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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6809 | Michael Wayne Keller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | commonwealth-instruction heat-of-passion jury-instruction legal-standard malice-definition trial-court-error | Was the definition of malice given to the jury a proper Virginia model jury instruction defining heat of passion, and did counsel for appellant reques… |
| 25-925 | Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. | New York | 2026-02-06 | Pending | arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process | Is manifest disregard of the law a ground to vacate an arbitration award and if so, what does it mean? |
| 25-6692 | Ana Rosenda Mancio v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus strickland-standard | Whether a federal court can review a state court's habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when the state court's factual determinations are underm… |
| 25-6683 | Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Pending | due-diligence evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence-claim schlup-standard | May evidence of innocence be 'new' under Schlup even if it was available at the time of trial? |
| 25-6678 | Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia | Virginia | 2026-01-30 | Pending | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing | Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un… |
| 25-6672 | Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A843 | Harold Edward Spencer, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Application | circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-attempt firearm-possession hobbs-act substantial-step | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the legal standard for proving conspiracy and attempted Hobbs Act robbery based on circumstantial evidenc… |
| 25-867 | Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment | Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habeas … |
| 25-872 | Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly upheld Fairfax County's public park firearm ban based on the presence of four preschool programs across 420 parks |
| 25-6581 | Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Dea… |
| 25A804 | Duane A. Fairfax v. Tracey N. Martinez | Virginia | 2026-01-12 | Application | contempt-enforcement federal-preemption spousal-support supremacy-clause va-disability veterans-benefits | Whether federal law protecting veterans' disability benefits preempts state court enforcement mechanisms that effectively require surrendering those p… |
| 25-6502 | Donald Wayne Barksdale v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | corporate-fraud due-process habeas-corpus human-rights legal-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Corporate Shoe of Vicrnwes violated due process and human rights through unauthorized legal representation and corporate fraud |
| 25A768 | Elephant Insurance Company, et al. v. Christopher Holmes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Application | article-iii-standing common-law-tort data-breach fourth-circuit intangible-injury transunion | Whether a plaintiff can establish Article III standing in a data breach lawsuit by alleging an intangible harm analogous to a common law tort when the… |
| 25A767 | Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-01-02 | Application | brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural default and insufficient evidence claims comports with due process and federal… |
| 25-6445 | Charlie Bullock v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-12-30 | Pending | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process false-testimony witness-testimony | Whether the petitioner's 14th Amendment Due Process Rights were violated by false testimony and witness manipulation at trial |
| 25-6417 | Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A738 | Gerald Kemondre Taylor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | arms-bearing-conduct bruen-test burden-of-proof historical-tradition machinegun-ban second-amendment | Whether the government bears the burden of proving a firearm regulation is consistent with the historical tradition of arms regulation under the Secon… |
| 25-726 | Alan Lane Hicks v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Pending | aedpa federal-petition habeas-corpus ineffective-process judicial-delay state-court-exhaustion | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(B)(ii)'s exception to the exhaustion requirement for 'circumstances' that render state proceedings 'ineffective' can ap… |
| 25-713 | George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights | Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 25-709 | West Virginia v. Michael Keith Allman | West Virginia | 2025-12-18 | Pending | custodial-arrest evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Whether the State must show that an arrestee could access a weapon or destructible evidence from a bag the arrestee was carrying immediately before ar… |
| 25A706 | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services | Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law |
| 25A705 | Charles Albert Massey v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay-evidence preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment | Whether the admission of a preliminary hearing testimony of a deceased witness, who was unavailable for cross-examination on a subsequently added crim… |
| 25A701 | Beatrice Rivera, aka Beatrice Adams v. Arlington County Department of Human Services | Virginia | 2025-12-16 | Application | certiorari petition-for-appeal pro-se state-court-order supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a 60-day extension to file a petition for certiorari should be granted when the underlying state court order w… |
| 25-6377 | Ronald Wolters v. Shelbie Smith, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Pending | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability improperly applied standards for habeas corpus review and ineffective assistance … |
| 25-6352 | Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-12-12 | Pending | complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication | Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpator… |
| 25-678 | Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. | Virginia | 2025-12-10 | Pending | bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion | Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises militates in favor of abrogating prosecutorial discretion of the Virginia State Bar f… |
| 25-664 | Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Pending | actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence | Whether the 'new' evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo includes only newly discovered evidence that was not availa… |
