
23-849 Louis Wayne Ratfield v. Ellen L. Cohen, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied 14th-amendment authority biven's-claim civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution fraud prosecutorial-immunity statute-of-limitations Can each individual federal prosecutor present their written authority to prosecute?
23-712 Stephen Ireland v. Bend Neurological Associates, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights group-boycott market-competition patient-welfare restraint-of-trade sherman-act summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, by failing properly to acknowledge the evidence Ireland presented, has so far departed from the proper applicati…
23A589 Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney Massachusetts 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution fair-trial first-amendment witness-intimidation Whether a private citizen has Article III standing to seek criminal prosecution for witness intimidation when the alleged harassment threatens the cit…
23-6333 Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow precedent violated the petitioner's right to a fair trial
23A560 Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete climate-change federal-common-law federal-courts removal-jurisdiction state-law well-pleaded-complaint Whether federal district courts have removal jurisdiction over state-law claims that necessarily arise under federal common law but are artfully plead…
23A525 Randall Cope v. Thomas Lillard, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari prisoner-petition pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court Rule 30
23A494 West Flagler Associates, Ltd., a Florida Limited Partnership, dba Magic City Casino, et al. v. Debra A. Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete equal-protection indian-gaming-regulatory-act jurisdiction-allocation online-gambling sports-betting tribal-lands Whether the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) permits a state to authorize a Native American tribe to conduct online sports betting off tribal lands…
23A492 George Willie Rios v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel suppression-of-evidence Whether the Miranda warning must expressly state that the right to counsel continues during, and not just prior to, interrogation
23-565 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under Section 505 of the Copyright Act?
23-494 MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC Federal Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit erred in substituting its own findings of fact for those of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instead of remanding as requ…
23A393 Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 Whether a judge's unconstitutional detention and contempt order can still be shielded by judicial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the actions are…
23-5935 Michael Ray Thomas v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standing sua-sponte-appointment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a court of appeals may force a petitioner to proceed on appeal without the assistance of counsel after a district court ordered the appointmen…
23-442 Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force Does involuntary exposure to non-medical substances constitute unreasonable force?
23-230 Personalized Media Communication, LLC v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied docket-management due-process equitable-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-office patent-prosecution patent-validity prosecution-laches statutory-deadlines Whether prosecution laches can be based on an applicant's prosecution of a patent application in compliance with the PTO's docket-management decisions
23-5475 Elmer Wayne Zahn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied color-of-authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gross-negligence police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard warrant-database warrant-system Does police misconduct in maintaining an inaccurate warrant database violate the Fourth Amendment?
23A88 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-28 Presumed Complete fcc-authority nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising separation-of-powers taxing-power universal-service-fund Whether the Communications Act's delegation of revenue-raising authority to the Federal Communications Commission to collect and administer the Univer…
23A69 James Owens, et al. v. Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete forum-non-conveniens judicial-deference piper-aircraft plaintiff-choice-of-forum second-circuit terrorism-victims Whether the strong presumption in favor of a plaintiff's choice of forum under Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno applies with equal force when a suit includ…
23-5071 Bruce Allen Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied appeals civil-rights confession constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus police-procedure self-incrimination standing suspect-interrogation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition on procedural grounds without reaching the mer…
22-7754 Maurice Hunt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under The Commerce Clause
22-7474 Quinton Markis Cuthbertson, aka Quinton Marquis Cuthbertson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-provocation spoliation subterfuge suppression-hearing unreasonable-seizure Do police violate a person's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure when they provoke, through subterfuge and intimidation, a person to …
22-7394 Mike Webb v. Department of the Army, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-28 Denied administrative-law administrative-remedies agency-discretion agency-response civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment foia foia-request privacy-act pro-se-litigation standing Whether the failure of an agency to respond to a FOIA request violates due process
22-7333 David Jah, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions pro-se-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act government-fabricated-evidence
22-7219 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2023-04-06 Dismissed certiorari-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination government-misconduct judicial-procedure standing whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure Whether the Court of appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is contrary to the decision of this Court
22-841 Christopher H. West v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied 6th-amendment constitutional-rights cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sandin-v-conner sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Question not identified
