| 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… |
| 25-127 |
Jonathan F. Ball v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
crime-victims-rights-act due-process legal-duties retaliation sentencing-hearing victim-status |
1. Where a person moves to assert a victim's rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3771 ("CVRA"), and is invited by the Government t… |
| 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… |
| 24-247 |
Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mens-rea vehicular-homicide |
Does this Court's clearly established precedent require an explanation and understanding of the elements of each charge to which a defendant pleads gu… |
| 24A24 |
Terrence Arthur Green v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-complaint document-extension prisoner-filing pro-se supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a 60-day extension to file a writ of certiorari under Supreme Court Rule 13.5 should be granted given external… |
| 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 |
| 23-7664 |
Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
4th-circuit administrative-review agency-decision appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure judicial-procedure jury-trial mandamus pending-motions remand |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 23-6146 |
Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance |
Whether the 'Miller test' to prove obscenity violates the First Amendment |
| 23A459 |
Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
circuit-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-removal mandamus procedural-fairness |
Whether a federal court improperly removed a judge from a case without providing a substantive explanation for the removal and potentially violating d… |
| 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) |
| 23A23 |
Lijo Panghat v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
| 22-205 |
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… |
| 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 |
| 20-7885 |
Maurice Cortez Proctor, Sr. v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus recusal standing |
Did the lower court err in denying MM. Pyoctr's petition for writ of mandamus to the district court, particularly the denial of its motion to recuse J… |
| 20-7758 |
Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment V… |
| 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… |
| 20-927 |
United States v. Dustin John Higgs |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
alternate-state-designation criminal-judgment death-sentence-implementation federal-death-penalty-act federal-death-sentence federal-jurisdiction state-death-penalty state-law-repeal |
Whether the district court erred in holding that it lacked authority after the sentence became final to designate an alternate State under 18 U.S.C. 3… |
| 20-6289 |
Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction obscenity public-forum |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right to distribute obscene material in public places |
| 19-8298 |
David M. Kissi v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-18 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fbi fbi-warrant fourth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence miranda-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether the trial court overlooked evidence that the FBI had Petitioner arrested and searched his home with writs that were inadmissible because they … |