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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A877 | Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Application | criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus | Question not identified. |
| 25A843 | Harold Edward Spencer, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Application | circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-attempt firearm-possession hobbs-act substantial-step | Question not identified. |
| 25-6596 | Jamie Brian Ketcham v. Department of Defense | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus indigent-standard military-detention sixth-amendment | Petitioner was framed with false incriminating evidence back around 2014. A corrupted military court hearing was held without the petitioner being pre… |
| 25A745 | Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 | Question not identified. |
| 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 | Whether the admission of a preliminary hearing testimony of a deceased witness, who was unavailable for cross-examination on a subsequently added crim… |
| 25A649 | Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Application | constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations | Whether a federal habeas petitioner's mental health conditions can constitute an extraordinary circumstance warranting equitable tolling of the statut… |
| 25A637 | Arun K. Chhabra v. ACW New Jersey, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | deadline-extension disability-accommodation legal-assistance medical-limitation pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether a pro se litigant's physical disabilities and temporary lack of assistance constitute grounds for extending a deadline to file a petition for … |
| 25A603 | Gabriel L'Ambiance Ingram v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time lower-courts pro-se title-iii wiretap | Whether a pro se petitioner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when related motions to unseal Title III wiretap materials a… |
| 25A563 | Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs | Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition… |
| 25A504 | Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Application | constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense | Whether a local government's categorical ban on firearm possession in public parks violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense |
| 25-6016 | Todd White v. ACell, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by denying his motion … |
| 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… |
| 25A441 | Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Application | certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's ruling in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review for potential constitutional error or misapplication of law |
| 25A444 | Bernard Kentrell Breeland, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Application | bruen-framework confrontation-clause criminal-procedure felon-in-possession lay-opinion-testimony second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of the Supreme Court's recent Second Amendment jurispru… |
| 25A342 | Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass | Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont… |
| 25-353 | Sally W. Tarquinio v. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act cdc-guidelines employment-discrimination medical-decision-making medical-exemption reasonable-accommodation | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and this Court's decisions recognizing liberty in medical decision-making permit an employer to term… |
| 25A320 | Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights effective-assistance legal-research prison-access sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial was violated when the petitioner was denied adequate access to l… |
| 25A315 | Kiya Cunningham v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant summary-judgment | Whether a federal district court violates a party's due process rights by striking a summary judgment opposition without providing an opportunity to r… |
| 25-5600 | In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard | 2025-09-10 | Denied | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | Whether the jury instructions adequately informed the jury of the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea for 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) counts as interprete… | |
| 25-5543 | Altony Brooks v. Sergeant Sheila Johnston, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A243 | C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata | Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 25A87 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Trooper First Class Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit petition pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | QUESTIONS TO BE PRESENTED (AS CONCEIVED TO DATE): 1. Are officials or law enforcement officers covered by or entitled to a defense of Qualified Immun… |
| 25-58 | Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Denied | administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii | Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-termina… |
| 25A39 | Kevin Michael Jones v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Administration | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law certiorari jurisdiction pro-se social-security supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a pro se litigant's multi-jurisdictional social security case involving alleged procedural errors… |
| 25A31 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-violation erlinger-standard harmless-error jury-trial-right supreme-court-review | Whether the Supreme Court should establish a definitive standard for harmless-error review of constitutional violations in criminal cases, particularl… |
| 24A1270 | Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review | Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling |
| 24A1246 | Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Presumed Complete | appeal-deadline federal-rules-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction timely-filing | Whether a federal court can dismiss an appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed well beyond the prescribed 60-d… |
| 24A1150 | Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Presumed Complete | capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance | Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of a death-sentenced prisoner's appeal violates his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel or du… |
| 24A1119 | Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | consent fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches based on purported consent when the totality of circumstances suggests the consent was not v… |
| 24A1096 | Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii | Whether Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act preclude dismissal of an employment discrimination claim by a federal employee based on the district cour… |
