Certiorari
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A907 | Samson K. Orusa v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Application | certiorari federal-court good-faith judicial-misconduct prisoner-petition pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 25A910 | Sara Boysen, et al. v. PeaceHealth, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Application | certiorari due-process judicial-discretion procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A830 | Eduardo Luciano v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Application | certiorari legal-mail prison-resources pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a federal prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari due to systemic deficiencies in prison legal resource… | |
| 25A819 | Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Application | attorney-client-privilege certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously applied recent Supreme Court precedents in Ciminelli and Thompson, and violated attorney-client privilege in a c… | |
| 25A814 | Joshua White v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Application | certiorari counsel-representation in-forma-pauperis procedural-extension sixth-circuit supreme-court | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an extension of time to file a certiorari petition due to administrative challenges and potential breakdow… | |
| 25-6522 | Miguel Angel Macias-Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-review supreme-court-review | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be overruled and whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Erlinger … |
| 25A766 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-02 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time litigation petition pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the unique circumsta… | |
| 25A760 | Robert Armendaris v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-12-31 | Application | appellate-court certiorari deadline petition supreme-court time-extension | Whether a state appellate court's published opinion triggers the statutory deadline for filing a petition for writ of certiorari under Supreme Court r… | |
| 25-6418 | Joshua David Havins v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari circuit-split firearm-possession second-amendment section-922g supreme-court-review | Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of the potential grant… |
| 25A739 | Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time first-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari is appropriate under Supreme Court procedural rules | |
| 25A746 | Lento Law Group, PC v. Ladel Lewis, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | certiorari court-procedure petition-deadline sixth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court's rules permit a 60-day extension for filing a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline | |
| 25A719 | Pamela McKethan v. GSLS GA, LLC | Georgia | 2025-12-18 | Application | certiorari family-emergency good-cause pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's family emergencies and caregiving responsibilities constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for w… | |
| 25A703 | Aila Curtis, et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | certiorari judicial-discretion petition-filing procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Rule 10 of the Court's Rules | |
| 25A704 | E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | appellate-procedure certiorari expressive-association nonprofit-organization supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a nonprofit advocacy organization can seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules | |
| 25A709 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Gus Lopez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | certiorari eleventh-circuit extension litigation petition pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's delay in filing a petition for certiorari constitutes good cause for an extension of time | |
| 25A710 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Gus Lopez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | certiorari eleventh-circuit extension-of-time litigation petition pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the unique circumsta… | |
| 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… | |
| 25A695 | Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Application | certiorari eighth-circuit labor-union procedural-rules supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a public sector labor union's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the standard of good cause under Suprem… | |
| 25A681 | Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Application | appellate-review certiorari criminal-sentence legal-procedure supreme-court time-extension | Whether a federal court may grant an extension of time to file a certiorari petition based on the length of a criminal defendant's sentence | |
| 25A665 | Unified Life Insurance Company v. United States Fire Insurance Company | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Application | certiorari legal-filing petition procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline | |
| 25A667 | Nicole Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper Publishing Company, LLC | District of Columbia | 2025-12-08 | Application | certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules | |
| 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… | |
| 25A639 | Stanley Donald v. Carol Micci, et al. | Massachusetts | 2025-12-02 | Application | appellate-review certiorari legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to difficulties in obtaining legal assistance during holida… | |
| 25A629 | Rami Ghanem v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Application | appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-discretion petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a criminal defendant may obtain a 30-day extension of time to file a petition for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline after a feder… | |
| 25A616 | Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, Trustee for the Certificate Holders of CWMBS, Inc., CWMBS Reforming Loan Remic Trust Certificates Series 005-R2 | Second Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Application | certiorari constitutional-rights emergency-application pro-se property-seizure time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant facing state enforcement actions and medical complications can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari… | |
| 25A609 | Aita Gurung v. Vermont | Vermont | 2025-11-24 | Application | certiorari constitutional-review criminal-case judicial-review state-court supreme-court | Whether a state supreme court's decision in a criminal case warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court under principles of federal constitutional revie… | |
| 25A603 | Gabriel L'Ambiance Ingram v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time lower-courts pro-se title-iii wiretap | Whether a pro se petitioner may obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when related motions to unseal Title III wiretap materials a… | |
| 25A605 | OCA - Greater Houston, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | certiorari election-law fifth-circuit injunction senate-bill-1 voting-rights | Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted Texas Senate Bill 1 in a manner that potentially infringes on voting rights and electoral access | |
| 25-6188 | Abel Vargas-Maldonado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25A595 | Katy Elizabeth Kabha v. Texas | Texas | 2025-11-20 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time felony-conviction judicial-efficiency newly-discovered-evidence pro-se | Whether a pro se petitioner's request for a 60-day extension to file a certiorari petition should be granted based on pending state-court motions and … | |
| 25A598 | Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-11-20 | Application | appellate-review certiorari consolidated-appeals federal-questions legal-theories supreme-court-rule | Whether a federal appellate court's disposition of consolidated appeals involving overlapping factual and legal questions can materially impact the fr… | |
| 25A584 | Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension jurisdictional-requirements petition-timing supreme-court | Whether a criminal defendant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline and under what extr… | |
| 25A587 | Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | certiorari consumer-protection extension pharmaceutical regulatory time-limit | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a pharmaceutical company an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari in a case involving significant… | |
| 25A579 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Application | certiorari judicial-procedure page-limits pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant may seek an extraordinary extension of page limits for a certiorari petition beyond the standard rules of Supreme Court proc… | |
| 25A573 | Shane Stevens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-11-14 | Application | certiorari docket-fee extension-of-time pro-se rule-33.1 supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court will grant a procedural extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under Rule 33.1 | |
| 25A555 | Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2025-11-13 | Application | appellate-court certiorari gun-club legal-standing regulatory-rights supreme-court-review | Whether a state appellate court's decision regarding a local gun club's legal standing or regulatory rights can be subject to Supreme Court review | |
| 25A548 | Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. | Nevada | 2025-11-12 | Application | cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment | Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog… | |
| 25A550 | Daniel Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. | Nevada | 2025-11-12 | Application | cares-act certiorari emergency-relief federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court | Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review a state court's interpretation of the CARES Act and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prog… | |
| 25A551 | Michael Liberatore v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. | Nevada | 2025-11-12 | Application | cares-act certiorari federal-jurisdiction pua supreme-court unemployment-benefits | Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a state court decision involving federal CARES Act unemployment benefits under the Pandemic Unemp… | |
| 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 | |
| 25A485 | Matthew Borges v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | certiorari co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process extension-of-time petition | Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a co-defendant seeks and receives an extension of time to file a petition for cert… | |
| 25A486 | Gabriel Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender legal-briefing supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a federal defender may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and case complexity | |
| 25A475 | Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2025-10-24 | Application | certiorari death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction supreme-court | Whether the state of Nebraska provides an adequate post-conviction process for death row inmates consistent with federal constitutional standards | |
| 25A467 | Barry Kiya Daise v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a federal defender may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on counsel's workload and complexity of cas… | |
| 25A461 | Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. | Tennessee | 2025-10-22 | Application | appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-discretion petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a state appellate court's procedural ruling can constitute grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… | |
