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25-952 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending bivens-claim constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-rights pretrial-detention Whether a Bivens claim can be brought for deliberate indifference to an inmate's chronic pain at a pretrial detention center under the Fifth and Eight…
25A823 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Application bivens-remedy due-process eighth-amendment federal-tort-claims-act medical-negligence prisoner-rights Whether the Supreme Court should extend the Bivens remedy to a claim of deliberate indifference to medical needs by federal prison medical staff for a…
25-6585 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering prosecution-misconduct self-incrimination speedy-trial Whether the prosecution can use an arbitrary list of 442 unknown individuals during sentencing, deny a defendant's constitutional right to confront wi…
25A769 Jeffrey L. Clemens v. W. Michael Stewart, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-05 Application civil-rights clerk-magistrate harm-to-party nondiscretionary-actions qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether a clerk magistrate enjoys qualified immunity when his nondiscretionary and unrecorded actions lead to an identifiable harm to a party
25-760 Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983
25A726 Orna Shaposhnik v. Quality Loan Service Corp., et al. California 2025-12-19 Application ada-accommodations cognitive-impairment jurisdictional-extension pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process supreme-court-procedure Whether a pro se litigant with documented cognitive and neurological impairments is entitled to reasonable accommodations and an extension of time to …
25A699 Larry E. Harrison v. Sharon A. Oliver, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Application eighth-amendment hirschsprung-disease incontinence medical-indifference medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether a prison medical staff's deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical condition constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's p…
25-6298 Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied constitutional-injury federal-claims-court fifth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tucker-act Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims erred in dismissing Polinski v. United States for lack of subject matter jurisdiction despite consti…
25-625 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending circuit-split class-certification damages representative-evidence rico rule-23 Whether a federal court may certify a class action with uninjured members and rely on representative evidence to prove individualized reliance
25-537 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing California 2025-11-04 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment insurance-litigation medical-emergency Whether a self-represented party suffering a medical emergency can be denied due process and have their case dismissed for failing to appear at trial
25-5887 Dorice Moore v. Florida Florida 2025-10-15 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by withholding exculpatory DNA evidence and denying discovery of potentially innocen…
25-417 Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe Ninth Circuit 2025-10-07 Pending alternative-remedies bivens-remedy damages-action eighth-amendment prison-conditions special-factors Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in recognizing a Bivens cause of action
25-5740 Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-25 Pending criminal-conviction dna-evidence evidence-sufficiency jackson-rule moveable-object reasonable-doubt Whether any rational trier of fact could return a guilty verdict where the only evidence was a DNA hit of unknown type and quantity found on an easily…
25-342 Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Denied article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation Whether the 'best reading' of the Low Power Protection Act mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial despite potential standing and statutory in…
25-5687 Curtis Gorham v. Michael Alan Jenkins, et al. Florida 2025-09-19 Denied civil-rights healthcare-liability judicial-procedure medical-malpractice mental-illness pro-se-litigation Whether a mentally ill pro se litigant's repeated medical malpractice and civil rights claims against multiple healthcare providers and institutions c…
25A295 Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-15 Application bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act Whether a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seizures of property by federal officers in joint task-force operations when al…
25A273 Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion autism continuance due-process mental-disability pro-se Whether a court abuses its discretion in denying a continuance or mistrial for a mentally disabled civil litigant without showing actual prejudice at …
25-5569 Terrance L. Reed v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2025-09-05 Denied None Question not identified.
25-211 Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain…
25A208 Francis Nielsen v. Kekai Watanabe Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete alternative-remedies bivens-action eighth-amendment federal-detention medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a Bivens cause of action for a prisoner's medical treatment claim involving non-life-threatening injuries i…
25A199 Peyman Roshan v. Chika Sunquist, Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-action civil-rights judicial-proceeding procedural-barrier state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention requires a state administrative proceeding to be 'judicial in nature' and whether state administrative proceedings creating…
25-176 Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication Pennsylvania 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera Whether automated speed camera enforcement programs violate constitutional rights by imposing liability on vehicle owners without identifying the actu…
25A162 Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete affirmative-defense burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence de-novo-review federal-railroad-safety-act protected-activity Whether a district court's determination of an employer's affirmative defense under the Federal Railroad Safety Act involves a mixed question of law a…
25-5077 In Re Deryl Nelson 2025-07-10 Dismissed arrest-warrant complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-hearing probable-cause Did the state appeals court err in finding probable cause for an arrest warrant issued without a sworn complaint or judicial finding of probable cause…
24A1279 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium …
24A1283 Demetric Simon v. Officer Keith Gladstone, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice police-misconduct statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for a civil rights claim should be equitably tolled when key evidence of police misconduct was fraudulently conceal…
24A1284 Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
24-7433 Zquareus Troyez Immanuel Thomas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-power due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether the 'affecting commerce' element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) requires more than proving the firearm or ammunition traveled across state lines at …
24-7388 Adeoye O. Adebowale v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-record due-process evidence-fabrication law-enforcement police-misconduct Whether fabricated criminal arrest records created through police misconduct violate a defendant's constitutional rights to due process and fair adjud…
24-1213 In Re Bahig Bishay 2025-05-29 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations declaratory-relief individual-capacity judicial-immunity official-immunity Whether government employees classified as judicial officers are absolutely immune from prosecution for declaratory relief when sued in individual cap…
24-1174 Chelsea A. Hamilton v. David Steiner, Postmaster General Fifth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied causation civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation supreme-court-precedent title-vi Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Hamilton's Title VI retaliation claim by improperly requiring proof of causation inconsistent …
24-7223 Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied corruption discrimination judicial-system justice prejudice supreme-court Question not identified.