22-6880 Roosevelt Washington v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-28 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review justice-standard legal-interpretation sentencing Whether Washington's sentence is illegally imposed as a matter of law and/or in the interest of justice
22-749 Andre Dow v. Nevada Nevada 2023-02-09 Denied 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege counsel-of-choice due-process fair-trial first-amendment prejudice sixth-amendment us-v-gonzalez-lopez Whether Mr. Dow's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
22-712 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied appellate-jurisdiction attorney-disqualification case-dismissal court-of-appeals court-procedure district-court due-process false-reporting judicial-misconduct judicial-nominee lack-of-jurisdiction Did Judicial Nominee Mr. Iain D. Johnston fabricate a non-existent certiorari petition case name on his response to the U.S. Senate's Questionnaire fo…
22-6658 Wade Bonk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi…
22-6512 Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-01-11 Denied direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court Whether the lower Florida state court's error in failing to correctly calculate the date that petitioner's direct review of his case became 'final' de…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States …
22-6332 In Re James Vandivere 2022-12-19 Denied adam-walsh-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se-petition Question not identified
22-6239 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation Whether a prisoner's right to access a county courthouse and public records is different than a regular citizen
22-6161 Melvin Lavon Shields v. Kansas Kansas 2022-11-29 Denied bad-faith criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process government-delay lovasco-v-united-states marion-v-united-states pre-charging-delay prejudice state-v-shields Whether a criminal defendant who has established prejudice from the government's pre-charging delay must show that delay was the result of the governm…
22-6021 George Guo v. Texas Texas 2022-11-08 Denied capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error Question not identified
22-5976 Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2022-11-04 Dismissed constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment Question not identified
22-5854 Willie Ricardo Gordon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-weights fourth-circuit obstruction-of-justice presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing Did the trial court err in accepting the findings of the presentence investigation report, regarding the weights of the drugs attributable to Mr. Gord…
22-222 Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 Whether Franks authorizes federal courts to disregard a finding of probable cause made by a properly constituted state grand jury
22-5510 Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2022-09-06 Denied constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
22-5490 Nicholas Wukoson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied 11th-circuit appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clisby-v-jones davis-v-us federal-civil-procedure judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review remand Whether the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit departed from its accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-31 Arizona v. Brian Mecinas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii-standing civil-procedure intervention mootness munsingwear-doctrine political-question standing vacatur Whether the motion to intervene was timely
21-8204 Reginald Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture ineffective-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment Whether the district court erred by denying the motions for severance?
21-1484 Arizona, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Judgment Issued arizona-v-california breach-of-trust colorado-river federal-jurisdiction federal-trust-responsibility indian-reservation indian-reservations water-rights winters-doctrine Whether the Ninth Circuit Opinion infringes upon the Supreme Court's retained and exclusive jurisdiction over the allocation of water from the Lower B…
21-7806 Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied covid-19 executive-privilege glomar-response grand-jury mandamus marbury-vs-madison public-interest supreme-court-rules Whether a writ of mandamus can compel the convening of a grand jury
21-7780 Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California California 2022-05-05 Denied 4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose exculpatory and impeachment evidence related to a police officer's prior criminal conduct violates the defe…
21-7645 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing Whether an error should be corrected in a motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 35(a) when the conditions of U.S. v. Olano are met, ev…
21-7613 James Edward Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-13 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence jury-instructions prior-bad-acts propensity Whether the jury can be instructed to consider hearsay evidence and propensity evidence to commit murder despite prior rulings on hearsay and prior ba…
21-7178 Amadeo Valls v. Florida Florida 2022-02-23 Denied constitutional-intolerance double-jeopardy due-process federalized-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-probability state-appellate-courts state-courts summary-orders systemic-inattentiveness Whether summary orders rejecting federalized claims have become constitutionally intolerable post-AEDPA
21-6927 Rickey Ray Wallgren, Jr. v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied allotment general-allotment-act indian-law indian-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-rights reservation reservation-status treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Does text and meaning of Article (3) Treaty of February 27 1867 15 Stat. 53] between United States and Potawatomi Tribe of Indians remain valid
21-1017 Carolyn Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied civil-rights classified-evidence electronic-surveillance in-camera-review mass-surveillance national-security nonjusticiable standing standing-doctrine state-secrets-privilege Whether the state-secrets privilege can be used to exclude public evidence establishing standing and dismiss a case as nonjusticiable
21-989 Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit?