| 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… | |
| 25A454 | Stanley Kappell Watson v. Shenekka Bradsher, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | certiorari eleventh-circuit pro-bono supreme-court time-extension writ-petition | Whether a pro bono counsel's personal scheduling constraints constitute good cause for a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of cer… | |
| 25A441 | Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Application | certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's ruling in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review for potential constitutional error or misapplication of law | |
| 25A442 | Palanikumar V. Gnanam, et al. v. Nathaniel Chibuzor Keita, et al. | Florida | 2025-10-20 | Application | automatic-stay bankruptcy certiorari jurisdiction state-court void-judgment | Whether a bankruptcy filing and automatic stay can retroactively invalidate prior state court judgments and proceedings | |
| 25A438 | Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas | Texas | 2025-10-16 | Presumed Complete | capital-murder certiorari death-row due-process eighth-amendment indigent-defendant | Whether the Eighth Amendment and due process protections prohibit the imposition of a capital murder conviction and death sentence where there are sub… | |
| 25A428 | Aaron Even v. Robert Dean Hebel | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Application | certiorari circuit-court extension-of-time judicial-review petition writ | Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion improperly interpreted or applied constitutional or statutory standards in the underlying case | |
| 25-5862 | Byron Reyes-Ayala v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and grant certiorari in light of Erlinger v. United States |
| 25A412 | Jamaur Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-preparation petition-filing professional-obligations supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on counsel's professional obligations an… | |
| 25A405 | Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-splits federal-defender legal-complexity supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari due to the complexity of the underlying case and… | |
| 25A409 | Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to resolve a circuit split regarding the proper interpretation of a federal statute or constitutiona… | |
| 25A369 | Israel Alberto Rivas-Gomez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc ninth-circuit | Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of en banc review improperly limited a criminal defendant's constitutional right to appellate review | |
| 25A366 | Calvary Chapel San Jose, et al. v. California, et al. | California | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari first-amendment judicial-review religious-freedom state-court-review supreme-court-procedure | Whether a state supreme court's denial of review without substantive analysis violates a religious organization's First Amendment right to meaningful … | |
| 25A350 | Vincent Terry v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al. | Georgia | 2025-09-26 | Application | certiorari extension-of-time legal-complexity petition-for-relief pro-se supreme-court-rule | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition warrants extraordinary relief given the complexity of th… | |
| 25-5724 | Arnulfo Martinez-Fajardo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25A313 | Lairon Graham v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver certiorari due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation second-circuit | Whether an appellate court's sua sponte reliance on an unargued theory violates the party presentation principle and due process rights of a criminal … | |
| 25A303 | G. G. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families | Pennsylvania | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | allocatur certiorari petition-extension procedural-review supreme-court time-limitation | Whether a state supreme court's denial of allocatur precludes or impacts a petitioner's ability to seek certiorari review in the U.S. Supreme Court | |
| 25A296 | C. Holmes, aka Cynthia Elaine Collie v. James Kevin Holmes | South Carolina | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari family-matter procedural-relief substantial-rights supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on extraordinary personal circumstances | |
| 25A279 | Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond standard deadlines for personal and health … | |
| 25A255 | James Webb Hunter v. S. F. | California | 2025-09-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari jurisdictional-deadline state-court supreme-court time-extension | Whether a state appellate court's decision, when followed by a state supreme court's denial of review, constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Su… | |
| 25A256 | Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari jurisdiction precedential-opinion supreme-court third-circuit time-extension | Whether the Third Circuit's denial of rehearing in a precedential opinion warrants extraordinary relief from the Supreme Court to extend the time for … | |
| 25A257 | Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari filing-deadline procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-application | Whether the lower court's extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari was procedurally appropriate and consistent with Supreme Court… | |
| 25A259 | Rahul Chaturvedi v. Arvind Kumar Jay Jaiswal | Massachusetts | 2025-09-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-procedure final-judgment petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a state supreme court's final judgment triggers the standard 60-day period for filing a petition for writ of certiorari under Supreme Court Ru… | |
| 25A252 | Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-interpretation federal-law michigan-officials sixth-circuit state-action | Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on a Michigan state action improperly interpreted or applied federal constitutional or statutory law | |
| 25A235 | Anjelica R. James v. Terrence V. Sharkey, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se supreme-court | Whether judicial immunity can be challenged when fundamental due process and parental rights are allegedly violated by lower court actions | |
| 25A215 | Gary David Green v. Texas | Texas | 2025-08-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari death-row death-sentence due-process indigent-defendant texas-criminal-appeals | Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' affirmance of a death sentence violated the defendant's constitutional rights to due process and effectiv… | |
| 25A183 | Pamela McKenzie v. Walgreens | Texas | 2025-08-14 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari petition supreme-court texas-supreme-court time-extension | Whether a state supreme court's ruling warrants Supreme Court review under principles of appellate jurisdiction and certiorari discretion | |
| 25A140 | Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-04 | Presumed Complete | certiorari judicial-procedure petition sixth-circuit supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under 28 U.S.C. § 2101(c) | |
| 25A107 | Mark H. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2025-07-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari ineffective-assistance legal-complexity pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court given the pro se petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance … | |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 25A87 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Trooper First Class Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit petition pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | QUESTIONS TO BE PRESENTED (AS CONCEIVED TO DATE): 1. Are officials or law enforcement officers covered by or entitled to a defense of Qualified Immun… | |
| 25-42 | Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | certiorari constitutional-enforcement constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Supreme Court remains committed to enforcing the Constitution as written or has subordinated constitutional fidelity to political expedien… |
| 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… | |
| 25A20 | Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence | |
| 25A22 | Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor | Second Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's multiple petitions for certiorari from different circuit court judgments should be considered timely under the 90-day stat… | |
| 25A23 | Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence | |
| 25A33 | Raymond Poore v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari filing-deadline judicial-procedure supreme-court time-extension | Whether a federal appellate court's judgment can be challenged through a petition for writ of certiorari after the standard filing deadline | |
| 25-5025 | Santos Isabel Huete-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-remand certiorari constitutional-law judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be overruled and whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Erlinger … |
| 24A1291 | Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-27 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari lehman-brothers ninth-circuit state-law-certification supreme-court-rules | Whether the Supreme Court should establish clear standards for when federal appellate courts may deny certification of state law questions to state su… | |
| 24A1280 | Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York | Second Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the lower appellate court's ruling improperly interpreted or applied the legal standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition f… | |
| 24A1281 | David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Presumed Complete | adversary-proceeding bankruptcy certiorari public-policy statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari | Whether a bankruptcy court properly dismissed a complaint with prejudice when the claims were potentially viable and not barred by public policy or st… | |
| 24A1228 | City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-circuit municipal-appeal procedural-review supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a municipality may seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules when seeking review of a F… | |
| 24-7300 | Jorge Arturo Nanez-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7307 | Eblin Omar Ardon-Amaya v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law certiorari criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7292 | Germaine Ramsey v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certiorari grant-vacate-remand judicial-discretion supreme-court-procedure thompson-case | Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand (GVR) in light of Thompson v. United States |
| 24-7271 | Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7261 | Adrian Hermosillo-Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A1113 | Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America | Maryland | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari motion-to-stay reargument supreme-court-rules waiver-of-costs | Whether a state supreme court's unanimous denial of a petition for writ of certiorari precludes subsequent motions for reargument or stay of enforceme… | |
| 24A1116 | Bryan Christopher Bell and Antwaun Kyral Sims v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-procedure north-carolina-supreme-court supreme-court-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court's decision in a criminal case warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court | |
| 24-7218 | Jose Alfredo Delara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-remand certiorari constitutional-law judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be overruled and whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Erlinger … |
