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25A804 Duane A. Fairfax v. Tracey N. Martinez Virginia 2026-01-12 Application contempt-enforcement federal-preemption spousal-support supremacy-clause va-disability veterans-benefits 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and 38 U.S.C. § 5301(a) prohibit a state court from enforcing spousal support through contempt, garnishment, or equiva…
25A705 Charles Albert Massey v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay-evidence preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25A701 Beatrice Rivera, aka Beatrice Adams v. Arlington County Department of Human Services Virginia 2025-12-16 Application certiorari petition-for-appeal pro-se state-court-order supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
25A654 John T. Hardee v. Virginia Virginia 2025-12-04 Application certiorari court-procedure formatting-requirements pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
25-5846 Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Virginia Virginia 2025-10-09 Denied appellate-review due-deference legal-issues miranda-waiver standard-of-review supreme-court Whether a Miranda waiver was voluntary is a question that will always involve a mixture of fact and law on appellate review. All geographic Federal Ci…
25A289 Mary E. Hill v. Malcolm S. Spratley, Sr. Virginia 2025-09-12 Presumed Complete attorney-withdrawal legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari after experiencing an attorney's alleged breach of professional…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia 2025-07-16 Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights The trial judge entered an Order (App. 10a-21a) that deprived each of the three child Petitioners of their right to associate with their fit and lovin…
25A61 Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones Virginia 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether an attorney's breach of professional duties and failure to file a writ of certiorari constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel warranting …
24-1075 Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia Virginia 2025-04-14 Denied after-discovered-evidence due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which denied the defendant's motion for a n…
24-6906 Reginald Mack v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied abuse-of-discretion expert-witness jury-intelligence medical-malpractice spoliation summary-judgment Was the layman's intelligence gravely discounted in this medical malpractice case without determining the base of that common knowledge of a Virginia …
24-929 Christine Solem v. Sarah Taylor Virginia 2025-02-27 Denied due-process judicial-review legal-error petition-for-rehearing procedural-claim supreme-court-of-virginia Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred when it failed to address Petitioner Solem's due process claim, which was clearly highlighted in her Petit…
24A817 Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia Virginia 2025-02-24 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
24-606 Christine A. Arakelian v. Ashley Pollard, et al. Virginia 2024-12-04 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Did the Prince William County Circuit Court and Supreme Court of Virginia err in dismissing Petitioner's case by violating her 14th Amendment rights a…
24-407 Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court Virginia 2024-10-11 Denied common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of…
24-313 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-09-19 Denied 14th-amendment comity-doctrine due-process jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 tax-injunction-act Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for procedural reasons despite alleged constitutional due process violat…
23-7733 Thomas Richard Ward v. Virginia Virginia 2024-06-20 Denied constitutional-rights coram-vobis criminal-procedure criminal-record-expungement cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process plea-bargain plea-colloquy protection-order-violation due-process-violation
23-7393 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-05-07 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Supreme Court of Virginia erred in denying Petitioner's U.S. Amendment …
23-1173 April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowners Association Virginia 2024-05-01 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdiction…
23A964 Peter Paul Mitrano, et al. v. Cary Cucinelli Virginia 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court-of-virginia Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia violated the petitioners' constitutional due process rights by refusing to grant a petition for rehearing in a c…
23-1036 Robert John Dodd v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object on Double Jeopardy grounds to nine identical carbon copy indictments
23-6814 Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t…
23-6815 Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr…
23-906 April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowner's Association Virginia 2024-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-consistency judicial-integrity procedural-fairness subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdiction…
23A268 Patrick Lockhart v. Karen Lockhart West Virginia 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection equitable-distribution extrinsic-fraud judicial-recusal void-ab-initio Whether a state trial court's refusal to recuse itself after a party files a federal civil rights lawsuit against the judge, combined with the issuanc…
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia impeded the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia and/or the Supreme Court of the United St…
23A260 Michael B. Yourko v. Lee Ann B. Yourko Virginia 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete federal-preemption marital-settlement-agreement military-retirement-pay supremacy-clause uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act veterans-disability-benefits Whether state courts may enforce a marital settlement agreement or divorce decree that requires a veteran to waive or assign federal disability benefi…
23A257 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns Whether a state appellate court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing federal constitutional claims on procedural grounds without…
23-5505 Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-31 Denied bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to reverse petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's convictions
23-91 Nolan Marcus Forness, II v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-01 Denied body-cameras compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Defendant's right to access law enforcement recordings
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Circumstances-for-pro-se-habeas-petitions
22-621 Linda Matarese, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hilda Duld Bauman, Deceased v. Virginia Hospital Center Arlington Health System, dba Virginia Hospital Center, et al. Virginia 2023-01-06 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Did the Supreme Court of Virginia violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights?
21-7845 Jennifer C. Rundle v. Windsor Manor, Inc. Virginia 2022-05-11 Denied amended-petition circuit-court civil-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest motion-to-compel precedent property property-rights state-action Should the Norfolk Circuit Court have granted the petitioner's Motion to Compel Discovery and Continue the Trial
21-1247 Karina Rafter v. Virginia Virginia 2022-03-15 Denied bias confrontation-clause out-of-court-statements reliability sixth-amendment state-of-mind-exception unreliability Does the admission of out-of-court statements of a decedent, offered under the state-of-mind exception, violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth …
21-1176 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia 2022-02-25 Denied bribery civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Whether state court has lost its jurisdiction
21-1084 Janet Heltzel, et al. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. Virginia 2022-02-07 Denied contract-clause due-process executive-power monument monument-preservation property-rights public-opinion restrictive-covenant takings Does the Obligation of Contracts Clause prohibit the abrogation of the Commonwealth's agreement to preserve a monument?
