Fifth-Amendment

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25-6819 Brandon Prawl v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-indictment due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Does a conviction for a crime different from the one originally indicted contravene a defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights?
25-6787 James Webb Hunter v. S. F. California 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process extrinsic-fraud fifth-amendment judicial-bias restraining-order second-amendment Whether California's prolonged disarmament of an individual under a non-violent restraining order violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments when n…
25-6776 Carol Engen v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP claim-preclusion due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure-proceeding tax-lien tucker-act Whether a summary judgment in a tax lien-foreclosure proceeding constitutes a 'final judgment on the merits' for claim preclusion purposes, barring a …
25-931 BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas Arkansas 2026-02-06 Pending fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property?
25A887 Arron Benedetti, et al. v. Marin County, California, et al. California 2026-02-05 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use-exaction nollan-test property-rights residential-development Whether a government may impose a condition of residential development requiring a landowner to personally engage in commercial agriculture in perpetu…
25-6724 Diamond King v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review procedural-dismissal service-evasion whistleblower-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by affirming dismissal of …
25A876 Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-02-04 Application disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a federal court to dismiss a pro se plaintiff's claims for disability retirement, back pay, and mil…
25-902 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-02 Pending anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment Whether the Anti-Injunction Act bars judicial review of a civil penalty labeled as a tax when the penalty is effectively unpayable, whether the Drug P…
25-6667 Alexis D. Negrón-Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment neutral-arbiter probation-revocation Does a district court violate the Fifth Amendment's neutral-and-detached-arbiter requirement, as recognized in Morrissey, when it engages in ex parte …
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court to vacate a fraudulent foreclosure judgment issued without trial and…
25-871 Glenn Allen Brooks v. United States District of Columbia 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-rights burdick-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presidential-pardon Whether a Presidential pardon can be forcibly imposed on a defendant against his will when he seeks to continue pursuing appellate review and exonerat…
25A835 Vikram Valame v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-21 Application equal-protection equal-rights-amendment fifth-amendment military-integration rostker-v-goldberg selective-service Whether the male-only Selective Service registration requirement violates the Equal Protection component of the Fifth Amendment in light of women's fu…
25-6614 In Re Joey Lamont Brunson 2026-01-20 Pending IFP due-process fifth-amendment rule-12 subject-matter-jurisdiction title-iii wiretap-evidence Was the district court's assertion of subject matter jurisdiction valid after jurisdiction was challenged under F.R.Cr.P. Rule 12(b)(2) regarding the …
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause Whether an accused's rights under the Takings Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment are offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies a…
25-6584 Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether multiple alleged judicial and prosecutorial errors in a criminal case constitute grounds for reversal of conviction and sentencing, including …
25-6562 Dustin Shane Sandiford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Eleventh Circuit misconstrued the Fourth and Fifth Amendment warrant and due process requirements when refusing to consider critical facts…
25-6564 Ambreia Washington v. Tennessee Tennessee 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment plain-view-exception probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-seizure Whether information obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause can establish the probable cause necessary to authorize a…
25-6533 Arthur Raffy Aslanian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment post-trial-agreement Whether a post-trial waiver of appeal is unknowing and involuntary under the Fifth Amendment when the defendant was not fully advised of appellate rig…
25-6520 Steven George Morgan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-statements miranda-rights police-deception Whether police deception that explicitly disavows the interrogative nature of an officer's false promise renders a suspect's subsequent statements inv…
25A788 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter Whether a defendant's self-defense claim involving proportional force during a home invasion can constitute a valid legal defense to a voluntary mansl…
25A795 Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement police-power property-damage takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause requires compensation when government damages private property during law enforcement actions under its police power
25A787 Jacquelyn Miller v. Dylan Farris, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Application constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-safeguards Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require meaningful judicial review and procedural safeguards when constitutional due process rights are po…
25-799 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (1) due-process economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment medicare-negotiation property-rights Is the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program immune from constitutional scrutiny due to economic coercion, and does it unconstitutionally condition …
25-6495 Jason Elysse v. Florida Florida 2026-01-06 Pending IFP appellate-review constitutional-claim discretionary-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a State Appellate Court violates a Defendant's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when affirming a trial Court's denial of a reques…
25-6487 Derrick S. Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated when a sentencing judge finds facts that alter sentencing ranges without jury determination beyond…
25-6478 Jeremy Edward Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination Did the Third Circuit err by assuming a Miranda violation was harmless and not determining whether a Miranda violation occurred?
25-6437 Sean Blaine James v. Oregon Oregon 2025-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-clause incorporation-doctrine sentence-enhancement Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
25-749 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending drug-pricing economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation Does the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program violate the First Amendment by compelling pharmaceutical companies to express the government's disput…
25-6412 Israel Navarro v. New York New York 2025-12-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee criminal defendants the right to a jury trial on statutorily required factual findings before an enha…
25-695 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-15 Denied Response Waived convening-authority court-martial criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice Did the Convening Authority's action of ordering a second court-martial for the same offenses violate the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause?
25-6363 Arturo Amaran v. Florida Florida 2025-12-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law fifth-amendment judicial-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether Florida courts can expand or invent exceptions to Supreme Court 5th Amendment jurisprudence and modify statutory language beyond legislative i…
25-6308 Johnny Joe Figueroa-Mangual v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) and the plea agreement were violated in imposing a 108-month sentence that upwardly departed fr…
25-6305 Anthony Darrell Heath v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending IFP constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health miranda-rights Whether Miranda warnings adequately protect the constitutional rights of mentally ill individuals during custodial police interrogations and require a…
25-6298 Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-injury federal-claims-court fifth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tucker-act Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims erred in dismissing Polinski v. United States for lack of subject matter jurisdiction despite consti…
25-6288 Christopher John Derting v. Florida Florida 2025-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-offender-statute preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment Whether Florida Statute 775.084 violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by allowing a judge to determine 'certain circumstances' under a preponderance…
25A651 Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing arguments that could be interpreted as referencing a defendant's decision not to testify violate the Fi…
25A650 Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-argument fifth-amendment griffin-violation harmless-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing argument that implicitly reference a defendant's choice not to testify violate the Fifth Amendment's pr…
25-633 Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-03 Denied Response Waived charging-document due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment Under the Fifth Amendment right to due process and the Sixth Amendment right to fair notice, may a conviction be affirmed as legally sufficient based …
25A638 William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-02 Application coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-techniques self-incrimination Whether a criminal defendant's confession was involuntary and obtained in violation of his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when law e…
25A628 Operating Engineers Trust Fund of Washington, D.C., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-01 Application fifth-amendment government-program property-interest reinsurance-fund takings-clause trust-requirement Whether a government program that requires group health plans to pay into a reinsurance fund without receiving any benefits constitutes a taking under…
25-6245 Dean Alan Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-instruction due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury jury-deadlock sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's decision to proffer two distinct Allen instructions when the jury was already hope…
25-6239 Elijah D. Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that …
25-6204 Brian N. Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-11-24 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to have appellate counsel raise every nonfrivolous issue, and whether searches of home and per…
25-6200 Daman Thomas Caldwell v. Florida Florida 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations false-police-report fifth-amendment first-amendment per-curiam-affirmance sixth-amendment Whether the conviction of Petitioner, obtained under a per curiam affirmance without opinion and supported by a false police report, violates the Firs…
25-6184 Albert Jackson v. Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review longshore-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an Administrative Law Judge can lawfully review, modify, and terminate a previously adjudicated Longshore Harbor Workers' Act claim without fo…
25-6183 Stephen C. Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment perjury reasonable-doubt self-defense sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Court should adopt a definition of reasonable doubt and whether the District Court erred in applying sentencing guidelines related to perj…
25-6171 Aldo DiBelardino v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement Whether the systematic manipulation of grand jury authority violates due process guarantees under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and whether the…
25-6163 Terrance Deshun Cash v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner Cash's constitutional rights by allowing hearsay testimony and failing to address his F…
25-6157 Eric King v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment identity-theft indictment-defects Whether a conviction for aggravated identity theft can stand when the alleged identity use was merely incidental in progress notes without fraudulent …
25-586 Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment merit-system-protections-board property-interest Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner's Due Process Rights by terminating employment without a full and fair investigation
25-6127 Brodrick Eugene Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-14 Pending IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violate the Fifth and Sixth amendments?
25A554 BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas Arkansas 2025-11-13 Application civil-rights fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause Whether states can assert sovereign immunity to bar federal civil rights claims seeking just compensation for a taking of private property under the F…
25-6109 Dion Marsh v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant due-process fifth-amendment remorselessness self-incrimination sentencing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits a sentencing court from inferring remorselessness from a criminal defendant's silence
25-6090 Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal charging-error fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error structural-error Whether a Fifth Amendment charging error for an aggravated offense is structural error and how harmless error review should be applied in the guilty p…
25-6072 William Douglas Marcum v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-denial due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment merit-systems-protection-board perjured-testimony Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the Merit Systems Protection Board relies on perjured testimony, denies discovery, a…
25A519 Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-05 Application constitutional-challenge drug-pricing fifth-amendment first-amendment inflation-reduction-act medicare-drug-negotiation Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 violates the Fifth and First Amendments
25A507 William King, on Behalf of Himself and on Behalf of a Class of Others Similarly Situated, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-11-04 Application contractual-right fifth-amendment government-appropriation per-se-taking property-interest takings-clause Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause requires a per se taking analysis when a government action impairs a contractual right to draw on a pool …
25-6028 Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement …
25A514 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-04 Application compelled-speech fifth-amendment first-amendment government-coercion medicare-drug-negotiation takings-clause Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program's mandatory price negotiations and severe financial penalties for non-compliance constitute an unc…
25-6016 Todd White v. ACell, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit violated due process by denying a motion to amend an informal opening brief and erred in affirming summary judgment on a Fa…
25-539 Johnathan H. Dinh, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived fifth-amendment government-liability just-compensation property-rights takings-clause third-party-taking Can Congress insulate itself from Fifth Amendment takings liability by creating a separate, third-party entity and authorizing that entity to 'indepen…
25-523 United Water Conservation District v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-10-29 Pending Amici (7) fifth-amendment government-appropriation physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking water-rights Whether the government's appropriation of water that a person had a property right to use is analyzed as a physical taking, rather than a regulatory t…
25A487 Jairo Huertas-Mercado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Application constitutional-delay criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require dismissal of criminal charges due to an excessive pre-trial delay violating the constitutional right to…
25-5978 Edgard Velasquez v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles Ninth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review federal-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-transcripts judicial-discretion supervisory-authority Does the district court's clearly erroneous denial of Petitioner's motion for grand jury transcripts pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 6 and the Fifth Amen…
25-5953 Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama Alabama 2025-10-24 Pending IFP adverse-inference capital-murder criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment prosecutorial-conduct right-to-silence In the sentencing phase of a capital trial, where the defendant exercises his right to remain silent and to plead not guilty, does the Fifth Amendment…
25-5950 Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy sixth-amendment Whether defense counsel renders constitutionally ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment when, for financial gain, he affirmatively lies to h…
25A459 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Application fifth-amendment judicial-taking just-compensation permitting-authority property-rights takings-clause Whether a state court's judicial decree constitutes a taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause when the government leverages its permitting a…
25-5921 Frederick L. Brewer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
25-487 Lynette Hathon, et al. v. Michigan Michigan 2025-10-20 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights state-liability takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is a self-executing stand-alone claim that permits property owners to sue a State directly for just …
25A445 Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-17 Application criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes a defendant from being convicted of two separate offenses arising from the same cr…
25-5900 Latisha Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment liberty-interest prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision deprives the petitioner of due process and effective assistance of counsel under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
25-5841 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment substantial-effects-test Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of aiding and abetting bank robbery as a 'crime of violence' under 924(c)(3)(A) sidesteps the categorical a…
25-420 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-08 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (3) case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights?