| 24A1092 | David Nicholson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to file a timely petition for certiorari is preserved when seeking an extension beyond the standar… | |
| 24A1094 | Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2025-05-14 | Presumed Complete | capital-case certiorari constitutional-review death-penalty direct-appeal penalty-proceeding | Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals properly applied constitutional standards in affirming Mr. Smith's capital conviction and death sentence… | |
| 24A937 | J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-28 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline | |
| 24A914 | Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing | California | 2025-03-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-relief certiorari judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a sixty-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary re… | |
| 24A915 | Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-legislation fiscal-oversight governmental-autonomy puerto-rico supreme-court-rules | Whether the First Circuit's interpretation of federal fiscal oversight legislation improperly limits Puerto Rico's governmental autonomy and financial… | |
| 24-6661 | Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability certiorari judicial-precedent sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vacate-and-remand | Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability deviates from the court's precedent, warranting certiorari,… |
| 24-6583 | Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6559 | Ignacio Leyva-Frayre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-remand certiorari judicial-procedure precedent-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be overruled and whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate, and remand in light of Erlinger … |
| 24A769 | Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel | Pennsylvania | 2025-02-07 | Presumed Complete | attorney-discipline certiorari disciplinary-proceeding due-process judicial-review supreme-court-procedure | Whether a state disciplinary proceeding against an attorney violates due process protections when challenging the procedural fairness of the disciplin… | |
| 24A762 | Jermaine Lamar Rutledge v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-02-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari criminal-procedure state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension | Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a) | |
| 24A742 | Jose Lewis Bosquez v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-01-29 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review arizona-courts certiorari criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction | Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional due process rights in its underlying criminal case decision | |
| 24A743 | Joseph Lee Conley v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-01-29 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari extension-of-time federal-question jurisdiction supreme-court | Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision denying relief to the petitioner raises a substantial federal question warranting Supreme Court review | |
| 24A691 | Christopher E. Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's ruling in a complex criminal case involving potential circuit splits warrants Supreme Court review | |
| 24A686 | Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court | Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for extension of time to file a petition for certiorari | |
| 24A662 | Nazir Khan v. Artivion, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Presumed Complete | appeal-denial certiorari extension-of-time federal-circuit pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when multiple federal circuit… | |
| 24A655 | Kenneth J. Taggart v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company | Pennsylvania | 2025-01-02 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extraordinary-relief kings-bench-petition mortgage-foreclosure procedural-due-process supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether a state supreme court's denial of a Kings Bench petition and motion for reconsideration in a mortgage foreclosure case presents a justiciable … | |
| 24A659 | Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate after a significant delay in seeking federal habeas review | |
| 24A641 | Jose Guillermo Mendez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari indigent legal-resources prison-restrictions pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se indigent prisoner's limited access to legal resources and prison mail restrictions constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifyin… | |
| 24A629 | National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar | Second Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-challenge second-circuit sports-league standing time-extension | Whether a professional sports league has standing to challenge a state law regulating its operations under constitutional or statutory grounds | |
| 24A630 | Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | capital-case certiorari constitutional-claims death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus | Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's constitutional claims in a complex capital c… | |
| 24A631 | Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-conviction eighth-circuit petition-deadline supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction despite counsel's limited ability to prepare a com… | |
| 24-6198 | Martin Diaz-Nunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-precedent case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6203 | Jesus Perez-Garcia and John Thomas Fencl v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | article-three-jurisdiction certiorari judicial-review mootness remand second-amendment | Whether courts have Article III jurisdiction to issue a reasoned judicial opinion after a case becomes moot |
| 24A625 | Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Presumed Complete | certiorari death-row federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-conviction | Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct standard for denying a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal conviction | |
| 24A616 | Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari circuit-split federal-defender legal-complexity post-conviction | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's ruling in a complex criminal case warrants Supreme Court review due to potential circuit splits and significant legal i… | |
| 24A605 | Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana | Montana | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a state court judgment under 28 U.S.C. § 1257 when the underlying state court decision involves a… | |
| 24A607 | Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana | Montana | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | bail certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure pretrial-liberty supreme-court-review | Whether a state court's denial of bail pending potential Supreme Court review violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to pretrial liberty | |
| 24A612 | Cameron M. Thierry v. The Honey Pot Company (DE), LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | certiorari excusable-neglect extension-of-time federal-procedure pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se litigant's multiple concurrent legal proceedings and lack of professional legal training constitute excusable neglect warranting an e… | |
| 24A597 | Deonta Lowe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in a complex criminal case involving potential circuit splits warrants Supreme Court review | |
| 24A567 | Frank Bibeau v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | certiorari eighth-circuit extension-of-time judicial-review petition tax-court | Whether a taxpayer may challenge a U.S. Tax Court judgment through a petition for certiorari after an Eighth Circuit affirmance | |
| 24A563 | Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler | Second Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari pro-se summary-affirmance supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standard for extraordinary circumstance… | |
| 24A557 | Prabhjot Kaur Kang v. Western Governors University | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's employment constraints and need for additional research time constitute sufficient grounds for an extension of time to fil… | |
| 24A530 | DeWayne Lee Waldrup v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-02 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time filing-deadline habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari despite previous missed filing deadlines | |
| 24A524 | Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. | Massachusetts | 2024-11-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time health-challenges legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the need for legal a… | |
| 24A505 | Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari corporate-entity monetary-sanctions ninth-circuit procedural-violations | Whether a federal appellate court can impose monetary sanctions against a corporate entity for procedural violations without providing adequate notice… | |
| 24-6009 | Christian Guadalupe Contreras-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5966 | Joey Deal v. Hector Rios, Warden | New Mexico | 2024-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certiorari constitutional-amendment due-process legal-precedent state-petition supreme-court-review | Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of a state petition for certiorari violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and conflicted with prio… |
| 24A471 | Kayne Russell Donath v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Presumed Complete | certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary sentencing supreme-court-rules | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence based on procedural or substantive legal groun… | |
| 24A431 | Ronnie L. Thums v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-10-31 | Presumed Complete | certiorari motion-for-reconsideration pro-se supreme-court time-tolling writ | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for reconsideration tolls the time for filing a petition for writ of certiorari when the state supreme court has de… | |
| 24A401 | Xengxai Yang v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-24 | Presumed Complete | certiorari jurisdiction legal-standard seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision in Yang v. United States improperly interpreted a critical legal standard or constitutional principle in the un… | |
| 24A381 | Kirk E. Knopp v. CSX Transportation Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | bar-admission certiorari judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition based on counsel's pending bar admission challenges | |
| 24A385 | Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-procedure legal-briefing time-extension | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the lower court's decision in Mr. Davis's case | |
| 24A376 | Robert Dorgay v. Paul Reif, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari incarceration law-library legal-research pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se incarcerated prisoner with limited law library access should be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorar… | |
| 24-5783 | Genaro Alberto Nunez Ugarte v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A370 | Michel D'Angelo v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Presumed Complete | attorney-client certiorari communication-barriers criminal-procedure due-process pro-se-petition | Whether a criminal defendant's right to effective communication with counsel is impaired when prison administrative procedures prevent timely attorney… | |