| 24A1038 | Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-28 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right district-court-review habeas-corpus procedural-grounds | Whether a state prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas petition when the district court denies relief on procedural g… |
| 24A923 | Cecil Jerome Quinn, Jr. v. J. Mark Hayes, II, Judge, Circuit Court of South Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights magistrate-recommendation prisoner-litigation pro-se section-1983 summary-dismissal | Whether a pro se prisoner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging constitutional violations can survive sua sponte dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A wit… |
| 24-6730 | Richard David Degout v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Denied | constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process first-step-act sentencing-reduction | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of CCE Murder based on offenses punishable under 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(A) should be entitled to a sentence reduc… |
| 24A719 | Todd White v. ACell, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Presumed Complete | evidentiary-ruling false-claims-act jury-verdict pro-se-plaintiff retaliation-claim summary-judgment | Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge a jury verdict in a False Claims Act retaliation case without first moving for judgment as a matter of law or… |
| 24-730 | Robert H. Gravatt, III v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction court-procedure federal-rules reconsideration-motion rule-4 time-limit | Whether the 28-day limit to toll a postjudgment reconsideration motion of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(4)(A) is jurisdictional |
| 24-544 | Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly limited the post-conviction remedy of a writ of coram nobis and created ambiguity in its scope |
| 24-5833 | Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny | Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process Clauses require strict scrutiny review of a state statute amendment affecting parole eligibil… |
| 24-438 | Benjamin S. Goldberg v. Ralph Northam, former Governor of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | constitutional-rights covid-19 emergency-orders fourth-amendment mask-mandate state-action | Whether COVID-19 emergency orders requiring masking violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a petitioner when enforced by state officials |
| 24-5358 | James Andrew Metcalf v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-21 | Denied | constitutional-rights court-access covid-19-restrictions prisoners-rights pro-se-filing summary-judgment | Whether prisoners' constitutional rights are violated by court procedural technicalities that impede access to justice during COVID-19 pandemic |
| 24-5335 | Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Darosa conflicts with other Circuit Courts' precedents regarding the admissibility of finger… |
| 24-28 | Iona Howard v. Amica Mutual Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | act-of-war civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-procedure legislative-overreach maladministration national-security standing | Violation-of-constitutional-rights |
| 23-1356 | Justin K. Holder v. Mark Duvall Thomas | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute injunctive-relief pro-se standing sua-sponte subject-matter-jurisdiction | Did the District Court judge error in law, or abuse his discretion when he sua sponte dismissed Petitioner's pro se complaint for lack of subject matt… |
| 23-7512 | Dallas M. Acoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence |
| 23A987 | Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Presumed Complete | court-filing extension-of-time fourth-circuit hardship petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff experiencing personal hardship and property damage may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… |
| 23-1156 | Eun O. Kim, et al. v. Parcel K-Tudor Hall Farm, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-24 | Denied | civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-reopen procedural-fairness timeliness | Whether the Justice system (The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit) granting the Motion to Reopen to one party after 8 years from t… |
| 23A861 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-25 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing | Whether the district court's sentencing calculation or the Fourth Circuit's dismissal of an appeal warrants extraordinary review due to limitations on… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 23-7003 | Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his… |
| 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… |
| 23A819 | Sidikatu Raji v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal preliminary-injunction | Whether a district court abuses its discretion in denying a motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction when reviewing the underlying factual findings… |
| 23A784 | Kamal Mustafa v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief under Su… |
| 23A781 | Lawrence L. Crawford v. Warden of Lieber Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-jurisdiction mandate-rule | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process and judicial precedent by improperly declining jurisdiction over its own remand order |
| 23A698 | Martha Carrascal v. American Airlines, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Presumed Complete | discovery-sanctions dismissal employment-discrimination judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant rule-37 | Whether a district court may impose the sanction of dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(b)(2)(A)(v) for a plaintiff's failure to comply… |
| 23A684 | Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Presumed Complete | civil-procedure federal-courts motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard rule-12b6 sufficiently-alleged | Whether a district court's dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim can be challenged when the court allegedly applied an improperly… |
| 23-754 | Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment | Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully? |
| 23A594 | Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default | Whether a pro se litigant's Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States can be dismissed with prejudice when the plaintiff fails to time… |
| 23A579 | Deonte Marques Curry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte | Whether the exception to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) applies to a district court's sua sponte amendment of a final judgment when a defend… |
| 23A574 | Wayne Resper v. Yescare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint alleging inadequate medical care by prison healthcare providers states a cognizable claim under the… |