25-5823 Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment Whether an appellate court may, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, reinstate a jury's guilty verdict where the judge did not find, and th…
25-5821 Gregory Lee Rodvelt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment official-duties sixth-amendment statutory-authority Whether a federal employee is 'engaged in the performance of official duties' under 18 U.S.C. § 111 when lacking statutory authority, and whether inad…
25-5817 Kyle Krill v. Ohio Ohio 2025-10-07 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment When a factual finding that multiple counts arose out of 'separate acts or transactions' is necessary to authorize an increase in punishment, must thi…
25-5815 Wilclin Saintil v. Florida Florida 2025-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the state court violated the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments in denying the accused his due process right to present a witness in supp…
25-5792 Timothy Nesdahl v. C. Garrett, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment legal-error liberty-interest Whether the due process clause of the fifth amendment requires an appellate court to address a purely legal error concerning a liberty interest raised…
25-5786 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause by abolishing the writ of error coram nobis and permanently barring judicial review of a void ab initi…
25-5778 Ashlie R. Anderson v. Automobile Club of Southern California ("AAA") LLC, et al. California 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp-statute due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights vehicle-salvage Whether California courts may engage in procedural due process violations under the Anti-SLAPP statute and improperly designate a vehicle as total los…
25A357 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete compelled-speech fifth-amendment first-amendment medicare-drug-negotiation price-setting takings-clause Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program's compulsory participation and price-setting mechanism constitutes an unconstitutional taking or c…
25A360 Henry B. Berrocal v. San Antonio Police Department-Headquarters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-29 Application civil-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments permit state actors to engage in repeated retaliatory arrests, physical abuse, and…
25A341 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review courts-martial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice trial-record Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a military court from retrying a service member for the same offenses after a defe…
25-5693 Yasmani Gurri Rubio v. City of Alexandria, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure rule-12b3 statutory-interpretation venue-dismissal Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when a federal district court dismisses an action with prejudice for improper venue …
25A315 Kiya Cunningham v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-18 Presumed Complete civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant summary-judgment Whether a federal district court violates a party's due process rights by striking a summary judgment opposition without providing an opportunity to r…
25A312 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Lisa D. Cook, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System District of Columbia 2025-09-18 Application Amici (25) administrative-law due-process federal-reserve fifth-amendment for-cause presidential-removal Whether the President's power to remove a Federal Reserve Board member 'for cause' encompasses discretionary judgment about an appointee's prior finan…
25-5654 Thomas Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents sixth-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits imposing an enhanced ACCA sentence when a defendant pleaded guilty only to the simple § 922(g) offense an…
25-5618 Jamil Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment mitchell-precedent right-to-silence self-incrimination sentencing Whether the failure to apologize or express remorse violates the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, a question left open by Mitchel…
25-288 Vinaykumar Patel v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer violates the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights and eviden…
25-281 Patrick Byrne v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice defamation due-process fifth-amendment protective-order Whether a District Court erred in disqualifying counsel of choice in a civil defamation case for violating a protective order by reporting potential c…
25-266 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived drought-impact fifth-amendment property-rights reclamation-act takings-clause water-rights Whether the beneficial users of Reclamation Project irrigation water have compensable water-property rights under the Fifth Amendment and whether Recl…
25-5579 Kevin Marvell Jackson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment judicial-coercion jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the district court violated petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by issuing repeated instructions that foreclosed the possibility of …
25-5541 Camerron L. Bradberry v. Department of the Air Force Federal Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-action due-process employment-termination fifth-amendment procedural-rights whistleblower-reprisal Whether a federal agency denies a tenured career employee their Fifth Amendment due process rights when it terminates them using summary procedures fo…
25A253 Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a criminal conviction and sentence when the petitioner claims inadequate legal representation and limite…
25-5499 Timothy Alexander v. New York New York 2025-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct Whether the exclusionary rule applies when police violate a suspect's Constitutional Rights multiple times during a continuous interrogation, and whet…
25-5501 Brian Troy Woltz v. Susan Good, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied IFP due-process equity-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-misconduct trust-administration Whether the lower courts committed reversible error in refusing to recognize equity claims and denying access to judicial remedy
25A228 United States v. Darby Development Company, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete administrative-agency fifth-amendment government-action regulatory-taking statutory-authority takings-clause Whether an administrative agency's unauthorized regulatory action that exceeds its statutory authority can constitute a compensable taking under the F…
25-222 Victor Everette Silvers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-notice maritime-jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether taking judicial notice to conclusively determine that a location is within the 'special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United St…
25-5463 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process-clause federal-court-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation Do Pro Se litigants have constitutional protections in federal court under the Due Process Clause?
25-5442 Jaron Burnett v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-22 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP fifth-amendment imprisonment jury-right revocation-proceeding sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment jury right applies to supervised release revocation proceedings that impose a term of imprisonment beyond the ma…
25A203 Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal drug-offense fifth-amendment plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a district court's determination of an armed career criminal status based on prior drug convictions arising from a single arrest and plea on t…
25-5399 Neda Mehrabani v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-violation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance medicare-billing sentencing Whether a Certificate of Appealability (COA) should have been issued due to ineffective assistance of counsel and denial of constitutional rights rela…
25-5405 Lamont Coleman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
25A193 Richard E. Warner, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Joseph Ardolino, II, et al. v. City of Marathon, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-18 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment property-rights ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings-clause williamson-county Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment permits a plaintiff to pursue a property rights claim after the Supreme Court's modification of the …
25-5378 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Mark H. Slimak Florida 2025-08-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights stalking-injunction Did the trial court commit reversible error in dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent stalking, and did the court violate procedural due…
25-176 Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication Pennsylvania 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera Whether automated speed camera enforcement programs violate constitutional rights by imposing liability on vehicle owners without identifying the actu…
25-5350 Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada Nevada 2025-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity Whether a state's sovereign immunity defense in a civil rights complaint constitutes a valid Fifth Amendment invocation and Fourteenth Amendment prote…
25-5333 Mark William Sain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment harmless-error plea-proceeding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment When harmless-error review of Erlinger error requires consideration by appellate judges of facts neither intrinsic to nor relevant to the finding of g…
25-159 Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-08-11 Pending CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation land-condemnation natural-gas-act state-law In private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act, should just compensation be determined by reference to state law?
25-5311 Winston Sylvester Oliver, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights de-novo-review fifth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a District Court's decision allowing a witness called by a criminal defendant to refuse to testimony based on his claimed Fifth Amendment priv…
25-5276 David Leroy Earls v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the failure of the Tenth Circuit to apply the rule of lenity to 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) resulted in an interpretation of ambiguous language in …
25A139 Faytima Howard v. Macomb County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-08-04 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights surplus-proceeds takings-clause tax-foreclosure Whether the government violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it retains surplus proceeds from a tax foreclosure sale beyond the amou…
25A133 Lynette Hathon, et al. v. Michigan Michigan 2025-08-01 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity state-remedies takings-clause Whether property owners have a direct cause of action under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment when state remedies are inadequate or unavailabl…
25-5249 Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense by arbitrarily removing Evidence Rule 801(d)(2)(D) from the availab…
25-105 Brian Beland and Denae Beland v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourth-amendment irs-procedure tax-audit Is a taxpayer's Fourth and/or Fifth Amendment Constitutional Rights violated when the IRS civil revenue agent conducts a criminal investigation under …
25-5230 Victor Samuel Brito v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction necessity-defense sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to have a jury consider and give effect to a necessity defense when th…
25-5232 Doina Rosu Almazon v. Town of Oyster Bay, New York Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-action property-rights Did the Town of Oyster Bay's action in demolishing the plaintiff's nearly completed, rebuilt home violate the due process guarantee under the United S…
25A114 Scott Breimeister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete double-jeopardy fifth-amendment governmental-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal retrial when a mistrial was sua sponte declared due to government misconduct over the defendant's o…
25-95 Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-07-24 Granted Amici (26) excessive-fine fair-market-value fifth-amendment government-seizure property-rights takings-clause Whether taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of the…
25-5176 Mario Gabriel Rodgers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comport with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
25-5127 John W. Biddle v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment identification-procedures prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether multiple constitutional violations, including due process, prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel, warrant Supreme Co…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia 2025-07-16 Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require pre-deprivation due process before a court enters a child custody order that infringes fundamental libe…
25-41 Jan Peters v. Malia M. Cohen, In Her Official Capacity as Chief Fiscal Officer, State Controller of California, and as Trustee of the Unclaimed Property Fund Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether the Controller's actions under the California Unclaimed Property Law violate the Due Process and Takings Clauses of the Fourteenth and Fifth A…
25-5068 Dwayne Anderson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-09 Denied IFP bill-of-particulars constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Was Dwayne Anderson's right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him violated when the state failed to provide him a bill …
25-17 D R Burton Healthcare LLC v. Trudell Medical International Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response Waived case-management civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment patent-litigation trial-timeline Whether a district court's order changing the time to trial from 326 to 146 days, and discovery time from 231 to 108 days, constitutes a fair legal pr…
25-5029 Damon D. Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attempted-robbery criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the District Court abused its discretion in imposing maximum consecutive sentences for attempted robbery by erroneously applying Federal Sente…
25-5031 Michael Odom v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-consensus due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-proceedings Whether the near consensus determination by the various Circuits to accept appeal waivers in plea agreements that extend to subsequent sentencing proc…
24-7486 Bruce Stroud v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing fact-finding fifth-amendment jury-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a restitution order imposed as part of a federal criminal sentence and based on fact-findings made by the district court, rather than the jury…
24-7456 Daniel Jones v. Danielle Tope Second Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review magistrate-act Whether the lower courts erred in adjudicating habeas corpus petitions without clearly established law and in departing from standard judicial review …
24-7462 Henry Weaver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge due-process evidence-rule fifth-amendment grand-jury lay-opinion Should the Fifth Amendment apply to grand jury proceedings, and do Allen charges unconstitutionally influence minority jurors, and do law enforcement …
24-7439 In Re Terron Dizzley 2025-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-trial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion trial-court-jurisdiction Did the trial court exceed its jurisdiction in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause by trying Mr. Dizzley a second time for the c…
24-1279 Frank J. Anderson, Jr. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-06-16 Denied Relisted (2) criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-modification sixth-amendment Does the New Jersey judicial process of preparing a judgment of conviction in the petitioner's absence, departing from the orally pronounced sentence,…
24-1283 Jack R. T. Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct disbarment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-misconduct Whether the U.S. Constitution delegated power to federal courts to disbar an attorney for statements in court filings challenging judicial misconduct
24-1257 Martin Akerman v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-06-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law automated-enforcement confrontation-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-irregularities Whether the use of automated systems like 'Speed Camera Doe' for issuing citations without human oversight violates procedural due process protections…
24-7373 Natnael Zemene v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment second-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause protects an individual from subsequent prosecution when insufficient evidence was produced to reb…
24-7360 Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing Whether a court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by using a petitioner's silence at sentencing as the sole definitive factor to deny relie…
24-7350 Rusty James Driscoll v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-material fifth-amendment inmate-rights local-rules sixth-amendment Whether District Court of South Dakota's Local Rules 16.1 and 57.10 violate an inmate's constitutional rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments to rece…
24-1210 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act fifth-amendment rule-41-dismissal Does the Fifth Amendment require appellate courts to rule on a petitioner's briefed arguments and alleged facts rather than unraised theories and fact…