| 24A356 | Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Presumed Complete | capable-of-repetition certiorari circuit-split election-law judicial-review mootness | Whether the 'capable of repetition, yet evading review' standard should be uniformly interpreted in election law cases to allow more flexible mootness… | |
| 24-5708 | Andrew Ocanas Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issues legal-petition supreme-court | Question not identified. |
| 24A324 | Harris Brumfield, Trustee for Ascent Trust v. IBG LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-10-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension trust-interests | Whether the Federal Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a commercial dispute involving trust interests and financial transactions | |
| 24A317 | Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn | Second Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari pro-se procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief unde… | |
| 24A306 | Ernest Murphy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari en-banc-petition extension-of-time pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se criminal defendant may seek an extension of time to file a certiorari petition pending resolution of a petition for rehearing en banc… | |
| 24-5655 | Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board | Puerto Rico | 2024-09-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver | Whether a waiver by the US Department of Justice under Supreme Court Rule 15 constitutes an admission of the illegality of a criminal conviction |
| 24A246 | Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-rights legal-representation pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant is entitled to a 30-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari when facing challenges in obtaining legal repres… | |
| 24A248 | Ryan T. Thornton v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County | Wisconsin | 2024-09-09 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-appeal ineffective-assistance judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction | Whether the Wisconsin state courts improperly denied the petitioner's criminal appeal and effectively foreclosed meaningful judicial review of his und… | |
| 24A225 | Alicia Marie Richards v. Richard A. Marshack, Chapter 7 Trustee | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-contempt court-procedure filing-deadline prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion to extend a filing deadline for a certiorari petition constitutes a valid legal request when the underlying civil c… | |
| 24A209 | Malikah Asante-Chioke v. Nicholas Dowdle, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-review judicial-interpretation legal-standard petition time-extension | Whether the lower court's decision improperly interpreted or applied a critical legal standard that warrants Supreme Court review | |
| 24A204 | Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Presumed Complete | certiorari family-rights guardian-ad-litem jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's family rights claims involving international jurisdictional disputes can survive dismissal under federal appellate review … | |
| 24-5377 | Douglas Arcia-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule certiorari prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review | Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and reconsider the prior-conviction exception under the Sixth Amendment |
| 24-5356 | Floyd Preston Miller, III v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court | Question not identified. |
| 24-5362 | Gumaro Maldonado-Sandoval v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review | Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and reconsider the prior-conviction exception under the Sixth Amendment's… |
| 24A177 | Kishna S. Minor v. Anne M. Heishman, Commissioner of Accounts | Virginia | 2024-08-16 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process final-judgment jurisdictional-challenge supreme-court-review virginia-court-of-appeals | Whether a state appellate court's procedural ruling can constitute a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court review when the underlying case invo… | |
| 24A176 | Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari jurisdiction pro-bono rehearing seventh-circuit | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in its decision in Baz v. Patterson that potentially impacted the appli… | |
| 24A163 | Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari due-process electronic-filing supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Ninth Circuit's procedural handling of an appeal warrants extraordinary relief due to potential electronic file storage errors that may ha… | |
| 24A148 | Jane Doe v. East Lyme Board of Education | Second Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari litigation pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's personal and professional circumstances constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a pet… | |
| 24-5255 | Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24A135 | Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split eleventh-circuit federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in Eric Robert Rudolph's case involves a significant legal issue warranting Supreme Court review due to potent… | |
| 24-5187 | Eva A. Nieczyperowicz v. Andrew Nieczyperowicz | Texas | 2024-07-31 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion standing state-court-review welfare-entitlements | equal-protection-clause-violation |
| 24-95 | Jason Lou Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | 28-usc-2072 28-usc-455 appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct recusal supervisory-powers | Should-the-United-States-Supreme-Court-impose-a-requirement-of-mandatory-disqualification-of-Chief-Judges-of-the-Courts-of-Appeals | |
| 24-5182 | Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure mandamus petition standing supreme-court | Question not identified |
| 24A103 | Akmal Narzikulov v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-rights jurisdiction rule-13 supreme-court time-extension | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a district court denies a motion to extend time to file a petition for writ of … | |
| 24-5124 | Lawrence Christopher Smith v. Ralph Diaz, former Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-issue petition pleading standing takings | Question not identified |
| 24A70 | Ricky Donnell Abner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-prisoner legal-access lockdown pro-se time-extension | Whether a federal prisoner can obtain an extension of time to file a certiorari petition when experiencing lockdown conditions that impede legal resea… | |
| 24A63 | Robert James Rainey v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-07-18 | Presumed Complete | certiorari companion-case federal-jurisdiction state-court-judgment supreme-court-review time-extension | Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's decision in a companion criminal case raises a substantial federal constitutional question warranting Supreme Cou… | |
| 24A57 | Victoria Wong v. Ricky Wong | New York | 2024-07-17 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-representation pro-se procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on financial hardship and personal medical circumsta… | |
| 24-5039 | In Re James A. Wolfe | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure petition standing | Question not identified. | |
| 24A28 | Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extraordinary-circumstances ninth-circuit pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the standard for extraordinary circumstances warr… | |
| 24-23 | Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | certiorari confrontation-clause constitutional-error error-based-approach guilt-based-approach harmless-error sixth-amendment | Did the court of appeals err in applying the guilt-based approach, rather than the error-based approach, to assess the harmlessness of the confrontati… |
| 24A14 | Kenneth W. Blair v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari conviction eighth-circuit haines-standard jurisdiction pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's criminal conviction and sentence can be challenged under a liberal construction standard when the Eighth Circuit has affir… | |
| 24-5019 | Daniel Salgado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure-sentencing notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review | Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States be overruled? |
| 23-7790 | Marco Cadejuste v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-28 | Denied | IFP | case-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure discovery-violations due-process free-speech judicial-process legal-petition standing supreme-court | Question not identified |
| 23A1168 | Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-rights legal-research prisoner-litigation pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for a 60-day extension to file a certiorari petition should be granted based on his limited legal research capabil… | |
| 23-7820 | Samuel Windham, Jr. v. California | California | 2024-06-27 | Denied | IFP | certiorari confession-testimony conviction-vacation counsel-ineffective court-filing due-process judicial-review legal-document legislative-digest petition supreme-court trial-testimony | Question not identified |
| 23A1161 | Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal resources due to prison facility restrictions constitutes an extraordinary circumstance justifyi… | |
| 23A1152 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education | |
| 23-1330 | Michael Stern, et ux. v. Mark Mcdonald | Washington | 2024-06-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-procedure judicial-review state-courts supreme-court | Did the Supreme Court of Washington's order to deny review violate the United States Constitution? |
| 23A1135 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-error fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-research pro-se | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed constitutional error in its judgment against a pro se litigant with limited legal education | |
| 23A1128 | Dean Terry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-defender petition procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension | Whether a federal public defender's application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary… | |
| 23A1120 | Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-17 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-challenge first-amendment legislative-representation redistricting writ | Whether the First Amendment protects the right of state legislators to challenge redistricting plans that allegedly infringe on legislative representa… | |
| 23A1113 | Brandan C. Bellamy v. Officer Houghton, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Presumed Complete | certiorari in-forma-pauperis judicial-assistance pro-se procedural-barriers supreme-court | Whether pro se litigants facing procedural barriers in federal court can obtain equitable relief and guidance when attempting to file a Supreme Court … | |
| 23-7701 | Robin Jones v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. | Georgia | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review petition supreme-court | Whether the federal courts should address the Strickland Assistance of Trial Counsel claims are moot due to the claims being stayed, whether dismissin… |
| 23A1093 | Donald Ray Malena v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the petitioner lacks acc… | |
| 23A1052 | Richard E. Glossip v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-05-24 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-appeals death-penalty eighth-amendment execution supreme-court | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate who challenges the constitutionality of the state's method of execution | |
