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25-6770 Heath W. Gray v. Pennsylvania Department of State Pennsylvania 2026-02-10 Pending first-amendment government-redress suffrage supreme-court-certiorari taxation-without-representation voting-rights Would this Honorable High Court, please REMAND this suffrage rights appeal to the Pennyslvania Supreme Court to adjudicate my "No Taxation Without Rep…
25-928 Joseph Habib Goro v. Wassen Kanouno, fka Wassen Goro Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending divorce-settlement equitable-distribution financial-disclosure marital-assets property-division spousal-support 1. Does the Respondent have a right to 50% of Petitioner's finances after hiding her own finances and being absent for a greater portion of the marria…
25-915 Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline Whether petitioner sustained his burden prohib iting United States Court of Appeals for Third Circuit exercising original jurisdiction from imposing…
25-710 Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. Pennsylvania 2025-12-18 Pending appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal? 2. Whether the Pennsylvania appellat…
25A490 Kimberly Hanley, et al. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Pennsylvania 2025-10-29 Application administrative-law advanced-metering due-process federal-preemption privacy-rights utility-regulation Whether state administrative utility policy decisions can conflict with federal statutes governing advanced metering infrastructure and raise constitu…
25A223 Dmitry Kruglov v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete appellate-timeline electronic-filing jurisdictional-deadline petition-nunc-pro-tunc procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's procedural rulings improperly denied a litigant's substantive due process rights by creating confusion about …
24-978 Kristopher Paul Hochendoner v. Michael J. King, Executor of the Estate of James E. King Pennsylvania 2025-03-12 Denied default-notice due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights sheriff-sale subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to set aside a sheriff's sale due to …
24-353 Elelake James Jefferson, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-09-30 Denied consent-doctrine fourth-amendment schneckloth-standard subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances warrantless-search Whether a court should consider a defendant's subjective intent when assessing consent to a warrantless search under the totality of the circumstances…
24-246 James W. Miller v. MBC Development, LP, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-09-05 Denied None Question not identified.
23-7584 Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-05-29 Denied brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense?
23-1211 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-discovery federal-claims fraud judicial-notice prima-facie-evidence rule-60-motion standing void-order Whether the Court below misconstrues Petitioner's principal cause of action?
23-833 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule Does amending or supplementing a complaint to include new factual developments absolve the government of its burden to prove mootness?
23A671 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton Pennsylvania 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete continuing-trespass fifth-amendment government-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking storm-water-disposal Whether the government's repeated intentional flooding of private property constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause …
23A612 Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference
23A513 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete anti-harassment-rule first-amendment jurisdictional-inquiry mootness pre-enforcement-challenge standing Whether a First Amendment pre-enforcement challenger lacks standing to challenge a vague anti-harassment rule based on a nonbinding, reversible enforc…
23A461 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel can constitutionally deny an indigent defendant representation by forcing a choice between direct a…
23A460 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel violates a defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel by forcing the defen…
23A335 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete due-process-clause evidence-of-innocence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez Whether a state court conviction violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when photographic evidence of innocence was not presented…
23-5538 Noel Brown v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2023-09-07 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-doctrine dismissal due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief reversal structural-error warden writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Weaver v. Massachusetts clarified the Constitutional Doctrine of Structural Error
23A200 Steven Burda v. Alla Korenman aka Alla Burda, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A131 Timothy Schott, Acting Superintendent of Insurance for Maine, et al. v. Michael Humphreys, Commissioner of Insurance for Pennsylvania, in His Official Capacity as Statutory Rehabilitator of Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
22-6899 Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures
22-624 Zafar Iqbal v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, State Board of Medicine Pennsylvania 2023-01-09 Denied coerced-confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-witness perjury right-to-due-process testimony Did the ruling(s), by disregarding testimony of material witness, proven to lie under oath violated petitioner's right to due process enshrined in fou…
22-6245 Wade Plair v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied constitutional-violations double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct tampering-with-records Does intentional prosecutorial misconduct disqualify the trial court from pursuing a second prosecution of the same case?
22-371 Pennsylvania v. Akim Sharif Jones-Williams Pennsylvania 2022-10-20 Denied 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-testing exigent-circumstances mitchell-v-wisconsin motor-vehicle-incident probable-cause supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issue a decision in conflict with, and fail to properly apply and follow, binding legal precedent from the United S…
22-5463 Rahmael Sal Holt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-08-29 Denied adequate brady-claim default-ruling due-process federal-law federal-review independent jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Does the United States Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear Petitioner's Brady claim because the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's default ruling was…
21-7033 Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause was violated
21-6636 Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-16 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality
21-793 Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. Pennsylvania 2021-11-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity
21-289 Randall Winslow v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection legal-redress redress right-to-contract standing state-regulation Whether Pennsylvania Certificate of Merit Pa.Code Rule 1042.3 comports with equal-justice
20-1023 Jean Coulter v. Philip A. Ignelzi, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-01-28 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus rule-233.1 rule-making-authority standing vagueness Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutional?
20-6542 Alfonso Percy Pew v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-07 Denied 1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment federal-religious-land-use-institutionalized-perso federal-settlement-agreement first-amendment pro-se-litigant religious-land-use standing Whether the Pennsylvania state court judicial system has created a hands-off doctrine for pro se litigant's 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights complaint all…
20-452 S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-08 Denied 14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights Termination of parental rights-constitutionality
20-5663 Anthony Thomas Buonaiuto, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-11 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-exception post-conviction-relief retroactive-applicability retroactivity sexual-offender-registration state-collateral-review substantive-rules Whether federal law renders the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in legal error, where the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania committed legal error by failing…
19-749 William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 1) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
18-9481 Jerry Eugene Shrubb v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied actual-innocence appeal cerebellar-degeneration constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel miranda-violation petition-for-allowance-of-appeal sixth-amendment warrantless-search Has the Appellant been denied Due Process of Law in that no Court has reasonably observed the actual claims raised by the Appellant?
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-21 Denied affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ…
18-8745 Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-10 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation Does Mr. Piccone's Pennsylvania reciprocal suspension, based upon the USPTO action conducted in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery and d…
18-1142 Casimir M. Toczylowski v. Samantha Giuliano, et vir Pennsylvania 2019-03-05 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-procedures appellate-review civil-appeal civil-appeals civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review merits-review property-rights state-appeals state-courts Denial of due process in state appellate procedures for civil litigants seeking to vindicate property rights
18-7510 Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-01-24 Denied 42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process constitute a process to seek 'other collateral review'?
18-361 Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-19 Denied appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar…
18-104 Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-23 Denied attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline Whether reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year and a da…
18-5256 Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-19 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the Supr…