24-7315 Kenyon Lamonte Watson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury pretrial-detention res-judicata Whether the government can seek pretrial detention in a second related prosecution after a magistrate judge has previously denied detention and ordere…
24-7320 Luis Raul Vicente Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-tolling fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-emergency sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether a district court can toll the speedy trial period during the COVID-19 pandemic without invoking specific judicial emergency provisions
24-7285 Kirk Powell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment misjoinder sixth-amendment Whether the misjoinder of defendants and admission of co-defendant's out-of-court statements in a joint trial violated the Petitioner's Fifth and Sixt…
24-7278 Malik J. Moss v. United States Third Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment sentencing Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process right violated when the Sentencing Court relieved the Government of its constitutionally mandated burden …
24-7246 Tamika Seay v. Lisa James, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l…
24-7247 Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and …
24-7248 Tamika Seay v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness Whether procedures by the United States Government satisfy Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment before depriving Petitioner of life, l…
24-7235 Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan Michigan 2025-05-16 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect Did the district court commit a jurisdictional defect by not following Michigan's law and standards, and did the court of appeals and magistrate judge…
24A1089 Brian Beland and Denae Beland v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-12 Presumed Complete civil-audit criminal-investigation fifth-amendment firm-indication-of-fraud fourth-amendment IRS-examination Whether the IRS violates a taxpayer's Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by continuing a civil tax audit after developing a firm indication of fraud wi…
24-1148 Dominic Michael Mason v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sentencing Whether a criminal defendant's pre-arrest silence can be used against him at sentencing in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
24-7146 Anida Gilowski v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment property-forfeiture sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated by forfeiture of real properties purchased with her own litigation income
24-1121 Robert S. Carlborg v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure military-retirement property-interest stare-decisis Whether petitioner was deprived of a property interest in military retirement under the Due Process Clause when the court of appeals did not follow st…
24-1122 Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals misapplied Federal precedent in admitting post-Miranda statements under Elstad despite Seibert, and whether the …
24-7076 Delowar Mohammed Hossain v. United States Second Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information criminal-defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a Fifth Amendment Due Process or Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel claim arises when security-cleared defense counsel are not gi…
24-7077 Todd Stephens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment pro-se-litigant restitution Does imposing a restitution order of $130,220,803.65 derived from speculative calculations and disproportionately exceeding the petitioner's limited n…
24-1100 Ashu Joshi v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment marital-relationship sexual-exploitation tenth-amendment Whether the federal prosecution for sexual exploitation of a minor is unconstitutional as applied to a legally married couple under state law
24-7058 Todd Cannady v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights by denying a Certificate of Appealability without conducting th…
24-7060 Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment herring-standard judgment-of-acquittal rule-29-motion Whether a district court's denial of a renewed Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal can be equated with a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable dou…
24-7052 Michael Lynn Ashford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the District Court can utilize acquitted conduct in determining advisory Guidelines sentencing without violating constitutional due process an…
24-7024 Jesse Scott Fulcher v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether a state court's failure to disclose material exculpatory evidence violates a criminal defendant's fundamental right to due process as guarante…
24-7002 In Re Clifford L. Noll 2025-04-16 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP debt-collection due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourth-amendment property-seizure Whether the unwarranted seizure of real properties and personal savings by the United States violated the petitioner's Fourth and Fifth Amendment righ…
24-6992 Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment guilty-plea legal-counsel motion-to-withdraw Whether the district judge's decision to deny the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due…
24-6993 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-04-15 Denied IFP disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the proc…
24-6940 Tam Q. Le v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether the trial court committed reversible error by providing an Allen charge to a deadlocked jury and whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimo…
24-6879 Zachary Michael Linan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's application of sentencing guidelines in a manner that expands judicial fact-finding beyond…
24-6865 Brian Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-violation criminal-offense due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-information Does the timing of earned profits constitute a criminal offense without financial harm, and did the district court's denial of juror information reque…
24-6841 Micah Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-03-25 Dismissed IFP capital-punishment defendant-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a prosecutor violates a capital defendant's Fifth Amendment right by repeatedly telling the jury that the defendant deserved no mercy for not …
24-6836 Christian Genao v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release Must sentencing courts orally pronounce nonmandatory conditions of supervised release to protect defendants' right to be present and to put them on no…
24-1010 Raphael Weitzman v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct Whether the lower Court violated attorney's rights as to Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and Equal Protection under the Fourteen…
24-1000 In Re Michael Prete 2025-03-20 Denied Relisted (2) due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment Did the R.I. Judiciary violate multiple constitutional rights through retaliatory actions, improper evidence handling, and procedural misconduct?
24-6816 Joshua Gary Anderson v. Fernando Garza, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-confinement constitutional-suspension due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus writ-of-habeas Whether a Federal court's refusal to permit a prisoner from challenging their conditions of confinement via a writ of habeas violates the Fifth Amendm…
24-6752 Adonis Batista v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial methamphetamine-quantity sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Sixth Amendment rights to jury trial violated when the jury found him accountable for less th…
24-973 Justin Savage v. Henry County School District Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-for-rehearing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of the petition for rehearing without providing reasoning violates the petitioner's due proce…
24-6720 Leroy Harold White, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-defendants deportation extraneous-offenses fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments afford criminal defendants the same burden of proof for extraneous offenses as convicted aliens receive at deportati…
24A836 Cedric Allen Ricks v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit properly denied a Certificate of Appealability in a capital habeas corpus proceeding involving alleged Fifth, Sixth, and Fou…
24-6663 Darrell Turner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur Does a defendant meet the 'substantial denial of a constitutional right' standard under 28 USCS § 2253(c) when challenging a sentence based on a vacat…
24-6621 Curtis Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing-conditions supervised-release Whether a district court must orally pronounce all discretionary standard conditions of supervised release and make an individualized assessment under…
24-6618 Dilesh Sharma v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-offense due-process fifth-amendment image-enhancement sentencing-guidelines technological-changes Has 30 years of technological changes caused the offense enhancements for use of a computer under Sections 2G1.3(b)(3) and 2G2.2(b)(6) of the United S…
24-879 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split evidentiary-standard federal-rule-evidence fifth-amendment state-of-mind-exception witness-testimony Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3) conflicts with other circuits' understanding and should be corrected by…
24-6539 Fernando Lopez-Armenta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment trial-instruction Where the sole defense raised to a criminal charge is guilt of a lesser included offense, does the right to a present a defense rooted in the Fifth an…
24A779 William Valentin v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-process Whether the First and Fifth Amendments protect criminal defendants from alleged constitutional violations in federal judicial proceedings that may inf…
24-6514 Phillip Jason Garrett v. Kansas Kansas 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-voluntariness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-deception law-enforcement-tactics miranda-warnings Whether law enforcement quasi-legal representations about a truth verification machine's accuracy, combined with deceptive interrogation tactics and m…
24-6493 Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-02-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause an…
24-831 Eddie Lee Evans v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment murder-charge supreme-court-precedent Whether a 17-year unjustified delay in filing a murder charge violated petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
24-6446 Larayna Manning v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-02-03 Denied IFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the delay in trial and chain of custody of evidence violated the defendant's constitutional rights to a speedy trial and due process
24A746 Kingston Kohr, LLC v. City of Irvine, California California 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-scrutiny demolition eminent-domain fifth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking Whether a city's mandatory demolition of a fire-damaged building constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause when a pro…
24-6390 William Logsdon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-defendant fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a district court must conduct a particularized inquiry into a witness's Fifth Amendment privilege before accepting a blanket assertion of self…
24-775 Southern California Edison Company, et al. v. Orange County Transportation Authority Ninth Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation public-transit takings-clause utility-relocation Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause guarantees just compensation when the government forces a privately owned utility to relocate its facilit…
24-6331 Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights constitutional-law equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-animus When a law is originally motivated by racial animus, must a court consider its racist origins when deciding whether it violates the equal protection c…
24-6338 Hakeem-Ali Shomo v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-intent QP: Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when judicial misconduct leads to a defense-requested mistrial, even without specific intent to provok…
24-6318 Marcus Crowder v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment malice-murder Whether the state of Georgia violates the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause when indicting in multiplicity offenses arising from a single act o…
24-754 Mount Clemens Recreational Bowl, Inc., et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) economic-impact fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings Whether Penn Central Transp. Co. v. City of New York should be clarified or overruled to provide clarity in regulatory takings cases
24-755 Mollie Slaybaugh, et vir v. Rutherford County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Amici (1) fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation police-power property-rights takings-clause Does a common law privilege to access property categorically absolve the government's duty of just compensation for property it physically destroys?
24-757 The Gym 24/7 Fitness, LLC v. Michigan Michigan 2025-01-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) fifth-amendment government-control penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings time-element Whether Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York should be clarified or overruled to provide clarity on regulatory takings and the element …
24-6272 In Re Benjamin Shipley 2025-01-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the Court's holding in Erlinger V. United States retroactively opens the affirmative defense requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(3)(A) to a …
24-731 Michigan v. Mark David Woolley Michigan 2025-01-13 Denied criminal-procedure fifth-amendment miranda-warnings polygraph-procedure self-incrimination voluntariness Whether Miranda warnings should be modified to create a rebuttable presumption of involuntariness rather than an irrebuttable rule of law, and whether…
24-736 Village Communities, LLC, et al. v. San Diego County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response Waived fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation land-use-permit property-rights takings-claim unconstitutional-conditions Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding improperly requires a land use permit applicant to show government permit conditions would coerce surrender of pro…
24-6259 Kenneth Wayne Gilmore v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether the isolated smell of marijuana is sufficient probable cause for a search warrant; Whether Petitioner's conviction should be reversed due to a…
24-6245 Brad A. Smith v. United States First Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-law interrogation-rights knock-and-talk sixth-amendment Did authorities violate the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments during a 'knock-and-talk' interrogation by entering a secured gate, demanding identifi…
24-6237 Charles Edward Harris, Jr. v. Whitney Gass, et al. Arkansas 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-statute double-jeopardy fifth-amendment legislative-intent punishment-interpretation Whether Harris was twice put in jeopardy for one uninterrupted criminal episode under two separate statutes that punish the same conduct without a cle…
24-6226 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bitcoin digital-property due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture procedural-standards Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause require explicit notice and adjudication for the forfeiture of intangible digital property, such as Bitc…
24A657 Ethan Margalith, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment homestead-rights removal-jurisdiction Whether the federal district court's misapplication of removal jurisdiction statutes under 28 U.S.C. sec. 1441 violated the plaintiffs' Fifth Amendmen…
24-6200 Carlos Guadalupe Sanchez-Felix v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Must a court considering the reenactment of a provision that was originally adopted for a racially discriminatory purpose give meaningful consideratio…
24-678 Thomas L. Wheeler v. United States Armed Forces 2024-12-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) court-martial due-process fifth-amendment military-justice panel-trial servicemember-rights Whether Congress violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it deprived servicemembers facing criminal prosecutions of the right to be tri…
24A617 Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete appeal bond detention due-process fifth-amendment pre-trial-release Whether the Fifth Amendment due process protections require a court to grant a pre-trial release or bond for a defendant facing potential detention pe…
24-6154 Gary Glenn Peterson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment legal-precedent procedural-fairness sentence-reduction Whether the denial of a motion for sentence reduction violates due process rights under the Fifth Amendment when issued on a ROTT.FR PT.ATF form
24-6155 Charles Edward Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP boilerplate-denial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-reduction Whether the denial of a motion for sentence reduction violates due process when issued on a boilerplate form
24-6142 Warren Lee Weisman v. Charles E. Clark Washington 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias linguistic-drift Whether courts have deviated from the original constitutional intent through linguistic drift and bias, undermining due process and the self-correctin…
24-636 Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial physical-restraints Whether the Deck test allows a trial judge to require a litigant to wear physical restraints during a jury trial without stating specific case-related…
24-6075 Lamar Williams v. Alyeska Seafoods, Inc. Alaska 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-funding labor-law Whether the plaintiff seeks judicial review of potential constitutional and labor law violations by Alyeska Seafood company and government agencies