| 23-667 | Blair Coleman v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | 10-usc-1210 administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious disability-rating medical-examination military-procedure physical-disability-board-of-review temporary-disability-retired-list veterans-benefits veterans-disability | Whether a veteran is entitled to a medical examination prior to removal from the Temporary Disability Retired List and reduction of disability rating |
| 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… |
| 23A548 | Mary M. Mooney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | circuit-court clerk-error federal-rules motion-for-reconsideration pro-se timely-filing | Whether a pro se litigant's timely motion for reconsideration can be deemed untimely due to a clerk's administrative error when the motion was receive… |
| 23A536 | Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari-extension fourth-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether the Fourth Circuit's interpretation of the relevant statute improperly limits the scope of judicial review in federal appellate proceedings |
| 23A517 | Dewberry Group, Inc., f/k/a Dewberry Capital Corporation, a Georgia Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., a New York Corporation | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Presumed Complete | corporate-separateness equity-principles lanham-act profit-disgorgement trademark-infringement trademark-law | Whether a court may order a defendant to disgorge profits from non-party affiliated entities in a Lanham Act trademark infringement case without pierc… |
| 23A482 | Mark Anthony Crudup, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-petition court-appointed-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-deadline withdrawal-of-counsel | Whether a criminal defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when his court-appointed attorney seeks to withdraw without ensuri… |
| 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) |
| 23A433 | Nelson L. Bruce v. Bank of America, N.A. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | district-court-order federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal rule-59-motion timely-filing | Whether a district court's denial of a Rule 59(e) motion can be appealed after the 30-day jurisdictional deadline for filing a notice of appeal has el… |
| 23A435 | Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | alter-ego circuit-split criminal-defendant nominee-interest property-forfeiture state-law-implications | Whether a third-party nominee of a criminal defendant can challenge property forfeiture based on the defendant's criminal conduct when the third party… |
| 23A392 | Brenda Dawson Battle v. Atty Creel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal judicial-immunity pro-se section-1983 | Whether a pro se litigant's civil rights complaint against multiple judicial and law enforcement officials can survive dismissal when alleging potenti… |
| 23A375 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Presumed Complete | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-statute jury-finding prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the different-occasions element of a criminal statute is subject to the Apprendi rule requiring jury finding or indictment, or falls under the… |
| 23A377 | Anthony Andrews v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure frivolous-dismissal imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act serious-physical-injury | Whether a prisoner with three prior frivolous dismissals can proceed in forma pauperis under the Prison Litigation Reform Act without demonstrating im… |
| 23-5865 | Jason Dix v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte | Whether an appellate court may relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide the issue sua sponte, and t… |
| 23A264 | Israel Alvarado, et al. v. Lloyd Austin, III, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23A244 | John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Presumed Complete | birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination | Whether a state statute that presumes maternity based solely on gestation and refuses to recognize biological mothers as legal mothers when children a… |
| 23A214 | Mario Salas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23A212 | Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23A188 | In re: Metcalf | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23A185 | Anthony Andrews v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23A166 | Richard Stogsdill, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-23 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act due-process fair-hearing-procedures home-and-community-based-services medicaid-act section-1983 | Whether Section 1983 provides a private right of action to enforce substantive due process rights and statutory entitlements under the Medicaid Act, a… |
| 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. |
| 23A31 | Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop | Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F… |
| 23A26 | Kenyatta H. Adams v. Harold Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 23A23 | Lijo Panghat v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 22-1247 | Justin J. White v. Vance County Sheriff, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | 42-usc-1981 civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination section-1981 sexual-harassment title-vii workplace-harassment | Whether the use of the word 'nigger and/or nigga', calling a man 'boy', 'bitch', 'gay', and saying a man 'sucks dick' and got 'fucked in the ass' can … |
| 22-7711 | William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's ruling to admit evidence of the appellant's … |
| 22-1128 | Amos N. Jones v. Campbell University, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-19 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure deposition discovery dismissal due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss sanctions standing | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Caro… |
| 22-7498 | Joel Armando Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | cooperating-defendants cooperating-witnesses criminal-procedure drug-weight fourth-circuit methamphetamine offense-level plea-bargaining relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court improperly expanded Guideline § 1B1.3 by including as relevant drug weight uncorroborated statements of two cooperating def… |
| 22-7417 | Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing | Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection |
| 22-7216 | Terrell Anderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo… |
| 22-7014 | Michael Hucks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guid… |
| 22-797 | Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions | Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-6726 | Terrence Lowell Hyman v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-08 | Denied | capital-murder-trial constitutional-violation criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process falsified-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether a criminal defense lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington when she intentionally presents falsified e… |
