| 25-6792 |
Daniel Smalls v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. |
South Carolina |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction paternity personal-service |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to assert jurisdiction and impose child support obligations on a nonres… |
| 25A887 |
Arron Benedetti, et al. v. Marin County, California, et al. |
California |
2026-02-05 |
Application |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use-exaction nollan-test property-rights residential-development |
Question not identified. |
| 25A877 |
Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6690 |
Sabrina D. Davis v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
civil-procedure judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct legal-review rule-60b4 void-judgment |
DOES THE JUDICIAL IMMUNITY DOCTRINE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO PERMIT MALICIOUS AND CORRUPT JUDICIAL RULINGS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS ERRORS OF LAW OR MISAPPLICA… |
| 25-6687 |
Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law |
Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric… |
| 25A846 |
Marion Alexander Lindsey v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2026-01-23 |
Application |
capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25M55 |
George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. 81st Readiness Division, Ft Jackson, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
None |
|
| 25-6399 |
John Willie Mack, Jr. v. Barry Joe Barnette, Solicitor of the 7th Circuit, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25-640 |
Randall Williams, as Personal Representative of the Estates of Shanice R. Dantzler-Williams and Miranda R. Dantzler-Williams, et al. v. Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
arm-of-the-state county-office eleventh-amendment judgment-analysis sovereign-immunity state-liability |
When the State is not liable for a judgment against an entity, what weight should this fact be given in the arm-of-the-state immunity analysis of that… |
| 25A617 |
George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
child-custody due-process family-court parental-rights social-services writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a family court's denial of a writ of certiorari in a child custody or dependency proceeding comports with due process and parental rights |
| 25A603 |
Gabriel L'Ambiance Ingram v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
certiorari extension-of-time lower-courts pro-se title-iii wiretap |
Whether a pro se petitioner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when related motions to unseal Title III wiretap materials a… |
| 25-6173 |
Charles Jason Carmichael v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony trial-error |
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| 25-6049 |
Richard Vandale Clowney v. Greenville County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement neutral-detached-magistrate search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether a Magistrate who holds office at the law enforcement center investigating crimes is subject to and why law enforcement on easily passes, i.e. … |
| 25-513 |
Adele Jeffords Pope v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
contempt due-process estate-law first-amendment foia-request judicial-order |
1. Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court's interpretation and enforcement of its 2015 Order violates the First Amendment.
2. Whether the South Car… |
| 25-5951 |
Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts |
1. Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving
actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator … |
| 25A444 |
Bernard Kentrell Breeland, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Application |
bruen-framework confrontation-clause criminal-procedure felon-in-possession lay-opinion-testimony second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of the Supreme Court's recent Second Amendment jurispru… |
| 25-414 |
The Sunshine Group, LLC v. City of Dana Point, California, et al. |
California |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte notice-requirement property-rights regulatory-taking |
The City of Dana Point "red tagged" Petitioner's motel and then had a receiver appointed to oversee its rehabilitation without ever providing notice o… |
| 25A336 |
Chriselda and Emmanuel Reyes v. Dorchester County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25-277 |
Aden Rusfeldt v. Officer Cristian Morar, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
fighting-words first-amendment free-speech heckler's-veto public-forum qualified-immunity |
Under the First Amendment, street preachers and counter-protesters can speak in front of a crowd but not to a crowd, or to any person therein, or else… |
| 25-5571 |
Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Daniel Coble, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, Richland County, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-procedure fourth-circuit-appeal manifest-injustice rule-59-motion |
1. Did the United State District Court of Columbia South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err Under Rule 59 E, on Motion to Alter or A… |
| 25-5561 |
Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 25A243 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata |
Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance… |
| 25A234 |
South Carolina, et al. v. John Doe, By His Next Friends and Parents, Jim Doe and Jane Doe |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
equal-protection gender-affirming-care legislative-act medical-treatment sovereignty title-x |
Whether a state law regulating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors violates constitutional equal protection principles or federal anti-discr… |
| 25-213 |
Atlas Turner, Inc. v. Donna B. Welch, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Melvin G. Welch, Deceased, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-limits due-process in-rem-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court territorial-boundaries |
The U.S. Constitution imposes due-process limits on the jurisdiction of state and federal courts. Those limits differ depending on the type of jurisdi… |
| 25-5323 |
Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. Office of the South Carolina Governor, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination employment-opportunities pro-se-petition title-vii |
I. Is a Charge filed with U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission required to bring a lawsuit in federal court against an employer(s).