| 23A1025 | Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. | New York | 2024-05-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari final-judgment jurisdiction state-court supreme-court | Whether a state appellate court's denial of leave to appeal constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court certiorari jurisdiction | |
| 23-7495 | In Re Grace Woodham | 2024-05-16 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law certiorari civil-rights court-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-petition standing summary-judgment supreme-court | Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims on summary judgment despite findings of fact indicating the state … | |
| 23A1010 | Xanadu Corp, et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling in a case involving Xanadu Corp. improperly interpreted federal appellate procedure or substantive law | |
| 23A1003 | Jarius Brown v. Javarrea Pouncy, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-rights extension judicial-discretion petition supreme-court | Whether the lower court's decision improperly restricts constitutional rights or judicial discretion in a manner warranting Supreme Court review | |
| 23A971 | John Garland, et al. v. New York City Fire Department, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-procedure legal-counsel petition-filing supreme-court time-extension | Whether a court may grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on counsel retention challenges and limited organizational reso… | |
| 23A968 | Gazul Producciones SL Unipersonal v. Sheddf2-FL5 LLC | Florida | 2024-04-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari counsel-of-record legal-research procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension | Whether a single attorney representing a party may be granted a 30-day extension to file a petition for certiorari based on scheduling conflicts and r… | |
| 23A967 | Christopher Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari institutional-transfer legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when facing institutional transfer and limited… | |
| 23A960 | Chryssoula Arsenis v. M&T Bank | Third Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari emergency-relief foreclosure irreparable-harm remand stay | Whether a trial court's remand order can be stayed pending potential Supreme Court review of a foreclosure proceeding | |
| 23A939 | Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Presumed Complete | appellate-decision certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-statute judicial-review time-extension | Whether a plaintiff may seek relief under a federal statute after an adverse appellate decision when seeking an extension of time to file a petition f… | |
| 23A938 | Azariah M. Ellington v. Department of Veteran Affairs | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-18 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit trust-litigation | Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process and constitutional rights by improperly dismissing a complaint and denying an en banc … | |
| 23A931 | Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. | Alaska | 2024-04-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court of Alaska improperly exercised jurisdiction over a dispute involving federal law when determining the underlying case | |
| 23A922 | Tiberiu Kiss v. Best Buy Stores, Limited Partnership, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-16 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-courts jurisdictional-deadline petition-filing supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a federal court may extend the deadline for filing a petition for certiorari beyond the statutory time limit set by Supreme Court rules | |
| 23A910 | Chen Chen Hsu v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. | California | 2024-04-11 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-illness pro-se supreme-court-rules | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari for a pro se litigan… | |
| 23A898 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-appeal petition-filing pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a criminal defendant's pro se application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted when the underlying app… | |
| 23A884 | Joshua Marbley v. Teamster Local 988, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-rights labor-law pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file a petition for writ of certiorari due to financial constraints constitutes grounds for an extraordi… | |
| 23A877 | Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Big Sky Water & Sewer District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under the Court's rules governing appellate procedure | |
| 23A880 | Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension fifth-circuit jurisdictional-requirements supreme-court-rules | Whether a criminal defendant may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline under Supre… | |
| 23A874 | Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Presumed Complete | 18-u-s-c-3231 certiorari criminal-appeal direct-appeal district-court ninth-circuit | Whether a federal district court's denial of a direct criminal appeal under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 can be challenged through a subsequent petition for certi… | |
| 23A860 | Jeffrey Batio v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-25 | Presumed Complete | appointed-counsel certiorari criminal-justice-act petition-requirements seventh-circuit supreme-court | Whether the Criminal Justice Act requires appointed appellate counsel to file a certiorari petition when counsel determines there are reasonable groun… | |
| 23A842 | Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Quentin Freeman's petition for rehearing in a criminal case involving procedural or subs… | |
| 23-6974 | Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A834 | Raymond Pierson v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc. | California | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari legal-filing pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's competing legal demands and resource constraints constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for cer… | |
| 23A827 | Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-appeal en-banc pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se criminal appellant is entitled to an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when denied en banc review and experiencing limit… | |
| 23-6883 | Shawn David McMinn v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-03-01 | Denied | IFP | certiorari constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea indian-law judicial-review post-conviction preemption supreme-court | Whether Oklahoma violated its own law in an effort to deny a Petitioner his right to due process of law pertinent to the post-conviction proceedings |
| 23-6861 | Tyree Ford v. Carmine Marceno, Sheriff, Lee County, Florida | Florida | 2024-02-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions disciplinary-proceedings due-process jurisdiction professional-conduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court | whether-state-attorney-can-be-disciplined-for-misconduct |
| 23A801 | Richard Arlee Champion v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-review en-banc fourth-circuit inmate-rights petition-for-rehearing | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying en banc review of a significant legal issue involving an inmate's rights or constitutiona… | |
| 23A784 | Kamal Mustafa v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari fourth-circuit jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief under Su… | |
| 23A790 | John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | cause-of-action certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review procedural-dismissal time-extension | Whether the lower courts properly dismissed the Petitioner's case for failure to state a viable cause of action | |
| 23A764 | Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot… | |
| 23A765 | Malcolm H. Sage, Individually and in His Capacity as Partner or Joint Venturer of Sage Associates and Sage Realty v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC | Second Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Presumed Complete | bankruptcy certiorari judicial-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension trustee-powers | Whether a bankruptcy trustee has the authority to seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline | |
| 23A758 | Rachael Eubanks, in Her Personal Capacity, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-20 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law certiorari michigan procedural-review sixth-circuit state-sovereignty | Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on state administrative procedures violates principles of state sovereignty or federal administrative law | |
| 23A759 | Warren Chen, et al. v. Razberi Techologies, Inc., et al. | Texas | 2024-02-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Texas Court of Appeals improperly applied procedural rules in a manner that prejudiced the applicants' right to seek Supreme Court review | |
| 23A751 | Samuel D. Isaly v. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-02-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari judicial-procedure petition second-circuit supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period | |
| 23A752 | Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari eighth-circuit extension jurisdiction petition supreme-court-rule | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence | |
| 23A748 | Carlos Jackson v. Dickinson Wright PLLC, et al. | Nevada | 2024-02-14 | Presumed Complete | attorney-error certiorari extension-of-time legal-deadline pro-se-litigant supreme-court | Whether equitable tolling of the certiorari deadline is appropriate when an attorney provides incorrect deadline information to a pro se litigant | |
| 23A735 | Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari medical-hardship pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's medical condition and surgical recovery constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a pet… | |
| 23A716 | Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC | Federal Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari due-process federal-circuit judicial-transparency summary-judgment | Whether the Federal Circuit's summary judgment procedure without an opinion violates due process or appellate transparency requirements | |
| 23A706 | Juan Luis Leonor v. Diana Sabatka-Rine, Assistant Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Nebraska | 2024-01-31 | Presumed Complete | certiorari incarceration legal-resources pro-se procedural-barriers supreme-court-rules | Whether a pro se, incarcerated petitioner who lacks legal resources and English proficiency should be granted an extension of time to file a Supreme C… | |
| 23A691 | Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-of-appeals extension petition supreme-court time-limit | Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari | |
| 23-6532 | Zerak Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Did the Framers intend that, in a criminal prosecution, a defendant is entitled assistance of counsel, under the 6th Amendment, for all criminal prose… |
| 23A670 | Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Director, Haskins House State Wide Transitional Re-Entry Program | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time incarcerated indigent ninth-circuit pro-se | Whether a pro se, indigent, incarcerated litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari when seeking appointed counsel… | |
| 23-6465 | Lewis Slaughter v. New York | New York | 2024-01-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-petition notice opportunity-to-be-heard property-seizure supreme-court takings | Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated by the government's failure to provide adequate notice and opportunity to be heard before se… |
| 23A650 | Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media Inc., a California Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari filing-deadline ninth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a federal appellate court's procedural ruling can extend the standard 90-day certiorari filing deadline under Supreme Court rules | |