24-609 James L. Martin v. David H. Nixon Delaware 2024-12-04 Denied civil-judgment due-process-clause escheat fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause Do the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protect a civil judgment creditor from escheat when the judgment…
24-6067 Jerrelle Quintrez Gladden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense fifth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment-right witness-exclusion May a district court exclude a defense witness when he will invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to certain questions but undisputedly will answer a…
24A533 Adeena Weiss-Ortiz v. Carolina Weiss, et al. Florida 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-judgment proposed-judgment trial-court Whether a trial court's verbatim adoption of a proposed judgment submitted by one party, without independent analysis or addressing contrary evidence,…
24-579 Peter J. Strauss v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived ethics-commission expert-affidavit fifth-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-due-process Must a district court judge recuse himself when an expert affidavit challenges his impartiality after reporting a criminal defendant's attorney to an …
24-587 Scandinavian Airlines System, aka SAS, dba Scandinavian Airlines of North America, Incorporated v. Susan Hardy Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment foreign-corporation personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment authorizes federal courts to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation …
24A516 In Re Martin Akerman District of Columbia 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete administrative-discretion automated-enforcement constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment procedural-safeguards Whether automated enforcement systems that issue citations without human oversight violate due process protections under the Fifth Amendment by depriv…
24-6034 David Lee Hering v. Iowa District Court, Muscatine County Iowa 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-mandate Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process of law guarantee apply to criminal sentencing when a district court refuses to impose a legislat…
24-565 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-11-20 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure May a state court contravene its own state laws requiring legal fees and counsel representation, potentially violating the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
24-6001 Keith Brian Hunter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act escrow-account fifth-amendment sixth-circuit-court trust-account Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly expanded the definition of a client escrow/trust account and violated the Petitioner's Fifth Ame…
24-6002 Alfredo Viveros-Chavez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP arlington-heights equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24-552 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2024-11-18 Denied Response Waived article-three due-process fifth-amendment intervention legal-standing sanctions Whether the 7th Circuit violated Article III and the 5th Amendment by allowing JPMorgan Chase to intervene in a closed case without legal standing and…
24-5960 Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause Did the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights through improper judicial proced…
24A475 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete ashe-standard double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion jury-verdict preponderance-of-evidence Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes retrial of a defendant on a bribery charge after a jury's initial rejection of tha…
24-5943 Travyrus Jerard Stradford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
24-5944 Nathan Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
24-5939 James Herard v. Florida Florida 2024-11-07 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment interrogation-techniques miranda-rights Whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress statements made by James Herard under the 5th and 14th Amendments and Miranda v. Arizona, and wh…
24A456 In Re Mawule Tepe Fifth Circuit 2024-11-06 Presumed Complete administrative-seizure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment tax-refund Whether the Internal Revenue Service's seizure of a taxpayer's refund without prior judicial authorization violates due process under the Fourth and F…
24-5908 Tanya Spurbeck v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chevron-deference due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review seventh-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations was improperly tolled under Chevron deference and Loper Bright Enterprises precedent, and whether Fifth and Seventh…
24A437 Southern California Edison Company, et al. v. Orange County Transportation Authority Ninth Circuit 2024-11-01 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights public-transit takings-clause utility-infrastructure Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause requires just compensation when a government entity compels a utility to relocate its infrastructure for …
24-5871 Jeremy Travis Payne v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP biometric-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment self-incrimination testimonial-evidence Whether the forced use of biometric data to unlock a cellphone constitutes a 'testimonial' act under the Fifth Amendment
24A435 Mount Clemens Recreational Bowl, Inc., et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2024-10-31 Presumed Complete economic-impact fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations just-compensation penn-central-test regulatory-taking Whether a regulatory restriction that substantially interferes with a business's economic expectations constitutes a compensable taking under the Fift…
24-486 William B. Walton, et al. v. Neskowin Regional Sanitary Authority Oregon 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-occupation property-rights statute-of-limitations takings-clause Whether a Constitutional Fifth Amendment Takings Claim, based on a physical occupation, fully accrues and the statute of limitations begins to run bef…
24-5860 Elliot Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-procedure due-process federal-rules fifth-amendment rule-60 Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in limiting Rule 60(d)(3) relief to civil matters and potentially violating due process rights
24A418 The Gym 24/7 Fitness, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Michigan Michigan 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment investment-expectations just-compensation penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking Whether a state regulation constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment when it substantially interferes with a private business's invest…
24-5836 Steven Hadley Hassan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-authority due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Does the U.S. Constitution authorize Congress to transfer lawmaking authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission?
24-5778 Akmal Narzikulov v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment jury-reliability perjury reasonable-doubt witness-testimony Whether government witnesses committed perjury during trial that was so inherently contradictory and unreliable that no reasonable jury could conclude…
24-5780 Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing Whether multiple convictions and sentences for possessing one loaded firearm violate the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause
24-5739 Christopher Lee Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment internet-restriction plea-agreement supervised-release Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Parker's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
24-5723 Terrell Trammell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard circuit-split double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms-possession second-amendment Whether § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under Bruen and violates the Second and Fifth Amendments' protections against double jeopardy
24-5717 David Devaney, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether the statement 'I have to get a lawyer, I have to shut the interview down' constitutes an unambiguous request for counsel, and can a defendant'…
24-5679 Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
24-5637 Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas Kansas 2024-09-26 Denied IFP custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights objective-inquiry self-incrimination During a custodial interrogation, may police ignore an individual's repeated and unambiguous demands to 'cut off questioning'?
24-5638 Kareem Swinton v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator-statements constitutional-rights federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment Whether the admission of hearsay testimony from unidentified co-conspirators without knowledge of their identity violates constitutional rights
24-331 CBS MN Properties, LLC v. Hennepin County, Minnesota Minnesota 2024-09-24 Denied Response Waived eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation property-rights real-property Whether a court has an independent duty to ensure just compensation exceeds $0 when the government takes a real property right and whether the Fifth A…
24-323 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment Does a federal court's unconditional deference to a state supreme court's purported findings on an essential element of a crime violate a habeas petit…
24A282 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated a parent's constitutional due process rights by arbitrarily denying legal fees and counsel in a c…
24-305 Justin Savage v. Georgia Office of Administrative Hearings Georgia 2024-09-18 Denied Relisted (2) commission-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence Whether the failure of the Commission and subsequent courts to duly consider and address material evidence constitutes a violation of the Petitioner's…
24A278 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete civil-forfeiture due-process federal-employment fifth-amendment first-amendment whistleblower-protection Whether the Fifth Amendment and First Amendment protect a federal employee's due process rights and right to petition when challenging civil forfeitur…
24-295 Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that a criminal defendant can waive counsel without being fully informed of the charges, potential defense…
24A267 Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-16 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing declaratory-judgment fifth-amendment leave-to-amend ninth-circuit redressability Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly restricted Article III standing requirements by imposing additional barriers to declaratory relief beyond the Sup…
24-5530 Manuel Larry Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-preclusion fifth-amendment percipient-witness sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a defendant the right to call a percipient witness to nearly the entirety of the Government's evidence pre…
24-5538 John Ross Stenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel self-incrimination Whether the District Court erred in denying suppression of statements and finding ineffective assistance of counsel claims without merit when constitu…
24-5521 Vernon Carter v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment verdict-form Whether the trial court's jury instructions and verdict form violated the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment rights by failing to specify…
24-5492 Jalen Rashad Pasley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty fifth-amendment individualized-assessment sentencing-conditions supervised-release Whether a district court must orally pronounce standard conditions of supervised release and assess their reasonableness under the Fifth Amendment
24-5460 Troy L. Fields v. Colorado Colorado 2024-09-05 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment habitual-criminal prior-convictions sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when he was subjected to an increased maximum sentence based on the trial court's …
24-242 In Re Peter K. Stern 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) congressional-intent fifth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction and whether prosecutorial misconduct and judicial bias warrant reversal of the petitione…
24-5439 Richard Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-09-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a state supreme court dismisses a capital appeal and fails to appoint replacement …
24-5442 Philander Philippeaux v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mandamus motion-pending Whether a federal district court judge's prolonged delay in ruling on pending motions constitutes a violation of procedural due process
24-5454 Jesse Alaniz Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal felony-classification fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process texas-robbery Whether the Court of Appeals and District Court erred in construing a 1987 Texas robbery conviction as a felony for Armed Career sentencing, violating…
24-227 John Kevin Woodward v. California, et al. California 2024-08-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation substantial-evidence Does the Supreme Court of California's narrow test for an 'acquittal' under the Fifth Amendment conflict with this Court's precedent?
24-214 Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment oral-argument Whether the Ninth Circuit's policy of denying oral argument violates litigants' constitutional rights to due process and a day in court
24-5401 Whitney Leigh Estep v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion witness-testimony Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Ms. Estep's arguments regarding a witness's Fifth Amendment objection and the district court's sentencing …
24A201 Peter K. Navarro v. United States District of Columbia 2024-08-23 Presumed Complete act-of-production fifth-amendment fourth-amendment presidential-records-act self-incrimination white-house-records Whether the Presidential Records Act and the Fourth Amendment permit compelled production of presidential records from a former White House official's…
24-186 Pamela Antosh, et al. v. Village of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied colorado-river-doctrine constitutional-rights eminent-domain fifth-amendment judicial-abstention public-use-claim Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's application of the Colorado River doctrine when the Village of Mount Pleasant use…
24A189 Sherry Ann McGann v. Jeanne Y. Jagow, Chapter 7 Trustee United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the 1 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete ada-violations bankruptcy-rights due-process fifth-amendment property-deprivation trustee-misconduct Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process protections require meaningful judicial review of trustee actions in bankruptcy proceedings that potentially…
24-5339 Seth Elred Perricone v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit sentencing a defendant based on acquitted conduct
24-162 Jennifer Sykes, et al. v. Office of the California State Controller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response Waived fifth-amendment just-compensation public-use takings-clause temporary-taking unclaimed-property Does the Ninth Circuit's decision that California's Unclaimed Property Law does not require the payment of just compensation for the temporary taking …
24-164 Aaron York Dean v. Texas Texas 2024-08-15 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment Does Grey v. State violate constitutional due process and equal protection by allowing the State unequal procedural rights in submitting lesser-includ…
24-5313 Tony Carr, aka Tony Carnell, aka Tony Coronel Carr, aka T-Bone v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general-memorandum crack-cocaine criminal-procedure fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant sentenced under pre-Garland memorandum crack cocaine sentencing guidelines is entitled to a remand for resentencing
24-151 United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-12 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment legislative-jurisdiction palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism-civil-suits Whether the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act's method of establishing personal jurisdiction over the Palestine Liberation O…
24-5304 Angela Goldman Selby v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agent-orange color-of-law due-process fifth-amendment takings-clause veterans-rights Did the Veteran Affairs violate constitutional rights by improperly applying regulations and disbursing funds owed to deceased veterans exposed to Age…
24A167 Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Oklahoma 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-definition major-crimes-act race-classification tribal-enrollment Whether the Major Crimes Act's definition of 'Indian' violates the Fifth Amendment's equal protection guarantee by impermissibly relying on racial cla…
24-5278 Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-incrimination sentencing-hearing Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination was violated by drawing an adverse inference from silence at a sentencing h…
24-5283 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-08-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-relief Did the Third District Court of Appeal violate due process rights under the Florida Constitution and the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitut…
24A150 GHP Management Corporation, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete covid-19 eviction-moratorium fifth-amendment municipal-code regulatory-taking takings-clause Whether a municipal eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause that r…
24-5241 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-interference jury-verdict Whether a jury has rendered a final verdict and jeopardy terminates under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment where the jury has indicat…
24-124 Brent Brewbaker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness Is the criminal provision of Section 1 of the Sherman Act Constitutional?