II. Is it lawfu… |
| 25-5317 |
Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default |
When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who… |
| 25-104 |
Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
arbitration-clause civil-rights double-jeopardy electronic-filing jurisdiction pro-se-litigant |
1. Plaintiff submits agreement to the court that
was used to set the Counter claim for the
defendant... The plaintiff notes in the order
from the j… |
| 25A102 |
Maryland, et al. v. 3M Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-procedure federal-officer-removal government-contractor jurisdictional-removal pfas-contamination statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal officer removal jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1) applies to private contractors who claim they were acting under the directio… |
| 25-47 |
Wilbert J. Alexander, II v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, Human Resources Manager, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
adverse-employment-action employment-discrimination harassment-policy race-discrimination retaliation title-vii |
A. Did the courts below properly apply SCDOT zero tolerance harassment policies. Title VII , EPA, ADE A, ADA, EEOC harassment & hostile work environme… |
| 25-53 |
Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-law first-amendment independent-review preservation-rule state-courts |
It is a "rule of federal constitutional law" that in "cases raising First Amendment issues," appellate courts must "make an independent examination of… |
| 25-5043 |
Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. Marshals, 7th Judicial, Spartanburg, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7524 |
Mark Allen Brown v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1270 |
Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling |
| 24-7439 |
In Re Terron Dizzley |
|
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof criminal-trial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion trial-court-jurisdiction |
Did the trial court exceed its jurisdiction in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause by trying Mr. Dizzley a second time for the c… |
| 24-7442 |
Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding procedural-rights summary-contempt |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires explicit notice and opportunity to be heard when a court delays criminal contempt punishment by one hour after… |
| 24-7414 |
Ricardo Fishburne v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1231 |
Stephen C. Stanko v. Joel E. Anderson, Interim Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-7298 |
Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Leonardo Brown, Administrator, Richland County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights district-court equal-protection fourth-circuit rule-59e |
Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred under Rule 59(e) and violated constitutional rights related to judgment modificat… |
| 24A1150 |
Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of a death-sentenced prisoner's appeal violates his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel or du… |
| 24A1075 |
Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Andrew Turner, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-removal americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-disability medicaid-act |
Whether the Due Process Clause protects intellectually disabled individuals from administrative removal from their homes without notice or legal repre… |
| 24A1053 |
Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-04-30 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review breach-of-peace first-amendment freedom-of-expression independent-review-doctrine procedural-preservation |
Whether a state court may decline to conduct independent appellate review of a criminal conviction on First Amendment grounds based solely on the defe… |
| 24-1092 |
Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir |
South Carolina |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli… |
| 24-6951 |
Kevin Herriott v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6933 |
Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
capital-punishment childhood-trauma death-penalty ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel fails to fully investigate and p… |
| 24-1055 |
William Becker, et al. v. City of Hillsboro, Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-law land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly declined to recognize an unconstitutional regulatory taking under Nollan, Dolan, and Lucas precedents |
| 24-6917 |
Edmond Stanley Adams, III v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-04-02 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the S.C. Supreme Court erred by barring Petitioners' Federal Factual predicate that he was denied effective assistance of counsel |
| 24A923 |
Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal |
Whether a pro se prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging constitutional violations can survive sua sponte dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A wit… |
| 24-6709 |
Brad Keith Sigmon v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
death-penalty due-process execution-method lethal-injection prisoner-rights statutory-right |
Does South Carolina's compressed timeline and arbitrary denial of information necessary for a condemned prisoner to exercise his statutory right 'neve… |
| 24-6664 |
McKinley Wright, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-924 |
Winston Tyler Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Granted |
boyle-doctrine federal-preemption government-contractor military-activities state-law-negligence tort-claims |
Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a go… |
| 24-914 |
Kaci May, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for A. R. M., J. H. M., J. T. M., C. B. M., J. R. M., and J. W. M. v. Dorchester School District No. 2, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6629 |
George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 24-908 |
Fane Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
economic-use land-use-restrictions lucas-doctrine property-rights regulatory-taking ripeness |