| 22-736 | Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 22-6108 | Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction of securit… |
| 22-392 | Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins |
| 22-5841 | Harry Sharod James v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | civil-procedure commerce-clause confrontation-clause constitutional-authority district-court filing-fee judicial-tax procedural-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Court of North Carolina, Eastern District abuse its discr… |
| 22-5524 | Deandre Johnson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus petition-for-writ standing unlawful-detention | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus |
| 22-5525 | Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's order that state law determines the time of acc… |
| 22-5527 | Dora L. Adkins v. Tyson's Lodging, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court-affirmance civil-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-sufficiency per-curiam-opinion rule-60-motion standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the per curiam unpublished opinion and/or Judgment |
| 22-205 | Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-07 | Denied | circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a federal court must apply the 'rule of equipoise' and grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when evidence of guilt and innocence is evenly… |
| 22-5317 | Dora L. Adkins v. Merrifield Hotel Associates, LP | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Dismissed | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-reasoning standard-of-review standing summary-affirmance unpublished-opinion | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the Order, Dated, July 28, 2022 |
| 22-87 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing | Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to deprive the appellant of liberty and property without due process |
| 22-5166 | In Re DeVinche Javon AlBritton | 2022-07-22 | Denied | appeals constitutional-law due-process federal-appeals federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus procedural-standard standing | Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit be required to articulate the court's grounds for granting or denying authorization t… | |
| 21-8270 | Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Dismissed | appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner's Petition f… |
| 21-1513 | Wendy M. Dale v. Algernon L. Butler, III | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions court-discretion due-process pro-se-debtor procedural-requirements sanctions statutory-interpretation trustee-objection | Is a pro se debtor required to cite to an applicable exemption statute in order to effectively claim an exemption under said statute? |
| 21-7719 | Gary Wall v. Jeffrey Kiser, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process executive-detention habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rules retroactivity teague-nonretroactivity teague-v-lane | Does the Fourth Circuit's holding that new procedural rules cannot apply to any federal habeas proceeding, even where federal habeas is a petitioner's… |
| 21-7683 | Nelson Conto v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of the denial of appellant's… |
| 21-1275 | Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver | Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal |
| 21-7107 | Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by affirming the district court's ruling that Canada had be… |
| 21-874 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure | Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to violate petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 21-6557 | Tekoa Glover v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-10 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that Mr. Glover waived his Sixth Amendment claims by entering a guilty ple… |
| 21-803 | Wendy Dale v. Algernon Lee Butler, III | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | bad-faith bankruptcy-conversion bankruptcy-court chapter-13 means-test pending-lawsuit pro-se-debtor social-security social-security-disability | May a bankruptcy court deny a Motion to Convert to Chapter 13 Bankruptcy on the basis of bad faith and inability to qualify as a Chapter 13 debtor |
| 21-694 | Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | appellate-procedure business-interruption certification-motion civil-rights due-process federal-state-relations insurance-contract insurance-contract-law judicial-discretion standing state-court-certification supreme-court-jurisdiction | Did the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion in denying certification of novel questions of state insurance law to the state's highest court? |
| 21-448 | France.com, Inc. v. The French Republic, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | appellate-interpretation circuit-court claim-analysis commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception distinct-claims foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen legal-misapplication lower-federal-courts obb-personenverkeher-v-sachs | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and other lower federal courts have misapplied this Court's decision in OBB Personen… |
| 21-74 | Shawna Cannon Lemon v. Myers Bigel, P.A., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | bostock-v-clayton-county but-for-causation causation-standard civil-rights civil-rights-act clackamas-factors employment-discrimination race-discrimination shareholder-status title-vii | Whether the Clackamas factors apply to whether a shareholder in a law firm may assert claims of race and sex discrimination and retaliation under Titl… |
| 21-5098 | Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction for securi… |
| 20-8186 | Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that 18 United States Code Section 1716 prohibits as non-mailable an inert… |
| 20-8144 | Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing | There has been no redress of my grievance |
| 20-8145 | Tamara Rouhi v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure injustice judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing | There has been no redress of my grievance |
| 20-1638 | Emmanuel Edokobi v. Paul W. Grimm, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct letter-order pre-filing-injunction standing | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal |
| 20-1500 | Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | Denied | civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment | At what point does a student become an 'employee' for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an e… |
| 20-1358 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment | Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law |