| 23A631 | Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-01-09 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process judicial-discretion petition-filing procedural-rules time-extension | Whether the lower court's denial of an extension to file a petition for a writ of certiorari constitutes an abuse of discretion or violates due proces… | |
| 23A623 | Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-access pro-se senior-citizen supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se senior citizen petitioner should be granted an extraordinary extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition for writ of certiorar… | |
| 23A614 | Azariah M. Ellington, et al. v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right … | |
| 23A618 | Azariah M. Ellington v. Department of Veterans Affairs | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections are violated when a federal appellate court improperly denies a litigant's appeal of right … | |
| 23A586 | Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari civil-procedure death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixty-b | Whether a federal habeas petitioner may seek relief under Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) to reopen a judgment dismissing his habeas corpus proceedings | |
| 23A556 | Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under the Court's procedural rules | |
| 23A546 | National Religious Broadcasters v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari religious-broadcasters supreme-court-rules time-extension trade-association | Whether a trade association representing religious broadcasters can seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court pr… | |
| 23A528 | Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. | California | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-relief certiorari judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for a sixty-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary re… | |
| 23A529 | Ranito Allen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | certiorari professional-obligations statutory-interpretation supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether a federal inmate may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on limited communication opportunities and … | |
| 23A525 | Randall Cope v. Thomas Lillard, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari prisoner-petition pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court Rule 30 | |
| 23A498 | Michael Alan Welker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | certiorari conviction eighth-circuit extension petition sentence | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence without proper consideration of the legal argu… | |
| 23A484 | Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. | North Carolina | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal certiorari due-process judicial-explanation pro-se state-court | Whether the North Carolina state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by dismissing her appeal without providing a substantive explanat… | |
| 23A479 | Hannibal Eason v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-filing emergency-application judicial-review pro-se procedural-dismissal | Whether a pro se litigant's emergency application for relief can be procedurally dismissed due to incomplete or improperly filed materials | |
| 23A456 | Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari jurisdiction legal-standards mandamus pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief when… | |
| 23A457 | Leslie Willis v. Dolores Willis | Third Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time jurisdiction mandamus petition supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under extraordinary circumstances | |
| 23-6041 | Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A434 | Ernesto L. Natividad v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner pro-se writ-of-habeas-corpus | Whether a pro se incarcerated petitioner can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari when awaiting a response from the Circuit Court … | |
| 23A406 | Sylvester Cunningham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence without proper consideration of the legal argu… | |
| 23A407 | Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services | District of Columbia | 2023-11-06 | Presumed Complete | certiorari counsel-availability federal-courts procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension | Whether federal courts may grant extensions of time to file petitions for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period when counsel faces scheduling c… | |
| 23A408 | Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-access prisoners-rights pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether pro se prisoners can obtain a 60-day extension to file a Supreme Court certiorari petition due to institutional limitations that substantially… | |
| 23A400 | Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-filing prisoner-rights pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's transportation between correctional facilities and resulting delay in accessing legal materials constitutes good cause for… | |
| 23A401 | R. Allen Stanford v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extraordinary-relief pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se petitioner's request for an extension of time to file a certiorari petition constitutes a legally cognizable claim for extraordinary … | |
| 23A405 | Gilbert Dean Bicknell v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-criminal-case jurisdiction petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a federal criminal case | |
| 23A381 | Terrence Thomas v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time prisoner pro-se procedural-rules supreme-court | Whether a pro se prisoner's application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court procedural ru… | |
| 23A370 | Harold W. Clarke v. Berman Justus, Jr. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | certiorari counsel-scheduling extension-of-time habeas-litigation legal-obligations supreme-court | Whether a criminal defendant's counsel can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on competing professional obligations | |
| 23A373 | Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time judicial-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the lower court's judgment | |
| 23A359 | Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker | Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Walker improperly interpreted or applied a federal criminal law or constitutional standard | |
| 23-5589 | Sara Elyas v. Edward Johnston, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-1257 certiorari civil-procedure federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction judicial-review judiciary-act-1789 jurisdiction standing state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review the decision of the state court under 28 U.S.C. 1257(4) |
| 23A163 | Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-23 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires reversal of a conviction when prosecutorial misconduct deprives a defendant of a f… | |
| 23-5313 | Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when that court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-5235 | Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5210 | Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5179 | Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ | Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims |
| 23-5093 | German Alexis Arjona v. California | California | 2023-07-13 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court voting-rights | Whether a specific limitation on the right to vote violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-7854 | Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7479 | Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-08 | Denied | IFP | Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7260 | Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-974 | Charles J. Weiss v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals certiorari collection-due-process due-process internal-revenue-code levy-actions limitations-period statutory-interpretation tax-law writ-of-certiorari | Whether the IRC section providing for the suspension of levy actions and the running of any period of limitations applies to petitions for a writ of c… |
| 22-7220 | Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7013 | Carl Puckett, et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction intellectual-property legal-standing pro-se-petition property-dispute standing trademark-infringement | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the Pucketts' trademark infringement claims against Ain Jeem, Inc. |
| 22-6927 | Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence | How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-6894 | Hiking Dupre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari civil-procedure concepcion-case due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction precedent remand supreme-court | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fifth Circuit's judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of this Court's recent decisi… |
| 22-6897 | Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | IFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6467 | Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct | Whether the erroneous jury instruction on knowledge requirement constituted harmless error |
| 22-6363 | Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Trans Am Trucking Company | Tenth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | IFP | certiorari circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-proceedings standing supervisory-authority supreme-court-review | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings |
| 22-6253 | Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review | Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of a single ques… |
| 22-6220 | Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6129 | Artak Ovsepian v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-23 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | certiorari criminal-procedure dubin-case due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-for-writ remand supreme-court supreme-court-procedure vacatur | Whether this Court should hold this petition and then grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration in light of the pending opinion in Dubin v. United… |
| 22-6068 | Anthony Braxton v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2022-11-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court-rules | Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for granting a writ of certiorari |
| 22-5868 | Chad Alan Cappiello v. Texas | Texas | 2022-10-19 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the state courts are at liberty to review determinations of motions for unredactedness, or by asserting a timely filing, as an state due proce… |
| 22-5661 | Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner v. Unknown | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment appeal-status bail-funding bail-funding-appeal certiorari due-process jurisdiction motions-for-new-trial non-trial-motions post-conviction post-conviction-records | Question not identified |
| 22-5368 | Kultar S. Goraya v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appealability certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied an improper heightened standard under Slack v. McDaniel and Buck v. Davis when denying petitione… |
| 21-8101 | Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 | Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7960 | Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7861 | Omar S. Folk v. Bureau of Prisons, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abeyance case-holding certiorari circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act legal-abeyance procedural-review standing supreme-court | Whether the Pending Supreme Court Case Egbert v. Boule, Case No. 21-147(Cert. Granted Nov. 5, 2021) Should be Held In Abeyance until outcome |