Whether a claim that a local ordinance effected a regulatory taking upon enactment remains unripe until the landowner asks the local government for pe… |
| 24-6590 |
John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-process void-indictment |
Whether a South Carolina Supreme Court's Order Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitutio… |
| 24-6444 |
Samuel T. Whatley, II, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and individual governmental employees are immune from federal law prosecutions and sanctions when i… |
| 24A752 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied constitutional standards in reviewing a law enforcement use of force claim involving pote… |
| 24-6418 |
Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-authority contempt-of-court due-process hearing-rights judicial-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6420 |
Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-29 |
Denied |
capital-punishment expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel traumatic-brain-injury waiver-of-counsel |
Does 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) require a certificate of appealability for review of an order prematurely granting summary judgment against a habeas pe… |
| 24-6408 |
Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 24-6376 |
Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance racial-bias |
Did trial counsel provide prejudicially deficient assistance of counsel by repeatedly introducing and amplifying noxious racial stereotypes about Bowm… |
| 24M59 |
George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2025-01-23 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 24-6205 |
Nelson Bruce v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust C, et al. |
South Carolina |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-law rooker-feldman-doctrine seventh-amendment |
Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights by limiting appellate review to pleadings and refusing to conside… |
| 24A636 |
Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-contempt due-process judicial-proceedings mail-delivery pro-se supreme-court-order |
Whether a state supreme court's criminal contempt order against a pro se litigant for disrupting judicial proceedings violates due process when the li… |
| 24-647 |
Eric Manuelian v. Jennifer Starr, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Trustee of the Laura Kirkland Trust dated 3/10/05 and in the Capacity as Trustee of the Starr Trust, et al. |
Florida |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A546 |
Fane Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
final-decision land-use-restrictions lucas-claim property-rights regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine |
Whether a regulatory takings claim is ripe for judicial review when the government's land-use restrictions unambiguously preclude all economically ben… |
| 24-579 |
Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
ethics-commission expert-affidavit fifth-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-due-process |
Must a district court judge recuse himself when an expert affidavit challenges his impartiality after reporting a criminal defendant's attorney to an … |
| 24A491 |
Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-18 |
Presumed Complete |
conflict-of-interest expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel waiver |
Whether an actual conflict of trial counsel that adversely affects representation can be validly waived without fully advising the client of the conse… |
| 24-5911 |
Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Medical University of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process elder-care federal-jurisdiction healthcare-protections judicial-oversight |
Whether the Constitution provides protective health care rights for elderly and disabled individuals and allows judicial relief for violations of thos… |
| 24-444 |
Otto L. Haselhoff, Individually and as Trustee v. City of Santa Monica, California |
California |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
constitutional-violation due-process judicial-notice notice-requirement property-rights takings-clause |
When government acts without notice in a way that seriously impacts the rights of citizens, does the lack of statutory and constitutionally required n… |
| 24-5782 |
Harvey Miguel Robinson v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
federal-circuit-split habeas-corpus jury-instructions legislative-interpretation sentencing-law state-court-review |
Whether a court may instruct a jury about potential legislative changes to sentencing law, and whether a federal habeas court can substitute its own r… |
| 24-5727 |
Jose Angel Herrera v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions federal-law judicial-review sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5721 |
Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus serial-killer-confession |
Did the state court contravene Chambers and Holmes by excluding serial killer Smith's confession and condemning an innocent man to the fate of dying i… |
| 24-5698 |
Tony Moore, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury jurisdictional-challenge wrongful-imprisonment |
Whether the state court violated the petitioner's due process rights by refusing to hear jurisdictional challenges and improperly constituting the gra… |
| 24-377 |
South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine |
Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another |
| 24-5668 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the Batson factors in determining racial discrimination in jury selection when empaneling … |
| 24-347 |
Argonaut-Midwest Insurance Company, dba Argo Group v. Koppers Performance Chemicals, Inc., fka Osmose Wood Preserving Co. of America, Inc., fka Osmose Wood Preserving Inc., fka Osmose, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
circuit-court-review complaint-allegation-rule duty-to-defend insurance-law named-insured policy-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in creating an exception to Hawaii's complaint allegation rule and finding an ambiguity in insurance policy language? |
| 24-317 |
Tommy Lee Benton v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