24-5183 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied IFP and whether the state prisoner made a proper show actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions schlup What constitutes as 'new' evidence
24-5199 Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-07-31 Denied IFP dismissal due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment interlocutory-appeal obstruction-of-justice petition-government self-incrimination Whether 8.J.C. Rule 2:21 (2) is an adequate basis to dismiss the Petitioner's Complaint, and not a violation of the Petitioner's First Amendment right…
24-100 Doug Dyson v. Tiffany Deakins, Whitley County Auditor, et al. Indiana 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure common-law constitutional-rights due-process enabling-act fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding property-ownership property-rights takings tax-identification Whether the trial court violated the organic law and constitutional provisions to supplant its orders superseding my rights to a judicial proceeding a…
24-5123 Angel Sanchez v. Teresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP calcrim-375 constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and fair trial
24-60 Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response Waived coercive-questioning fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violation interrogation interrogation-tactics juvenile-suspect miranda-rights secret-recording unreasonable-application Whether a detective's act of placing a juvenile suspect in an interview room with a juvenile co-suspect while secretly monitoring and recording the co…
24A58 William B. Walton, et al. v. Neskowin Regional Sanitary Authority Oregon 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-occupation property-rights statute-of-limitations takings-clause Whether a physical taking of private property occurs when a government entity physically occupies land with the owner's initial consent but later beco…
24-5090 Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4248 attorney-general civil-commitment due-process fifth-amendment necessary-and-proper-clause procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248, consistent with both substantive and procedural due process, can be read to permit a civil commitment order to remain in eff…
24-5062 Amanda Reynolds v. City of Sandy, Utah Utah 2024-07-12 Denied IFP birchfield-v-north-dakota constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment implied-consent miranda-rights sixth-amendment standing-mootness-public-interest-doctrine Does Petitioner have standing to challenge the constitutionality of Utah's Implied Consent Statute?
24-5071 Dennis German v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the government violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment and 5th Amendment constitutional rights by using separate incidents as relevant conduct…
24A36 International Business Machines Corporation & Combined Affiliates v. Tax Appeals Tribunal of the State of New York, et al. New York 2024-07-12 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-tribunal Whether a state tax tribunal's interpretation of a state tax statute constitutes a taking of property without just compensation under the Fifth Amendm…
24-5052 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-07-11 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation court-of-appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-relief Due process-violation
24-5055 Tre'veon Demarcus Anderson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights douglas-v-alabama due-process fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated when the State elicited testimony from a witness who repeatedly invoked th…
24-5024 Timothy John Miers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER…
24-20 Miriam Fuld, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-09 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) anti-terrorism-act consent-to-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment palestinian-authority palestinian-liberation-organization personal-jurisdiction promoting-security-and-justice-for-victims-of-terr statutory-interpretation Whether the PSJVTA violates the Fifth Amendment
24-5021 Joyce Isagba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence-404b fifth-amendment prior-bad-acts relevance rule-404b sentencing-conditions supervised-release Is a single uncharged act 5-7 years prior admissible under Rule 404(b)?
24-5026 Claudio Alvarez Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1326 constitutional-law discriminatory-effect discriminatory-purpose equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the illegal re-entry statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1326, violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment because the law was enacted with…
23-7838 Davit Davitashvili v. United States Third Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment mental-health-disclosure miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Were there violations of the 5th and 6th Amendments?
23-7819 LaShonda O'Neill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion alleyne-v-united-states drug-quantities fifth-amendment harmless-error judicial-fact-finding plain-error sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its review of the District Court's fact-finding and sentencing enhancements
23-7833 Walter Payton v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-law waiver miscarriage-of-justice
23-7807 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure,due-process,criminal-trial,federal court-of-appeals criminal-trial factual-evidence fifth-amendment rule-60b Whether descriptions or summary of evidence is sufficiently accurate enough to determine a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1) motion alleging mi…
23-1337 Baldwin County, Alabama, et al. v. Mike Bordelon, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived due-process economic-use fair-market-value fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central property-rights regulatory-taking takings temporary-prohibition temporary-taking Does the temporary prohibition of a specific project or use constitute a compensable regulatory taking, regardless of the availability of other econom…
23-7803 Michael Sean Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions due-process fifth-amendment public-interest sars-cov-2 sixth-amendment trial-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that masking trial witnesses did not violate the defendant's due process and confrontation rights?
23-7780 Mario Gonzalez-Godinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP asylum-process asylum-seekers criminal-prosecution custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warnings self-incrimination fifth-amendment-right-to-remain-silent
23-7775 Edward Treisback v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment morrissey-v-brewer revocation-hearing supervised-release Did the District Court shift the burden of proof from the United States to the defendant in violation of 18 U.S.C. 3583(e)(3) and was defendant's righ…
23-7778 Davonte Williams-Dorsey v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-trial-evidence due-process duress-defense fifth-amendment judicial-precedent jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure united-states-v-contento-pancho united-states-v-paul Did the lower courts err in precluding petitioner's duress defense at trial?
23-7768 Leonard Williamson, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the district court from considering conduct of which Mr. Williamson was acquitted by the jury when cal…
23-7740 William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due-process
23-7746 Robert Brumfield, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence
23-7665 Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention Whether the failure of the Fairfax County Police Department to notify the Consulate of Ghana in contravention of the petitioner's established consular…
23A1089 Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights police-interview self-incrimination suspect-confession Whether the placement of a suspect in a police interview room with another suspect after invoking Miranda rights constitutes an interrogation that vio…
23A1085 Alexander Cote, et al. v. Office of the California State Controller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-05 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights public-use takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires states to pay just compensation to owners of unclaimed property held and used for public pu…
23-7619 Brandon Gibbs v. Texas Texas 2024-06-03 Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Did prosecutor improperly comment on Petitioner's failure to testify during closing argument, in violation of the Fifth Amendment?
23A1073 Jeremiah Wooden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits a retrial when a change in law renders the original trial evidence insufficient to support a conviction
23-1254 Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, painful-and-medically-unnecessary-procedures-of-their-child-will-not-be-undertaken-for-investigativ…
23-7592 Ynedra Diggs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses Was Ms. Diggs's constitutional right to confrontation violated?
23-1250 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing a categorical rule requiring the admission of expert testimony on the allegedly coercive circumstances…
23-7562 Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State - Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth Am…
23-7566 Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-7575 Oscar Dillon, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-culpability double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment rule-404(b) trial-procedure unrelated-charges Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the introduction of acquitted criminal conduct under Rule 404(b) in a separate trial wh…
23A1055 Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Presumed Complete aggravated-identity-theft double-jeopardy enumerated-offense fifth-amendment plea-agreement wire-fraud Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bars conviction for both aggravated identity theft and wire fraud when wire fraud serves as the p…
23-1241 Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice disqualification due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding fifth-amendment prosecution-witness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does it deny a defendant due process of law to disqualify trial counsel based on a purported conflict of interest following the ex parte consideration…
23-7539 Eddie Lamar Thomas v. Don Langford, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment investigative-detention miranda-warnings self-incrimination Whether the district court violated Mr. Thomas's Fifth Amendment rights by admitting his statements to detectives and evidence derived from those stat…
23-7547 Branden Tyler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2 5th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interstate-commerce person principal statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant can be charged with aiding and abetting when the principal was not another actual person
23-7512 Dallas M. Acoff v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence
23-7481 Maurice Owen Wiley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms firearms-possession hobbs-act Does the imposition of consecutive punishments for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of a crime…
23A1004 Lemon Bay Cove, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-10 Presumed Complete federal-claims fifth-amendment government-interference property-rights regulatory-taking tucker-act Whether the Fifth Amendment and Tucker Act permit a takings claim against the federal government for alleged regulatory interference with private prop…
23-1200 Gregory Garmong v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-claims due-process federal-law fifth-amendment ninth-circuit private-right-of-action property-interest Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming dismissal of, and declaring frivolous, constitutional due process claims pursuant to an express private right o…
23-7384 Javier Mandry, aka Javier E. Mandry-Mercado v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment implied-contract plebiscite pro-se-litigants puerto-rico-statehood statehood tucker-act Whether participation in the Congress—authorized 2017 and 2020 plebiscite for Puerto Ricans, on statehood elections, constitutes an implied in fact co…
23-7379 Michael Hebert v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence evidence-contamination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the lower court erred in denying COA on the claim of prosecutorial misconduct
23A983 Robert Brumfield, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete acquitted-conduct brady-violation criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from enhancing a criminal defendant's sentence based on acquitted conduct that could c…
23-7369 Robert George Jefferson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-motion 404b 404c complete-review-provision concurrent-sentencing-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act Does declining to review the merits of a 404(b) petition violate the complete-review provision of 404(c)?
23-7372 Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion professional-disciplinary-proceedings sixth-amendment standing Question not identified
23-7363 Orin Kristich v. United States District Court for the District of New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit-court-of-appeals access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment legal-mail prison-officials Whether the First Amendment applies to legal mail
23-7344 Richard Arlee Champion v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining pleading-timing pre-indictment-delay statute-of-limitations When determining the timeliness of a motion to vacate pursuant to 28 USC 2255, what pleading determines the relevant pleading when making that determi…
23-7332 Angel De Jesus Castillo-Godoy v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-defense jurisdiction opening-brief reply-brief sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver…
23-7312 James Bennett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether consideration of acquitted conduct by the District Court in consideration of Bennett's ultimate sentence violates the Due Process Clause of th…
23-7294 Robert Cota, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment habeas-corpus shackles shackling Whether the Ninth Circuit violated §2255(b) by failing to require an evidentiary hearing and, in doing so, failed to protect the defendant's Fifth Ame…
23-7276 Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the court of appeals erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition due to procedural default without reviewing the record and basing its de…
23-7278 Kasheen Samuels v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment-modification jury-instructions sixth-amendment Did the Second Circuit err in failing to find that Kasheen Samuels' Fifth Amendment rights to an indictment by a Grand Jury and due process and his Si…
23-7258 T. C., Minor Child, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Theodore Cabaniss v. Pfizer, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-declaration federal-government federal-immunity fifth-amendment medical-malpractice Does the due process clause permit federal government to immunize medical providers from malpractice suits when there is no actual emergency?
23-7242 Juan Avendano v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict statutory-interpretation statutory-offense Whether a defendant's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause are violated by multiple, factually identical counts of the same statutory offense using…
23-7234 Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict Whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality when the judge allowed an AUSA who became a witness in the proceedi…
23A916 Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment ninth-circuit oral-argument Whether the First and Fifth Amendments require meaningful oral argument as a fundamental component of due process in federal appellate proceedings
23-7218 Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated
23-1110 Gerald S. Ostipow, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Royetta L. Ostipow v. William L. Federspiel Sixth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights property-seizure taking takings Does the non-return and indefinite retention of non-forfeited private property (or its monetary equivalent), when initially seized for a criminal inve…
23-1103 Sawtooth Mountain Ranch, LLC, et al. v. United States Forest Service, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-rights declaratory-relief equitable-tolling fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations Question not identified
23-7197 Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under the…
23-7171 Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-claims out-of-time-appeal pleadings standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
23-7114 Richard Marschall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-mislabeling due-process felony fifth-amendment food-and-drug-administration mens-rea recidivist recidivist-enhancement strict-liability Whether the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment mandates a mens rea term for the felony recidivist enhancement, 21 U.S.C. § 333(a)(2), of the mi…
23-7080 Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation-act rule-15d standing standing-defects supplemental-pleading Whether the court agrees to resolve the circuit split on Rule 15(d) supplemental pleading to cure standing defects and provide reasonable accommodatio…
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Texas…
23-7047 Renaire Roshique Lewis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-hearsay counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel Whether the presence of counsel obviates the need for Miranda warnings
23-7022 Elvis Edgardo Molina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burns-v-united-states due-process evidence-disclosure fifth-amendment guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance Whether the district court's failure to disclose gun statistics from unknown sources of questionable validity to justify an unprecedented 30-month upw…
23-1020 Utah v. Alfonso Valdez Utah 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (1) cellphone cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode self-incrimination testimonial testimonial-communication Whether disclosing a cellphone passcode with no substantive meaning is testimonial under the Fifth Amendment
23-1016 William Facteau and Patrick Fabian v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Amici (1) arbitrary-enforcement fda-regulations fifth-amendment first-amendment interstate-commerce medical-device off-label-use truthful-speech Whether FDA's intended use' regulations violate the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment
23-6966 Alison Lee Gendreau v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-restitution fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-right jury-trial proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt restitution sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment grand jury right and the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial on proof beyond a reasonable doubt apply to restitution in a …
23-986 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-venue association child-welfare children's-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment natural-parents rooker-feldman unlawful-confinement Did the Eighth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's Order and denying Petitioners' petition for rehearing en banc?
