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25A916 Katrina Parker v. Rosalie Johnson, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Chief Administrator, New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-13 Application americans-with-disabilities-act commercial-drivers-license disability-discrimination essential-eligibility hearing-impairment reasonable-modification Question not identified. The petition text provided is an "Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a peti…
25-6759 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), a claim foreclosed by binding circuit precedent may nonetheless be "debatable among jurists of reason" w…
25A866 Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC Ninth Circuit 2026-02-02 Application circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition …
25A856 James Daryl West v. Sabrina Schultz, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment monell-claim prison-medical-services supervisory-liability Question not identified.
25A859 Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application excessive-force party-presentation qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment taser-use Question not identified.
25A852 John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. California 2026-01-29 Application docketing-fee extension-of-time filing-requirements in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court Question not identified.
25A848 Mohamed Ahmed Hassan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Application case-load criminal-conviction federal-defenders ninth-circuit sentencing-review writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-6649 Lesley Chappell Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending communications-intercept court-sanctioning law-enforcement legal-constraints territorial-jurisdiction title-iii Whether the Government met the intended constraints of Title III and state law incorporating Title III for a lawful interception of communications wit…
25-6651 Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending None (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi , 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a crimina…
25A828 Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida Florida 2026-01-21 Application due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct serial-killer Question not identified.
25A824 Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Application circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 Question not identified.
25-6407 Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w…
25A714 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2025-12-18 Application birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause and 8 U.S.C. 1401(a) preclude a presidential executive order redefining the conditions of birthr…
25A713 Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-12-18 Application america-invents-act informational-right patent-review real-parties-interest standing statutory-interpretation Whether a patent owner has a statutory right to know the identity of all real parties in interest in an inter partes review petition under the America…
25A663 Amigo Shuttle Inc., et al. v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, et al. Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Application antitrust competition monopoly port-authority sherman-act transportation Whether the Sherman Antitrust Act permits a finding of monopolization when a public authority allegedly facilitates an anticompetitive agreement betwe…
25A651 Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing arguments that could be interpreted as referencing a defendant's decision not to testify violate the Fi…
25A650 Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-argument fifth-amendment griffin-violation harmless-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing argument that implicitly reference a defendant's choice not to testify violate the Fifth Amendment's pr…
25A630 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Bridge Over Corporation, et al. Massachusetts 2025-12-01 Application confidentiality conflict-preemption dtsa export-controlled licensing-agreements trade-secrets Whether federal trade secret protections under the Defend Trade Secrets Act preempt state court adjudications that fail to provide mandatory confident…
25A626 Rajeh A. Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association New Jersey 2025-11-26 Application bar-association diversity-quotas equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association status-based-discrimination Whether the First Amendment permits a professional association to use racial and status-based quotas for board membership under the guise of 'diversit…
25A623 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Application conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud
25A615 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-25 Application constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power non-severability presentment-clause separation-of-powers vaccine-act Whether the Vaccine Act's delegation of power to the Secretary of Health and Human Services violates the separation of powers and presentment clause o…
25A621 Chad Henry Jones v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Application appellate-review appointed-counsel extraordinary-circumstances petition-for-certiorari pro-se withdrawal Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when appointed counsel has withdrawn and the p…
25A613 Ammon Ra Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-24 Application appellate-litigation-clinic certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel jurisdictional-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a court-appointed counsel from an appellate litigation clinic may be granted an extension of time to file a certiorari petition due to personn…
25A601 Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Application erisa multiemployer-pension pbgc-deference pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act requires withdrawal liability credits from a partial withdrawal to be applied as a direct reduct…
25A584 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension jurisdictional-requirements petition-timing supreme-court Whether a criminal defendant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline and under what extr…
25A583 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction Whether a pre-filing injunction conditioning court access on monetary sanctions violates due process and the right to access courts under the All Writ…
25A565 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence rule-702 Whether federal district courts must apply the full rigor of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 at the class certification stage, or may conduct a more limi…
25-6122 Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied constitutional-scrutiny criminal-law due-process felons-rights firearm-possession second-amendment 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w…
25-6078 Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied None (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a criminal d…
25A534 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying habeas corpus relief for a death-row inmate challenging the constitutiona…