21-6735 Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-28 Denied child-photography constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment government-interest intermediate-scrutiny public-place strict-scrutiny Did the appellate court err in applying intermediate scrutiny to a content-based statute criminalizing photographs of children, and does the statute v…
21-6484 Thomas Lee Battle v. California California 2021-12-01 Denied batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prosecut…
21-6359 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority Whether magistrate judges exceed their statutory authority by issuing orders with the practical effect of granting or refusing injunctive relief
21-6170 Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied administrative-law chevron-deference executive-order executive-privilege foia foia-request jacobson-v-massachusetts justiciable-issue public-health public-health-emergency separation-of-powers Whether the President's interest in confidentiality can be overcome by a FOIA request
21-5897 Shahram Shakouri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense state-law state-law-interpretation whether-unknowing-use-of-false-testimony-violates-due-process
21-5862 Micah Lamb v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Rehearing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court government-corruption ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's claims of 'fraud on the court'…
21-366 Michael Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies controlling in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347
21-367 Paula Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied criminal-intent due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit medicare-fraud medicare-rules prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Questions Presented
21-5604 Daniel Chase Harris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied 18-usc-3261 18-usc-7 circuit-split civilian-jurisdiction due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-law military-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether U.S. military or civilian courts have exclusive jurisdiction of service members for their overseas conduct on foreign U.S. military installati…
21-5250 Adalberto Martinez-Ramirez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied §3Bl.1(a)-standard buyer-relationship circuit-court-review criminal-leadership criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing evidence precedent precedent-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation U.S.-v.-Miller Whether the Eighth Circuit overlooked binding precedent in U.S. v. Miller when determining if the facts established that Martinez did not coerce buyer…
20-1809 VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied 35-usc-101 innovation innovation-incentives judicial-framework legal-uncertainty patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law patent-system statutory-interpretation subject-matter-eligibility What is the appropriate standard for determining patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101?
20-8351 Kevin Herriott v. Aaron Joyner, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-dismissal pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court had proper subject-matter jurisdiction over parties' § 1983 claims
20-1681 Shelton Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Panel Decision conflict with its own authority and other circuit court decisions?
20-8139 Mark W. Blond, Jr. v. New York New York 2021-05-26 Denied 6th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus state-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a writ of error coram nobis without a hearing
20-7995 John C. Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-12 Denied due-process emancipation graft judicial-bias judicial-impartiality private-prisons subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Does the state court have subject-matter jurisdiction in a trial wherein the judge shall receive extrajudicially paid pecuniary gain for a conviction …
20-7874 Ted A. McCracken v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied 7th-amendment causation-evidence civil-rights expert-testimony jury-trial pro-se-plaintiff pulmonologist-analysis seventh-amendment summary-judgment tobacco-litigation Was it not a denial of petitioner's 7th Amendment right to jury trial
20-7853 Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the trial court's errors in allowing modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements violated the defendant's Fifth a…
20-1454 Vekuii Rukoro, et al. v. Federal Republic of Germany Second Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen international-law property-rights second-circuit sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings-exception Does the Second Circuit's opinion conflict with the D.C. Circuit and this Court's FSIA jurisprudence?
