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25-6584 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether multiple alleged judicial and prosecutorial errors in a criminal case constitute grounds for reversal of conviction and sentencing, including …
25-6320 Dean Spencer v. Utah Utah 2025-12-09 Pending blood-alcohol-concentration criminal-prosecution measurement-error per-se-threshold reasonable-doubt toxicological-evidence Whether conflicting toxicological testimony with measurement errors can support a beyond-a-reasonable-doubt finding of blood alcohol concentration abo…
25A631 John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-01 Application child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin…
25A607 Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to criminal defendants' rights
25-5954 In Re Michael Albert Focia 2025-10-24 Denied commerce-clause due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-control-act private-sales second-amendment Whether the Gun Control Act's application to private arms sales on the secondary market exceeds federal jurisdiction and violates constitutional prote…
25-5873 In Re Donald Bowers 2025-10-14 Denied None Question not identified.
25-270 Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing Whether the Federal Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment of non-infringement based on estoppel and constitutional standing in patent infringeme…
25A17 Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete commerce-clause constitutional-challenge federal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s jurisdictional element for firearm possession violates the Commerce Clause when applied to a defendant whose firearm p…
24-7354 Seth Stewart v. City of American Fork, Utah Utah 2025-06-04 Denied constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial stare-decisis Whether stare decisis can be invoked to undermine constitutional guarantees when interpreting the Constitution
24A1083 Thomas J. Zajac v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete 70-day-period judicial-discretion mistrial speedy-trial-act time-exclusion trial-delay Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits a district court to exclude time from the 70-day trial calculation without making explicit on-the-record findings…
24-7043 Sean Christopher Owen v. Kristin Keisel, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied age-discrimination constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection minor-rights sexual-conduct Whether Utah statutes criminalizing sexual conduct between consenting post-pubescent minors violate constitutional rights to equality and liberty
24-1086 America West Bank Members, LC v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process fdic-receivership federal-rule-54c state-official-action Whether a court is obligated to afford relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(c) when relief was not sufficiently requested, and whether due …
24A870 America West Bank Members, LC v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-11 Presumed Complete None
24A661 Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court en-banc-petition legal-reasoning patent-law summary-judgment Whether a district court's summary judgment ruling in a patent-related case can be affirmed without a comprehensive written opinion explaining the leg…
24-643 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-630 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-610 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer Eighth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24A521 Kane County, Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete administrative-law federal-lands historical-access land-management public-lands right-of-way Whether federal land management agencies can restrict local government access to and use of historical roads and trails on federal lands under the Rev…
24-581 Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell Utah 2024-11-26 Denied aggravating-factors criminal-sentencing death-penalty ineffective-assistance-counsel mitigation-evidence strickland-standard Did the Utah Supreme Court violate binding case law by improperly assessing Strickland deficient performance and prejudice in a death penalty case inv…
24A515 Utah v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete administrative-authority federal-lands land-management statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit wilderness-study-areas Whether federal land management agencies can unilaterally designate and manage wilderness study areas without explicit congressional authorization
24A504 United States v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-21 Presumed Complete environmental-intervention federal-rules-civil-procedure intervention-of-right right-of-way scope-of-litigation tenth-circuit Whether an environmental organization can intervene as of right in a federal land dispute when challenging the scope of a claimed right of way under R…
24-528 Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. Utah 2024-11-12 Denied associational-rights candidate-selection convention-process first-amendment political-party-rights primary-election Did the Utah Supreme Court improperly mandate a convention-nominated candidate to participate in a direct primary after a losing candidate collected s…
24-5912 David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied absolute-immunity case-assignment due-process judicial-function jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct Whether absolute immunity shields prosecutors and judges from liability for fabricating evidence and potential jurisdictional overreach
24A362 Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell Utah 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete capital-murder ineffective-assistance mitigation-witness religious-testimony strickland-standard trial-strategy Whether a criminal defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim can be established when trial counsel strategically chose not to object to pote…
24-5665 Shari Lynn Oliver v. Julie A. McDonald, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights family-court-enterprise parent-child-rights racketeering title-iv-d Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged constitutional violations in a family court federal-state enter…
24-5647 David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-09-26 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-5635 Kim Bowers v. Payson City, Utah Utah 2024-09-25 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process sixth-amendment trial-rights Whether a criminal defendant's right to be physically present during trial can be abridged when the defendant is absent voluntarily after the trial ha…
24-5431 Jacob Valle v. Florida Florida 2024-08-30 Denied criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
22O160 Utah, Plaintiff v. United States 2024-08-23 Pending None
24-5062 Amanda Reynolds v. City of Sandy, Utah Utah 2024-07-12 Denied birchfield-v-north-dakota constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment implied-consent miranda-rights sixth-amendment standing-mootness-public-interest-doctrine Does Petitioner have standing to challenge the constitutionality of Utah's Implied Consent Statute?