25A527 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal district court has proper subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case when the defendant challenges the court's statutory au…
25A525 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Application constitutional-issues counsel-change eleventh-circuit legal-review summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit's summary judgment ruling improperly interpreted the constitutional issues presented by the Applicant
25A517 Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-05 Application certiorari criminal-sentence federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit time-extension Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review due to counsel's professional scheduling constraints
25A498 Matthew Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-10-31 Application indian-commerce-clause internet-loans rico sovereign-immunity state-regulation tribal-lending Whether the Indian Commerce Clause permits states to regulate internet-based loans originated by tribal lenders on an Indian reservation when the borr…
25A496 Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado Colorado 2025-10-30 Application cause-of-death executive-branch forensic-pathology legislative-branch separation-of-powers subdelegation Whether the separation of powers doctrine precludes a county coroner from delegating or allowing testimony about the cause and manner of an unattended…
25-5999 Eric Dennard Parker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w…
25A487 Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Application constitutional-delay criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require dismissal of criminal charges due to an excessive pre-trial delay violating the constitutional right to…
25A486 Gabriel Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-28 Application certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender legal-briefing supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a federal defender may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and case complexity
25-5968 Mark Wheeler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-28 Dismissed constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process involuntary-commitment mental-competency 1. Does the mandatory commitment of a permanently incompetent defendant solely to assess the possibility of restoring competency violate due process?
25A467 Barry Kiya Daise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-23 Application certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a federal defender may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and complexity of cas…
25A460 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-10-22 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether a substitute expert witness's testimony based on an absent analyst's testimonial statements violates a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clau…
25A454 Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Application certiorari eleventh-circuit pro-bono supreme-court time-extension writ-petition Whether a pro bono counsel's personal scheduling constraints constitute good cause for a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of cer…
25A452 Leda Health Corporation v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Application bill-of-attainder commercial-speech constitutional-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment medical-testing Whether a state statute regulating medical testing constitutes an unconstitutional content-based restriction on commercial speech and a bill of attain…
25A437 Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. Florida 2025-10-16 Presumed Complete artis-tolling certiorari-extension federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court should apply the tolling provision under 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) to preserve state law claims dismissed due to statute of limita…
25A415 Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-10-10 Presumed Complete federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether federal criminal statutes governing sexual abuse in Indian Country are unconstitutionally vague or overbroad in their application to specific …
25A405 Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender legal-complexity supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari due to the complexity of the underlying case and…
25A401 Steven R. DeWitt v. Ceressa Haney, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-07 Application constitutional-rights first-amendment government-office public-officials qualified-immunity recording-rights Whether the First Amendment protects the right to record public officials in a government office without prior permission and whether qualified immuni…
25A383 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete categorical-approach circuit-conflict crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instruction section-924(c) Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) based on the categorical approach after Unite…
25A363 Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Whether an attorney's advocacy in opposing disability accommodations can constitute discrimination or retaliation under the Americans with Disabilitie…
25A366 Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. California 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state supreme court's denial of review without substantive analysis violates a religious organization's First Amendment right to meaningful …
25A344 Jennie V. Wright, on Behalf of Jawand Lyle and Brendon Burnett, et al. v. Louisville Metro Government, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights federal-interests judicial-tolling relate-back section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the federal catchall statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 1658 provides a more suitable limitations period for Section 1983 civil rights clai…
25A321 Eric Dennard Parker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete certiorari-deadline circuit-splits federal-defender legal-research petition-extension supreme-court-rules Whether a federal defender may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and complexity of…
25A307 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth Massachusetts 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete court-rules judicial-discretion procedural-deadline supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline
25A304 Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete administrative-law chevron-deference fda-regulation market-exclusivity orphan-drug-act statutory-interpretation Whether Congress implicitly ratified an FDA regulatory interpretation of the Orphan Drug Act's market exclusivity provision when it amended the statut…
25A302 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow…
25A300 Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete bruen-methodology certiorari-review felony-possession firearm-restriction second-amendment text-and-history Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with a prior felony conviction under the text-and-historical-t…
25A299 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924(c) sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) after the Supreme Court's decisions in Mathis…
25-5632 Isaac Alvarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied None Question not identified.