21-1083 Jay Hoon Choi v. Virginia Virginia 2022-02-04 Denied 6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement-contact miranda-rights right-to-attorney right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment state-magistrates Miranda-rights-after-assertion
21-6129 John Ragin v. Supreme Court of Virginia Virginia 2021-11-01 Denied affidavit civil-procedure costs court-filing declaration financial-assets in-forma-pauperis income-disclosure legal-support monthly-expenses poverty Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is sufficient to establish their inabi…
21-576 Benjamin Forrest Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-20 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error prior-testimony remedy sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the defendant's convictions where the Circuit Court erred in admitting victim-witness hearsay…
21-5987 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee Virginia 2021-10-18 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights demurrer due-process non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata unlawful-detainer virginia-constitution whether-the-constitutionality-of-the-law-was-properly-addressed
21-5986 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee Virginia 2021-10-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-law property-rights summary-judgment unlawful-detainer Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia's Opinion properly addressed the questions regarding the rules on granting summary judgment; or the constitution…
21-331 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia 2021-09-01 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property without notice and due process
21-5486 Scott Sanford v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-25 Denied 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intelligent-waiver jury-trial knowing-waiver sixth-amendment voluntary-waiver waiver Minimum requirements for waiving jury trial right
21-5309 Zachary Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-06 Denied actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure Due-process-recusal
20-1827 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-01 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection guarantee-clause judicial-review standing state-courts supreme-court Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County erred in captioning the final order as 'Commonwealth of Virginia versus Petitioner' when the lower court d…
20-1514 Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-04-28 Denied child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object on Double Jeopardy grounds to nine identical carbon copy indictments
20-7867 Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-27 Denied constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes Does the Double Jeopardy Clause permit charging multiple 'status crimes' for a single criminal act?
20-7763 Brian David Hill v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus indecent-exposure procedural-defect state-custody supervised-release Where the Virginia Supreme Court didn't think that the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus should apply to the case of Brian David Hill being convicted…
20-5593 Chaz Antonio Earp v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mistake Whether the appellant received a fair trial as promised by the federal and state constitutions
19-8623 Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle When two state courts arrive at different conclusions using different governing legal principles on the same case, should the petitioner be given a re…
19-1320 Veronica M. Johnson v. Rock Solid Janitorial, Inc., et al. Virginia 2020-05-29 Denied appeal civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-to-dismiss remand standing Whether the second Judge who presided in Plaintiffs civil case violated the Constitution by denying Plaintiff's demand for a jury trial, again, after …
19-8347 Joseph A. Daniels v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-23 Denied due-process exigent-circumstances extrinsic-fraud Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction motion-to-vacate probable-cause property-rights standing void-judgment warrantless-search Did the Supreme Court of Virginia have jurisdiction to adjudicate the claims of Daniels' Motion to Vacate, based upon extrinsic fraud, and could it be…
19-8305 Kinsley Ononuju v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-19 Rehearing appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigence indigent-defendant transcript transcript-cost Whether Virginia's law mandating government to defray cost of trial transcript only for indigent felons, but not indigent misdemeanants, violates Equa…
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-05 Denied 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process
19-7167 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia Virginia 2020-01-03 Denied appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia unreasonably affirmed the Petitioner's conviction on the charge of First-Degree Murder
19-786 Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-19 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu…
19-776 James Wesley Amonett, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied contract-enforcement contract-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-contract-enforcement due-process jury-trial law-enforcement plea-bargaining police-authority police-promises right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the police can promise someone who they have arrested a specific benefit in exchange for the arrestee's cooperation and whether that contract …
19-585 Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia Virginia 2019-11-04 Denied age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover …
19-5815 Antonio Demetrius Parker v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-imprisonment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement Did the Supreme court of Virginia err when it determined that the circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to give the petitioner the relief sought …
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, se…
18-8425 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-14 Denied appeals brady-violation civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal-timeliness-dismissal-rules- constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression new-trial-motion procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rules-of-court standing timeliness Did the Virginia Supreme Court rule erroneously in dismissing petitioner's appeal as being untimely under Rule 5:9(a) of the Supreme Court of Virginia…
18-8244 Justin Keith Cornell v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-04 Denied actus-reus appellate-review cause-of-death circumstantial-evidence criminal-agency criminal-conviction due-process jury-standard mens-rea reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in applying the criteria of excluding all reasonable hypotheses of appellant's innocence, rather than the …
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-12 Denied civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error
18-737 Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law Whether a federal court should certify an issue of state law to the highest state court
18-5718 James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court?
18-5350 Carroll Erman Crider v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-25 Denied civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment indictment-notice jurisdiction notice standing statutory-violation Whether Crider's convictions should be vacated due to lack of jurisdiction and inadequate indictment notice
18-5146 Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment Whether Virginia's anti-sodomy statute violates due-process, equal-protection