24-5015 Eduardo Alvarez, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied arrest-warrant attenuation-doctrine criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-stop search-and-seizure standing utah-v-strieff Whether an officer's discovery of someone else's outstanding arrest warrant necessarily attenuates the illegality of a defendant's own detention under…
23-7685 Edwin K. Davis v. Florida Florida 2024-06-11 Denied criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
23-1067 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C…
23-1020 Utah v. Alfonso Valdez Utah 2024-03-18 Denied cellphone cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode self-incrimination testimonial testimonial-communication Whether disclosing a cellphone passcode with no substantive meaning is testimonial under the Fifth Amendment
23-975 Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which …
23-6288 Carlos Velasquez v. Robert Baldock, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied civil-rights court-procedure fed-r-civ-p-59 fed-r-civ-p-60(d) fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-immunity judicial-malpractice new-trial-timing rule-60 Will the Supreme Court of the United States reject Political-Fraud,fraud-and-false-statements-in-official-transactions,when-expressed-by-political-aut…
23A513 Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete anti-harassment-rule first-amendment jurisdictional-inquiry mootness pre-enforcement-challenge standing Whether a First Amendment pre-enforcement challenger lacks standing to challenge a vague anti-harassment rule based on a nonbinding, reversible enforc…
23A445 United States v. David L. Miller Tenth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code fraudulent-transfer section-106(a) section-544(b) sovereign-immunity trustee-action Whether Section 106(a) of the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the federal government's sovereign immunity for both a trustee's federal claim under Section 5…
23-487 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-11-09 Denied 42-usc-1981 attorney-fees california-law civil-rights contract contractual-dues discrimination due-process employment section-1981 utah-procedure Whether pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1981, failure to provide Appellants' contractual dues is discriminatory?
23-448 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-10-27 Denied appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5
23-5879 Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) is a part of the mitigation of a defendant's sentence that can challenge the subject-matter jurisdict…
23-5660 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied capital-sentencing constitutional-rights federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-waiver prejudice-standard state-statutory-right waiver When a capital defendant on federal habeas review challenges as ineffective his counsel's performance as it relates to the defendant's waiver of a sta…
23A29 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice Whether the standard for assessing Strickland prejudice in capital cases involving counsel's deficient advice to waive a defendant's statutory right t…
23-5044 Marvin Belser v. Michigan Michigan 2023-07-05 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
22-7823 Weston Ray Kubbe v. Utah Utah 2023-06-20 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-defendants criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause Equal protection in sentencing for criminal defendants
22-7241 Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah Utah 2023-04-07 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Salerno's 'no set of circumstances' test, the Hoffman/Grayned 'more stringent vagueness test,' or some other test, should govern judicial revi…
22-949 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Diana Hagen, Justice, Supreme Court of Utah, et al. Utah 2023-03-29 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forum human-trafficking judicial-misconduct qualified-immunity recusal sexual-harassment standing statute-of-limitations If Mr. Howell's mom knows the Court, is that a fair forum for Petitioner?