25A286 Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete certiorari-deadline circuit-splits federal-defender legal-complexity petition-extension supreme-court-rules Whether a federal defender may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and complexity of…
25A261 William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit improperly denied a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal convictio…
25A259 Rahul Chaturvedi v. Arvind Kumar Jay Jaiswal Massachusetts 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete certiorari court-procedure final-judgment petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a state supreme court's final judgment triggers the standard 60-day period for filing a petition for writ of certiorari under Supreme Court Ru…
25A256 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete certiorari jurisdiction precedential-opinion supreme-court third-circuit time-extension Whether the Third Circuit's denial of rehearing in a precedential opinion warrants extraordinary relief from the Supreme Court to extend the time for …
25A253 Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a criminal conviction and sentence when the petitioner claims inadequate legal representation and limite…
25A244 Tremon Staley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision on remand from the Supreme Court improperly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the pet…
25A203 Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal drug-offense fifth-amendment plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a district court's determination of an armed career criminal status based on prior drug convictions arising from a single arrest and plea on t…
25A204 Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights Whether a variance between oral and written jury instructions constitutes reversible error when the parties were aware of the discrepancy but did not …
25A195 Marcus T. Dixon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition court-of-appeals federal-criminal-case jurisdiction supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a federal criminal case
25A193 Richard E. Warner, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Joseph Ardolino, II, et al. v. City of Marathon, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-18 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment property-rights ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings-clause williamson-county Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment permits a plaintiff to pursue a property rights claim after the Supreme Court's modification of the …
25A186 Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen Eighth Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete amended-complaint eighth-amendment interlocutory-review plra-exhaustion prisoner-litigation section-1983 Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies to an amended complaint filed after a prisoner's release when the original c…
25A110 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Whether Alabama's 2023 congressional redistricting plan violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause by allegedly discr…
25A109 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Bobby Singleton, et al. Alabama 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state legislature from drawing congressional districts that allegedly discriminate against minority vo…
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…
25A101 John Allen Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-24 Presumed Complete capital-murder eighth-amendment false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment and Sixth Amendment require reversal of a capital murder conviction where trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffec…
25A96 Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete covid-vaccination military-mandate mootness preliminary-injunction religious-freedom rfra Question not identified.
25A94 Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete backpay covid-vaccination mootness preliminary-injunction religious-liberty rfra Question not identified.