23-988 Justin Holder v. Jeffrey Young, et al. Maryland 2024-03-11 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment fifth-amendment in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction land-transfer merger-doctrine municipal-power police-power property-rights subdivision-ordinance taking takings Does the State employee judge Andrew Wilkinson's orders refusing to join the State, and voiding the deeds of Petitioner that contested the State's col…
23A823 Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Connecticut 2024-03-07 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment standing summary-judgment Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require a state court to conduct an evidentiary hearing and allow discovery before granting summary judgme…
23A822 Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation pre-deprivation-process property-rights unclaimed-property Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require state governments to compensate property owners for interest earned on unclaimed funds held by the…
23-6898 Jose G. Castillo v. Jean Harper, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction land-use-regulation legal-document petition property-rights regulatory-takings scotus takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from requiring a property o…
23A805 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Valancourt Books, LLC District of Columbia 2024-03-01 Presumed Complete copyright-deposit copyright-protection fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation library-of-congress Whether the mandatory deposit requirement for copyrighted works constitutes an unconstitutional taking of private property under the Fifth Amendment's…
23-6866 Cesar Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the …
23-6822 Robert P. Brozenick v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-violation deprivation-of-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-advocacy judicial-misconduct maleng-v-cook strickland-v-washington wrongful-conviction Would this honorable court allow any caselaw that would irresponsibly assists in the wrongful conviction of any U.S.Citizen convicted by Judicial advo…
23-6823 Troy Raynard Alexander v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether the lower court abused their discretion by denying a COA
23-6814 Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t…
23-6786 Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-21 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the different-occasions element of the Armed Career Criminal Act must be charged in the indictment and either admitted as part of a guilty ple…
23-902 Richard Duncan v. City of Mentor, Ohio Ohio 2024-02-21 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedy civil-procedure concurrent-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation mandamus-action property-taking state-court-procedure takings temporary-takings Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's newly established exhaustion of administrative remedy and ruling that 'if the court of common pleas had reversed the …
23-6783 Kevin F. Jackson v. Applied Materials Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jameson-vs-desta mandatory-arbitration pro-se-plaintiff Is a United States citizen considered to have received due process of law in a court ordered mandatory arbitration hearing if the Pro Se plaintiff is …
23-6775 Jesse Dean Redfearn v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Did the United States District Court and Court of Appeals properly apply clearly established constitutional law, [Hemphill v. New York, 142 S.Ct. 681,…
23A753 United States v. Ideker Farms, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete endangered-species fifth-amendment flood-control government-action missouri-river takings-clause Whether the government's implementation of flood control and environmental protection measures constitutes a compensable taking under the Fifth Amendm…
23-6740 George Willie Rios v. Arizona Arizona 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning right-to-counsel Does Miranda require that a person subjected to custodial interrogation be informed of his right to invoke the presence of counsel during questioning?
23-6742 Alexander D. Pennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant Is a suspect in a criminal investigation 'in custody' when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke down his door to execute a sea…
23A720 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release Whether supervised release conditions that a defendant claims violate double jeopardy protections can be challenged under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(2) witho…
23-6641 Cedric A. Gray v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning prophylactic-procedures prophylactic-rule self-incrimination text-history-tradition Should this Court overturn the prophylactic procedures announced in Miranda v. Arizona and return to an interpretation of the Fifth Amendment which is…
23-6645 Arthur Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-6575 Racardo Jackson v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impeachment miranda-warnings selective-silence self-incrimination Whether a suspect's 'selective silence' after receiving Miranda warnings may be used by the state to establish guilt at trial
23-6553 Danjuan Antonio McBride v. Virginia Virginia 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure directed-verdict double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in holding that the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was not violated
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment
23-781 Sammie Todd Moser v. Halifax County Board of Supervisors, et al. Virginia 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeals-limitation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fifth-amendment forfeiture retirement-benefits Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines clause was violated in the forfeiture of Petitioner's vested retirement benefits
23A671 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton Pennsylvania 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete continuing-trespass fifth-amendment government-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking storm-water-disposal Whether the government's repeated intentional flooding of private property constitutes a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause …
23-6497 Alex Marquez v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-confession miranda-warning ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err when Alex Marquez made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to an inadequate Miranda warning lea…
23-6498 Kevin Clayton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated
23-6505 Kheungkham Vongphakdy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination Whether a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings violates the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination
23-6459 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-comment mistrial-motion self-incrimination Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his Fifth Ame…
23-6449 Robert James Swint v. Dish Network, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider petitioners' claims under the Takings Clause of the…
23-6425 Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase whether-the-fifth-amendment's-due-process-clause-permits-courts-to-find-a-plea-agreement-waiver-that-is-silent-as-to-brady-v-maryland-constitutes-a-kn…
23-6430 Nicholas Dwayne Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-warrant truthfulness Does a defendant in a criminal proceeding still retain the right under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to challenge the truthfulness of statements…
23-6433 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether the different-occasions element of the Armed Career Criminal Act must be charged in the indictment and either admitted as part of a guilty ple…
23-6437 In Re Tony Weems 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment just-compensation private-property public-access regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide public access to private propert…
23A628 Gerald Ostipow, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Royetta L.. Ostipow v. William L. Federspiel Sixth Circuit 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights fifth-amendment property-rights state-law takings-clause Whether a county sheriff's office violates the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause by refusing to return nonforfeited property or proceeds after a civil …
23-731 Kyros Law P.C., et al. v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-amendment inherent-judicial-power rules-enabling-act sanctions What Due Process mandates under US Constitution Article III and Amendment V, Rules Enabling Act, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Inherent Judicia…
23-6408 Jade LaRoche v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
23A603 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A.S., a Minor v. The County of Harrison, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-assessment juvenile-shackling Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require an individualized assessment of need before shackling a juvenile defendant during pre-trial or non…
23-692 Zachariah Minix v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-12-27 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-withdrawal Were the Petitioner's federal due-process rights violated when the Adair County Circuit Court denied the Petitioner's request to withdraw his plea of …
23-673 In Re Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment property-rights res-judicata rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings takings-clause Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal court from considering a takings claim under the Fifth Amendment when the state court proceedings d…
23-6281 Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
23-6298 Chet Smith v. Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP criminal-charges federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment government-non-compliance grand-jury oath-requirement panel-defendant procedural-due-process rule-3 void-complaint void-indictment whether-the-return-of-an-indictment-without-a-vote-by-the-grand-jury-violates-the-fifth-amendment-guarantee-of-indictment-by-a-grand-jury
23A559 Colin Montague v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-statute fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment predicate-violations Whether an indictment charging a Continuing Criminal Enterprise (CCE) offense must specify the predicate violations with sufficient factual detail to …
23-6267 Jose Gonzalez, III v. Texas Texas 2023-12-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment trial-procedure Is McCoy v Louisiana a logical extension of Florida V Nixon when concession of Petitioner's guilt was never discussed prior to trial?
23-6251 Jonathan Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-standard sixth-amendment suppression-motion Whether the use of a preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing violated Rodriguez's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights?
23-6238 William Jarvis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause due-process effective-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment third-party-guilt Whether the Fifth Amendment right to be free from the compulsion to make self-incriminating statements includes the right to not be required to provid…
23-6221 Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment
23A524 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete as-applied-claim fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use regulatory-takings ripeness Whether a government's land use decision constitutes a final decision sufficient to render an as-applied regulatory takings claim ripe for federal cou…
23-6204 Angel Anthony Sanchez v. California California 2023-12-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-code fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts-instructions sixth-amendment trial-procedure whether-petitioner-was-denied-his-fifth-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendment-rights-to-due-process-and-fair-trial
23-622 Dale Thrush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supported by manifest necessity
23-6181 Deryke Matthew Pfeifer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question property-rights statutory-provisions takings Whether the U.S. Government violated the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment by failing to compensate the petitioner for the taking of their propert…
23-6186 Guillermo Borboa, aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Was the District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error in dismissing a MOTION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DUE TO COURTS LACK OF SUBJECT-MAT…
23-6074 Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy is violated when convictions and sentences are entered for unlawful use of a weapo…
23-6088 Alpheus Elite Hamilton v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miller-v-pate prosecutorial-misconduct Did the State of Arizona violate the Due Process Clause when its prosecutor presented knowing use of false evidence to the jury as in Miller v. Pate, …
23-6068 Jermaine Deshan West v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment courts-of-appeals due-process empirical-evidence equal-protection fifth-amendment methamphetamine sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. $994(2)(1)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Cour…
23-544 Teresa Marie Gaffney v. The Florida Bar Florida 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homestead-property impartial-tribunal notice opportunity-to-be-heard sexual-harassment Whether it is a denial of due process, (1) notice; (2) an opportunity to be heard; and (3) an impartial tribunal, to not allow the Petitioner to condu…
23-6061 George Oscar Messer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-kidnapping federal-kidnapping-statute fifth-amendment interstate-commerce intrastate-crime statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause of 'or otherwise' of the federal kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, is void for vagueness under the due process clause …
23-6063 Kieffer Michael Simmons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment judicial-immunity subpoena witness witness-subpoena Whether Simmons should have been entitled to judicial immunity for his subpoenaed witness
23-6038 Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 GVR Relisted (2)IFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt minimum-and-maximum-sentences prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require facts to prove prior convictions for ACCA sentencing be alleged in indictment and proven to jury?
23-516 Michael D. Smith v. Derek Gordon, et al. Kentucky 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment immunity legal-immunity legal-malpractice prisoner-rights standing Will this court let stand as Kentucky courts have ruled that lawyers in a criminal case have the same immunity as judges and prosecutors and cannot be…
23-6013 Calvin Cogdill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment indictment jury reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'occasions different' fact must be charged in the indictment and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
23-6004 Reginald C. Scott v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-prohibition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense pennsylvania-law same-offense statutory-interpretation Whether Robbery and Second Degree Murder constitute the 'same offense' under the Double Jeopardy Clause
23-5991 Samuel T. Whatley v. Richland County Family Court, Columbia, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-court fifth-amendment governmental-immunity immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing Does the Constitution allow judicial misconduct and obstruction of justice?
23-490 Enrique Jevons, as a Managing Member of Jevons Properties LLC, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived covid-19 declaratory-judgment eviction-moratoria fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking standing takings-clause Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing a challenge to Washington State's COVID-19 eviction moratoria as moot
23-5938 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-testimony sixth-amendment structural-error Does the Sixth Amendment guarantee to a 'fair trial' implicitly require that the trial be free of structural error?
23-5926 Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-misconduct no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment Whether there is a constitutional exception to the no-impeachment rule codified in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) for instances where there is eviden…
23-5910 Stuart Alexander Dameri v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fraud judicial-review rule-4-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Amendment's protection of 'Due Process was violated
23-5899 Rande Brian Isabella v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error double-jeopardy fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense manifest-constitutional-error sanabria-rule sanabria-v-united-states trial-termination Whether the district court violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment double jeopardy rights by placing him back in jeopardy under a lesser-included 'at…
23-5894 Myron Lee Brandon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment consent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment transportation-of-minors Exclusion of evidence on prostitution and lying by alleged victim
23-435 Minor Lee McNeil v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment apportionment bill-of-attainder constitutional-apportionment direct-tax direct-taxation due-process fifth-amendment legislative-powers property-rights Whether a State can lay a direct tax that is vested in Congress, or operates differently from the apportioned direct tax defined in the Constitution?