| 25A654 | John T. Hardee v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-12-04 | Application | certiorari court-procedure formatting-requirements pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to strictly comply with Supreme Court formatting rules warrants dismissal of a petition for certiorari or justifie… |
| 25A649 | Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Application | constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations | Whether a federal habeas petitioner's mental health conditions can constitute an extraordinary circumstance warranting equitable tolling of the statut… |
| 25A648 | Veltor Underground, LLC v. Kelly Loeffler, Administrator, Small Business Administration, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Application | academic-commitments certiorari-extension legal-practice professional-obligations supreme-court-clinic time-extension | Whether a law school Supreme Court clinic and its director can be granted an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on academic and… |
| 25A637 | Arun K. Chhabra v. ACW New Jersey, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | deadline-extension disability-accommodation legal-assistance medical-limitation pro-se supreme-court-procedure | Whether a pro se litigant's physical disabilities and temporary lack of assistance constitute grounds for extending a deadline to file a petition for … |
| 25-6224 | Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic analysis to excessive force claims, including all police conduct leading up to the us… |
| 25-6201 | Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Denied | attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment | Whether the Virginia Attorney General's office's discretionary decisions regarding state statutes and case law for civil commitments violate equal pro… |
| 25-592 | Teresa Miller v. Officer Helms, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 conviction-vacatur heck-v-humphrey judicial-prejudice pro-se-filing section-1404 | Did the Fourth Circuit misapply Heck v. Humphrey by failing to recognize a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim's accrual upon conviction vacatur, and did it err in… |
| 25-6171 | Aldo DiBelardino v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement | Whether the systematic manipulation of grand jury authority violates due process guarantees under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and whether the… |
| 25-6135 | Sonya Fuller v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-11-17 | Denied | aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about… |
| 25A563 | Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs | Whether a prison's alleged deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition… |
| 25-6080 | Warren Ellwood Shelton, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2025-11-12 | Denied | appeals-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing | Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review a lower court's decision regarding sentencing and appeals process |
| 25-562 | Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Rehearing | appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains 'pend… |
| 25-554 | Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability for alleged due process violations and federal habeas review issues |
| 25-550 | Michael Fernandez, D.D.S., LTD., a Division of Atlantic Dental Care, PLC, et al. v. Stephen C. Brich, P.E., Commissioner of Highways, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | class-of-one comparator-analysis constitutional-claim equal-protection pleading-standard zoning-law | Is Appellants' non-zoning related equal protection claim based upon a 'class-of-one theory' subject to the heightened pleading standard for similarly … |
| 25A517 | Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Application | certiorari criminal-sentence federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit time-extension | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of a criminal sentence warrants Supreme Court review due to counsel's professional scheduling constraints |
| 25A504 | Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Application | constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense | Whether a local government's categorical ban on firearm possession in public parks violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense |
| 25A498 | Matthew Martorello v. Lula Williams, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Application | indian-commerce-clause internet-loans rico sovereign-immunity state-regulation tribal-lending | Whether the Indian Commerce Clause permits states to regulate internet-based loans originated by tribal lenders on an Indian reservation when the borr… |
| 25-5961 | Eva Marie Gardner v. Maryland | Maryland | 2025-10-27 | Pending | concealed-carry due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-travel second-amendment self-defense | Does Maryland's prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit violate the Second Amendment under Bruen by lacking historical tradition of d… |
| 25-511 | William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment | Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of an evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian American plaintiff conflicts wi… |
| 25-5951 | Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts | Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts violates due process and the right to present a defense, and whether the admission of prejudicia… |
| 25A453 | Eric Arthur Walton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | certiorari circuit-split federal-law pro-se standard-of-review supervised-release | Whether the Supreme Court should establish a uniform standard of appellate review for district court decisions allowing defendants to proceed pro se a… |
| 25-442 | Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Pending | constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights | Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny or a deferential standard of review |
| 25A415 | Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether federal criminal statutes governing sexual abuse in Indian Country are unconstitutionally vague or overbroad in their application to specific … |
| 25-5846 | Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-10-09 | Denied | appellate-review due-deference legal-issues miranda-waiver standard-of-review supreme-court | What is the correct standard of review on appeal for a court reviewing a finding that a Miranda waiver is voluntary? |
| 25A381 | Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Application | constitutional-review content-based-restriction first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny purpose-based-distinction speech-regulation | Whether content-based speech restrictions that purport to draw distinctions based on the purpose of regulated speech are subject to strict or intermed… |