24-7081 Michael Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer Ohio 2025-04-28 Denied constitutional-requirement judicial-authority jurisdiction oath-of-office plain-error standing Whether the court committed plain error by failing to adhere to constitutional requirements for judicial appointments and oaths of office
24-1054 Derek Blockhus v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-07 Denied civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence-authentication fmla-interference summary-judgment witness-credibility Did the Appellate Court improperly weigh evidence and dismiss claims by overlooking critical facts and testimony in a civil procedure context?
24-6784 Jose Sanchez Adame v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied 18-usc-3582 due-process equal-protection guideline-amendment pro-se-petition sentencing-reduction Whether a district court may deny a Retroactive Amendment Reduction under 18 USC § 3582(c)(2) based solely on documents on the record that the defenda…
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio 2025-03-14 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Whether statements made to responding officers during emergency medical care are nontestimonial under the Confrontation Clause when lacking investigat…
24-6728 David C. Lettieri v. Lawrence Joseph Vilardo, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of New York Second Circuit 2025-03-10 Dismissed 42-usc-1985 bivens-action civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity sixth-amendment Can a judge be held liable for civil rights violations under Bivens and 42 U.S.C. 1985(3) despite claims of absolute or qualified immunity?
24-6566 Felix O. Brown, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2025-02-14 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process jury-communication state-suppression Can newly discovered material evidence revealing an unauthorized communication with a deliberating jury violate a defendant's constitutional rights an…
24-809 Howard Goldey, Associate Warden, et al. v. Andrew Fields, III, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-30 Judgment Issued bivens-action constitutional-damages eighth-amendment excessive-force federal-officers judicial-remedy Whether an implied cause of action exists for Eighth Amendment excessive force claims against federal officers and whether the Court should reconsider…
24-741 Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing Whether an accidental death insurance policy subject to ERISA should determine the existence of an 'accident' by common law presumption or a 'reasonab…
24A639 Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete bivens-action due-process federal-database firearms-rights mental-health-designation second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause protect an individual's right to purchase firearms and enlist in the military when erroneously des…
24-670 Bowers Development, LLC v. Oneida County Industrial Development Agency, et al. New York 2024-12-20 Denied eminent-domain judicial-review private-to-private-transfer property-rights public-use-clause rational-basis-review Does the Public Use Clause require more than minimal rational-basis review when the government takes private property for transfer to a specifically i…
24-533 Unknown Heirs, et al. v. Howard Reiner, as Permanent Dependent Administrator for the Estate of Beda Garcia Barnett, Deceased Texas 2024-11-12 Denied court-of-appeals federal-question judicial-conflict obergefell-precedent supervisory-power texas-appellate-law Did the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeal's decision grossly depart from Texas law or create a substantial conflict with federal court decisions in…
24-389 Jean Coulter v. James P. Coulter, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct police-interference privacy-violation Do facts show a conspiracy involving judicial and police misconduct that violated Jean Coulter's privacy and due process rights?
24-5706 Paul Gary Wallace v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied ballistics-evidence criminal-procedure due-process forensic-testimony scientific-reliability toolmark-identification Whether a firearms examiner's conclusive testimony about ballistics matching violates a defendant's due process rights when such evidence is inherentl…
24-5700 Andersen Rable v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied atf-interpretation criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-firearms-license firearms-regulation mens-rea Whether the District Court erred in refusing to allow evidence of ATF's changed interpretation of solencer classification and in allowing a potentiall…
24A268 Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause summary-judgment warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to immediately release a suspect from custody when probable cause dissipates due to newly discov…
24-157 Roy C. Derksen v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction sovereign-citizen Whether the district court and 7th Circuit improperly dismissed a pro se litigant's constitutional challenges to administrative law proceedings withou…
24-5186 Issa Doreh v. Unknown Rodriguez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure court-of-appeal district-court due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-statutes judicial-review standing Whether the district court and court of appeal erred in finding that Doreh had failed to exhaust administrative remedies in count one?
