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25A902 Raymond Ghaloustian, aka Valnyk Matthewsi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-09 Application appellate-review certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 Question not identified.
25-6655 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-23 Pending circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard 1. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals, as a state court of last resort, has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with two d…
25A795 Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement police-power property-damage takings-clause Question not identified.
25-6518 Deandre M. Smith v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-amendment strickland-standard This case presents an important question regarding an individual's entitlement to a certificate of appealability. Regarding that entitlement, this Cou…
25A773 Katherine London v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit 2026-01-05 Application appellate-procedure due-process first-amendment professional-sanctions rico-litigation zealous-advocacy Question not identified.
25A707 Edward C. Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Application child-pornography forensic-evidence knowingly-possessed metadata probation-violation supervised-release Whether the discovery of 75 thumbnail child pornography images in an inaccessible cache folder on an unreported cell phone constitutes knowing possess…
25A684 Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-12-10 Application capital-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated by sustained conflicts between lead and co-counsel…
25A455 Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Application badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits racially discriminatory traffic enforcement as a modern badge or incident of slavery
25A364 Jwan L. Hardin v. Indiana Indiana 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete attorney-client constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's withholding of trial strategy information from a client violates the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments by rendering a guil…
25A282 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack due-diligence habeas-corpus innocence-claim successive-petition Whether a federal prisoner may file a successive habeas petition challenging a criminal conviction without presenting new and decisive proof of innoce…
25A281 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete collateral-review due-diligence federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2255 successive-petition Whether a federal prisoner may file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 without demonstrating new evidence or a retroactive constituti…
25-5520 Dennis Wilson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing Whether the predicted outcome and potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement whe…
25A245 Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete domestic-violence expungement federal-statute firearm-possession misdemeanor-conviction restoration-of-rights Whether a state court expungement that does not completely negate a prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction qualifies as an 'expungement' under…
25A235 Anjelica R. James v. Terrence V. Sharkey, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se supreme-court Whether judicial immunity can be challenged when fundamental due process and parental rights are allegedly violated by lower court actions
25-141 Arnold G. Phillips v. Cecilia Abundis, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied administrative-hearing atomic-energy-act due-process medical-license nuclear-medicine settlement-agreement Whether the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois improperly suspended a medical license without notice or hearing in vio…
25A148 Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest Whether a police officer's warrantless arrest based on probable cause arising from a good faith belief that property was stolen constitutes a valid Fo…
25A81 David L. Shanks, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
25-5079 Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment Whether a writ of habeas corpus should issue when a bailiff ex parte reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial, depriving the defendant of counsel at …
25-5066 Danielle Sposito v. Linda Rollins-Threats Texas 2025-07-09 Denied 42-U.S.C.-§-1988 child-custody civil-rights judicial-immunity malicious-actions parent-facilitator Whether a parent facilitator was entitled to judicial immunity when the actions she took in a child custody case were done maliciously and in excess o…
25A33 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari filing-deadline judicial-procedure supreme-court time-extension Whether a federal appellate court's judgment can be challenged through a petition for writ of certiorari after the standard filing deadline
24A1151 Day Pacer LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete do-not-call-registry FTC-enforcement outbound-telephone-call plain-language statutory-interpretation telemarketing-sales-rule Whether the Telemarketing Sales Rule's definition of 'outbound telephone call' requires that a call be made with the intent to induce the purchase of …
24-7221 Fikreta Cenanovic v. Hamdard Center for Health and Human Services Seventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied None Question not identified.
