8th-circuit

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5988 In Re Bryan Lee Gregory 2024-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit due-process federal-procedure judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus Whether Chief Judge Smith violated 28 USC 352(a) by determining disputed facts in Mr. Gregory's complaint against district court judges and whether Mr…
23-5566 Scott A. Anthony v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction What defines sexually explicit conduct under 18 USC § 2251(a)?
23-5113 Charleton Maxwell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule Whether a higher degree of protection is required by the due process clause when the sentencing judge uses a mere preponderance standard to determine …
22-1243 Hieu Minh Le v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 8th-circuit administrative-search constitutional-search due-process eighth-circuit inspection-level motion-to-suppress north-american-standard-inspection warrant-requirement Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding a North American Standard Inspection Level II inspection is an adequate substitute for the warrant require…
21-8153 Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Was the denial of a COA proper?
21-7652 Damian Scott Olvera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability
21-7524 Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition Should petitioner's due-process right to meaningful-review of 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence claims be foreclosed by 8th-circuit's local-rule-47a(a) sum…
21-6458 David A. Callison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit civil-procedure due-process law-enforcement proof-of-insurance rodriguez-analysis traffic-stop trial-record Whether the 8th Circuit erred by refusing to perform a Rodriguez analysis
21-6172 Justin Paul Sulzner v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-circuit civil-rights covert-operations due-process emergency-relief injunctive-relief judicial-review national-security odni standing Whether the 8th Circuit Appellate Court should have granted emergency injunctive reliefs against an ODNI covert community operating inside the CCJW, w…
21-5540 Guadalupe Urbina-Rodriguez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g1 18-usc-924a2 8th-amendment 8th-circuit carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-firearm-possession criminal-history eighth-circuit-precedent felony-enhancement second-amendment-rights sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction whether-prior-offenses-constitute-felony-for-enhanced-sentence
20-7660 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent injunctive-relief mentally-disabled pro-se standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 8th Cir. Appellate Court should have used 'special care' when dealing with a mentally disabled, indigent, pro se Plaintiff under 28 U.S.C.…
20-6948 Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP 8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc…
20-5846 Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity Whether the 8th Circuit's decision is contrary to Kingsley
20-5595 Joshua Glen Box v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri…
20-5554 Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter juris…
19-8700 Cody Strodtman v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing supreme-court Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying review of a district court's dismissal of a civil rights claim contrary to established U.S. …
19-1172 Mark Targowski v. Zachary Lee Rawlins Eighth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response Waived 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process evidence evidence-standard jury per-curiam reasonable-jury standing verdict writ-of-certiorari Whether no reasonable jury could have reached the same verdict based on the evidence submitted.
19-7865 Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct
19-6940 Kevin James Petroske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism Whether mere video voyeurism can constitute intending a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction u…
19-6791 Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli…
19-6650 Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set…
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability
19-263 Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied 4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, __ U.S. _, 188 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases …
18-9315 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-circuit 8th-circuit circuit-conflict circuit-split codefendant-testimony criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 Should a district court automatically exclude exculpatory testimony from a non-testifying codefendant as not newly discovered evidence or should that …
18-8797 Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent
18-8250 Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing Did the 8th Circuit incorrectly apply the mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits?
18-1133 Henry J. Langer, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response Waived 8th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence penalty-assessment tax-court tax-court-review tax-evasion tax-fraud tax-liability tax-penalties Whether the IRS has proved by clear and convincing evidence that Henry J. Langer and Patricia K. Langer are liable for fraud penalties for tax years 2…
18-6208 Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants does not a…
18-5678 Lee Andrew Paul v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with Burrage v. United States regarding causation
18-110 Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV Eighth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force Whether qualified immunity should be denied where the underlying evidentiary fact is undisputed but different inferences may be drawn from it