20-1448 Donna Corbello v. Franki Valli, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied copyright-estoppel copyright-infringement factual-work fair-use fiction first-publication ninth-circuit-doctrine original-expression public-claims unpublished-biography Whether the century-old equitable doctrine of copyright estoppel may be invoked to deny protection to original expression in an unpublished biography
20-7657 David Erike MacLloyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure mailbox-rule notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-standard standing Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue because the Sixth Circuit failed to apply the Pro-Se-Litigant-Standard to a Pro-Se-Defendant's-Pleadings
20-7607 Perry Burris v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance Did attorney Douglas P. Earl violate Perry Burris' constitutional right of his 5th amendment right to due process of law subsequently violating his 6t…
20-7594 Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the 3-judge panel incorrectly upheld the petitioner's conviction and sentence despite the holdings in U.S. v. Davis and Davis v. U.S. that wer…
20-1297 In Re Barbara Riley 2021-03-18 Denied administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-rights judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge slavery Is it constitutional for officers of the courts to be creating, selling and buying facially null and void judge's personal orders entered/issued witho…
20-7250 Eunice Husband v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution Whether the district court and appellate court erred in their handling of the defendant's claims of plain error, judicial bias, ineffective assistance…
20-1172 George Ponik, et al. v. Jamie Williams, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Peter Lee Williams, Deceased, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-25 Dismissed civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity summary-judgment May a Court refuse to engage in the requisite two step qualified-immunity analysis
20-1091 Robert L. Schulz v. Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, et al. New York 2021-02-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-accountability government-obligations petition-clause public-records republican-form-of-government state-statute Whether the lower Court has misapplied Minnesota State Bd. for Community Colls. v. Knight, 465 US. 271 (1984)
20-7064 Justin Lee Perry v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-02-05 Denied constitutional-amendment due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment sixth-amendment trial-modification Does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plye# v. Doe, Ex-Parte Bain v. U.S., U.S. v. Gaudin and the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment …
20-7010 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied ambiguity amendment-782 criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture molina-martinez-v-us peugh-v-us rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines Whether the sentence was imposed under U.S.S.G. §201.1(c)
20-6815 Robert Munoz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations Is it written in the U.S. Constitution that a person may be indicted, reindicted 3-times with same cause number: broaden, abandon, and bring abandoned…
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether Escobar overruled or modified the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard for Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss in False Claims Act cases
20-767 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied bank-fraud continuing-offense federal-insurance federally-insured-lender imputed-knowledge mail-fraud real-estate-transaction scheme-liability statute-of-limitations Whether under Loughrin, a real estate seller's knowledge of her buyer's federally-insured lender may be imputed to sustain a conviction under § 1344, …
20-765 M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied 8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation
20-6520 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied 14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia Where Congress conditioned the ADA to states' receipt of funding, must a Title II plaintiff demonstrate a 14th Amendment violation under U.S. v. Georg…
20-6422 Nazariy Kmet v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied constitutional-rights due-process federal-regulations hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process plea-bargaining strickland-v-washington supervisory-powers u.s-v-lee Whether the 3rd Circuit's denial of the Petitioner's 2255 Motion directly violates this Court's decisions in the U.S. v. Lee, Hinton v. Alabama and St…
20-6418 Michael A. Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting bra…
20-577 Moaze Ibrahim v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing Question not identified
20-540 David Hegland, et al. v. Nicola T. Hanna Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied civil-rights congressional-acts due-process federal-grand-jury government-petitions government-redress judicial-accountability legal-standing ninth-circuit-review redress-of-grievances right-to-petition standing Do American Citizens have the right to petition their government for the redress of their grievances?
20-460 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied 5th-amendment administrative-determination due-process fifth-amendment irs property-seizure tax-liability withholding-certificate Did the IRS deprive the petitioner of his Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process?