double-jeopardy ends-of-justice judicial-discretion manifest-necessity mistrial-standard trial-court-discretion |
Whether a trial judge must consider all viable alternatives to a mistrial before finding manifest necessity exists |
| 24-5603 |
Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
due-process execution-methods informed-choice lethal-injection procedural-rights state-action |
Whether South Carolina's refusal to provide information about execution drugs violates a death row inmate's due process rights when choosing a method … |
| 24A280 |
Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
criminal-proceeding district-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal mandamus |
Whether a federal district court judge's refusal to recuse themselves from a criminal proceeding violates a defendant's due process rights or constitu… |
| 24-5428 |
Kevin Herriott v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-08-30 |
Dismissed |
constitutional-rights judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5408 |
George Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
federal-procedure investigative-process judicial-review jury-verdict legislative-pay south-dakota |
Whether a federal judge of South Dakota can review a jury's verdict and allow counselor legislative pay to be set by a jury in the investigative proce… |
| 24-5345 |
Benjamin-Macon Bell, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights-violation contract-law federal-question-jurisdiction judicial-immunity state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a state judge can be held accountable for actions taken outside judicial capacity and without jurisdiction, and if judicial immunity applies i… |
| 24-144 |
Thomas Charles Felton Jones v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement overbreadth-doctrine verbal-resistance |
Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes verbal acts of resistance against law enforcement is facially invalid under the First Amendment due to ov… |
| 24-134 |
Lemon Bay Cove, LLC v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
army-corps-of-engineers economic-viability finality just-compensation lucas-doctrine lucas-v-south-carolina permitting property-rights regulatory-takings ripeness takings-clause |
Whether a regulatory takings claim seeking just compensation under Lucas may be defeated by the mere possibility that a permitting authority might hav… |
| 24-5009 |
Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
antitrust antitrust-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud financial-services fraud judicial-oversight jury-trial |
Question not identified |
| 23-7829 |
Brandon Roberts v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations strip-searches wrongful-death |
Can a prisoner state a claim for denial of access to the courts if prison officials impeded their ability to litigate a pending wrongful death suit? |
| 23A1143 |
George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2024-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-protections termination-of-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires meaningful procedural protections for parents facing potential termination of pare… |
| 23-1275 |
Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right |
Whether the Medicaid Act's provision unambiguously confers a private right upon a Medicaid beneficiary to choose a specific provider |
| 23-7641 |
Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b |
Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e… |
| 23-7596 |
Andre Tayson Boone v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
appeal civil-procedure constitutional-analysis due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions time-extension |
Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal of the district court's denial of their motion for an extension of time to file a notic… |
| 23A982 |
Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services, a South Carolina Corporation v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-services statutory-interpretation tcpa |
Whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) requires an 'administrative feasibility' requirement for class certification and whether the TCPA… |
| 23-7237 |
William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
cross-examination due-process indigent-rights mootness parole-revocation post-conviction-relief procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard state-procedure witness-confrontation |
Does South Carolina's parole revocation scheme comply with the constitutional framework? |
| 23-7200 |
Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ |
Whether the South Carolina District Court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to vacate their conviction with respect to the alleged civil rights… |
| 23-7091 |
Brandon De McCall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness |
Whether the 'moral blameworthiness' jury instruction prevented the consideration of constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence |
| 23A868 |
Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-case certiorari-extension constitutional-review death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus |
Whether the Fourth Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's habeas corpus petition challenging the constit… |
| 23-1043 |
Amir Anariba v. California |
California |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
arbitrary-rules compulsory-process criminal-defense due-process evidence-rules holmes-v-south-carolina right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment subpoena-duces-tecum united-states-v-nixon |
May a state court assume the truth of the prosecution's evidence in deciding whether the accused has established a 'plausible justification' in suppor… |
| 23-7043 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-review procedural-due-process standing substantial-rights |
Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of appea… |
| 23A851 |
Thomas C. Alexander, in His Official Capacity as President of the South Carolina Senate, et al. v. The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
South Carolina |
2024-03-20 |
Presumed Complete |