| 21-7738 | Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7721 | Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7726 | Michael Charles Sartin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari CJA-plan criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure misinformation post-conviction-relief wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari | Whether misinformation about the timeframe for seeking certiorari in violation of a lower court's CJA plan entitles a defendant to a GVR consistent wi… |
| 21-7622 | Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7560 | Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7364 | In Re David Lopez | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certiorari civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court habeas harmless-error judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-prohibition | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of prohibition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1651(a) to prevent further violations of the petitioner's c… | |
| 21-7291 | Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7294 | Daniel Gerard Lacey v. Brian M. Gootkin, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari circuit-split foreshadowing ineffective-assistance judicial-review jurisdiction legal-doctrine timeliness writ-of-certiorari | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to address and resolve a circuit split on the doctrine of foreshadowing and its application to ineffective … |
| 21-7258 | Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7196 | Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6989 | Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether the petitioner's conviction was supported by sufficient evidence under the standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia |
| 21-6869 | Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition | Should the Court use its power to grant certiorari to a noncapital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling claim … |
| 21-6875 | Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court | Whether the governments need to secure court appearance outweigh the security of person from severe harms, mental and physical, due process and punish… |
| 21-6516 | Martin Robinson v. Sean Bailey | Ohio | 2021-12-07 | Denied | IFP | appeals certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-issue due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court-decision meritorious-claims standing supreme-court-review | Whether the trial court falsified the trial docket, whether the trial was illegal, whether the plaintiff was denied the right to present evidence, whe… |
| 21-822 | Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission | Alaska | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing | Whether the original meaning of the First Amendment permits regulations against contributions to independent political action committees |
| 21-6457 | Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-6218 | Matthew Manuel Barnett v. Colorado | Colorado | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-rights criminal-law due-process influence-statute private-corporation public-servant state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether an employee of a private corporation can be considered a 'public servant' for purposes of a state statute criminalizing attempts to influence … |
| 21-648 | Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-03 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that Petitioner's post-judgment motion to intervene for the sole purpose of filing a petition for certior… |
| 21-6145 | Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5953 | Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley | First Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in conflict with this Cour… |
| 21-5845 | Danny Collins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule | Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violated his constitutional rights |
| 21-5495 | José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. | Florida | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights | Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Section 3(b)(3) and Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980) intentionally bar discretionary review for Petiti… |
| 21-5332 | Efrain Hidalgo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-11 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-5281 | Steven Burda v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services | Pennsylvania | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court standing supreme-court | Did the Supreme Court err by not allowing exhibits to be included? |
| 21-5133 | Michael Skillern v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari coa criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit geders-rule geders-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel supreme-court trial-recess | Does the Eleventh Circuit's rule in Crutchfield v. Wainwright abrogate or modify the Supreme Court decision in Geders v. United States, and if not, is… |
| 21-5017 | Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | GVR | IFP | aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 20-8260 | Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court | Whether Louisiana's post-conviction procedure violates due process |
| 20-1267 | Ronald E. Byers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | District of Columbia | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response Waived | certiorari certiorari-writ circuit-split decision-finality finality fraud-exception fraud-on-the-court jurisdictional-statute post-decision-motions post-decision-relief tax-court | Is U.S.C. § 7481(a)(2)(B) jurisdictional? |
| 20-7410 | Edward McCain v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure | Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review |
| 20-7063 | Pablo Damiani-Melendez v. Robert May, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-challenge self-representation sixth-amendment supreme-court-review | Whether the trial court violated Melendez's Sixth Amendment right under the United States and Delaware Constitution when it denied his verbal request … |
| 20-6803 | Dominic Lindsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-conflict certiorari court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-precedent legal-compliance precedent supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Whether the opinion below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States and Davis v. United States, and whether it adequately compli… |
| 20-6452 | Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6380 | China Hester v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-proceeding remand reversal-and-remand right-to-counsel standards-of-review | Whether Ms. Hester may have received ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 20-6269 | Gilbert Montrez Gardner v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review certiorari court-of-appeals felony-murder legal-remand mens-rea robbery rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review | Whether the Court of Appeals of Maryland erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction for felony murder when the evidence was insufficient to establ… |
| 20-6042 | Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6047 | Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5968 | Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. | Florida | 2020-10-08 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction | Whether the Supreme Court of Florida denied petitioner access to the court pursuant Article 1, Section 21 of the Florida Constitution when it declined… |
| 20-5969 | Robert Dinkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif vacate the judgement below certiorari criminal-law criminal-participation due-process gun-buy-program illegal-guns non-profit-organization police-department public-announcement rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant Certiorari, vacate the judgement below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Cts 2… |
| 20-5738 | Willie Hugh Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-122 | Eric E. Taylor v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5-usc-3331 certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether due-process-of-law, 5-usc-3331, 14th-amendment, civil-rights, civil-procedure, standing |
| 20-5219 | Binh Nguyen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5091 | Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | GVR | IFP | vacate the judgement and remand for reconsiderati 4th-amendment case-reconsideration certiorari criminal-procedure Davis-remand davis-v-united-states judicial-remand precedent-application remand search-and-seizure Supreme-Court-review | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgement and remand for reconsideration in light of Davis v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 1060 (2… |
| 20-5056 | George Cortez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-8911 | Lee Montez Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing | Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8790 | Christina Ann Whichard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-8655 | Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7914 | Lucas James Moss v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Dismissed | IFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7903 | Alfred Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Dismissed | IFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7855 | Jeremy T. Walker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration | Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated… |
| 19-7771 | Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7774 | Ronald Muhammad v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-preemption judicial-review precedent preemption reconciliation standing | Is the 7th Circuit's decision appropriate for this Court's review, and if so why must this Court hear and decide this? |
| 19-7748 | Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review | Whether petitioner should be granted certiorari, where his claim not only affects him, but also hundreds of others |
| 19-7723 | James William Brammer v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure critical-stage motion-for-new-trial new-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari | Does the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel include appointment of counsel for prosecution of motion for a new trial? |
| 19-6932 | Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond | Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court? |
| 19-6935 | Rickie James King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond | whether-challenges-to-procedural-reasonableness-of-sentence-must-be-preserved |
| 19-6655 | Terrence Leonard Mathis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | IFP | certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights detention due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand right-to-counsel | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 189 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5852 | Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-06 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5822 | Ronald Tuttle v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-jurisdiction certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing supervisory-powers supreme-court-review the-supreme-court | Did the United States Supreme Court err in denying the petition for writ of certiorari |
| 19-5383 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-31 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-96 | Lincoln Rymer v. Robert Lemaster, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing void-judgments | Whether lower court conduct and inadequate appellate review warrant a GVR with instructions |