20-399 Jung Hyun Cho, et al. v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied due-process mortgage-securitization non-judicial-foreclosure property-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detainer Whether a state summary court has competent jurisdiction over an unlawful detainer action challenged by a bona fide property dispute arising from a no…
20-211 Barry Rosen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied airspace-system civil-procedure due-process injury-in-fact national-airspace-system pro-se-litigant public-use-airport separation-of-powers standing statutory-rights Whether a federally certificated Pilot demonstrated injury-in-fact
19-1438 George Abernathy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech property-forfeiture standing summary-judgment takings Whether the Court has abandoned the principle that 'one constitutional right should not have to be surrendered in order to assert another'
19-8860 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2020-06-30 Dismissed appointments-clause aqua-products arthrex constitutional-redress equal-protection fletcher-v-peck patent-prosecution patent-prosecution-history patent-review supreme-court-precedent virnetx Whether this Court must Order the Circuit Court to apply Arthrex, Virnetx, Aqua Products, consider Patent Prosecution History, and enforce Fletcher, i…
19-8840 Darnell Cooper v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion partial-filing-fee prison-litigation-reform-act standing Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by being required to pay a partial filing fee to appeal his civil rights case, when…
19-8774 Benjamin J. Gutierrez v. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission Texas 2020-06-22 Denied child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law government-agency medicaid medicaid-eligibility parental-rights Is it reasonable for a government agency to utilize a joint conservator's court ordered periods of possession of a child to determine that parent is n…
19-8750 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. SAP America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-19 Dismissed constitution-of-the-united-states constitutional-impairment contract-clause due-process equal-protection impairment-of-contract judicial-malfeasance patent-contract patent-contract-grant stare-decisis Whether the inventor's government-issued patent contract grant is protected by the Constitution of the United States
19-8707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Dismissed america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the USPTO/PTAB and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution against repudiating Government-issued contract grants
19-8671 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Federal Circuit 2020-06-11 Dismissed chief-justice-roberts conflict-of-interest constitutional-redress government-issued-patents judicial-misconduct knights-of-malta patent-rights supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents Whether Chief Justice Roberts' conflict of interest as a member of the Knights of Malta prejudices inventors' patent rights
19-1358 Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders Michigan 2020-06-11 Denied alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a state to impanel a jury to determine the offense-related facts which establish a criminal defendant's earliest …
19-8489 Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does a juvenile conviction for possession of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement?
19-8478 John King v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-15 Denied alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts Can a judge rely on facts not found by a jury to enhance a sentence after this Court's decision in United States v. Alleyne, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), where…
19-8345 In Re Steven Ciotta 2020-04-23 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel Whether review should be granted to correct a U.S. Constitution violation when inferior federal courts have failed to acknowledge a claim alleging ine…
19-8324 James William Hornsby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied adversarial-process brain-injury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the district court's denial of relief and determination resulted from the incorrect interpretation of 'Assistance' under the Sixth Amendment r…
19-1178 Robert K. Zabka, et ux. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-final-judgment-receivership-appeal conflict-of-laws conflicting-precedent due-process federal-courts final-judgment jurisdiction net-operating-loss partnership-property receivership standing tax-liability timeliness Where the court clerk has entered the final appealable judgment, and the district court judge has initialed it as such, and then the litigant appeals …
19-8059 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Dismissed constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judiciary,…
19-8029 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Dismissed conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings Whether Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty to the Queen of Englan…
19-1120 Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied 7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur or …
19-7910 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Intuit, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed constitutional-law contract contract-rights due-process government-contract government-contracts government-grants judicial-misconduct jurisdiction patent patent-contract patent-rights standing takings Whether the Supreme Court should enforce the mandated prohibition against repudiating government-issued patent contract grants as delineated in govern…
19-7905 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case constitute…
19-1079 M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing Does a person or entity lack standing to enforce a federal court's consent decree that includes an injunction if it was not a party to the original co…
19-7847 Lee D. Watts v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-03-02 Denied confession confession-suppression criminal-interrogation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance police-interrogation police-questioning right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression voluntariness Whether petitioner's original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6
19-1019 Texas, et al. v. California, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-14 Judgment Issued affordable-care-act affordable-care-act-aca congress congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation due-process health-insurance individual-mandate severability standing tax Whether the unconstitutional individual mandate to purchase minimum essential coverage is severable from the remainder of the ACA
19-1004 Robert James Jaffe v. Brad Sherman, United States Congressman Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Rehearing certiorari-review checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-oversight due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct summary-dismissal supervisory-power supreme-court-discretion void-judgment Whether US Supreme Court justices may refuse to enforce FRCP rules and precedent
19-7184 Stanley Brewer v. Robert F. Cunningham, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct miller-el-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Did the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit misapply the ruling in Miller-El v. Cockrell?
19-780 Willie Newton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing Under what circumstances is successful post-conviction litigation a 'successful attack' on a prior state sentence?
19-6775 James Marione Butchee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony Do having one violent felony and one controlled substance conviction qualify citizens to be a career offender?