| 20-1251 | Claud Anderson v. Harbor Bank of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | bankruptcy civil-procedure commingling deposit-account insurance-proceeds possessory-lien trustee trustee-control | Whether a possessory lien on insurance proceeds deposited into a bank account survives notwithstanding deposit and commingling of the proceeds with ot… |
| 20-7365 | Ronald Brount, aka Ronald Brunt v. Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability? |
| 20-7256 | James Timothy Cobb v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to… |
| 20-981 | Fidelis Agbapuruonwu v. NBC Subsidiary (WRC-TV), LLC, dba NBC4 Washington, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights defamation due-process federal-pleading-standards malice malice-standard media-defendant pleading-requirements private-individual qualified-privilege | Whether Twombly and Iqbal require heightened factual pleading of allegations of malice in a common law defamation complaint brought by a private indiv… |
| 20-6864 | Brian David Hill v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment supervised-release trial-by-jury | Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner without a jury trial and by a preponderance of the evidence |
| 20-6647 | Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-17 | Denied | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to… |
| 20-6537 | Tamara Rouhi v. CVS Pharmacy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | Denied | appeal appeals-court case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process fraud injustice judicial-misconduct legal-procedure procedural-error standing | Question not identified |
| 20-759 | Robel Bing v. Brivo Systems, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination pleading-standards pro-se-pleading rule-12(b)(6) title-vii | Did the 4th Circuit's Published Opinion, with dissent, err in its 2-1 majority affirmance of the district court's dismissal of Bing's pro se complaint… |
| 20-6415 | Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se… |
| 20-347 | Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue | Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … |
| 20-5510 | Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | 28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent | Whether the governing provisions in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals precedent case law, In re Goddard, has unlawfully created an arbitrary or ambi… |
| 20-5141 | Daniel Harold Williford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | equitable-tolling family-resemblance-test federal-securities fraud iou-agreement private-transaction private-transactions securities-law state-statutes | Whether a private IOU or other private document between individuals constitutes a 'security' under federal securities laws |
| 19-1430 | Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Fifth Amendment provides a remedy for ethics violations |
| 19-8785 | Brandon Williams v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-ethics qualified-immunity standing | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism |
| 19-8616 | Anthony Helton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss? |
| 19-8261 | Sean Ath v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti… |
| 19-8198 | Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-07 | Denied | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-circuit injunction standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unpublished opinion and judgment issued on February 26, 2020 is defective |
| 19-7842 | Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret | Whether agency expertise could be applied to threshold questions accompanying a constitutional claim against a federal statute |
| 19-7681 | Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the district court's methodology in imposing a substantial guideline departure was inconsistent with this Court's decision in Gall v. New Jers… |
| 19-7392 | Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement constitutes abandonment |
| 19-7222 | Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law | Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove… |
| 19-791 | Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver | Whether federal courts can require waiver of appeal rights as a condition for receiving an award |
| 19-6710 | Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere… |
| 19-5540 | Thomas Edward Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation | Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims? |
| 19-5408 | Gregory Daniels v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal |
| 19-5142 | Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err on an important federal question by entering its decision/judgment, which is in conf… |
| 19-5108 | Donald Covington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statut… |
| 18-1531 | South Carolina v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to challenge the DOE's final ac… |
| 18-9406 | Ricky Carlos Grant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony standard-of-review telephone-evidence witness-qualification | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the United States District Court for Western District … |
| 18-9197 | Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Whether Mathis v. United States represents a substantive change in law and should be applied retroactively in a § 2241 petition |
| 18-8617 | Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Denied | appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-7844 | Malcolm Jarrel Hartley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the fed… |
| 18-977 | John A. Anderson v. John F. Walrath, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-petition judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings stare-decisis supervisory-power supreme-court-rule supreme-court-rule-10(a) | Where the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia concluded that reasonable jurists could disagree on the fundamental legal … |
| 18-7335 | Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t… |
| 18-7012 | Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 18-6386 | Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal due-process emotional-distress gross-negligence motion-to-dismiss reconsideration standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred |
| 18-6018 | In Re Gary Ivan Terry | 2018-09-18 | Dismissed | actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus | Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion… | |
| 18-5827 | Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal? |
| 18-5590 | Veronica M. Johnson v. Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-act judicial-immunity ministerial-duty spousal-support spousal-support-judgment | Is judicial immunity an affirmative defense that must be pleaded and proved by a judge when Plaintiff files a clearly stated, sufficiently documented … |
| 18-5203 | Khalif Abdul Qawi Mujahid v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | appeals civil-procedure-rules due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) … |
| 18-58 | Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure should be suppressed |