| 25-5761 | Leonard Wista Najacque v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-09-30 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A368 | Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard | Whether 'new evidence' under the Schlup actual innocence standard requires newly discovered evidence unavailable at trial or encompasses all evidence … |
| 25A371 | Rashun Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the categorical approach in interpreting a state controlled substance statute and disreg… |
| 25A355 | United States v. Shaheem Johnson | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Presumed Complete | co-conspirators extraordinary-and-compelling section-3553 section-3582 sentence-reduction sentencing-disparities | Whether sentencing disparities between co-conspirators can constitute 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 25-344 | Robert Cromwell, et al. v. William Tacon, as Administrator of Caribbean Commercial Investment Bank Ltd. | Second Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | civil-procedure dismissal forum-selection limitations-period rule-41 time-bar-defense | Whether a district court may dismiss a plaintiff's case without prejudice under Rule 41 when the defendant has a time-bar defense and a without-prejud… |
| 25-5711 | Jermal Williams v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-09-23 | Denied | circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof | Whether Louisiana's R.S. 15:438 imposes a higher standard of proof for circumstantial evidence than the Jackson v. Virginia federal standard |
| 25-5693 | Yasmani Gurri Rubio v. City of Alexandria, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Denied | due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure rule-12b3 statutory-interpretation venue-dismissal | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when a federal district court dismisses an action with prejudice for improper venue … |
| 25A320 | Phillip Michael Giles v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights effective-assistance legal-research prison-access sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and speedy trial was violated when the petitioner was denied adequate access to l… |
| 25A302 | Sonya Fuller v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow… |
| 25-5626 | Andrew Chafin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of any felony offense violates the Second … |
| 25A289 | Mary E. Hill v. Malcolm S. Spratley, Sr. | Virginia | 2025-09-12 | Presumed Complete | attorney-withdrawal legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari after experiencing an attorney's alleged breach of professional… |
| 25-5600 | In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard | 2025-09-10 | Denied | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | Whether the jury instructions adequately informed the jury of the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea for 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) counts as interprete… | |
| 25A232 | AdvanFort Company v. Zamil Offshore Services Company, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Presumed Complete | alternative-forum forum-non-conveniens jurisdictional-split maritime-dispute piecemeal-litigation venue-transfer | Whether a district court may dismiss a case under forum non conveniens when the plaintiff would be required to litigate its claims in multiple foreign… |
| 25-5466 | Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Denied | criminal-rule-29 due-process habeas-corpus jackson-virginia negative-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a Petitioner claiming insufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia can raise a legitimate constitutional claim through a Criminal Rule-… |
| 25-5458 | Andrew Jackson McCauley, Jr. v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2025-08-25 | Denied | change-of-venue child-abuse first-degree-murder human-remains k-9-testimony motion-for-directed-verdict | Did the trial court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's Motion for Change of Venue; by allowing K-9 testimony about human remains; and by … |
| 25-5459 | Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-08-25 | Denied | confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability | Does Kentucky's postconviction procedure for determining intellectual disability violate Woodall's Fourteenth Amendment right to confront witnesses an… |
| 25-5451 | Zephaniah S. Edwards v. Bland Management, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | civil-procedure district-court due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules virginia-law | Whether under Virginia Law, multiple procedural irregularities occurred in the Alexandria District Court and Federal Court proceedings that potentiall… |
| 25-198 | Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Pending | ammunition-ban common-use firearms-regulation property-rights second-amendment takings-clause | Whether a ban on commonly owned ammunition feeding devices violates the Second Amendment and whether dispossessing citizens of lawfully acquired prope… |
| 25-5340 | Jeffrey J. Mitchell v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2025-08-13 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A152 | Justin Saadein-Morales v. Westridge Swim & Racquet Club, INC. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay federal-preemption property-jurisdiction state-court-orders | Whether federal bankruptcy law preempts state court possession orders that conflict with the automatic stay and federal courts' exclusive jurisdiction… |
| 25A156 | Thomas Bartholomew Simpson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 25-132 | West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Pending | age-restriction constitutional-rights federal-law firearm-sales gun-control second-amendment | Whether a federal law that bans licensed sales of handguns and handgun ammunition to law-abiding 18-to-20-year-old adults violates the Second Amendmen… |
| 25-5198 | Corey Lee Butts v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-25 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 25A85 | Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-sentence extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Mr. Garcia's sentence warrants Supreme Court review under 28 U.S.C. § 1254(1) |
| 25-5125 | Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Denied | constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default | Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the lower courts' findings that the petitioner was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing or relief on his … |
| 25-58 | Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Denied | administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii | Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-termina… |