19-6571 Francisco Illarramendi v. John J. Carney, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure civil-procedure-statute-of-limitations-sec-28-usc- collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process pdvsa-venezuela sec sec-enforcement sec-receiver-parallel-criminal-proceedings statute-of-limitations summary-judgment summary-judgment-collateral-estoppel summary-judgment-standard-tolan-v-cotton supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
19-558 Montville Township Board of Education v. Zurich American Insurance Company Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied civil-procedure coverage-evaluation diversity-action duty-to-defend four-corners-rule insurance insurance-coverage new-jersey-law sl-industries state-law third-circuit Has the Third Circuit correctly applied the law as set forth in SL Industries, and should this Court now establish a uniform standard of coverage eval…
19-539 Office of Recovery Services v. John R. Latham Utah 2019-10-24 Denied ark-dept-of-health-v-ahlborn civil-litigation future-medical-expenses liens medicaid-reimbursement medical-expenses past-medical-expenses settlement settlement-allocation state-recovery third-party-liability third-party-tort third-party-tortfeasor Whether a State may seek reimbursement for its medical expenses from the portion of a settlement that represents all medical expenses—past and future—…
19-540 Andre Jenkins v. City of Cleveland, Ohio Ohio 2019-10-24 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-procedure in-rem-jurisdiction property-rights seizure standing warrantless-seizure Whether the warrantless seizure of money for forfeiture can be justified
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered?
19-6060 Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does U.S. v. Knights and Griffin v. Wisconsin still precedent to be relied on?
19-5722 Moses Shepard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment Whether a 'subsequent replacement indictment' restarts the Speedy Trial Act clock or if 'superseding' indictments are automatically excluded
19-224 Bryan James Strother v. David S. Baldwin, Adjutant General, California Army National Guard, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied accrued-benefits civil-rights contractual-entitlements due-process federal-tort-claims-act federal-torts-claim-act feres-doctrine military-benefits military-pay military-pay-and-bonuses property-rights repetition-evading-review vested-property-interests vested-property-rights Whether accrued military pay and bonuses are vested property entitlements or unilateral gratuities
19-5415 Darryl Dewayne Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Applicant is entitled to a certificate of appealability or review by the Supreme Court
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner's 6th-&-14th-Amendment-rights
18-9783 Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali…
18-9581 Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-9386 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract contract-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-inquiry patent-grant patent-rights standing unbiased-judge Whether the lower courts denying a citizen due process — a Hearing and an unbiased Judge, voids their Orders and no preclusive effect attaches
18-9383 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection erroneous-decisions first-amendment judicial-misconduct patent-law patent-rights Whether the lower court vacating hearings and arbitrarily ordering Petitioner to amend her complaint and the Judge acting as attorney to Defendants or…
18-9335 Francisco Illarramendi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether lower courts should follow the Supreme Court's mandate in Tolan v. Cotton when ruling on a motion for summary affirmance
18-9303 Larry Ray Lincks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpretatio…
18-9224 Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied 28-usc-2462 civil-actions civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights habeas-corpus sec securities-enforcement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment supreme-court-doctrine Do lower courts have an inherent duty to properly apply doctrine of this Supreme Court that confirms the applicability of the Statute of Limitations -…
18-9028 Lochild Reed v. James Flood, Jr., Acting Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief structural-error structural-errors Did the District Court err by not granting an evidentiary hearing to address Constitutional Violations
18-9030 Juan Reyes Rivera v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied confrontation-rights constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment ineffective-assistance Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance for failure to quash or dismiss Constructive, Amended Indictment, amended by the court on third day af…
18-8899 Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definit…
18-8831 Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-8698 Marcel A. Walton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied clear-error clear-error-analysis criminal-procedure due-process false-and-misleading government-assertions material-facts non-record-facts sentencing Can a sentencing court rely upon government assertions concerning material, non-record facts?
18-8581 Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights
18-1248 Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc…
18-8305 Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni…
18-8210 Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion Did trial court abuse discretion by considering nolle prossed charge in sentencing, violating 5th and 14th Amendment rights
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent, its own stare decisis, and create a circuit split by failing to recall its ma…