24-5136 John Michael Murphy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied 4th-amendment constitutional-violation contraband fourth-amendment pat-down plain-touch-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the plain-touch doctrine allows deputies to remove an unknown object from under a person's clothing when they do not believe it is a weapon or…
24-44 West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied brentwood-academy-v-tennessee-ssaa entwinement-test federal-funding legal-duties peltier-v-charter-day-school private-organization smith-v-ncaa state-actor state-actor-doctrine title-ix What are the indicia of 'state actor'? And do they include action, entwinement and controlling authority?
24-41 Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied bivens-action bivens-claims civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech habeas-corpus retaliation retaliatory-imprisonment Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens when federal officials imprison a critic in retaliation for his refusal to waive his right to free speec…
24-5064 Rona Johnson Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied abuse-of-power civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-arrest judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-1343 Darwin Quinones-Pimentel, et al. v. Nicholas W. Cannon, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-tort federal-agents fourth-amendment frank-v-delaware monetary-damages search-warrant Whether a Bivens action can be maintained against federal agents and actors when a search warrant is obtained in violation of the doctrine established…
23-1234 Konstantinos Zografidis v. Vanessa Richards, Assistant United States Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-bias standing Did the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals act with bias in failing to reverse the District court's ruling on the Petitioner's civil-rights complaint?
23-7399 In Re Gilbert Martinez 2024-05-07 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure due-process enlargement-of-time judicial-discretion recusal recusal-standard rule-60-relief social-security-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Circuit court abused its discretion
23-7331 Carol Ann McBratnie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act case-precedent disability disability-status employee employment-law job-applicant medical-inquiry reasonable-accommodation Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan apply the wrong standard to a new job applicant un…
23-7077 Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing Whether the Fifth Circuit's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal as untimely conflicts with the 'mailbox rule' established by this Court and other cir…
23-1046 Peter George Noe v. Berkley, Dr., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied bivens bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-remedy constitutional-claim due-process federal-agents federal-tort-claims-act judicial-precedent medical-care medical-indifference standing Whether a Bivens claim can be maintained for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs
23-7022 Elvis Edgardo Molina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied burns-v-united-states due-process evidence-disclosure fifth-amendment guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance Whether the district court's failure to disclose gun statistics from unknown sources of questionable validity to justify an unprecedented 30-month upw…
23-7019 Quindell Montrae Kirby v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence fair-trial jurisdiction venue Whether the Court of the County of Chesterfield, Commonwealth of Virginia was allowed to prosecute this case when precedent supports the Petitioner's …
23-976 Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied bivens-remedy civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment implied-damages judicial-immunity warrant-execution warrants Whether the court of appeals erred in allowing a Bivens remedy in this case, where the claim arises from an arrest made outside the home, in a place o…
23A764 Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot…
23-865 Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California California 2024-02-12 Denied civil-rights diversity-equity-inclusion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest licensing moral-character standing state-bar-admission Whether admission to a State Bar constitutes a liberty interest
23A732 Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt, in His Individual Capacity Eighth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete first-amendment jaywalking nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement Whether the probable-cause exception to retaliatory arrest claims under Nieves v. Bartlett can be satisfied by generalized evidence of selective enfor…
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…
23-793 Isidro Javier Armenta v. California California 2024-01-24 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automated-enforcement automated-traffic-enforcement confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts extends to automated traffic enforcement system schemes
23A679 Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden Seventh Circuit 2024-01-23 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy damages-action excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-context Whether a Fourth Amendment excessive-force claim against a federal law enforcement officer in a public setting constitutes a 'new Bivens context' that…
23-723 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-04 Rehearing bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal inmate prisoner may bring a Bivens claim for racial discrimination against prison officials
23A621 Darryl Heffner v. Timothy Heffner, et al. Texas 2024-01-04 Presumed Complete appellate-review direct-appeal fact-finding property-dispute stay-of-proceedings trial-court-jurisdiction Whether a trial court may conduct further fact-finding proceedings during a pending direct appeal when the underlying case has already received a fina…
23-6391 Christopher Dalton Thomas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection retaliation title-vii whistleblower-protection Are minority males who oppose discrimination entitled to equal-protection
23A544 Patrick Aboite v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete 18-U.S.C.-922(g) appellate-review criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement Whether a federal sentencing enhancement for a felon in possession of a firearm was properly applied and whether the resulting sentence was reasonable…
23-6193 Steven Vincent Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied brady-material criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity warrantless-search Does the determination that a warrant is void ab initio, rendering the resultant search of the Petitioner's residence warrantless (and thus unreasonab…
23-6153 Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. v. Deborah S. Hunt, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied access-to-courts bivens bivens-action civil-rights court-access federal-counterpart-to-42-u.s.c.-§-1983 federal-remedy first-amendment habeas-corpus who-should-decide-whether-to-provide-for-a-damages-remedy,-congress-or-the-courts?