| 25-59 | Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk | Virginia | 2025-07-16 | Denied | child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights | Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require pre-deprivation due process before a court enters a child custody order that infringes fundamental libe… |
| 25A61 | Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones | Virginia | 2025-07-15 | Presumed Complete | attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari | Whether an attorney's breach of professional duties and failure to file a writ of certiorari constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel warranting … |
| 25-5089 | Veronica M. Johnson v. William S. Moore, Judge, Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal pro-se-plaintiff | Whether the unprecedented conduct of sitting Portsmouth Circuit Court judges in a sua sponte joint administrative Recusal Order violates a pro se Plai… |
| 25A53 | Victor Saldano v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-14 | Presumed Complete | atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia when multiple experts, inc… |
| 25A54 | Audi AG v. L.W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. | California | 2025-07-14 | Presumed Complete | foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-distribution purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce | Whether a foreign manufacturer can be subject to specific personal jurisdiction in a state court based solely on the distribution of its products thro… |
| 25A52 | Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-11 | Presumed Complete | capital-murder dna-evidence due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process protections are violated when a state relies on false testimony and withholds exculpatory evidence to obt… |
| 25A39 | Kevin Michael Jones v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security Administration | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law certiorari jurisdiction pro-se social-security supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a pro se litigant's multi-jurisdictional social security case involving alleged procedural errors… |
| 25-5056 | Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-08 | Denied | atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability | Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the execution of an intellectually disabled death row inmate when clinical criteria and expert consensus establish … |
| 25A2 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-1254 criminal-sentencing federal-public-defender supreme-court-rules tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Maurice Farris's sentence was legally sound and consistent with applicable federal criminal law standards |
| 24A1246 | Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Presumed Complete | appeal-deadline federal-rules-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal subject-matter-jurisdiction timely-filing | Whether a federal court can dismiss an appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when a notice of appeal is filed well beyond the prescribed 60-d… |
| 24A1217 | Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge controlled-substances-act federal-taxation marijuana-taxation state-legal-marijuana | Whether Congress may constitutionally impose federal tax penalties on state-legal marijuana businesses under the Commerce Clause in light of the evolv… |
| 24A1191 | Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-04 | Presumed Complete | en-banc-review firearms-regulation magazine-capacity second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny | Whether a state law prohibiting possession of commonly used firearms magazines with more than ten rounds violates the Second Amendment right to keep a… |
| 24-1219 | Dora L. Adkins v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff | Whether the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's order and whether the district court properly denied Adkins' motions for leave to fi… |
| 24-7295 | Riley Dyson Biro v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar state-court-rule | Did the Court of Appeals err by denying a certificate of appealability when the district court's findings were debatable and multiple constitutional r… |
| 24-7308 | Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation copyright-infringement due-process federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law | Whether state sovereign immunity applies to federal copyright infringement and fraud claims under the Constitution |
| 24A1120 | Anita Louise Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-charges criminal-conviction first-impression fourth-circuit medical-instrument physician-liability | Whether a physician can be criminally convicted for adulteration of a medical instrument under circumstances presenting a novel legal issue |
| 24A1096 | Sonal N. Desai v. David Steiner, Postmaster General | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-employee motion-to-dismiss rehabilitation-act title-vii | Whether Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act preclude dismissal of an employment discrimination claim by a federal employee based on the district cour… |
| 24-1160 | William R. Lott v. Maria V. Lott | Virginia | 2025-05-13 | Denied | disability-pay divorce-proceedings federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-benefits | May a state court enforce a contractual agreement entered into between a disabled veteran and his former spouse, which agreement obligates the veteran… |
| 24A1050 | Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, By Their Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-04-30 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24A1038 | Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-28 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right district-court-review habeas-corpus procedural-grounds | Whether a state prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas petition when the district court denies relief on procedural g… |
| 24-1110 | Saint Anthony Hospital v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-25 | Denied | federal-enforcement hospital-rights medicaid-law prompt-payment-rule section-1983 spending-clause | In determining whether Saint Anthony Hospital has a right to sue to enforce the prompt payment rule, should the court of appeals have treated Wilder a… |
| 24-1094 | Louis B. Antonacci v. Rahm Emanuel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-21 | Denied | cyberespionage due-process protected-speech racketeering rico-enterprise subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Petitioner Antonacci has properly alleged that Respondents are architects of a criminal RICO enterprise engaged in racketeering activity again… |