22-901 Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson Utah 2023-03-17 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process
22-904 Jane Doe 8, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied american-pipe civil-procedure class-action federal-claims non-federal-claims rule-23 statute-of-limitations tolling-rule Does American Pipe class action tolling apply to non-federal claims?
22-817 Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below conflicts with Staub v. Proctor Hospital
22A765 Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah Utah 2023-02-22 Presumed Complete None
22-758 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-02-13 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-immunity procedural-rules record record-review standing u.r.a.p-11 Whether the Court of Appeals allowing materials not on the record conflicts with the requirements of U.R.A.P 11?
22-724 San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat Tenth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action Whether a municipality may be exposed to liability under Section 1983 and Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), if …
22-678 Keming Lu v. Northern Utah Healthcare Corporation, dba St. Mark's Hospital Utah 2023-01-23 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process labor-commission trial-de-novo witness-testimony workplace-termination Did Petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th and 7th amendments to testify for herself and due process under the 14th amendment get violated w…
22-513 Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm…
22-479 Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the Tenth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review under the Administrative Procedure Act
22-6083 Aaron Jay Pierce v. Utah Utah 2022-11-17 Denied coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection impeachment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether statements obtained during a custodial police interrogation in violation of the Constitution, law, and state law should be suppressed by the d…
22-6012 Paige Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure utah-v-strieff Is it error to apply the attenuation test articulated in Brown v. Illinois to determine whether evidence discovered during an illegal search should be…
22-276 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, et al. Utah 2022-09-23 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure contempt due-process jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-83 safe-harbor vexatious-litigant Whether application of the contempt analysis associated with Utah R. Civ. P. 11 sanctions to review a Utah R. Civ. P. 83 Vexatious Litigant order is f…
22A227 Aaron Jay Pierce v. Utah Utah 2022-09-15 Presumed Complete None
21-8097 Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah Whether the differing penalties established by Utah's drug and measurable substance provisions violate due process or equal protection
21-1526 Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action
21-1225 The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit qualified-immunity
21-7199 Bryan Matthew Brewer v. Oklahoma Bar Association Oklahoma 2022-02-24 Denied administrative-rules bar-association civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emolument-violation free-speech judicial-procedure oaths-and-emoluments remedies republican-form-of-government state-government Where does the law originate from?
21-777 Blake Edward Halfacre v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied administrative-law employment-rights exclusive-provisions federal-employees federal-employment-compensation-act federal-tort-claims-act light-duty-job light-duty-job-offer united-states-court-of-appeals workers-compensation Are the 'exclusive provisions' in the FECA (Federal Employment Compensation Act) applicable, or available to Federal Employees who also have no formal…
21-656 John Oirya v. Brigham Young University Tenth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied 10th-circuit administrative-discretion due-process gender-bias judicial-review school-discipline student-rights substantial-evidence summary-judgment title-ix Should federal courts review school disciplinary decisions for substantial evidence of guilt?
21-600 Wade Steven Gardner, et al. v. William Mutz, in His Capacity as Mayor of the City of Lakeland, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech legacy-monuments legal-doctrine monument-display public-forum public-forums summum summum-precedent Should the government speech doctrine as recognized in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum be modified in cases involving legacy monuments already in …
21-5881 In Re Marjorie Creamer 2021-10-04 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statutory-interpretation workplace-policies writ-of-certiorari SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND INDECENT, LEWD, OR VULGAR CONDUCT
21-5652 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied abuse-of-procedure civil-petition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contempt due-process fraud fraud-on-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation standing Whether effective limitations on government power can define fraud on the court and criminal contempt in judicial misrepresentation of citizens' civil…
21-5331 Zachary R. E. Rusk v. Fidelity Brokerage Services Tenth Circuit 2021-08-11 Dismissed circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-interference judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-11-motion rule-60-motion standing timeliness Did the 10th circuit apply the law incorrectly?