24A1083 Thomas J. Zajac v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete 70-day-period judicial-discretion mistrial speedy-trial-act time-exclusion trial-delay Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits a district court to exclude time from the 70-day trial calculation without making explicit on-the-record findings…
24A974 Greg Gogin v. Michael Meisner, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights federal-appeal prisoner-litigation pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an enlargement of time to file a writ of certiorari should be granted when the petitioner claims limited legal …
24A946 Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb collective-action fair-labor-standards-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-4 opt-in-plaintiff personal-jurisdiction Whether each opt-in plaintiff in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action must independently establish personal jurisdiction in the forum where th…
24-1050 Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether a theory of liability under the Fourteenth Amendment based on 'state-created danger' is incompatible with the purpose of the Due Process Claus…
24-6645 Joseph DeLarosa v. Village of Romeoville, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-conflict court-procedure federal-question judicial-review supervisory-power Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and warrants supervisory review
24A751 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete ada disability-rights employment-discrimination fmla medical-leave reasonable-accommodation Whether an employer's termination of an employee who has requested medical accommodations and taken intermittent leave constitutes unlawful discrimina…
24A656 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete asset-forfeiture criminal-restitution district-court-order federal-court retirement-assets sentencing-judgment Whether a federal district court may order the turnover of a defendant's retirement assets to satisfy a criminal restitution judgment
24-567 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-21 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process mandamus rule-39.8 second-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in denying mandamus and whether the Supreme Court's application of Rule 39.8 violated due process and obstructed acc…
24-217 SFA Holdings, Inc., fka SAKS Incorporated v. 4 Stratford Square Mall Holdings, LLC Seventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied article-iii-standing contract-interpretation federalism lease-agreement summary-judgment waiver-doctrine Whether the Seventh Circuit improperly interpreted waiver of affirmative defenses and Article III standing in a lease dispute
24-5031 Keith White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied 21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of 'controlled substance offenses' for purposes of sentenc…
23-7474 Bogdan Nicolescu v. Dave Bobby, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-explanation merits-panel pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness uncandid-briefing Is a 3-judge merits panel of a U.S. court of appeals at liberty, perhaps over-reliant on the opposing party's counseled but uncandid briefing, to not …
23-7095 Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio…
23A859 Lester Dobbey v. Uptown People's Law Center, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies constitutional-rights legal-services mail-handling prison-grievance tax-documentation Whether a legal services organization and state corrections officials can be held liable for alleged constitutional violations when assisting an incar…
23-823 Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing whether-enforcing-28-usc-455(a)-will-restore-public-confidence
23-735 Stuart J. Shicks v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied child-services civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agency jurisdictional-dispute legal-persecution prejudice pro-se psychological-persecution state-agency Whether psychological persecution, deprivation of constitutional rights and prejudices against pro se litigants is allowed in any court of law or gove…
23A584 Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc petition-for-rehearing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a federal appellate court denies a petition for rehearing en banc in a case inv…
23-5966 Jonathan Ericksen v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal rule-29 standard-of-review Whether the Court should overrule its decision in Jackson v. Virginia, which rejected the 'reasonable hypothesis' test for motions for a judgment of a…
23A165 Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India Seventh Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effect foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activity exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), requires a foreign state to have performed a leg…
23A129 Cuhuatemoc Peraita v. Alabama Alabama 2023-08-16 Presumed Complete capital-punishment extraneous-prejudicial-information jury-impartiality mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights Whether a capital defendant's waiver of mitigation evidence is knowing and voluntary under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the defendant suff…
23A132 Jerry S. Wilson v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete actual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default reasonable-doubt Whether the actual innocence standard established in Schlup v. Delo requires courts to assess newly discovered evidence by asking whether reasonable j…
23A108 Micah Uetricht, et al. v. Chicago Parking Meters, LLC Seventh Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete antitrust-law midcal-aluminum monopoly-pricing parker-v-brown sherman-act state-action-immunity Whether the Parker state-action immunity doctrine, as refined by Midcal Aluminum, extends to a private equity firm's 75-year monopoly control of a mun…
22-1172 Dejuan Andre Worthen v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting attempted-hobbs-act-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause
22-1075 James E. Hinkle v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-precedent impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-testimony Whether the right to confrontation was denied
22-875 Michael Meyers v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-rationale strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When evaluating a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, may a court retroactively construct a strategic justification for a decision that the a…
22-644 Anthony Lomax v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines Whether courts must determine if a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before deferring to the Sentencing Commission's commentary
22-457 Peter Whyte v. Dan Winkleski, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied constitutional-claim federal-constitution federal-law habeas-corpus material-facts plain-statement state-pleading-standard state-procedural-rule Whether a state court's dismissal of a habeas petitioner's claim under the U.S. Constitution for failure to plead sufficient 'material facts' under a …
22-342 Mary Corner v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor Seventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied administrative-law administrative-record civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment labor-law labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act procedural-due-process secretary-of-labor standing union-member-rights Whether my rights to procedural due process was violated under the XIV Amendment
22-5665 Geoffrie Dill v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act?
22-199 Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the district court required to determine subject-matter jurisdiction before reaching the merits?
22-95 Schuyler File v. Margaret Hickey, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied abood-v-detroit civil-rights compelled-membership due-process first-amendment free-speech janus-precedent mandatory-bar scrutiny-standard standing union-shop Whether membership in a mandatory state bar is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment
21-8193 Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d Does a State Judge have authority to preside over a case when they have a conflict of interest?
21-7886 Leona Stack, et vir v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate due-process judicial-procedure mandate pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process rehearing standing summary-judgment Did the construal by the Seventh Circuit amount to a mis-construal in presuming the petition for en banc rehearing was a motion to recall the mandate?
21-7477 Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of this Court when it held in Unit…
21-7344 Edwin Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied anticipatory-warrant contraband fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-warrant triggering-event Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with United States v. Grubbs
21-6924 John T. Veysey v. Louis Williams, II, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied burrage-v-united-states controlled-substance-act habeas-corpus mandatory-guidelines pre-booker sentencing-guidelines Whether § 2255 (E) 'savings clause' conflicts with SCOTUS and other courts' decisions on bringing a Burrage-type argument
21-946 Michael Coscia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied 28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28-U.S.C-2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980
21-6556 Richard Bernard Grundy, III v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fifth-amendment judicial-discretion self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the District Court deprived Richard Grundy of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig…
21-527 Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute Whether the Supreme Court has abandoned its precedent in Norton v. Shelby County regarding the void ab initio doctrine
21-316 Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation What type of change in the law allows a person to file a § 2241 petition?