23A367 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T.B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment prison-officials race-discrimination Whether a Bivens remedy is available for an inmate's Fifth Amendment claims alleging race-based discrimination and procedural due process violations b…
23-5807 Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory sta…
23-403 Emma Serna, et al. v. William Cooksey, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding standing void-judgment Whether an appellate court has jurisdiction to vacate a 'void judgment' under the Fifth Amendment, and whether a wrongful foreclosure judgment should …
23-5811 Valery LaTouche v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b self-incrimination whether-new-york-cpl-440.10(2)(c)-statutes-being-amended
23-5827 Keiron K. Sneed v. Illinois Illinois 2023-10-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contents-of-mind digital-privacy fifth-amendment fisher-v-united-states foregone-conclusion passcode passcode-compulsion search-warrant self-incrimination Can the foregone conclusion rationale be used to compel an individual to enter a passcode into a personally held cellular phone?
23-5791 John Sherman Jumper v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing disgorgement double-jeopardy fifth-amendment kokesh-precedent kokesh-v-sec sentencing-enhancement Whether the prior disgorgement punishment precludes a criminal sentence or sentencing enhancement based on the same misconduct under the Double Jeopar…
23-5801 Jeffery Ducote v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Ducote's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights were violated when his right to testify was taken from him
23-394 Thurayyah Z. Richardson v. The Procter and Gamble Company, et al. New York 2023-10-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion material-facts summary-judgment Where a trial court resolving summary judgment denies due process
23-5770 Victor M. Barahona v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance involuntary-confession miranda-warning police-interrogation self-incrimination When Detective Lopez told Petitioner that his statement could be used in his favor, did Detective Lopez subverted the Miranda warning, thus, rendered …
23-5778 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement self-incrimination standing takings voluntary-confession Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5760 Mattie T. Lomax v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where without a jury trial incorrect legal definition of 'knowingly' relieved the state of its requi…
23-349 Donald Esslinger, et ux. v. Shawn Bass, et ux. Idaho 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment citizen-citation civil-procedure civil-rights continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parallel-proceedings self-incrimination summary-judgment Whether the 5th Amendment right to remain silent prevails over procedural considerations in a civil case when criminal charges are pending in a parall…
23-352 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Laureate Education, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) 12(b)(6) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment forum-non-conveniens forum-selection forum-selection-clause standing Must the result of a motion to dismiss based upon a claimed forum selection clause under F.R.C.P. 12(b)(6) be considered the same as a dismissal for f…
23-5708 In Re Michael Stansell 2023-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment life-sentence void-sentence Whether the infliction of a life sentence upon a prisoner where the life tail is not applicable to his offense of conviction constitutes cruel and unu…
23-5686 David Calhoun v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the district court's resolution of the petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process claim was correct, given the government's multiple breaches of…
23-5692 Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23A283 James T. Cunningham v. United States Armed Forces 2023-10-02 Presumed Complete courts-martial Fifth-Amendment service-members Sixth-Amendment UCMJ unanimous-verdict Whether service members accused of crimes are entitled to a unanimous verdict requirement under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments as applied to courts-ma…
23A271 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete AEDPA coerced-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements undercover-police-techniques Whether a state court violates the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by applying a legal standard different from that required by the Fift…
23-5661 Arnaldo Martinez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mis-charging prosecutorial-misconduct standing Did the Respondent, State of Florida, deny the petitioner of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process
23-5642 Tracy Jones, aka Tracy Wilcox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights missouri-v-seibert presentment Whether a 37-day delay in presentment requires dismissal under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
23A257 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns Whether a state appellate court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing federal constitutional claims on procedural grounds without…
23A258 Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete due-process-clause fifth-amendment long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction registered-agent service-of-process Whether a federal district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant corporation where service of process was atte…
23-5609 Eric G. Banks, Sr. v. Anthony Brown, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-error due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel liberty prosecution-misconduct sixth-amendment Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right
23-5606 Samuel Valencia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 GVR Relisted (3)IFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed on 'occasions different from one …
23-255 Cooper D. Johnson v. Malia M. Cohen, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. California 2023-09-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether the Controller's actions under the California Unclaimed Property Law violate the Due Process Clause and Takings Clause
23-5597 Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas Texas 2023-09-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-coercion custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona state-court-review Whether the introduction of Petitioner's statement violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under Miranda v. Arizona
23-5583 Fernando Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence double-counting felon-in-possession fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment Whether alleged possession of a different gun 17 months after Mr. Lopez's charged felon-in-possession offense constituted relevant-conduct
23-241 Joe Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied claim-construction due-process fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations judicial-taking patent patent-rights property-rights takings takings-clause Does the Federal Circuit Panel's unforeseeable and unjustifiable construction of the petitioner's patent claim, disrupting the petitioner's legitimate…
23-231 Linda A. Porter v. Kennard Law PC, dba Kennard Richard PC, et al. Texas 2023-09-12 Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the appellate court violated Porter's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights
23A225 Jeremie Saintvil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete bank-fraud-statute duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment sixth-amendment surplusage venue-rights Whether a duplicitous indictment charging two distinct bank fraud subsections conjunctively as a single offense violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendment…
23-5540 Michael Rinaldi v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct sentencing violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
23-5524 Michael Jones, Jason Reed, and Shaun Myers v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof daubert daubert-standard dual-role-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Seventh Circuit applied the wrong standard of review and erroneously shifted the burden of proof by failing to review the Daubert error de…
23-5526 Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment Whether attributing drugs post-conviction in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in violat…
23-5517 Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-5484 Dion Ray Wheeler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-188 Robert Dayon Dumas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived credibility fifth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Did the district court err in finding no Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation based upon the court's credibility determination on Deputy Denbo?
23-190 Probir K. Bondyopadhyay v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment government-liability jurisdictional-conflict patent patent-claim perjury sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings Can the USCFC dismiss a Fifth Amendment property claim arising from the admitted unauthorized use of a patented U.S. invention by the U.S.A.?
23-5446 Elizabeth Richert v. Kathleen White Murphy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the District Court's April 21, 2022 post-trial order amount to an unconstitutional taking without due process, equal protection, and just comp…
23-5449 Antonio Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-5453 Pedro Ramirez-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment alien-smuggling burden-of-proof causation causation-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments prohibit conduct for which Ramirez was acquitted from being used to enhance his sentence for alien-smuggling
23-5434 Lamar Victor Moncrieffe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a district court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights by basing a substantial four-level sentencing enhancement o…
23A164 Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States First Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete compulsory-process entrapment-defense fifth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment use-immunity Whether the Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process require the government to grant use immunity to a defense witness whose ex…
23A157 Keiron K. Sneed v. Illinois Illinois 2023-08-21 Presumed Complete compelled-entry digital-device fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion-doctrine passcode self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination and the foregone conclusion doctrine prohibit the government from compelling a sus…
23-5394 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the denial of a defendant's motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds constitutes a constitutional violation
23-5348 Julian Breal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP davis-ruling due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-vacate procedural-default section-2255 united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether the Petitioner was denied his due process Fifth Amendment right due to being procedurally defaulted from presenting his vagueness challenge
23-5346 Marcrease Delance Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation counsel-of-record due-process fifth-amendment juror-challenge racial-bias racial-identity sixth-amendment voir-dire Is it a constitutional Fifth and Sixth Amendment violation when during voir dire and motivated by a single juror's racial identity, Counsel of Record …
23-118 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. Ron Carter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal sanctions standing Whether the failure of Federal District Judge Carl J. Barbier to recuse himself prior to his summary dismissal of an underlying civil diversity action…
23-5291 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment property-rights takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
23-5270 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss Whether a court can verbally deny a motion to dismiss on Double Jeopardy grounds without a full record
23-5275 Ambrosio Nolasco-Ariza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation undesirable-aliens-act Does 8 U.S.C. § 1326 violate the equal-protection guarantee of the Fifth-Amendment?
23A98 Matthew Haney v. Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-08-02 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment final-decision regulatory-takings ripeness-doctrine variance-request zoning-board Whether a property owner's as-applied regulatory takings claim is ripe for federal court review when a local zoning board has not issued a final decis…
23-91 Nolan Marcus Forness, II v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-01 Denied Response Waived body-cameras compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Defendant's right to access law enforcement recordings
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed IFP and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights
23-5240 Alden Brent Cooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does denial of credit for alleged criminal conduct the defendant refuses to admit and denies in good faith he committed violate the Due Process Clause…
23-5162 DeMario B. Griffin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction mandate-recall right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does Griffin have a right to counsel on his first direct appeal under the Fifth Amendment?
23-5125 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the government from prosecuting a defendant for the same offense after a court has previously denied the …
23-5106 John B. Freitas v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2023-07-14 Denied IFP constitutional-protection due-process equity equity-theft fifth-amendment government-action homeowner-rights just-compensation property-rights takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires just compensation when the government improperly denies a homeowner the ability to use thei…
23-5090 Travis J. Brown v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP acquittal appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review mistrial procedural-error Whether principles of double jeopardy protect a defendant from successive prosecutions of inconsistent verdicts contrary to Powell's analysis
23-5074 Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations Is the Federal Bureau of Prisons a statutory corporation governed by federal laws, and are federal prosecutors obligated to prosecute all federal inma…
23-5081 Ronnie R. Lovell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred 'on occasions different,' as required by the Armed Career Criminal A…
23-5085 Andre Rene Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp…
23-5061 Jared Thomas Cardwell v. Arizona Arizona 2023-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civilian-prosecution fifth-amendment joint-investigation military-justice miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings self-incrimination ucmj-art-31(b) ucmj-art-31b Whether active duty service members interrogated during a joint military/civilian investigation should be given the comprehensive military protections…
23-5031 Marc Anthony Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law?
23-5042 Daniel Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence prosecutorial-overreach Whether this Court's guidance on constructive amendments in conspiracy cases is necessary to protect criminal defendants' Fifth Amendment rights
23-1 Eric Clopper v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived amendment-right civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment procedural-due-process rule-12(b) rule-12b rule-15 rule-15(a) Did the District Court, the First Circuit Panel and the en banc Panel violate the procedural due process guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S.…
22-7906 Lamar McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence void-for-vagueness Is Apprendi v. New Jersey Still Good Caselaw?
22-7880 Maylesha S. Lewis v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger blockburger-test criminal-prosecution diaz-exception diaz-v-united-states double-jeopardy driving-under-the-influence fifth-amendment motor-vehicle-homicide Is Diaz v. United States an exception to the double jeopardy rule announced in Blockburger v. United States?
22-7826 Ronell Watson v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system?
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
22-7775 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
22-7779 Zohn Wang Kub Yang v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination Whether the totality of the law enforcement officers' words or actions made during the questioning of Petitioner in this case when they told Petitione…
22-1205 Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy Maine 2023-06-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case?
22-7758 Steven Keith Hunley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-violations criminal-procedure fifth-amendment indictment jury-factfinding lower-courts-error preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred 'on occasions different' by a preponderance of the evidence or do th…
22-7741 Rudy Alvarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Amici (1)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warning miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination supreme-court When determining whether statements made after a midstream Miranda warning are admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectiveness or…
22-1195 Phillip Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-1191 Thomas Gearing, et al. v. City of Half Moon Bay, California Ninth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Amici (1) abstention civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment forum pullman-abstention regulatory-taking takings Whether federal courts may deprive takings claimants of their chosen forum by invoking the prudential Pullman abstention doctrine to require them to f…
22-1185 Anthony James Scott v. Georgia Georgia 2023-06-07 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mistrial mistrial-request prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Carroll County Superior Court and the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia err when they held that the Carroll County District Attorney's …
22-7723 Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-7679 Frederic Gabriel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda miranda-rights police-interrogation right-to-silence self-incrimination Did the police violate the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right by continuing to interrogate him after he unambiguously invoked his right to silence?
22-7660 Damon L. Buford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding occasions-clause plain-error predicate-offenses sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause te…
22-7661 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-termination criminal-procedure discovery due-process fifth-amendment pro-se-defense sixth-amendment Whether a defendant who continually terminated (FIRED) his/her counsel ab initio of the proceedings and throughout the proceedings can gain access to …
22-7662 Antoine Robert Threefingers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment standing Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights were not violated?