21-111 NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. Virginia, ex rel. Mark R. Herring, Attorney General Virginia 2021-07-27 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process federal-preemption individual-relief litigation-exception non-signatory standing state-attorney-general Whether a state attorney general who is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement may bring claims that are covered by the agreement and seek indivi…
21-71 Washington County, Utah v. Martin Crowson Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment inmate-medical-care municipal-liability section-1983 supreme-court-precedents Whether a municipal government can be liable under the Eighth Amendment for denial of inmate medical care under § 1983
20-1750 Danesh Rahimi v. Troy Kohler Utah 2021-06-16 Denied civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment group-quiet-title judicial-taking property-rights real-property standing state-courts takings May the Utah State Courts enter orders on the basis of a 'group quiet title doctrine' which has no precedential authority?
20-8300 Lonnie Norton v. Utah Utah 2021-06-15 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013) require that when a single statute creates a tier…
20-7736 John H. Schoppe v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-claim due-process injunctive-relief pro-se standing Whether the petitioner has standing to bring claims against the defendants for alleged abuse, negligence, incompetence, conspiracy, malfeasance, and d…
20-7612 Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2021-03-31 Denied actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop May a court uphold a Terry frisk where the frisking officer did not actually suspect that the detainee was armed and dangerous?
20-1257 Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii Whether damages should be apportioned among multiple claims for the same damages, and whether pension benefits awarded for a Title VII violation are s…
20-7352 In Re Henry Lee Rudolph 2021-03-08 Denied collateral-estoppel constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief predicate-offense prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-discretion Did the Utah Supreme Court commit error by stating the Franses' rights were not violated and Rodolph requested, and by stating three flawed reasons fo…
20-7343 Justin David Williams v. Utah Utah 2021-03-05 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony Whether the court of appeals erred in its admission of the father's 911 call under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule
20-1082 Raymond Gardner v. Matthew T. Mglej Tenth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search identification identification-statute law-enforcement qualified-immunity terry-stop Whether it was clearly established in 2011 that an arrest under Utah Code Section 76-8-301.5() for refusal to hand over an identification document vio…
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-6536 In Re Vinodh Raghubir 2020-12-04 Dismissed appeal civil-rights conspiracy court-integrity due-process federal-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct legal-procedure malicious-prosecution predetermination Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Respondents conspired to predetermine the outcome of federal proceedings prior t…
20-5859 Kevin Blanke v. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole Utah 2020-10-01 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process judicial-review right-to-counsel standing Can a state supreme court or state court of appeals make dispositive rulings on issues in a civil case that were never properly adjudicated in the sta…
20-5535 Randy Platt v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission Whether robbery convictions for purposes of the career offender provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be limited to only those t…
20-96 United States v. Kane County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied circuit-conflict civil-procedure environmental-advocacy environmental-concerns federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intervention intervention-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action standing Whether an advocacy organization's environmental concerns qualify as an 'interest' required by Rule 24(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure f…
20-82 Kane County, Utah, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied administrative-representation civil-procedure environmental-interest federal-civil-procedure federal-government intervention intervention-as-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action special-interest-groups standing tenth-circuit-precedent Whether private special interest groups have an interest to intervene as of right in a quiet title action
20-9 Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, et al. v. Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied civil-rights corporate-law de-novo-review due-process ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment ministerial-exception standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment May a court of appeals on de novo review refuse to decide a claim predicated on a failure of non-religious corporations to comply with neutral princip…
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah 2020-06-29 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat…
19-8099 Brandon Perry Smith v. Utah Utah 2020-03-25 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment heightened-clarity miranda-rights sixth-amendment state-courts suspect-comprehension waiver-standard Have the Utah courts adopted a rule of law which, in applying the 'heightened clarity' standard as expanded by Berghuis v. Thompkins, dispensed with a…
19-1157 Patsy Weatherly, et al. v. Pershing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied american-pipe civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-procedure statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the tolling rule of American Pipe & Const. Co. v. Utah applies in a class action filed in federal court based on diversity jurisdiction
19-8021 Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho…
19-7989 Roger Bryner v. Clearfield City, Utah, et al. Utah 2020-03-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-bias rule-of-law standing summary-judgment utah-rule-of-civil-procedure-83 Issues being raised
19-1091 Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety Whether a government may ban expressive conduct without first trying to advance its interests using less speech-restrictive measures
19-950 Yung-Kai Lu v. University of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process employment-discrimination judicial-stay retaliation right-to-sue right-to-sue-letter Must a plaintiff seek a stay to avoid preclusion of later claims?