| 24A992 | Nyah Sekel v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-17 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 24-1076 | John Sigley v. ND Fairmont LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act dischargeable-misconduct employment-discrimination fourth-circuit medical-condition-disclosure post-offer-questionnaire | Whether an individual's decision not to disclose a medical condition on a post-offer questionnaire receives protection under the ADA? |
| 24-1075 | Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-04-14 | Denied | after-discovered-evidence due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which denied the defendant's motion for a n… |
| 24-6938 | Tarun Kumar Vyas v. Bryan F. Hutcheson, Sheriff, Rockingham County, Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6906 | Reginald Mack v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-01 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion expert-witness jury-intelligence medical-malpractice spoliation summary-judgment | Was the layman's intelligence gravely discounted in this medical malpractice case without determining the base of that common knowledge of a Virginia … |
| 24-1013 | In Re Louis B. Antonacci | 2025-03-21 | Dismissed | bar-admission civil-procedure due-process judicial-review racketeering subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Fourth Circuit must exercise jurisdiction and rule on Antonacci's appeals involving RICO claims and procedural challenges | |
| 24-6818 | Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, or whether such challenges … |
| 24-6798 | Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication | Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an… |
| 24-6762 | Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-13 | Denied | constitutional-validity custody-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause | Whether Virginia State, County, and City Courts are Unconstitutional based on the 1971 Virginia Constitution, U.S. Supremacy Clause, and Due Process C… |
| 24-964 | John O'Bannon, Chairman of the State Board of Elections for the Commonwealth of Virginia, et al. v. Tati Abu King, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | civil-war-reconstruction ex-parte-young judicial-enforcement private-parties readmission-acts sovereign-immunity | Whether private parties may seek judicial enforcement of the Readmission Acts and bypass a State's sovereign immunity under Ex parte Young |
| 24-6689 | Tarun Kumar Vyas v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2025-03-04 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-929 | Christine Solem v. Sarah Taylor | Virginia | 2025-02-27 | Denied | due-process judicial-review legal-error petition-for-rehearing procedural-claim supreme-court-of-virginia | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred when it failed to address Petitioner Solem's due process claim, which was clearly highlighted in her Petit… |
| 24A817 | Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-02-24 | Presumed Complete | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6588 | In Re Lancey Darnell Ray | 2025-02-19 | Denied | autopsy-determination due-process forensic-pathology insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia medical-examiner | Whether state experts' failure to apply a reliable method to forensic pathology investigations constitutes an insufficiency of evidence claim under Ja… | |
| 24-6594 | Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-19 | Denied | atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedural interpretation of Hall v. Florida circumvents the categorical prohibition against executing intellectua… |
| 24-6523 | Timothy W. Wright, Jr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-02-10 | Denied | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus | Question not identified. |
| 24-6529 | Tarun Kumar Vyas v. Bryan F. Hutcheson, Sheriff, Rockingham County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | None | Question not identified. |
| 24-6466 | David Alcorn v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure defendants-rights district-court public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Upholding The District Court's Violation Of Defendants' Sixth Amendment Right To A Public Trial? |
| 24-6393 | Shamichael Antonio Pearson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-01-27 | Denied | criminal-procedure criminal-standard-of-proof identity-evidence jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia to prove beyond a reasonable doubt Mr. Pearson's identity as the perpetrator |
| 24-6367 | Nyah Sekel v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Denied | certificate-of-service civil-procedure ethical-violations judicial-discretion procedural-default service-of-process | Is the defense still in default because they failed to physically serve the Plaintiff in compliance with the Rules of Civil Procedure? |
| 24-721 | Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas | Texas | 2025-01-10 | Denied | absurdity-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law jackson-v-virginia statutory-interpretation | Whether Texas courts are applying the 'absurdity doctrine' in a manner that violates due process and whether Jackson v. Virginia allows jurors to rely… |
| 24-6248 | Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance proximate-causation sixth-amendment | Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request a jury instruction on proximate causation in a criminal homicide case and whether conflic… |
| 24A642 | William White, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus prison-mail pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's delayed receipt of a Court of Appeals order due to prison mail procedures constitutes good cause for an extension of time … |
| 24-6169 | Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-claim first-amendment free-exercise prisoner-rights religious-accommodation | Whether a Virginia prisoner's First Amendment free exercise claim was improperly dismissed by lower courts when he was denied religious accommodations |
| 24-650 | Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia | Virginia | 2024-12-16 | Denied | circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error | Whether the trial court's refusal to give a Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the appellant's Sixth and Fourteenth A… |
| 24-6144 | Michael Roy Fuller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-appeal habeas-corpus malice self-defense vehicle-shooting | Whether self-defense justifies shooting into a vehicle's dashboard when fearing for one's life and pleading to be released |
| 24-6076 | Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings | Did the false information and improper jurisdiction in a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional due process and civil rights? |
| 24-6078 | Michael Andrew Peterson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | constitutional-provisions extraordinary-circumstances jurisdiction legal-opinion petition supreme-court | Question not identified. |