| 19-5082 | Julisa Tolentino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review pending-case published-opinion reconsideration remand standing united-states-v-leal vacate | Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and the remand for reconsideration in the event that the defendant in the forth… |
| 19-25 | Irma Rosas v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | accepted-and-usual-course certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process erickson-v-pardus judicial-proceedings legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing supreme-court-review | Whether the lower court, in conflict with this Court's holding in Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89 (2007), so far departed from the accepted and usual … |
| 18A1357 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Presumed Complete | certiorari counsel-mistake criminal-conviction extension-of-time fifth-circuit procedural-error | Whether the Fifth Circuit's judgment affirming a criminal conviction should be reviewed due to counsel's inadvertent failure to timely file a petition… | |
| 18A1359 | Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Presumed Complete | benefits-plan certiorari erisa federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit health-insurance | Whether a health insurance provider can be subject to federal court jurisdiction in a dispute involving the interpretation of a benefits plan under ER… | |
| 18A1348 | Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time institutional-limitations legal-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari due to institutional limitations and need for … | |
| 18A1351 | Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC | Massachusetts | 2019-06-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari constitutional-challenge extension-of-time pro-se statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant experiencing homelessness and medical challenges is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiora… | |
| 18-9732 | Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota | North Dakota | 2019-06-19 | Denied | IFP | appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court | Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed… |
| 18A1341 | Antwoine Marquise Bealer v. Kern Valley State Prison | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | certiorari litigation petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court will grant an extension of time to file a pro se petition for writ of certiorari given multiple concurrent legal proceedings | |
| 18A1330 | Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | certiorari district-court eleventh-circuit federal-appellate judicial-review mortgage-foreclosure | Whether a federal appellate court's affirmance of a district court's dismissal of a mortgage-related complaint can be challenged through a Supreme Cou… | |
| 18A1292 | Steven L. Barnes v. South Carolina Department of Corrections | South Carolina | 2019-06-11 | Presumed Complete | certiorari due-process fundamental-rights prison-officials supreme-court time-extension | Whether a state supreme court's denial of a prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari violates due process … | |
| 18A1266 | Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari federal-circuit jurisdictional-issue patent-law time-extension | Whether the Federal Circuit's panel and en banc decisions in a patent-related dispute between Straight Path IP Group and technology companies raise si… | |
| 18A1252 | Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille | New Hampshire | 2019-06-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari deadline extension-of-time petition pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's application for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted when filed near the deadline | |
| 18A1246 | Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind v. PDS Consultants, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Presumed Complete | certiorari federal-circuit government-contract irreparable-harm judicial-review stay-pending-appeal | Whether the Federal Circuit improperly interpreted the standard for granting a stay pending appeal in a government contract dispute | |
| 18A1227 | Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen | Missouri | 2019-05-29 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-review missouri-court supreme-court-rules time-extension | Whether a state corrections official may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari after a state appellate court's final judgm… | |
| 18A1203 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-conviction direct-appeal federal-death-row second-circuit supreme-court-review | Whether a federal death-row inmate may challenge the constitutionality of his federal convictions through a direct appeal to the Supreme Court | |
| 18-8911 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith | Whether a Florida drug offense qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the ACCA without mens rea |
| 18-8848 | Antyane Robinson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-04-16 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-standard due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality rippo-v-baker standard-of-review standing state-court state-court-review vacatur | Where a state court denied a judicial bias claim based on another state court's finding that the judge in question had not demonstrated actual bias, d… |
| 18-7935 | Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit | Is certiorari appropriate where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the merits of petitioner's self-defense claim without jurisdiction and is i… |
| 18-7321 | Michael A. Young v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden | Second Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeals certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-action standing statutory-provisions supreme-court | Whether indigent petitioner's freestanding factual innocence showing is being constructively denied appointment of counsel on first and all other appe… |
| 18-7180 | Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-7079 | Franklyn Morillo v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted | Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though tha… |
| 18-6899 | John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors | Whether the implied bias doctrine constitutes clearly established federal law |
| 18-6924 | Larry E. Walden v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court time-limits | Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to grant certiorari from a decision of the Arkansas Court of Appeals? |
| 18-6369 | Lashon Browning v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-17 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony | Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-6014 | Javier Vega-Orozco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi Certiorari criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment Supreme-Court | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-5962 | Theadene Mattis v. Florida | Florida | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings | Whether the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal erred in its decisions in this case, which conflict with relevant decisions of the Supreme Court |
| 18-5547 | Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court | Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States |
| 18A100 | Dion Terry Taylor v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time jurisdiction petition sixth-circuit supreme-court | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding Mr. Dion Taylor's case and if the lower court's ruling warrants Supreme Cou… | |
| 18-88 | Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company | Federal Circuit | 2018-07-18 | GVR | certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure | Whether the Federal Circuit's decision affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's final written decisions of the partially instituted inter partes … | |
| 18A10 | Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Presumed Complete | certiorari legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se sixth-circuit time-extension | Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research materials and challenges with counsel constitute sufficient grounds for an extension of… | |
| 18A1218 | Marianne E. Burke, Mother of Abigail E. Caudle, Deceased v. Raven Electric, Inc., et al. | Alaska | Presumed Complete | certiorari docketing-fee extension-of-time pro-se rule-33.1 supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant's motion for extension of time to file a certiorari petition meets the Supreme Court's procedural requirements for extraordi… | ||
| 23A382 | C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari in-forma-pauperis procedural-relief substantial-rights supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari after a previous in forma pauperis filing was de… | ||
| 23A915 | C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-procedure in-forma-pauperis motion-for-reconsideration substantial-rights time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari after a previous in forma pauperis filing was de… | ||
| 23A1144 | C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari in-forma-pauperis motion-for-reconsideration substantial-rights supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant reconsideration of a denial of in forma pauperis status and extend time to file a petition for writ of certiora… | ||
| 24A273 | Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company | Seventh Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari injunction insurance-dispute pro-se service-of-process supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an emergency injunction against a private insurance company to prevent potential financial harm while a certiorar… | ||
| 24A390 | Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. | Virginia | Presumed Complete | certiorari family-hardship in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court time-extension | Whether a pro se litigant's personal family circumstances and challenges with filing procedural documents constitute valid grounds for an extension of… | ||
| 24A428 | Laura Marie Baldwin v. Joshua Devine, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis petition pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant may obtain an extension of time to submit a Supreme Court petition after in forma pauperis status is denied | ||
| 24A461 | Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig | Ohio | Presumed Complete | ancillary-relief certiorari petition-for-rehearing pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether a pro se litigant can seek ancillary relief from the Supreme Court to suspend an order denying certiorari pending a petition for rehearing | ||
| 24A753 | Steven Lawayne Nelson v. Texas | Texas | Denied | adequate-independent-state-ground certiorari habeas-corpus lethal-injection post-conviction supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether the Supreme Court can review a state post-conviction court's decision that lacks a clear and independent state law basis for dismissing a capi… | ||
| 24A754 | Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. | Fifth Circuit | Presumed Complete | briefing-rules certiorari consolidated-case merits-brief supreme-court word-limit | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a word-limit extension for a consolidated merits brief in a multi-party Supreme Court case | ||
| 25A272 | Dennis D. Sadorra v. Starlight Dunes HOA, a California Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation | Ninth Circuit | Application | certiorari due-process jurisdictional-integrity property-rights summary-judgment supreme-court-review | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a state court to stay proceedings when a federal constitutional question is pending Sup… | ||
| 25A627 | Linda Kay Twigg v. Allan Lee Twigg | Maryland | Application | certiorari docket-fee extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se litigant seeking in forma pauperis status may obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari after being denied such s… |