congressional-districts elections-clause judicial-intervention legislative-authority redistricting state-supreme-court |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court's redistricting decision improperly interfered with the state legislature's authority to draw congressional d… |
| 23A845 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Presumed Complete |
constitutional-argument exceptional-importance page-limits procedural-justice substantial-rights supreme-court-rules |
Whether the Supreme Court's page limit rules unduly restrict a litigant's ability to fully present arguments of exceptional constitutional significanc… |
| 23A821 |
William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-03-06 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review constitutional-violation indigent-representation mootness-doctrine parole-revocation post-conviction-relief |
Whether South Carolina's appellate courts improperly applied the mootness doctrine in a case involving an unconstitutional parole revocation hearing t… |
| 23-6694 |
Michael T. Braxton v. Warden, Anderson County Detention Center |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process probable-cause state-corrective-process state-court-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention |
Did the State of South Carolina deny the Petitioner a Substantial Constitutional right to a 'Constitutionally Adequate' probable-cause determination? |
| 23-6591 |
Tracie Ledora Green v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process foreclosure foreclosure-case jurisdiction legal-violations standing witness-protection |
Was the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in error dismissing the appeal for a 'lack of jurisdiction' |
| 23-6596 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Dismissed |
board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it refused to apply the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to Kenneth Roshaun Qedens |
| 23-6516 |
Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure transparency treason |
Are intergovernmental agencies immune to federal law prosecutions? |
| 23-735 |
Stuart J. Shicks v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
child-services civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agency jurisdictional-dispute legal-persecution prejudice pro-se psychological-persecution state-agency |
Whether psychological persecution, deprivation of constitutional rights and prejudices against pro se litigants is allowed in any court of law or gove… |
| 23-6238 |
William Jarvis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
confrontation confrontation-clause due-process effective-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment third-party-guilt |
Whether the Fifth Amendment right to be free from the compulsion to make self-incriminating statements includes the right to not be required to provid… |
| 23-620 |
Dominique Gerald Burns v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
administrative-agency administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge procedural-due-process standing state-agency |
Whether the court of appeals erred in its ruling when it failed to protect the appellant's procedural due process |
| 23A517 |
Dewberry Group, Inc., f/k/a Dewberry Capital Corporation, a Georgia Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., a New York Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
corporate-separateness equity-principles lanham-act profit-disgorgement trademark-infringement trademark-law |
Whether a court may order a defendant to disgorge profits from non-party affiliated entities in a Lanham Act trademark infringement case without pierc… |
| 23-6078 |
Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment insanity-defense jury jury-instructions not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity voir-dire |
Whether the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendment require that a jury, as the sentencer in a capital case, be told the truth about the effect of… |
| 23A433 |
Nelson L. Bruce v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
district-court-order federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal rule-59-motion timely-filing |
Whether a district court's denial of a Rule 59(e) motion can be appealed after the 30-day jurisdictional deadline for filing a notice of appeal has el… |
| 23-5991 |
Samuel T. Whatley v. Richland County Family Court, Columbia, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-court fifth-amendment governmental-immunity immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing |
Does the Constitution allow judicial misconduct and obstruction of justice? |
| 23-491 |
In Re Nathaniel Briggs, et al. |
|
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
briggs-v-elliott brown-v-board brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights desegregation due-process mandamus racial-segregation standing supreme-court-clerk writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should direct the Clerk of the United States Supreme Court to reissue the Brown v. Board with the proper case listed first:… |
| 23-480 |
Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fundamental-alteration medicaid-act olmstead-v-l-c-by-zimring olmstead-v-lc rehabilitation-act section-1983 |
Whether the lower court's orders dismissing claims alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act conflict with… |
| 23A392 |
Brenda Dawson Battle v. Atty Creel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal judicial-immunity pro-se section-1983 |
Whether a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against multiple judicial and law enforcement officials can survive dismissal when alleging potenti… |
| 23-5874 |
In Re L. E. Pauli Coffey |
|
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment mandamus sovereign-immunity standing timely-response |
Do the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure (Fed R. Civ. P 12) and the Federal Laws of Appellate Procedure (31) set a time limit for a respondent to respon… |
| 23-5826 |
Mary Ann German v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity |
Whether the police get a grace period under the Davis good faith exception after a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under… |
| 23-5757 |