23-6140 In Re Yi Tai Shao 2023-11-30 Pending 28-usc-636 civil-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-conspiracy judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge venue-change whether-district-court-dismissal-order-must-be-reversed
23A472 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia Whether a defendant's severe mental illness and state habeas counsel's abandonment can constitute cause to excuse procedural default in a capital case…
23-5991 Samuel T. Whatley v. Richland County Family Court, Columbia, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-court fifth-amendment governmental-immunity immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing Does the Constitution allow judicial misconduct and obstruction of justice?
23-5922 Maxwell Chibueze Ezenwa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations warrantless-arrest Whether the warrantless arrest, statute of limitation, double jeopardy, Eighth Amendment violation, and Fourteenth Amendment violation were properly a…
23A367 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T.B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment prison-officials race-discrimination Whether a Bivens remedy is available for an inmate's Fifth Amendment claims alleging race-based discrimination and procedural due process violations b…
23-5853 Alex Adams v. Unknown Layton, Sergeant, Coffield Unit, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-20 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings Whether the state's actions in this case violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
23-5797 In Re Deryl Dude Nelson 2023-10-18 Dismissed arrest-warrant complaint complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-finding judicial-hearing probable-cause statutory-requirement Did the state appeals court err in finding the complaint met the statutory requirement absent a judicial finding of probable cause?
23A344 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-10-17 Presumed Complete KSR-standard obviousness patent-law pharmaceutical-patents predictable-result prior-art Whether the Federal Circuit's obviousness analysis complies with the Supreme Court's standard in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. by requiring t…
23-5545 Robert K. Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Seventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings pro-se-litigant Did the lower courts err in dismissing the case and denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint
23A209 DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete civil-liability first-amendment NAACP-v-Claiborne-Hardware negligence protest-organizer third-party-violence Whether the First Amendment protects a protest organizer from civil liability for negligence in organizing and conducting a protest when a third party…
23-5453 Pedro Ramirez-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment alien-smuggling burden-of-proof causation causation-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments prohibit conduct for which Ramirez was acquitted from being used to enhance his sentence for alien-smuggling
23-5401 Rayshawn J. Christmas v. Unknown Wedd, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure magistrate-judge pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 standing Why did the court deny Mr. Christmas at least one chance to amend, if it is possible to fix what court thank is wrong with Mr. Christmas's complaint
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…
23-5339 Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation whether-an-unprecedented-legal-theory-of-receipt-is-unconstitutional
23-5019 Kevin Y. Jin, et al. v. Rafael Velasquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied arbitration arbitration-dispute car-accident-injury civil-procedure civil-rights document-falsification due-process insurance-bad-faith medical-evidence standing witness-testimony Question Presented
22-7826 Ronell Watson v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system?
22-7663 Aaron David Waldon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-30 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission fair-trial horn-v-state prejudicial probative propensity-evidence sexual-assault trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the admission of evidence of a recording believed to be the petitioner and an unknown male a…
22-7624 Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-24 Denied 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process When was Mr. Smith's substantive due process right(s) or XIV Amendment violated?
22-7593 In Re Edwin W. Rubis 2023-05-18 Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody habeas-corpus liberty marijuana-prohibition whether-rules-14-g-and-h-are-applicable-to-habeas-corpus-petition
22-7344 Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on nonexistent testimony so departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings as to justify summary rever…
22-7269 Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Robert B. C. McSeveney, Judge, United States Immigration Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-law probable-cause warrant-clause Whether the statute 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) is constitutionally impermissible under the Fourth and Fifth Amendment equal protection clause
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…
22-879 Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech rico standing Whether the Petitioner's brother Alexander Basile being murdered 6-3-22, the horrific beating and skewering of his body by unknown Secret Service, MI5…
22-848 James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force Whether the Fourth Amendment standard for evaluating unreasonable force claims or the Fourteenth Amendment standard applies when law enforcement shoot…
22-6967 Arnoldo Antonio Garcia v. Afod Valdez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied access-to-courts bivens-claim civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction government-liability ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in dismissing a meritorious Bivens claim of nationwide importance?