25A85 Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-sentence extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25A49 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court subject-matter-jurisdiction title-dispute Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections require a jury trial in state probate court proceedings involving title disputes when funda…
25A2 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1254 criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Maurice Farris's sentence was legally sound and consistent with applicable federal criminal law standards
25A9 United States, ex rel. Mark J. O'Connor, et al. v. USCC Wireless Investment, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete false-claims-act fraud-allegations original-source public-disclosure qui-tam whistleblower Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application to Extend Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition for a w…
24A1291 Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2025-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari lehman-brothers ninth-circuit state-law-certification supreme-court-rules Whether the Supreme Court should establish clear standards for when federal appellate courts may deny certification of state law questions to state su…
24A1272 Benito M. Valdez v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete first-amendment husher jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the use of a white-noise machine during voir dire, without specific privacy concerns, violates a defendant's constitutional right to a public …
24A1244 Shanda Games Limited, et al. v. David Monk Second Circuit 2025-06-17 Presumed Complete efficient-market fraud-on-the-market merger-transaction proxy-statement securities-fraud shareholder-rights Whether the fraud-on-the-market presumption established in Basic Inc. v. Levinson applies to minority shareholders in a freeze-out merger who did not …
24A1239 Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-06-13 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review Whether the death sentence imposed on the petitioner violated his constitutional right to a fair and reliable sentencing proceeding in a capital case
24A1198 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence capital-punishment constitutional-due-process death-penalty new-trial recantation Whether the recantation of bitemark evidence used to convict a death row inmate warrants a new trial under federal constitutional due process standard…
24A1185 Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete civil-rights court-of-appeals extension-of-time ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting summary judgment in a civil rights case
24A1157 Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-28 Presumed Complete due-process-clause habeas-corpus immigration-detention mandatory-detention noncitizen-detention removal-proceedings Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment imposes temporal or procedural limits on the government's authority to detain noncitizens pendin…
24-7260 Dawon Hennings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v…
24A1089 Brian Beland and Denae Beland v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-12 Presumed Complete civil-audit criminal-investigation fifth-amendment firm-indication-of-fraud fourth-amendment IRS-examination Whether the IRS violates a taxpayer's Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by continuing a civil tax audit after developing a firm indication of fraud wi…
24-1153 Corey Schirod Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-relief strickland-standard Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapply Strickland, and its progeny, by failing to consider in its 'prejudice inquiry' the unrebutted, nonc…
24A1073 Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-06 Presumed Complete disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security Whether law enforcement may conduct warrantless, forcible home searches of Social Security disability applicants without violating their Fourth Amendm…
24-7075 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment Whether convicted felons retain Second Amendment rights under the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in Heller, and whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1)…
24A975 Obel Cruz-Garcia v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
24-6971 D. R. v. T. R. Hawaii 2025-04-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law family-court-dispute federal-criminal-law judicial-corruption mental-incompetence Whether a mentally incompetent father can challenge the Hawaii state judiciary's alleged constitutional and civil rights violations through a Supreme …
24A836 Cedric Allen Ricks v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit properly denied a Certificate of Appealability in a capital habeas corpus proceeding involving alleged Fifth, Sixth, and Fou…
24A815 D. R. v. T. R. Hawaii 2025-02-24 Presumed Complete None
24-6606 Willie McCoy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights in light of the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in District of Columbia v. Heller, and do 18 U…
24-6540 Narey Perez-Quibus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied bruen-test constitutional-methodology gun-rights rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and United States v. Rahimi, 18 U.S.C. …
24-6507 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether convicted felons have Second Amendment rights based on Supreme Court precedent interpreting 'the people' and 'law-abiding citizens'
24-6506 Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights in light of the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in District of Columbia v. Heller, and do 18 U…
24-6451 Devon Maurice Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-03 GVR bruen-test constitutional-law gun-rights rahimi-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in Bruen and Rahimi
24-6338 Hakeem-Ali Shomo v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-01-17 Denied constitutional-protection double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-intent QP: Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when judicial misconduct leads to a defense-requested mistrial, even without specific intent to provok…
24A691 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension Whether the Eleventh Circuit's ruling in a complex criminal case involving potential circuit splits warrants Supreme Court review
24-6235 Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony offense involving an ac…