Marigdalia K. Ramirez-Fort v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights defendant-contacts due-process forum-contacts forum-state-interests minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction state-interests |
What objective factors should courts rely upon to determine personal jurisdiction? |
| 23-325 |
South Carolina State Ports Authority, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
industrial-conflict labor-dispute labor-relations maritime-carriers national-labor-relations-act neutral-employers nlra-interpretation secondary-boycott union-tactics work-preservation work-preservation-defense |
Whether a union's unlawful secondary boycott is shielded by the work-preservation defense |
| 23-330 |
Ani Creation, Inc., dba Rasta, et al. v. City of Myrtle Beach Board of Zoning Appeals, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
amortization board-of-zoning-appeals business-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process penn-central-test takings takings-clause zoning zoning-ordinance |
Does a city's zoning ordinance prohibiting an existing business from selling legal products constitute a taking? |
| 23A275 |
Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-09-28 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-case due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-roadblock insanity-verdict |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause require a trial court in a capital case to instruct the jury on the effect of a not guilty by reas… |
| 23A267 |
Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
americans-with-disabilities-act medicaid-act retaliation-claims section-1983 statute-of-limitations title-ii-ada |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act's statute of limitations for Title II retaliation claims is one year or three years, and whether a distric… |
| 23A247 |
Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
adequate-staffing deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment farmer-v-brennan habeas-corpus-filing-deadline prison-conditions |
Whether prison officials' deliberate indifference to systemic staffing deficiencies that substantially increase the risk of serious harm to inmates vi… |
| 23-181 |
Patricia L. Harrison v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal district-court-discretion federal-court-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standards rule-11-sanctions sanctions settlement sua-sponte-sanctions |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Petitioner sua sponte pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 11 after settlement… |
| 23A166 |
Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-hearing-procedures home-and-community-based-services medicaid-act section-1983 |
Whether Section 1983 provides a private right of action to enforce substantive due process rights and statutory entitlements under the Medicaid Act, a… |
| 23-169 |
CraneVeyor Corp. v. City of Rancho Cucamonga, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
due-process economic-impact government-action investment-backed-expectations lucas-v-south-carolina penn-central property-rights regulatory-takings takings zoning-regulation |
Should this Court overrule or reconsider Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York? |
| 23-5388 |
Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application |
Whether McHam v. State, 404 S.C. 465, 746 S.E.2d 41 (2013), requires that the petitioner be allowed to file a subsequent PCR application |
| 22-1234 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author… |
| 22-7776 |
Saria Walker v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-bias legal-remedy standing |
Why is the Constitution Right To Due Process NOT being Upheld? |
| 22-7777 |
Saria Walker v. R. Castriotta, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias rule-interpretation standing |
Why is the Constitution ~~ Right To Due Process ' NOT being Upheld ? |
| 22-1099 |
Barry Clarke v. Fine Housing, Inc. |
South Carolina |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
allied-structural-steel allied-structural-steel-co-v-spannaus art-i-sec-10 constitutional-law contract-impairment due-process obligation-of-contracts state-action state-supreme-court |
Did the South Carolina Supreme Court's invalidation of Petitioner's contract based on its sudden adoption of a universal rule of decision constitute a… |
| 22-1054 |
Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights |
Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court err in their analysis of the takings claim? |
| 22-7340 |
Damorius D. Gaines v. Geoffrey Benedict Eaton, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant |
Did the South Carolina courts err in denying relief on petitioner's claims that his constitutional rights were violated? |
| 22-7318 |
Shannon Miles Lancaster v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability evidence-suppression fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance involuntary-plea plea-involuntariness south-carolina-homeland-security-act strickland strickland-standard suppression-motion |
Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Petitioner a certificate of appealability, where the St… |
| 22-7229 |
Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-06 |
GVR |
capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina |
Whether Petitioner's guilty pleas were involuntary due to the trial judge's misrepresentation that life with the possibility of parole was a sentencin… |
| 22-7215 |
Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-04-05 |
Dismissed |
appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction |
Did the trial court have jurisdiction to convict the petitioner? |
| 22-7191 |
Terrence Hammock v. Gail Watts, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
civil-rights equal-protection racial-discrimination redistricting standing voting-rights |
Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in upholding the state's congressional map as constitutional despite evidence of racial gerrymandering |
| 22-7187 |
Jody Lynn Ward v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment certiorari-denial due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct juror-bias juror-impartiality remmer-hearing |