22-6554 Adrian Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c conspiracy-theory crimes-of-violence criminal-liability gun-enhancement pinkerton-liability racketeering vicar-statute Are Instructions under Pinkerton v. United States appropriate for crimes of violence in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C. § 1959 (VICAR) when the pe…
22-6472 Vincent Paul Melendrez v. Jason Bennett, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense due-process fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment Where the Trial Court's Ruling Compelling the Election of Rights had required a criminal Defendant to waive his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Rights …
22-580 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia Whether an alternative method of execution is feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing State has statutorily authorized the metho…
22-6270 Charles H. Carter v. Gardaworld Security Services-US, et al. Maryland 2022-12-09 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-hac-vice removal removal-procedure standing unauthorized-practice-of-law Whether the unauthorized practice of law by an out-of-state attorney, including the removal of a case to federal court without proper authorization, w…
22-330 Eric Weller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied conspiracy fiduciary-duty insider-trading knowledge material-nonpublic-information personal-benefit remote-tippee tippee tippee-liability Whether a remote tippee's mere knowledge that a friendship exists between the insider and first tippee is sufficient to establish the remote tippee's …
22-5723 Jackie-DeVere Allen Cole v. Unknown El Paso County Sheriff's Office Records Clerk Colorado 2022-09-30 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing takings Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to the violation of his First Amendment rights
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional?
22-5661 Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied 8th-amendment appeal-status bail-funding bail-funding-appeal certiorari due-process jurisdiction motions-for-new-trial non-trial-motions post-conviction post-conviction-records Question not identified
22A177 Jackie-DeVere Allen Cole v. Unknown El Paso County Sheriff's Office Records Clerk Colorado 2022-08-24 Presumed Complete None
22-5375 Nathaniel Waugh v. A. Ralph, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-principles court-procedure due-process evidence-application judicial-review legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice standing Whether lower Court proceeded 'according to Justice' or deprived petitioner of fundamental Substantial rights?
22-5164 Oscar Lenton, Sr. v. Warden, FCI Edgefield Fourth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Appeals Court ruling deprived petitioner of his right under Brady v. Maryland, where the Government had violated its obligation to turn ov…
22-5022 Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity When probable cause is based on a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establish the informant's reliability by the informa…
21-1566 Juno Therapeutics, Inc., et al. v. Kite Pharma, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied 35-usc-112(a) enablement federal-circuit invention-scope inventor-possession patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description Whether the written description requirement under 35 USC 112(a) should be measured by the statutory standard or the Federal Circuit's 'possession' tes…
21-1492 Anas Elhady v. Blake Bradley Sixth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied bivens bivens-remedy border-enforcement civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process federal-law-enforcement interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to decide Bivens issue in interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity
21-1467 Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. Hawaii 2022-05-23 Denied constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require further efforts by the government to locate an absent father before permitting constructive…
21-1422 Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism Second Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit
21-7670 In Re Oscar Smith 2022-04-21 Denied actual-innocence aedpa capital-punishment constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus suspension-clause Whether the AEDPA bars federal review of a death row inmate's claim of actual innocence based on newly discovered DNA evidence, in violation of the Su…
21-7498 Eric Lloyd Hermansen v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied atypical-hardship civil-rights constitutional-protection covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus health-complications prisoner-rights Are state prisoners protected from COVID-19 exposure?
21-1012 Brad Heidelberg, dba Rio Seco Resources, et al. v. D.O.H. Oil Company Texas 2022-01-18 Denied constitutional-notice due-process foreclosure judgment judicial-procedure limitations-statute mullane-standard notice property-rights state-limitations Whether a state-limitations statute may preclude challenge to a judgment obtained by notice that is constitutionally insufficient to meet the requirem…
21-6864 Dennis Devone Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-01-14 Denied brady-violation crim-r-33-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-petition res-judicata Whether a petitioner who files a post-conviction petition asserting ineffective assistance of counsel is barred by res judicata from raising similar a…
21-993 Willard Anthony v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-01-12 Denied confrontation-clause confrontation-right due-process fair-trial harmless-error presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-testimony structural-error witness-credibility Whether the presumption of innocence, the right to confrontation, and the right to a fair trial permit a court to allow the grand jury prosecutor to t…
21-989 Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit?
21-987 Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction witness Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a witne…
21-924 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain…
21-6581 Derek Jerome Moore v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-power firearms interstate-commerce Whether Congress exceeded its Commerce Clause power when it enacted 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)?