24-6107 Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 GVR as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) after Bruen and Rahimi, and if so, whether th…
24-634 Binyomin Rutstein v. Compulife Software, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied data-extraction defend-trade-secrets-act electronic-acquisition improper-means trade-secrets web-scraping Whether web scraping of publicly available data using automated technology constitutes an improper means of obtaining trade secrets under the Defend T…
24A559 Alexander Nicholaus Sweet v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-appeal petition-for-rehearing supreme-court-procedure tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the criminal convictions of the petitioner
24A538 Anthony Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when a defendant demonstrates ineffective assistance of counsel that potentially prejudiced the outco…
24A508 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2024-11-22 Presumed Complete actual-malice anti-slapp defamation first-amendment jury-trial new-york-times-v-sullivan Whether the First Amendment's actual malice standard under New York Times v. Sullivan improperly limits a public figure's right to a civil jury trial …
24A500 Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete class-action internet-platform negligence section-230 technology-liability user-harm Whether a technology platform can be held liable for alleged harm caused by its user interactions under Section 230 immunity provisions
24-5997 Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 GVR as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether after Bruen and Rahimi, a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and if so, whether th…
24-5810 Andre Wilburn v. Virginia Nguyen, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-defect in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion oath-of-office pro-se-prisoner Whether a district court errs when dismissing a pro se prisoner's complaint without leave to amend for futility reasons when defects could be cured, a…
24A238 Gregory Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether a passenger in a borrowed vehicle who has the owner's permission to use the car retains a Fourth Amendment privacy interest even when not driv…
24A193 Eloy Heraclio Alcala v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exclusionary-rule motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Whether the trial court violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation by impeding his ability to cross-examine witnesses and denying…
24-5241 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-interference jury-verdict Whether a jury has rendered a final verdict and jeopardy terminates under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment where the jury has indicat…
23-7643 Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2) can be applied to first-time offenders
23-7449 Jacob VanDyke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied administrative-law Auer-v-Robbins Chevron chevron-deference child-pornography commentary deference guideline-commentary judicial-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the 1 to 75 ratio for videos found in the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 is entitled to deference under Chevron, Federal-Express-Corporation-v…
23A981 Alberta Rose Jones v. Donald David Jones Oklahoma 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure jurisdictional-timeliness motion-to-strike procedural-rules supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a state supreme court can dismiss a petition for writ of certiorari as untimely under procedural rules without addressing the underlying merit…
23-7268 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether Mr. Mentor established cause to overcome procedural default of his 'ordinary-case' vagueness challenge
23A929 Arkansas State Conference NAACP, et al. v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete political-process private-plaintiffs racial-discrimination redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether private citizens can sue to challenge political processes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when alleging unequal racial access to the …
23A893 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment supreme-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutionally overbroad or violates a defendant's Second Amendment rights in its prohibition of firearm possessi…
23A880 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-02 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension fifth-circuit jurisdictional-requirements supreme-court-rules Whether a criminal defendant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline under Supre…
23A865 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-27 Presumed Complete criminal-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-review Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines in reviewing a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742
23A863 Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Presumed Complete deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-standard reasonableness-test traffic-stop use-of-force Whether the Fifth Circuit's narrow standard for evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force under the Fourth Amendment impermiss…
23-7065 Michael Adam Carmody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied cell-site-location fourth-amendment home-surveillance ip-address ip-address-records privacy privacy-interest property property-rights search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless seizure of a person's historical IP address records, which includes their conduct within their homes, violates an individual's…
23A847 Richard Alan Costanzo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion confrontation-rights criminal-procedure federal-rule hearsay-evidence probation-revocation Whether a district court's admission of hearsay evidence in a probation revocation hearing violates a defendant's confrontation rights under Federal R…
23A842 Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas Fourth Circuit 2024-03-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Quentin Freeman's petition for rehearing in a criminal case involving procedural or subs…
23A839 McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc., et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Presumed Complete agency-deference fcc-ruling hobbs-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Hobbs Act requires district courts to categorically defer to FCC interpretations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act without independ…