| 24-6058 | Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-04 | Denied | adaptive-behavior atkins-standard clinical-assessment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing | Did the state court violate Atkins v. Virginia by improperly assessing intellectual disability through a single IQ score and incomplete adaptive behav… |
| 24-606 | Christine A. Arakelian v. Ashley Pollard, et al. | Virginia | 2024-12-04 | Denied | 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process federal-preemption state-court-procedure supremacy-clause | Did the Prince William County Circuit Court and Supreme Court of Virginia err in dismissing Petitioner's case by violating her 14th Amendment rights a… |
| 24-6042 | David Leonard Wood v. Texas | Texas | 2024-11-26 | Denied | atkins-standard criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics | Whether the Due Process Clause requires judicial disqualification when a judge presides over a case after publicly commenting on a prior ruling in the… |
| 24-566 | Edgar Dale Dillon v. Westmoreland Department of Social Services | Virginia | 2024-11-20 | Denied | child-removal due-process habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-rights state-action | Whether the Virginia Supreme Court correctly applied due process rights in a child removal proceeding involving ineffective assistance of counsel and … |
| 24-5892 | Toccara Yvonne Puller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review | Question not identified. |
| 24-5833 | Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny | Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process Clauses require strict scrutiny review of a state statute amendment affecting parole eligibil… |
| 24A407 | Susan Beals, Commissioner, et al. v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Presumed Complete | ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law immigrant-voting voter-registration voting-rights | Whether Virginia's election laws governing voter registration and ballot access unconstitutionally burden immigrant and minority voters' fundamental r… |
| 24-458 | Laurie Weinlein v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Denied | criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legislative-extension restitution retroactive-application victim-compensation | Whether the retroactive enlargement of a restitution liability period violates the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 24-5810 | Andre Wilburn v. Virginia Nguyen, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Denied | appellate-procedure constitutional-defect in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion oath-of-office pro-se-prisoner | Whether a district court errs when dismissing a pro se prisoner's complaint without leave to amend for futility reasons when defects could be cured, a… |
| 24-438 | Benjamin S. Goldberg v. Ralph Northam, former Governor of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | constitutional-rights covid-19 emergency-orders fourth-amendment mask-mandate state-action | Whether COVID-19 emergency orders requiring masking violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a petitioner when enforced by state officials |
| 24-5778 | Akmal Narzikulov v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | due-process fifth-amendment jury-reliability perjury reasonable-doubt witness-testimony | Whether government witnesses committed perjury during trial that was so inherently contradictory and unreliable that no reasonable jury could conclude… |
| 24-407 | Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court | Virginia | 2024-10-11 | Denied | common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety | Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of… |
| 24-5696 | Gregory Savoy v. Peter Franchot, Comptroller of Maryland | Maryland | 2024-10-03 | Denied | chemical-lobotomy constitutional-rights customary-international-law due-process federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-notice | Whether courts can deny judicial notice of a scientifically verifiable fact when such denial potentially constitutes a crime against humanity under Cu… |
| 24-5695 | Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-03 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing | Whether the Supreme Court should review the lower court's opinion regarding constitutional claims related to sentencing and criminal procedure |
| 24-375 | Leonard Carroll, et ux. v. Kendra Ross | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process private-citizen-standing service-of-process subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a private citizen has standing to bring a claim in federal court when alleging misconduct by a law firm and challenging court jurisdiction bas… |
| 24-5677 | Kelly Daniel Bass v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel speedy-trial | Whether criminal defendants are required to prove prejudice for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim where counsel is absent during a critical s… |
| 24-5652 | Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense | Whether the appellate court violated due process by affirming a conviction without properly considering uncontradicted evidence of self-defense and pr… |
| 24-313 | Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. | Virginia | 2024-09-19 | Denied | 14th-amendment comity-doctrine due-process jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 tax-injunction-act | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for procedural reasons despite alleged constitutional due process violat… |
| 24-295 | Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that a criminal defendant can waive counsel without being fully informed of the charges, potential defense… |
| 24-296 | Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | academic-hearing disciplinary-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment | Was Bhattacharya deprived of his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court and Fourth Circuit resolved disputed material facts i… |
| 24-281 | Kishna S. Minor v. Anne M. Heishman, Commissioner of Accounts | Virginia | 2024-09-12 | Denied | conflict-of-interest due-process fiduciary-oversight judicial-impartiality quasi-judicial-officer state-court-procedure | Whether a Commissioner of Accounts violates the Due Process Clause by acting as both an accuser and adjudicator in fiduciary oversight proceedings |
| 24-5533 | Clint Monroe Utter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | abduction base-offense-level carjacking firearm-enhancement robbery sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court erred in denying Utter's objections to sentencing enhancements for brandishing a firearm, abducting a bank employee, and ca… |
| 24-263 | In Re Joyce Beggs, et vir | 2024-09-09 | Denied | civil-rights conspiracy due-process extraordinary-writ federal-jurisdiction insurance-fraud | Whether Third Party insurance Agents and Adjustors conspired against Petitioners under federal civil rights statutes and violated due process rights | |