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review What is the standard of appellate review applicable to an adverse first-step Batson determination?
19-755 Robert C. Steiner, et ux. v. Utah State Tax Commission Utah 2019-12-12 Denied dormant-commerce-clause double-taxation equal-protection foreign-commerce interstate-taxation state-residency state-tax-credits state-taxation tax-credit tax-credits Whether Utah's tax code discriminates against foreign commerce in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause
19-6441 In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch 2019-10-29 Denied access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception under the Carrier standard
19A426 Robert C. Steiner, et ux. v. Utah State Tax Commission Utah 2019-10-17 Presumed Complete None
19-6263 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Dismissed appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts?
19-315 Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws
19-316 Larry Drake Hansen v. Salt Lake City Corporation Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied 10th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process monell-claim municipal-liability Question not identified. standing state-law takings access-to-the-courts
19A227 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-08-27 Presumed Complete None
19-5305 Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights
18-1464 Milos Jiricko v. Frankenburg Jensen Law Firm, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-oath due-process judicial-review legislative-statute medical-malpractice standing supreme-court-review takings Whether the US Supreme Court can apply a blind eye to the alleged unconstitutionality of the Utah State Medical Malpractice statute, Code 78B-3-401
18-9201 Galen Lemar Amerson, et al. v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-rule civil-procedure conceivable-effect de-novo-review due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction testate-estate wills-and-trusts withdrawal-of-reference Does the bankruptcy court have subject matter jurisdiction over the petitioner's Florida counterclaims?
18-1353 Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah should continue until a district court's denial of class…
18-1340 Bonnie R. Fowler v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel dismissal due-process federal-question res-judicata standing state-actor supervisory-power Does the doctrines of res-judicata and collateral estoppel fail when the Petitioner has repeatedly disputed and proven that not any one of the necessa…
18-8581 Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights
18-8590 Harlin Argelio Ramos v. Utah Utah 2019-03-27 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice self-defense Did the Utah appellate court err in holding that the erroneous jury instruction, which impermissibly shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner/Defen…
18-1216 R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. Florida 2019-03-20 Denied anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis Retaliation against pro se respondents, emolument manipulation, falsification of facts, lack of due process, election irregularities, anti-American bi…
18-8456 Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in …
18A933 Mark Anthony Beverly v. Utah Utah 2019-03-15 Presumed Complete None
18-1147 Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence that contradicts its own precedence's
18-8284 Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment appeal-restrictions appeals constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction jurisdictional-bars pro-se standing Does it violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment for pro se parties to have less time and more restrictions to file …
18-7463 Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law Whether a federal judge or justice condones fraudulent misrepresentation, perjury, disregard of the rule of law, denial of newly discovered evidence, …
18A687 Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. Utah 2019-01-02 Presumed Complete None
18-539 George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly Rhode Island 2018-10-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full-faith-and-credit-clause by failing to uphold and enforce a Utah court's order fin…
18-450 Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination Does the First Amendment permit a government to compel a political party to use a state-preferred process for selecting a party's standard-bearers for…
18-332 Kevin Singson v. Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah Utah 2018-09-14 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedures civil-rights debt-collection due-process extraordinary-writ governmental-power sovereign-immunity standing state-action state-agency state-courts unfair-collection Whether the Utah State Supreme Court erred in affirming the Utah Court of Appeals in denying that a specific remedy exists for a citizen to challenge …
18A216 Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-24 Presumed Complete None
24A529 Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. Utah Presumed Complete candidate-selection convention-nomination political-party primary-election right-of-association state-interference Whether a state can constitutionally mandate a direct primary election that overrides a political party's convention-based candidate nomination proces…