| 25-5978 |
Edgard Velasquez v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
appellate-review federal-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-transcripts judicial-discretion supervisory-authority |
Does the district court's clearly erroneous denial of Petitioner's motion for grand jury transcripts pursuant Fed. R. Crim. P. 6 and the Fifth Amendme… |
| 25-5948 |
Jody D. Kimbrell v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedure pro-se venue-change |
1. Under Federal Rule for venue change can Central District Court of California change rule procedures if plaintiff is pro se?
2. Can Ninth Circuit i… |
| 25A225 |
Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process mandate-compliance sentence-modification sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a district court may impose a substantially equivalent sentence through alternative sentencing enhancements after a partial reversal and reman… |
| 25A113 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Presumed Complete |
counterterrorism-investigation electronic-surveillance fisa fourth-amendment national-security state-secrets-privilege |
Whether the state-secrets privilege can be displaced by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) procedures for ex parte review of electroni… |
| 25A58 |
Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit state-conviction |
Whether a state court conviction can be challenged on federal habeas review based on claims of insufficient evidence, ineffective assistance of counse… |
| 24A838 |
Phillip Frazier v. American Airlines, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Presumed Complete |
age-discrimination fair-employment-and-housing-act pretext prima-facie-case reduction-in-force summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied summary judgment standards in rejecting an employee's prima facie case of age discrimination under the Fair… |
| 24-6679 |
Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability |
Whether agency principles apply when a severely mentally and physically disabled inmate relies on an incarcerated, non-lawyer advocate for legal assis… |
| 24-6563 |
Arthur Torlucci v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 24A776 |
Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
gang-expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a finding of prejudice under Strickland v. Washington when assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims in … |
| 24-6413 |
La Shauna M. Griffin v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Santa Ana |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-29 |
Denied |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay-act title-vii workplace-retaliation |
Whether federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit employer retaliation for employee rights assertions and protect against workplace discrimination bas… |
| 24-6099 |
Joseph William Hart v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
adequate-state-grounds coleman-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule timeliness-bar |
Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for adequate state grounds when it found California's timeliness bar was 'firmly established and regularly… |
| 24-367 |
Scott York v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
brain-computer-interface constitutional-rights directed-energy-weapons due-process judicial-misconduct sua-sponte-order |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and lower courts improperly ruled on a case involving alleged unconstitutional use of brain-computer interf… |
| 24-135 |
James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
arbitration-award civil-procedure contract federal-arbitration-act federal-courts forum-clause forum-selection-clause judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue venue-selection |
Whether a litigant's statement accepting 'venue' in a district court can judicially estop that litigant from later seeking to dismiss a new action in … |
| 24-5018 |
Maureen McDermott v. Anissa De La Cruz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
aedpa aedpa-standard batson-challenge clearly-established-federal-law darden-v-wainwright death-penalty-review due-process ninth-circuit-review parker-v-matthews prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Ninth Circuit's denial of relief rest on a misapprehension of what constitutes clearly established federal law under this Court's decision in … |
| 23-6741 |
Gerardo Ortiz v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confront witness-testimony |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in refusing to apply clearly established Confrontation Clause precedent and assess whether the prosecutor's affirmative misa… |
| 23-5819 |
Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law due-process forum-shopping habeas-corpus judicial-fairness lockyer-v-andrade ninth-circuit-review panetti-v-quarterman prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Ninth Circuit take an inappropriately narrow view of what constitutes clearly established federal law in conflict with this Court's treatment … |
| 23-5657 |
Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. Kiry K. Gray, Clerk, United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction juvenile-custody legal-procedure standing state-courts |
Whether the U.S. District Court violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by denying… |
| 22-7192 |
Dan Pizarro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing district-court-authority district-court-discretion federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction future-events future-sentence-commencement judicial-sentencing-power sentencing-authority setser-v-united-states |
Does a district court exceed its authority by expressly or effectively ordering its sentence to run consecutively to a sentence in another federal cas… |
| 22-954 |
Justin Marcus Zinman v. California |
California |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech homeland-defense political-ideology second-amendment state-secrets takings |
Whether allowing a Progressive political ideology to influence the law violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment? |
| 21-1415 |
John Doe v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
constitutional-right-to-informational-privacy constitutional-rights freedom-of-information-act government-records informational-privacy privacy-act relevance single-publication-rule statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Does the single publication rule deprive citizens of their statutory right to timely Privacy Act relief? |
| 21-790 |
Bradford Disney Lund v. David J. Cowan, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 ada civil-rights declaratory-relief judicial-immunity ninth-circuit respondeat-superior section-1983 title-ii-ada |
Whether judicial immunity applies to Title II ADA claims |
| 21-693 |
Nina Rae Ringgold v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
administrative-agency civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-retaliation due-process judicial-disqualification jurisdiction standing supremacy-clause voting-rights-act |
Whether a state administrative agency lacking federal jurisdiction can be assigned authority of a state court of record |
| 21-191 |
Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute |
| 20A156 |
Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-1348 |
True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification |
Whether a federal court judge should be disqualified for lack of impartiality due to prior violations of the automatic stay in bankruptcy and denial o… |
| 20A97 |
Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-6481 |
Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea |
Whether the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory to establish a conspiracy conviction, when there is no evidence of deliberate action … |
| 20-5100 |
Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the state's arrest of the plaintiff was frivolous |
| 20-5089 |
William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas |
Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat… |
| 19-8652 |
Immanuel F. Sanchez v. Manuel L. Real, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hearing oral-argument standing |
Whether the government violated Petitioner's constitutional right to a hearing |
| 19-8067 |
Abdul Mohammed v. DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights counsel-appointment disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure medical-records mental-health reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act standing |
whether a Plaintiff with physical and mental disabilities in an Americans with Disabilities Act action need to reveal all his/her medical and mental h… |
| 19-7490 |
Omar Ernesto Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
4th-amendment appeal conclusory-statements criminal-procedure fourth-amendment human-smuggling investigatory-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-database reasonable-suspicion |
Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit erred in relying on factually unsupported statements in determining reasonable suspicion for an investiga… |
| 19-7247 |
Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal prisoner's challenge to his conviction or sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255 is 'inadequate or ineffective' - and thus the prisoner may … |
| 19-6478 |
Abdul King Garba, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony jackson-v-virginia kumho-tire ninth-circuit restitution sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence supreme-court-precedent weight-vs-admissibility |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicted with this Court's decisions (e.g., Kumho Tire) regarding whether unreliability of an expert's testimon… |
| 19-443 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Philip S. Gutierrez, Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
access-to-courts bivens bivens-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines obstruction-of-justice vexatious-litigant |
Whether the use of vexatious litigant laws to punish an individual and preclude access to the courts, resulting in excessive fines and cruel and unusu… |
| 18-6643 |
Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-interpretation judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law state-court-decision |
Whether the state court decision is contrary to federal law based on the principle of an independent, fair, and competent judiciary |