| 24-239 | Kenneth Chloe v. George Washington University | District of Columbia | 2024-09-03 | Denied | administrative-procedure chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers | Whether the United States District Court and Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights through administrative rulemaking and potential breach of… |
| 24-5420 | Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana | Indiana | 2024-08-29 | Denied | atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing | Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 24-5368 | Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit | Whether a defendant was denied due process and a unanimous jury verdict when convicted under alternative theories of culpability and affirmed by the S… |
| 24-5358 | James Andrew Metcalf v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-21 | Denied | constitutional-rights court-access covid-19-restrictions prisoners-rights pro-se-filing summary-judgment | Whether prisoners' constitutional rights are violated by court procedural technicalities that impede access to justice during COVID-19 pandemic |
| 24-5270 | Patrick Douglas Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-08 | Denied | 14th-amendment constitutional-review due-process evidence-sufficiency jackson-v-virginia witness-identification | Whether the use of selective evidence constitutes an impermissible divide and conquer strategy for evaluating evidence sufficiency under the 14th Amen… |
| 24-5220 | Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-08-05 | Denied | civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether prejudicial joinder of unrelated counts violates the right to a fair trial, |
| 24-5183 | Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | and whether the state prisoner made a proper show actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions schlup | What constitutes as 'new' evidence |
| 24-90 | William Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. v. Shauntae Anderson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | GVR | affordable-care-act equal-protection gender-dysphoria medicaid-act medical-coverage non-discrimination sex-discrimination transgender-status | Whether West Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria |
| 24A95 | West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-07-26 | Presumed Complete | administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-policy epa-authority greenhouse-gas-emissions power-plant-regulation | Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating greenhouse gas emissions regulations for power plants that su… |
| 24-82 | Christina Brown v. Amazon Headquarters, LLC, aka Amazon.com, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | course-of-business employer-liability employment medical-licensing unlawful-employment worker's-compensation workers-compensation workplace-liability workplace-safety wrongful-death | Is illegal work considered legitimate work? |
| 24A92 | Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. | Virginia | 2024-07-25 | Presumed Complete | board-of-equalization due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-tax section-1983 | Whether a local government's Board of Equalization can systematically deny due process rights to property owners through procedural rules that allow u… |
| 24-79 | James W. A. Jackson v. Kelly K. Fitzgerald | Rhode Island | 2024-07-25 | Denied | child-custody due-process evidentiary-hearing hcch-1996 international-treaty personal-jurisdiction simultaneous-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction uccjea | Does a defense of UCCJEA 'Simultaneous Proceedings' become moot when one and not all proceedings is dismissed? |
| 24-78 | Intelligent Waves, LLC v. Marthe Lattinville-Pace | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | adea age-discrimination but-for-causation civil-rights due-process eeoc-complaint employment employment-law equal-employment-opportunity-commission fourth-circuit | Does a claim of age discrimination under 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. fail in the absence of but-for causation? |
| 24-5141 | Marcus Jay Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap… |
| 24-5092 | Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | digital-privacy facebook-data fourth-amendment government-scrutiny probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant social-media temporal-limitation warrant | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent 'all-data' warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation or for a period … |
| 24-39 | Christopher Glenn White v. Donald T. Sloan, Sheriff, Lynchburg, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | booking-photo booking-photos civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-prospects freedom-of-information government-decision-making internet-publication law-enforcement public-disclosure | due-process |
| 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? |
| 24-43 | West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Granted | biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix | Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth |
| 24-28 | Iona Howard v. Amica Mutual Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | act-of-war civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-procedure legislative-overreach maladministration national-security standing | Violation-of-constitutional-rights |
| 24A10 | Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Presumed Complete | due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial summary-judgment university-discipline | Whether a public university violates a medical student's First Amendment free speech rights by expelling him based on the content of his protected spe… |
| 23-7813 | John Ragin v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Dismissed | administrative-law brady-violation constitutional-law due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure precedent prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial statutory-interpretation | Question not identified |
| 23-7777 | Robert King Via, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | 6th-amendment accomplice-testimony constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence witness-testimony | Does the uncorroborated testimony of alleged accomplices outweigh a defendant's 6th Amendment right to present evidence in his favor? |
| 23-1331 | William Christopher Schroeder v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | congressional-apportionment constitutional-interpretation electoral-representation equal-representation-in-house political-question-doctrine population-based-apportionment standing standing-doctrine us-constitution-amendment-14-section-2 us-constitution-article-1-section-2 vote-dilution voting-power-dilution | Do U.S. CONST. amend. XIV, § 2, and U.S. CONST. art. I, § 2, require that each Member of the House of Representatives be elected from constituencies c… |