21-856 Barry D. Bilder v. Janice Dykstra Seventh Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied agreement-construction civil-procedure clean-hands contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation contract-law contract-terms due-process fact-determination fraud good-faith legal-definition In contracts, after signing an agreement, is the term, 'new fact,' applicable to a fact that is new and previously unknown to one party, or new and pr…
21-6531 Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment Whether the lower courts failed to address the medical needs of the petitioner's central diabetes insipidus
21-6259 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied circuit-split constitutional-provisions discretionary-power due-process internet-research judicial-discretion juror-misconduct prejudicial-error remmer statutory-provisions verdict-integrity Whether a lower court can rule that a verdict was not affected by juror misconduct when the exact websites and content viewed by the juror are unknown…
21-655 Max Ray Butler v. S. Porter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied adequate-medical-care bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-rights eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-prisoner federal-prisoners medical-care Whether Bivens remedies are categorically unavailable to federal prisoners in any other context
21-562 Kenneth A. Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied civil-rights default-judgment due-process government-authority injunctive-relief magistrate-judge paris-climate-accord standing ultra-vires uncac Can Counsel for Respondent U.S. Government defend or assist RUVA for ultra vires acts outside scope of government authority, when RUVA has not filed a…
21-5979 Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jennifer Sullivan v. Reneau Kennedy, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-subpoena medical-records patient-privacy psychotherapist-patient-privilege standing Does a judge vested by statute to subpoena a criminal defendant's treating psychotherapist-patient records, cannot over a criminal defendant's express…
21-5838 Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied administrative-negligence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process failure-to-protect inmate-violence prison-safety prisoner-rights prisoner-vulnerability protective-custody standing Why did A.D.C. officials 'Wendy Kelly' and Byron Brown' fail to protect me from a stabbing?
21-5655 Timothy Dean Leners v. Wyoming Wyoming 2021-09-13 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Was Defendant's 6th Amend. right to Effective Counsel violated?
21-295 In Re America's Frontline Doctors, et al. 2021-08-30 Denied civil-rights due-process emergency-use-authorization genetic-vaccine informed-consent medical-rights natural-immunity scientific-consensus vaccine-mandate Whether the district court committed an abuse of discretion by neglecting to enforce federal law regarding emergency use authorization (EUA) products …
21-5458 Henry J. DuLaurence, III v. Douglas P. Woodlock, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied bivens-action constitutional-rights criminal-obstruction-of-justice due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice Whether the May 21, 2021 dismissal in the instant case must be declared void
21-5369 Michael Alexander Rivera v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied civil-rights due-process executive-power pardon separation-of-powers standing Whether the United States Constitution justifies and executes the President's actions as reasonable and necessary when granting a pardon is never a si…
21-5357 Sandra Harmon v. Department of Finance, Sussex County, Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied administrative-closure appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court-order due-process final-order judicial-misconduct jurisdiction notice-of-appeal third-circuit-court Whether the Third Circuit Court can create a reason unsupported by the District Court Judge that the docket was mistakenly marked closed and rule admi…
21-204 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied bivens-claim constitutional-authority due-process first-amendment frivolous judicial-immunity removal separation-of-powers sua-sponte-dismissal Whether a district court judge violates due process by sua sponte dismissing a complaint as frivolous without a hearing
21-5341 Vernon Norman Earle v. Shreves, C/O, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied policy-based judgments that present special Biven administrative-grievance bivens Bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-officer due-process policy-based-judgment policy-based-judgments retaliation special-factors Whether a rogue correctional officer's unlawful retaliation against an inmate for utilizing an administrative grievance process implicates the sort of…
21-187 Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker Eighth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth…
21-184 Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied abbasi-standard bivens bivens-action circuit-split civil-rights federal-officer-liability federal-officials fourth-amendment judicial-remedy Under Abbasi, may line-level federal officers be sued for violating the Fourth Amendment?
21-155 John M. Custin v. Harold J. Wirths, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process inquisitorial-proceedings misconduct notice property-rights unemployment-benefits Does the deprivation of unemployment benefits based on a charge of 'misconduct connected to the work' when the only issue the employer disputed was 'v…
21-147 Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Judgment Issued bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for First Amendment retaliation
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts Whether a parent has a right to visitation and a case plan when there is no proof of life-threatening issues
20-1757 Lecia L. Shorter v. Mary Amador, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied civil-rights class-action class-action-settlement class-certification due-process monelle-liability rule-23-certification standing strip-search unnamed-class-member what-are-the-collateral-attack-options-of-an-unnamed-class-member
20-1318 Vincent W. Shack v. NBC Universal Media, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-agents governmental-immunity qualified-immunity Does the law afford the means to prevent and redress alleged civil rights abuse by public officers and agencies?