23A830 Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-statute supreme-court-review tenth-circuit Whether a conviction for felon in possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is constitutionally valid or requires further judicial review
23A818 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-review davis-decision retroactive-application section-2255 successive-motion Whether a federal prisoner may seek collateral review of a conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based on a new substantive rule announced in United State…
23A816 Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture cryptocurrency-seizure due-process standing-requirement summary-judgment Whether the Due Process Clause requires courts to allow civil forfeiture claimants to establish standing through prima facie evidence of ownership wit…
23A803 Khan Mohammed v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement Whether the Due Process Clause requires a heightened standard of proof for sentencing enhancements that substantially increase a defendant's sentence …
23A796 Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance mitigation-investigation penalty-phase sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires reversal of a capital conviction where trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing …
23A766 Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-02-22 Presumed Complete administrative-agency agency-authority jurisdictional-interpretation patent-review statutory-construction statutory-deadline Whether a statutory deadline imposed by Congress on an administrative agency is jurisdictional or merely hortatory, and the extent to which an agency …
23A764 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot…
23A749 Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, et al. v. Donald Agee, Jr., et al. Michigan 2024-02-14 Presumed Complete interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-statement legislative-maps redistricting remedial-process special-master Whether the district court's expedited redistricting remedial order impermissibly infringes on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commiss…
23A734 Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete brady-challenge controlled-substances drug-distribution ninth-circuit ruan-standard supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied the Supreme Court's Ruan decision by vacating only some drug convictions and refusing to apply the 'knowi…
23A720 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release Whether supervised release conditions that a defendant claims violate double jeopardy protections can be challenged under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(2) witho…
23A713 Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete agency-duties death-penalty ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-habeas waiver-of-rights Whether an attorney's complete abdication of agency duties during a client's waiver of state habeas review can constitute cause to excuse a procedural…
23A686 Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of 'serious drug offense' requires a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years or more for the unde…
23A676 Kevin McCall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of an entire digital cloud storage account based on a good faith exception to the warrant re…
23A655 Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Presumed Complete cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that lacks probable cause and particularity, despite t…
23A637 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete 401k-plan erisa fiduciary-duty prohibited-transactions service-providers third-party-services Whether Section 406(a) of ERISA prohibits employee benefit plans from entering into arms-length service contracts with third-party providers that are …
23-722 Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified-immunity to prison-officials in these cases by defining the relevant-law at a high-level-of-gene…
23A608 J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-standard excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor school-officials Whether the Fourth Amendment governs excessive force claims by students against school officials, resolving a circuit split on the appropriate constit…
23A606 Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete administrative-deference medical-food medicare-coverage metabolic-disorder prosthetic-device statutory-interpretation Whether the Medicare Act requires coverage of medically necessary enteral formula as a prosthetic device for patients with rare metabolic disorders wh…
23A575 Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access Whether a contractual confidentiality provision in an arbitration agreement can override the First Amendment's presumption of public access to judicia…
23A571 Craig Alan Morrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete criminal-sentencing federal-appeal federal-public-defender supreme-court-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review under standards for certiorari
23A564 Donte Johnson v. Nevada Nevada 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-error ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-safeguards sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when counsel fails to adequately investigate guilt-phase evidence and secure appropriate jury instruc…
23-6288 Carlos Velasquez v. Robert Baldock, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied civil-rights court-procedure fed-r-civ-p-59 fed-r-civ-p-60(d) fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-immunity judicial-malpractice new-trial-timing rule-60 Will the Supreme Court of the United States reject Political-Fraud,fraud-and-false-statements-in-official-transactions,when-expressed-by-political-aut…
23A555 Brandon Michael Council v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete competency-hearing criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competence supreme-court-review Whether a trial court must independently determine a criminal defendant's competency to stand trial, even when defense counsel and an expert claim the…
23A553 Arizona, et al. v. Mackenzie Brown Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete disciplinary-authority educational-institution off-campus student-harassment substantial-control title-ix Whether an educational institution can be held liable under Title IX for student-on-student harassment that occurs off-campus when the institution ret…