Was petitioner prejudiced when the South Carolina Supreme Court denied his writ of certiorari on oral arguments |
| 22-898 |
Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement |
Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case violates the just compensation clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22-885 |
South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer |
South Carolina |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements |
Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test… |
| 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? |
| 22-6895 |
Heather Leavell-Keaton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process evidence prison-behavior sentencing skipper-precedent skipper-v-south-carolina |
When a capital defendant's death sentence is vacated and the case is remanded for a new sentencing at which the death penalty is an available sentence… |
| 22-807 |
Thomas C. Alexander, in His Official Capacity as President of the South Carolina Senate, et al., Appellants v. The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 22-804 |
Lennar Carolinas, LLC v. Patricia Damico, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
anti-discrimination arbitration-agreement consumer-contracts consumer-protection contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-rule federal-arbitration-act homebuying state-law state-law-presumption |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from applying a state-law presumption expressly disfavoring enforcement of arbitration provisions… |
| 22-6772 |
Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
alternative-perpetrator brady-materiality brady-v-maryland capital-sentencing exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-v-whitley materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Was the Fourth Circuit's finding of no materiality of the suppressed evidence inconsistent with this Court's clearly established precedents? |
| 22-6690 |
Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1), F-R.A.P. 22(b) and this Court's decisions in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S.… |
| 22-618 |
MorningStar Fellowship Church v. York County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-violation-doctrine due-process event-barring federal-cause-of-action federal-causes-of-action statute-of-limitations time-measurement |
Whether 28 U.S. Code § 1658 (a) will be applied to measure the time between filing and the event complained of |
| 22A589 |
South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer |
South Carolina |
2022-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6376 |
Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court |
Whether the Respondent's arbitrary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is constitutional |
| 22A492 |
Marion Bowman v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6193 |
Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding |
Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual |
| 22-490 |
Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations |
Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's… |
| 22A451 |
Steven Bixby v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6009 |
David Matthew Carter v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
civil-procedure confrontation-clause courtroom-removal Crawford-v-Washington criminal-procedure due-process Maryland-v-Craig sixth-amendment trial-rights witness-testimony |
Sixth-Amendment-right-to-be-present |
| 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… |
| 22-5805 |
Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-structural-error due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified |
| 22-5796 |
James Edward Rose v. South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-citizen standing ucc-1-308 |
Whether the petitioner's reserved rights under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and status as a 'private man' exempt him from criminal prosecution an… |
| 22-5749 |
Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-10-04 |
Dismissed |
criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing on the reliability of an out-of-court identification made through video technology un… |
| 22-5646 |
Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Did Court of Appeals err in ruling on disability claims under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act? |
| 22-5629 |
Saul Williams v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing supreme-court |
Question not identified |
| 22-5545 |
Clinton Folkes v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction direct-appeal indigent-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-misrepresentation procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to counsel on direct appeal attaches throughout the period when the appellate court has jurisdiction over the cas… |
| 22-5536 |
Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation |
Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t… |
| 22-5513 |
Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute |
Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori… |
| 22-5476 |
John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers |
Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland-v-Washington |
| 22-5311 |
Willie A. Key v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process filing-complaint filing-fee jurisdiction legal-procedure small-claims-court standing |
Whether the Court of Common Pleas erred in refusing to file petitioner's complaint on the ground of lack of jurisdiction? |
| 22M11 |
Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5032 |
Steven Louis Barnes v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
and whether denial of an evidentiary hearing viol collateral-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel remedy |
Is there a distinction between remedies in raising ineffectiveness of constitutional counsel on direct appeal, where constitutional counsel is allowed… |
| 22-5014 |
Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing |
Whether the District Court for the District of South Carolina erred in dismissing the case on the ground that the petitioners lacked standing to chall… |
| 22A2 |
Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-8240 |