20-1231 Jennifer Smith v. Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied adverse-employment-action burlington-northern collateral-estoppel employment-law equal-pay gender-discrimination salary-discrimination salary-equity Whether employer unlawfully discriminated against female employee by failing to apply salary equity adjustment formula
20-1126 Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo, et al. v. Unknown Defendants Massachusetts 2021-02-17 Denied 35-usc-145 35-usc-261 adverse-possession federal-circuit patent-application patent-ownership property-rights quiet-title standing-doctrine try-title uspto-procedure Does a party asserting ownership to a patent application have a right to a state (commonwealth) action like either a Massachusetts quiet action or a M…
20-1060 Jose Oliva v. Mario Nivar, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-remedy constitutional-violation federal-police fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure Whether claims against federal police for Fourth Amendment violations committed during standard law enforcement operations fall within an established …
20-7011 Hemmingway Mukora Saisi v. Carolyn Murray, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection protection-claim self-defense stare-decisis state-criminal-procedure state-officials Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection were violated by the heightened pleading standard applied to his se…
20-1022 Jean Coulter v. Jamsan Hotel Management, Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2021-01-28 Denied bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure massachusetts-police-accountability police-accountability standing Was Coulter denied Due Process because of Bias?
20-1035 In Re Jody D. Kimbrell 2021-01-28 Denied ballot-counting civil-rights due-process election-certification election-dispute election-integrity federal-election-law judicial-review mandamus mandamus-relief standing voter-rights Does a voter in Illinois have a right to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to order the [Uinois Election Commission, Governor of Illinois and the Cook Co…
20-6851 Jeffrey Lee Atwater v. Florida Florida 2021-01-13 Denied burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did Mr. Atwater show a violation of the right to determine the objective of his defense and his right to hold the State to its burden of proof of each…
20-6865 William Rouser v. Unknown Ninth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6795 Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards California 2021-01-07 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process eviction ex-parte-eviction judicial-discretion property-rights sanctions Does the 'Compel Obedience Clause' in Civil Code of Procedure Section 128 allow ex parte eviction on the court's own motion?
20-6674 Tony Chevallier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied criminal-acts criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process judicial-discretion jury-conviction sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-range uncharged-conduct When are trial judges prohibited from considering as sentencing factors criminal acts that a defendant was neither charged nor convicted of?
20-825 Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi…
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…
20-587 Hope Angelic White, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Myron Pollard v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied bivens bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar personal-representative sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether, in the same lawsuit, a partial judgment for or against a claimant in her capacity as personal representative for an estate claiming one set o…
20-502 Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review Whether the Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than Huddleston v. U.S. under Rules 403 and 404(b) in civil polic…
20-432 S. O., et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-10-05 Denied civil-neglect civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process evidence fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment perjured-testimony perjury standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding…
20-5756 Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied 42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights Whether the Second Circuit should have finished certain assigned court proceedings to protect the due process rights and substantive rights of the pet…
20-5724 Justin Lamar Johnson v. Joseph Gibson, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-conspiracy civil-rights court-appointed-attorneys fraud immunity judicial-immunity res-judicata state-action state-actors Are court-appointed attorneys state actors for 42 USC 1983 claims?
20-5571 Angel C. Pacheco v. Maine Maine 2020-09-02 Denied any-persons-present collective-searches criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrant-standard Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause that each person present will possess evidence of a crime, or only that the collective searches o…
20-226 Kenneth Ratliff v. Aransas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force municipal-liability pleading-standard qualified-immunity summary-judgment Should lower federal courts demand a heightened pleading standard for municipal liability claims?
20-5135 James Bowell v. State Bar of California California 2020-07-22 Denied 6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether a court-appointed attorney's refusal to present an issue on habeas where the court could impose no sentence other than the statutory maximum f…
20-5084 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment was-ellis-prejudiced
19-1472 Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied character-evidence conspiracy conspiracy-theory criminal-defense criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence-exclusion excessive-force jackson-v-virginia judicial-review relevance right-to-present-defense standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be rati…
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
19-1376 Algignis, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2020-06-15 Denied administrative-law administrative-state agency-jurisdiction catch-22 civil-rights environmental-law innovation innovation-barriers judicial-review private-enterprise regulatory-capture regulatory-risk standing standing-doctrine Do small, relatively unknown groups have standing to try to solve their own local environmental problems that the government has failed to solve?