23A543 Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. New York 2023-12-13 Presumed Complete defamation first-amendment journalistic-standards libel public-concern supreme-court-precedent Whether the First Amendment requires a different standard for evaluating libel claims involving private figures in media reporting about matters of al…
23A530 Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc. v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete drug-approval enforcement fdca preemption private-litigation state-law Whether the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act's enforcement provision preempts state-law claims that mirror federal drug approval requirements
23A508 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b Whether a death row inmate with an intellectual disability claim under Atkins v. Virginia can seek federal habeas relief through a Rule 60(b) motion a…
23-6161 Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina applies to individuals on supervised release
23A493 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete covid-19-restrictions electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-appellate-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion Whether federal courts must distinguish between 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' when evaluating untimely filing of a notice of appeal during extr…
23A481 Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete covid-19-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise hybrid-rights qualified-immunity religious-schools Whether qualified immunity should be limited for executive branch officials who imposed COVID-19 restrictions that discriminatorily impacted religious…
23A475 Lonnie Allen Bassett v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-retroactivity post-conviction-relief sentencing-discretion Whether the Eighth Amendment requires resentencing or individualized review for juvenile offenders sentenced to mandatory life without the possibility…
23A476 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights Whether state legislative privilege is an absolute bar to discovery in civil rights litigation involving potential voting rights violations or whether…
23A474 Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete administrative-deference circuit-split economic-espionage intended-loss sentencing-guidelines trade-secrets Whether a sentencing court may defer to the Sentencing Commission's interpretation of 'loss' to include intended but unrealized economic harm under Ki…
23A463 LaTausha Simmons v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights digital-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Whether an indigent plaintiff's inability to access digital technology constitutes a violation of First Amendment free speech and Fourteenth Amendment…
23A447 Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado Colorado 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete apprendi-rule elements-of-offense jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that a prior misdemeanor conviction can be used to elevate a subsequent …
23A446 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether law enforcement's warrantless viewing of an unopened digital file reported by a private platform through an automated hash value match constit…
23A442 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services, LLC Fourth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete ada-retaliation disability-accommodations employment-discrimination jury-trial monetary-damages statutory-interpretation Whether monetary damages and jury trials are available to plaintiffs alleging employment retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
23A428 Charles States v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete attempted-murder categorical-approach crime-of-violence sentencing-guidelines substantive-offense united-states-v-taylor Whether the categorical approach for determining a crime of violence requires a nuanced analysis of the specific elements of an attempt crime in light…
23A414 Monterial Wesley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review discretionary-authority extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court has discretionary authority to reduce a federal criminal sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) when a defendant demonstrat…
23A405 Gilbert Dean Bicknell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-criminal-case jurisdiction petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a federal criminal case
23A393 Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 Whether a judge's unconstitutional detention and contempt order can still be shielded by judicial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the actions are…
23A363 Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-23 Presumed Complete criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-extension tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review based on counsel's workload and need for additional prepar…
23A358 Ohio v. William Johnson Ohio 2023-10-20 Presumed Complete 911-call confrontation-clause domestic-violence emergency-exception hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement Whether a 911 call describing a past domestic violence incident constitutes a 'testimonial statement' under the Confrontation Clause when the caller i…
23A355 Martin Akerman v. Nevada National Guard Nevada 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete and whether such challenges present unresolved co civil-forfeiture constitutional-jurisdiction due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus National-Guard-authority Whether a federal employee may challenge through habeas corpus and replevin actions the legality of civil forfeiture and alleged false imprisonment by…
23A331 Carlos Velasquez v. Robert Baldock, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A319 Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States District of Columbia 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete appellate-waiver circuit-split material-support-for-terrorism military-commission-review military-commissions-act plea-agreement Whether a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement is knowing and voluntary when the underlying offense to which the defendant pled …
23A314 Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete attorney-client-communications collateral-review guilty-plea prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion tollett-v-henderson Whether a defendant who entered a guilty plea may challenge his conviction on direct appeal or collateral review based on claims of prosecutorial misc…
23A311 Madeleine Pickens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete estate-tax-liability last-antecedent-canon personal-liability section-6324 statutory-interpretation trust-beneficiary Whether 26 U.S.C. § 6324(a)(2) imposes personal liability for unpaid estate taxes on individuals who receive estate property at any time after the dec…
