| 25A622 |
Allen Watkins v. United States District Court for District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
arbitration-award coram-non-judice federal-arbitration-act judicial-review ministerial-duty statutory-mandate |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires a district court to confirm an arbitration award when no timely motion to vacate, modify, or correct has … |
| 25A435 |
The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Presumed Complete |
internal-revenue-service nominee-theory property-rights religious-organization tax-levy tax-lien |
Whether the IRS may impose a tax lien and levy on a religious organization's property based on the theory that the organization is a nominee for taxpa… |
| 24-534 |
Arizona Yagé Assembly, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
associational-privacy civil-discovery exacting-scrutiny first-amendment law-enforcement-demand religious-freedom |
Whether a church can challenge a civil discovery order requiring disclosure of member information under exacting scrutiny principles established in NA… |
| 24A272 |
David Whitehead v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
attorney-misconduct contract-dispute copyright-infringement fbi-investigation freedom-of-information-act intellectual-property |
Whether a federal court can compel the FBI to disclose investigative records related to potential copyright infringement and attorney misconduct invol… |
| 23A869 |
Jason Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
arizona-law genuine-dispute material-fact negligence products-liability summary-judgment |
Whether the district court's summary judgment in a products liability case was properly granted when the plaintiff failed to raise a genuine dispute o… |
| 23A452 |
Ben Toma, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Presumed Complete |
discovery judicial-review legislative-immunity legislative-privilege state-legislators voting-rights |
Whether state legislators can invoke legislative privilege to shield their deliberative processes and communications from discovery in voting rights l… |
| 22-7087 |
Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct |
Did the State violate the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and due process? |
| 21-7309 |
Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability |
Whether district courts have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as experience-based experts |
| 21-1099 |
Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-6205 |
Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
authentication civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct standing |
Whether the court documents submitted were fraudulent, with the same judge's name and position, but different signatures |
| 20-6082 |
Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling |
Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability |
| 19-8237 |
Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights |
Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review? |
| 19-664 |
Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis |
Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice |
| 18-9575 |
In Re Phillip Love |
|
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation |
Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union? |
| 18-9458 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-relief federal-procedure injunctive-relief mandamus-writ standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the District Court improperly violated Petitioner Musa's constitutional right |
| 18-5198 |
Ronald David Jones v. Grand Canyon University, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-courts obstruction-of-justice private-university service-of-process service-of-summons standing venue-change |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case despite defendants' failure to properly serve a response within the required timeframe |