19-8527 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied 5th-amendment affidavit constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment probable-cause waiver Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when an unverified Complaint and Information is used in lieu of a probable cause hearing
19-8439 Marijan Cvjeticanin v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied brady-violation catch-me-if-you-can criminal-procedure due-process kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality-standard new-trial-motion perjury rule-33 trial-perjury Brady-violations
19-7905 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case constitute…
19-7727 In Re Chakakhan R. Davis 2020-02-20 Denied all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction equitable-intervention fraud-upon-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford inherent-duty judicial-integrity mandamus-writ usurpation-of-judicial-power Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violated its inherent duty to uphold the integrity of its jurisdiction by failing to vacate orders obtained…
19-1033 Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing Whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), alleging that…
19-938 Sean A. Clark v. New York Commissioner of Social Services Second Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied administrative-fraud civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine social-services standing statute-of-limitations Can a federal district court review a state court ruling, exempting the case via Rooker-Feldman preclusion, where the state court judgment was alleged…
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
19-7023 Michael P. Cotton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process eminent-domain jurisdiction property-rights standing statutes-and-regulations takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for evaluating a claim under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-6808 Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability?
19-661 Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure may bring a civil action against rogue agents under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of th…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases
19-6442 William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker, who fails to meet the requirements for a limited purpose public figure under Ge…
19-546 Douglas Brownback, et al. v. James King Sixth Circuit 2019-10-28 Judgment Issued bivens-claim bivens-claims civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-tort-claims-act government-liability judgment-bar sovereign-immunity state-tort-law Whether a final judgment in favor of the United States in an action brought under Section 1346(b)(1) bars a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Ag…
19-513 Aivaras Mardosas v. Florida Florida 2019-10-21 Denied bare-bones-affidavit collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant suppression-of-evidence Whether the 'fellow officer rule' can justify a search warrant with flawed probable cause
19-6156 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied abuse-of-the-writ aedpa anti-semitism capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal second-or-successive-petition Whether Halprin's second federal petition raising a judicial bias claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2) if the judge concealed …
19-6093 In Re Barbara Stone, et al. 2019-09-30 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection habeas-corpus retaliation state-detention unlawful-detention vulnerable-adults Whether the facts demonstrate willful violations of protected rights under the Constitution, including the right to life, liberty, property, due proce…
19-6046 Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure Issues being raised
19-5981 William James Truesdale v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-standard patent procedural-question standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule transfer Whether the United States District Court deliberately denied Petitioner Jraesdole's February 26, 2019 'PETITION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE' and 'PATENT PETIT…
19-5911 Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does the 'saving clause' of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a congres…
19-272 Willie Lee Cooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy home-search probable-cause reasonable-belief warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the emergency-aid exception permits a warrantless, nonconsensual search of a private home based upon officers' inability to 'rule out the poss…
19-258 Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied 5th-amendment deed-dispute due-process fifth-amendment government-action government-taking just-compensation land-ownership property-rights remand takings takings-clause title-claim unsalable-property Whether the Government can claim title to privately owned land and actively work to make that property unsaleable, without triggering the Fifth Amendm…
19-5716 Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing Whether the life of my pregnant companion & fetus was not being protected from imminent danger from real threat by two young men with burglary tools i…
19-234 Libertarian National Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2019-08-22 Denied campaign-finance content-based-restrictions deceased-donor federal-election-commission first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech political-contributions political-parties testamentary-bequest testamentary-bequests Whether limiting the size of a deceased donor's uncoordinated testamentary bequest to a political party violates the party's First Amendment right to …
19-5640 In Re Larry Swearingen 2019-08-20 Denied 28-usc-2244 death-penalty due-process false-testimony forensic-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition innocence innocence-standard schlup-v-delo scientific-evidence scientific-testimony successive-petition What is the scope of the evidence for a court's assessment of innocence under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i)?
19-217 DaVinci Aircraft, Inc. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied bivens-claim bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents civil-asset-forfeiture civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-act civil-rights discretionary-action espionage-act federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the exception for forfeitures created by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA) apply to goods seized in violation of the Fourth A…
19-5560 Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner's medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 38…
19-5357 Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t…
19-5168 Stephenson Lamar Smith v. Ted Jackson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects an individual from being tried on different charges related to the same offense
19-5184 Kristopher Courtney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Kristopher Courtney's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-5051 Armando Duarte Islas, Jr. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied actual-innocence arizona-jurisdiction civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process federal-agencies federal-jurisdiction federal-organization habeas-corpus Whether Arizona had jurisdiction over events that occurred wholly, and investigated exclusively by agencies under exclusive federal organization?
18-9845 Bradley Joseph Vanzant v. Keith Yordy, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Did petitioner make an involuntarily unknown and unintelligent plea through ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of his 6th Amendment righ…