Clayton Jones v. South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial standing |
Does the denial of a speedy trial violate due process rights? |
| 21A837 |
John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-8066 |
Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified |
| 21M135 |
Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21M136 |
Sequoia McKinnon v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21M137 |
Romeo Brown v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-8037 |
Larry Blakney v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether the court erred in allowing the warrantless surveillance and search of the petitioner's cell, which violated his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 21A732 |
Arthur McQuilla v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-05-16 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1431 |
Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
GVR |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983 |
| 21-7763 |
Randolph Ashford v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Was Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th, Amendment Rights of the U.S. Constitution, Due Process Rights violated |
| 21-7764 |
Kelvin Jones v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
anonymous-complaints fourth-amendment marijuana-evidence marijuana-use probable-cause search-warrant trash-pull |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of a home pursuant to a search warrant based solely on anonymous complaints of short-term traffic an… |
| 21A684 |
Steven Louis Barnes v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7761 |
In Re Shannon Riley |
|
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-procedure counterclaim due-process jurisdiction punitive-damages res-judicata standing supersedeas-bond |
Can a Kansas state court reverse a Kansas appellate court on a counterclaim? |
| 21A618 |
Randolph Ashford v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-04-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7629 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
article-iii-judicial-officer civil-procedure de-novo-review diversity-jurisdiction due-process full-and-fair-review magistrate-referral report-and-recommendation standing substantial-rights summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari |
Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari on appealability |
| 21-7584 |
William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire |
Did the state postconviction court violate Batson-and-its-progeny |
| 21-7511 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Charles Burton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech government-regulation judicial-review |
Whether the South Carolina appellate court's ruling is constitutional and reasonable in content to further a legitimate governmental objective? |
| 21A561 |
Christopher Darnell Wilson, et al. v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-03-31 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7409 |
Jory Russell Strizich v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
criminal-defense due-process evidentiary-ruling evidentiary-rulings flight-evidence fourteenth-amendment holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to defend in a criminal case can be denied on unique state evidentiary rulings? |
| 21-7273 |
Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
appellate-review double-jeopardy false-imprisonment federal-question lack-of-jurisdiction supreme-court-decisions trial-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Did the United Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of thi… |
| 21-7237 |
John Dalen v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
common-law constitutional-rights driver-license driver's-license due-process first-amendment right-to-travel social-security |
Was Petitioner denied right-to-travel,due-process,first-amendment |
| 21A437 |
Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-7142 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction article-iii-court civil-procedure de-novo-review dispositive-motions due-process judicial-review magistrate magistrate-referral standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari regarding denial of the timely request for the substantial right of de novo determination by Articl… |
| 21-1044 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. James Nathaniel Bryant, III |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference |
In review of a claim fully adjudicated in state court, did the district court violate 28-usc-2254, finality, federalism |
| 21-6954 |
Robert Jurado v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment confession-evidence constitutional-amendments double-jeopardy mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review penalty-phase plea-bargaining skipper-standard |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the California Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply federal law or unreasonably determine facts |
| 21A364 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-978 |
Carmela Rivero v. Fidelity Investments, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
adequate-remedy-at-law anti-injunction-act declaratory-judgment-act legal-forum property-rights south-carolina-v-regan subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-exception |
Is the DJA's tax exception barred by the AIA? |
| 21A300 |
William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-01-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-938 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
GVR |
capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated Strickland v. Washington in its prejudice analysis |
| 21-6700 |
Tremaine Rashon Wray v. Dennis Bush, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review sixth-amendment |
whether Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to a fair trial |
| 21-924 |
Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping |
Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain… |
| 21-927 |
Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree |
South Carolina |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression |
Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men? |