23A312 Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability jury-recommendation strickland-v-washington Whether a single raw IQ score above 70, regardless of when administered, is independently sufficient to deny a capital defendant's Atkins claim, and w…
23A294 Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-10-04 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A288 DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder-of-cases sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Whether a certificate of appealability must issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 when a state prisoner demonstrates that reasonable jurists could debate wheth…
23A279 Steven M. Greenbaum, on Behalf of Himself Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-29 Presumed Complete judgment-execution section-1610 sovereign-immunity statutory-waiver terrorism-risk-insurance-act terrorist-assets Whether the United States' assertion of sovereign immunity under the common law sovereign immunity canon can override an unambiguous statutory waiver …
23A269 Nathan Russell Cates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A265 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-09-26 Presumed Complete arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce' applies to rideshare driver…
23A254 Anthony Castillo Sanchez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied access-to-files constitutional-violations death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief stay-of-execution Whether a death row inmate has a constitutional right to adequate access to his complete case files and effective assistance of counsel in the final s…
23A234 Jerry Laza v. City of Palestine, Texas Texas 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete civil-to-criminal-conversion double-jeopardy due-process-protections quasi-criminal-proceedings reasonable-doubt structural-error Whether a state court may convert a civil proceeding into a quasi-criminal or penal proceeding on appeal without affording the defendant fundamental c…
23A225 Jeremie Saintvil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete bank-fraud-statute duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment sixth-amendment surplusage venue-rights Whether a duplicitous indictment charging two distinct bank fraud subsections conjunctively as a single offense violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendment…
23-5506 Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce is sufficient to bring a purely local, non-economic crimi…
23A189 Aaron Lee Porter v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A190 Thomas Massie, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. v. Nancy Pelosi, in Her Official Capacity, et al. District of Columbia 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete congressional-discipline justiciability member-pay separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-immunity twenty-seventh-amendment Whether Congress may impose fines on individual members enforced through salary reduction for violations of House rules enacted without an intervening…
23A193 Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete border-search-doctrine cell-phone-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment riley-v-california warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies to suspicionless searches of electronic devices, including cell phones, at the international …
23A163 Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires reversal of a conviction when prosecutorial misconduct deprives a defendant of a f…
23A133 Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks Fourth Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search Whether a Bivens action is available to remedy Fourth Amendment violations occurring outside the context of a warrantless home search or against offic…
23A126 Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A110 Taylor J. Matson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete attempted-child-enticement circuit-split evidentiary-standards expert-testimony jury-trial law-enforcement-agents Whether the scope of permissible expert testimony by law enforcement agents regarding the interpretation of evidence and communications is limited by …
23A113 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split deed-restrictions disability fair-housing-amendments-act property-owners-association reasonable-accommodation Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires a housing provider to have knowledge of a disability at the time of an initial denial of a reasonable…
23A94 Michael Boresky v. Jeremy Graber Third Circuit 2023-08-01 Presumed Complete bivens-claim collateral-order-doctrine false-arrest fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Whether the collateral order doctrine permits immediate appellate review of district court rulings denying motions to dismiss based on the non-cogniza…
23A84 Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-28 Presumed Complete aggregate-disclosure first-amendment foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act national-security-letters prior-restraint transparency-reporting Whether the First Amendment requires that a prior restraint on a service provider's disclosure of aggregate data regarding national security letters a…
23-5228 Patrick Frederick Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split first-step-act procedural-reasonableness section-404 sentencing-reduction substantive-reasonableness Whether appellate review for 'abuse of discretion' of a district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act req…
23-5201 Andrew Valenzuela v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress-defense habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings jury-instructions Did the Ninth Circuit's clearly erroneous finding so depart from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary reversal?
23A61 Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force Whether qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers from liability for excessive force claims when officers use force to prevent a suspect fr…
23A46 Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. California 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement Whether the First Amendment protects the use of a person's likeness in a commercial film from liability under the Lanham Act and state right of public…
23A45 Adam M. Goodman v. Daniel Richard Doll Tenth Circuit 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.