20-1765 Donald S. Harden v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli…
20-7766 Lyndon Davis v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-analysis civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process standing state-court-proceedings Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit exceed its scope of the COA (Certificate of Appealability) analysis when the court deni…
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
20-7574 Robert K. Rymer v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Rymer's state trial violated his right to effective assistance of counsel and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-1323 Gregory Patmythes v. City of Madison, Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied appellate-rights civil-procedure clerk court-accessibility due-process electronic-filing federal-rules judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant procedural-failure standing Whether a pro se litigant can be penalized for a CM/ECF failure that renders the clerk's office inaccessible
20-767 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied bank-fraud continuing-offense federal-insurance federally-insured-lender imputed-knowledge mail-fraud real-estate-transaction scheme-liability statute-of-limitations Whether under Loughrin, a real estate seller's knowledge of her buyer's federally-insured lender may be imputed to sustain a conviction under § 1344, …
20-6527 Byron Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil rights claims against the United States government…
20-733 Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the 'individualized suspicion' required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots?
20-5446 Jin H. Zheng v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order
20-5150 Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous?
20-5098 Mikhail Tsukerman v. Western Community Unit School District No. 12 Seventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-uniformity res-judicata standing uniformity-of-opinion Whether courts should protect plaintiffs from paying defendants' expenses from previously dismissed actions
19-1375 Aaron L. Katz v. Incline Village General Improvement District Nevada 2020-06-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights fee-shifting first-amendment litigation-immunity petition-clause public-concern public-grievances punitive-statute sham-litigation standing Can a petitioning litigant be held liable for their adversary's litigation costs and attorney's fees based upon a punitive statute, where the litigant…
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation of the gatekeeper standard?
19-1125 Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of racket…
19-7934 Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour…
19-7508 Jeffrey D. Leiser v. Karen Kloth, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied by triggering PTSD symptoms rise to a level that is cognizable under the Eigh that caused psychological harm civil-rights correctional-officer correctional-officer-duties due-process eighth-amendment emotional-distress inmate-rights intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress psychological-harm ptsd qualified-immunity Does the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress, by triggering PTSD symptoms, that caused psychological harm, rise to a level that is cog…
19-7283 Fairly W. Earls v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard
19-7135 Hye-Young Park v. Charles Secolsky, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied appellate-procedure campus-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation sexual-violence standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Seventh Circuit's treatment of pro se litigants was correct
19-782 Vahan Kelerchian v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Does the 'right to control' constitute 'property' for purposes of wire and mail fraud?
19-6248 In Re Warren Parks 2019-10-11 Denied appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure sanction-hearing sanctions standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the sanction imposed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit complied with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
19-6247 In Re Donald Lee McDonald 2019-10-11 Denied criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution
19-456 John Buncich v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo…
19-5858 Lamarr T. Crittenden v. Keith Butts, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application sexual-violent-predator sexually-violent-predator Did the Seventh Circuit fail to address an ex post facto violation and failure to issue a Certificate of Appealability?
19-5531 Joseph Reinwand v. National Electrical Benefit Fund Seventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied authority disability-benefits disability-pension disability-pension-plan erisa erisa-disability-benefits judicial-authority pension-plan seventh-circuit verbal-modification vested-participant vested-rights Whether and to what extent does the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit possess the Authority to permit a Disability Pension Plan u…
19-5377 Fairly W. Earls v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the Criminal Justice System allows Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in Habeas Corpus Cases
19-5207 Admassu Regassa v. Emily Cimino, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ftca ftca-claim judicial-review prison-conditions pro-se-prisoner Whether the district court erroneously dismissed the petitioner's Second Amended Complaint and the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the dismissal
18-9539 Keenan Brown v. Walmart Stores, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction retaliation standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment whistle-blower Did the Illinois Northern District Court erred its decision by not properly exercising Rule 56 Summary Judgment with all evidence being examined as a …
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-1436 Ulric Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied appellate-procedure disbarment due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights by disbar…
18-829 John H. Davis v. Jeanne W. Anderson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-discipline attorney-removal civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-ethics presumptive-reasonableness seventh-circuit supervisory-power Whether the Seventh Circuit's removal of an attorney's name from the roll of attorneys is presumptively reasonable without due process, record support…
18-6570 Timothy J. Kaprelian v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest plea-agreement plea-bargaining Is a criminal defendant who pleads no contest entitled to exculpatory evidence that the state concealed and suppressed
18-6381 William B. Crockett, III v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review threshold-inquiry Whether a court of appeals' unreasoned, one-page order summarily denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with relevant decisions of this Cour…
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…