| 23-7733 | Thomas Richard Ward v. Virginia | Virginia | 2024-06-20 | Denied | constitutional-rights coram-vobis criminal-procedure criminal-record-expungement cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process plea-bargain plea-colloquy protection-order-violation | due-process-violation |
| 23-7726 | Jason Robles v. Jeffery Artrip, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-law death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing | Whether should prevail, The Constitution of the United States of America, coupled with the Constitution of Virginia or the Antiterrorism and Effective… |
| 23A1098 | Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | access-to-courts civil-rights legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se section-1983 | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research resources due to technical failures constitutes a violation of his constitutional right… |
| 23-7665 | Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention | Whether the failure of the Fairfax County Police Department to notify the Consulate of Ghana in contravention of the petitioner's established consular… |
| 23-7633 | Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III | Maryland | 2024-06-04 | Denied | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights | Have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the rights of this Mother and Child under the United States Constitution? |
| 23-7613 | Tre' Anthony James v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-06-03 | Denied | appellate-review due-process factual-sufficiency jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency new-trial | Is an appellate court's reversal of a trial court's grant of a new trial reviewable? |
| 23-7620 | Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence | Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-7568 | Malek Lassiter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | 18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor | Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23-7547 | Branden Tyler v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | 18-usc-2 5th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interstate-commerce person principal statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant can be charged with aiding and abetting when the principal was not another actual person |
| 23-7512 | Dallas M. Acoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence |
| 23-7500 | Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute | Whether and to what extent Virginia's 'not guilty by reason of insanity' (NGRI) statutes are unconstitutional |
| 23-7393 | Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. | Virginia | 2024-05-07 | Denied | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause | Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Supreme Court of Virginia erred in denying Petitioner's U.S. Amendment … |
| 23-7397 | Diamond L. Barnes v. Felicia Adkins, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure concealed-carry constitutional-right due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure procedural-rule second-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question not identified |
| 23A987 | Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Presumed Complete | court-filing extension-of-time fourth-circuit hardship petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Whether a pro se plaintiff experiencing personal hardship and property damage may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… |
| 23-7372 | Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion professional-disciplinary-proceedings sixth-amendment standing | Question not identified |
| 23-1173 | April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowners Association | Virginia | 2024-05-01 | Denied | 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-in-judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment | Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdiction… |
| 23-1177 | Eric Fisher v. Virginia | Virginia | 2024-05-01 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law | Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli… |
| 23-1162 | Dawn Keefer, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | civil-rights coleman-precedent due-process election-law elections judicial-review legislative-process legislative-standing separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification | Whether state legislators have standing to challenge executive actions that nullify their votes on specific legislation |
| 23A964 | Peter Paul Mitrano, et al. v. Cary Cucinelli | Virginia | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process legal-procedure petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court-of-virginia | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia violated the petitioners' constitutional due process rights by refusing to grant a petition for rehearing in a c… |
| 23-1135 | Saline Parents, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2024-04-18 | Denied | chilling-effect domestic-terrorism first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance reputational-harm standing | Standing-to-challenge-government-policy |
| 23-1121 | Brent Edward Clark v. Vibeke Dankwa | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-16 | Denied | bivens-action exceptions ftca-claim ftca-judgment-bar remand remand-rights section-2680-exception statutes-of-limitations sua-sponte-dismissal | Did the district court make two reversible errors in swa sponte raising the statutes of limitations affirmative defense to dismiss the Petitioner's Bi… |
| 23A893 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari-extension criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment supreme-court-review | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutionally overbroad or violates a defendant's Second Amendment rights in its prohibition of firearm possessi… |
| 23A890 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced individual who has demonstrated full rehabilitation and for whom the penolog… |
| 23-7153 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution | When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica… |
| 23-7070 | Riley Thornock, et ux. v. Bedford County, Virginia | Virginia | 2024-03-26 | Denied | access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking | Does the government's attempt to compel an individual out of their established residence or property warrant the appointment of a court-appointed atto… |
| 23-7042 | Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden | Georgia | 2024-03-20 | Denied | atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability | Can the State under Atkins v. Virginia execute a person who is intellectually disabled by all clinical standards? |