22-1149 Pacific Carlton Development Corp., et al. v. New York State Urban Development Corporation, dba Empire State Development Corporation New York 2023-05-26 Denied certificate-of-occupancy certificates-of-occupancy due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-regulation government-seizure property-rights takings Are government-issued attributes of private property entitled to constitutional protection under the Fifth Amendment when seized via eminent domain?
22-7642 Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California California 2023-05-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Doyle v. Ohio applies to private conversations and selective silence
22-7626 Tynan Anthony Checchi v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sentencing unsworn-allocution Was Mr. Checchi's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination violated?
22-1133 Hugh Martin, et al. v. Sandoval County, New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2023-05-22 Denied due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation native-american-land-rights property-rights takings Did the New Mexico Supreme Court err declining to review and rectify the decisions of the lower courts that cut Petitioner's off from obtaining just c…
22-7585 Enrique Roberto Villarreal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-7559 Brenda Sensing and Dennis Sensing v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bearden-v-georgia due-process fifth-amendment restitution-collection right-to-counsel show-cause-hearing sixth-amendment Can a district court initiate restitution collection proceedings?
22-7563 Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio Ohio 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated when a request for delayed appeal was denied
22-7509 Gary R. Thompson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-10 Denied IFP blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-violation criminal-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-dixon Does the double jeopardy protection still hold the promise and guarantee of the prohibition and protection from being twice placed in jeopardy for the…
22-7520 Levaughn Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping Whether the District Court erred in denying Mr. Collins' Motions to Suppress Wire Tap evidence
22-7496 Akkeli Frederick v. California California 2023-05-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment illegal-interrogation involuntary-confession ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether the admission of an involuntary confession derived from an illegal interrogation violates the accused's Fifth Amendment right against self-inc…
22-1059 Jorge Marc Gonzalez-Betancourt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture collateral-estoppel controlled-substances double-jeopardy exhaustion fifth-amendment ruan-v-united-states state-prosecution Is Florida violating federal rights of its prisoners by preventing a defendant from arguing collateral-estoppel, claiming-exhaustion?
22-7445 Kalavathi Shunmugam v. Redevelopment Authority of the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blighted-list breach-of-agreement court-transcript due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination takings takings-clause Whether the personnel action violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process
22-7435 Alex Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require a trial court to instruct, or refuse to instruct, the Jury on the fundamental meaning of 'B…
22-1054 Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court err in their analysis of the takings claim?
22-1048 Joseph E. Blackburn, Jr., et ux. v. Dare County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Whether a governmental regulation prohibiting all physical access to a landowner's property is a 'per se' taking under the Fifth Amendment of the Unit…
22-7394 Mike Webb v. Department of the Army, et al. District of Columbia 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies agency-discretion agency-response civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment foia foia-request privacy-act pro-se-litigation standing Whether the failure of an agency to respond to a FOIA request violates due process
22-7402 Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment?
22-7311 Randal Thomas Rosado v. Florida Florida 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiple-prosecutions multiple-punishments negotiated-plea plea-bargaining same-offense sixth-amendment Does a ten-count conviction under the same statute for a single act of filing one document violate the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment p…
22-7269 Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Robert B. C. McSeveney, Judge, United States Immigration Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-law probable-cause warrant-clause Whether the statute 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) is constitutionally impermissible under the Fourth and Fifth Amendment equal protection clause
22-985 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response Waived child-pornography double-jeopardy fifth-amendment revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the subsequent imposition of a sentence to a term of imprisonment of 168 months on a charge of possession of child pornography, to run consecu…
22-7243 Mario Roberto Bonilla-Diaz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration-law in-absentia removal-order sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines Whether Mr. Bonilla-Diaz's in absentia removal order, which issued when he was ten years old and forms the basis for his illegal reentry conviction, i…
22-7231 James Sonny Alaniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa…
22-958 Andris Pukke, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied civil-contempt civil-rights due-process factfinding federal-trade-commission-act fifth-amendment injunction injunction-violation monetary-relief monetary-sanctions Whether the district court denied petitioners due process by imposing civil contempt sanctions without adequate factfinding
22-7138 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming that Ali's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were not violated under the Speedy Trial Act
22-7148 Karteu Omar Jenkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure drug-weight-calculation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the district court erred in not appointing new counsel after the second hearing on the matter?
22-7134 Christopher L. Whitaker v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-defendant capital-punishment eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation-evidence self-incrimination sixth-amendment Is a capital defendant's offer to plead guilty and waive all post-trial procedures in exchange for a life sentence admissible as mitigating evidence?
22-7087 Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct Did the State violate the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and due process?
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit Did the appeals court for the Third Circuit err by denying petitioners certificate of appealability where appellate counsel rendered ineffective assis…
22-7068 Joshua Anderson v. Mark Bolster Fourth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus military-courts standard-of-review writ-suspension Does the indistinct standard of review promulgated in Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953) violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and result…
22-913 Richard Devillier, et al. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation legislative-authorization property-rights self-executing self-executing-clause state-court-rulings statutory-authorization takings-clause May a person whose property is taken without compensation seek redress under the self-executing Takings Clause even if the legislature has not affirma…
22-898 Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. South Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case violates the just compensation clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-862 Brooklyn Zavion Johnson v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-03-10 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's 4th amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure was violated
22-6940 Leon Little v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentencing on uncharged conduct
22-6926 Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury multi-count-indictment petit-jury Whether a court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment Grand Jury rights
22-6901 Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment Whether the State violated the Due Process clause
22-6885 Juan Martinez Pedraza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP which provides that the government has a duty to cross-examination due-process false-testimony fifth-amendment government-witness napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that false testimony presented by a government witness at trial that is elicited by the defense on cross-examinati…
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-6831 Will Lee Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2023-02-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process Is Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Law Unconstitutional?
22-6816 Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-785 Theryn Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment immunity self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness witness-immunity when-the-due-process-clause-requires-vacatur-of-a-criminal-conviction-based-on-the-government's-refusal-to-seek-immunity-for-a-defense-witness
22-6815 David E. Merry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Relisted (7)IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing (enhancing) a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury ha…
22-6791 Jerome Simmons v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy elements-clause fifth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine Whether a sentence predicated upon a finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C § 924 (c) violates th…
22-6776 J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-14 Denied IFP amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other substant…
22-6778 Mi-in-gun Justin Charette, aka Justin Marshall Critt v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custodial-questioning fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-rights Whether the prophylactic rules announced in Miranda v. Arizona allow a suspect to request that counsel be present for questioning when the suspect is …
22-6779 Jong Sung Kim v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-violation de-novo-review due-process fifth-amendment giglio-rule giglio-violation sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether due process and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require circuit courts to review Brady and Giglio violation claims de novo, rather than for an …
22-6782 Richard Leon Wilbern v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment appellate-standard constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment standard-of-review witness-identification wrongful-convictions Whether courts of appeals should review de novo a district court's determination that an identification is constitutionally reliable
22-764 Hrair Kaladjian v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment freedom-support-act injunctive-relief presidential-waiver separation-of-powers standing Whether the President's violation of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act is actionable by a private citizen under the Fifth Amendment Equal Protect…
22-760 William S. Wilkinson, et al. v. Board of University and School Lands of North Dakota, et al. North Dakota 2023-02-13 Denied Response Waived due-process federalism fifth-amendment just-compensation oil-and-gas oil-and-gas-interests property-rights state-ownership state-sovereignty takings takings-clause Whether the North Dakota Supreme Court erred in finding the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not require just compensation
22-6736 Justin D. Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Relisted (8)IFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-721 Damian McElrath v. Georgia Georgia 2023-02-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (7) acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-verdict prosecution repugnant-verdict repugnant-verdicts Does the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted?
22-6677 Philip J. Vonville v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mistrial pennsylvania state-court-procedure state-courts Did state courts in Pennsylvania fail to address both Fifth and Fourteenth amendment (Due Process) violations of court record after a second trial end…
22-6649 Dee Walter Mitchell, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession coerced-testimony due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights miranda-rights police-interrogation Where police interrogation of a juvenile murder suspect violates due process
22-6652 In Re Walter Drummond 2023-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation miranda-rights state-criminal-procedure Whether the State of Florida violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by using an incomplete and deficient Miranda rights form that did not pro…
22-700 Mark Howerton v. Texas Texas 2023-01-26 Denied criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct Should the Court's holding in Oregon v. Kennedy be extended to prohibit a wider range of prosecutorial intent?
22-6609 James D. Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right by denying petitioners 28 USC § 2255 motion to vacate…
22-658 Victor Gates v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion and commit an error of law in not issuing a Certificate of Appealabi…
22-650 Orlando Bar Group, LLC, et al. v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Florida 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation property-rights public-nuisance state-of-emergency takings During a state of emergency, are there constitutional safeguards that prohibit the government from denying property owners substantially all economica…
22-647 Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas Texas 2023-01-11 Denied circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrim…
22-6503 Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States
22-624 Zafar Iqbal v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, State Board of Medicine Pennsylvania 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) coerced-confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-witness perjury right-to-due-process testimony Did the ruling(s), by disregarding testimony of material witness, proven to lie under oath violated petitioner's right to due process enshrined in fou…
22-6472 Vincent Paul Melendrez v. Jason Bennett, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense due-process fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment Where the Trial Court's Ruling Compelling the Election of Rights had required a criminal Defendant to waive his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Rights …
22-6477 Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced…
22-6445 Juan Villa Ramirez v. California California 2023-01-04 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
22-6413 Rajul Ruhbayan v. Rebecca Beach Smith, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jury-trial sentencing-finality sixth-amendment supervisory-powers Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and four Defendant judges' ongoing 17 years' cover up or violations of Petitioner's prospective denial of …
22-6433 Ricky Escobedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Violation of attorney-client privilege and right to effective assistance of counsel
22-6434 Elvis Harold Reyes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-restitution fifth-amendment jury-determination restitution sentencing-fact sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments are violated by the imposition of restitution based on the sentencing judge's determination of a fact (other th…
22-6405 David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous
22-6382 James A. Warren v. Florida Florida 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-crime capitol-crime constitutional-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment florida-constitution grand-jury indictment presentment Does Article I Section 15(a) of the Florida Constitution prohibit any person from being tried for a capitol crime without presentment or indictment by…
22-6386 Frank Sanchez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (9)IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
22-6371 Michael Jarrow v. Ashly Nunnery Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
22-6329 Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, would be reversed for substantive unreasonablen…
22-6340 Ramon Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability custodial-interrogation death-penalty fifth-amendment jury-instructions kidnapping miranda-rights Does a conviction for aiding and abetting kidnapping resulting in death require proof of intent or advance knowledge of death?
22-562 Stephen Douglass, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass, et al. v. Nippon Yusen Kabushki Kaisha Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (3) admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law due-process federal-courts federal-rule-civil-procedure fifth-amendment high-seas law-of-nations personal-jurisdiction state-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on personal jurisdiction by federal courts as the Fourteenth Amendment imposes on state cour…
22-6265 Sachin Aji Bhaskar v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment remote-sentencing statutory-authority structural-error What is required under the CARES Act for a remote sentencing to comport with a defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process under the constitution…
22-6258 Rondale Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilated-crimes assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment houston-v-moore separate-sovereign-doctrine Whether a defendant previously acquitted of murder under a state statute can be tried for the same murder under the same state statute pursuant to a f…
22-528 Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas Texas 2022-12-08 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the 1838rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus
22-525 Adrean L. Smith v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-guarantee fair-presentment fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus lower-courts miranda-rights seventh-circuit state-court-review Whether a habeas petitioner fairly presents his federal claim in state court
22-6218 Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation 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…
22-6221 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether former prosecutor's defense of defendant under same indictments violates 18 U.S.C. § 207 and defendant's constitutional rights
22-6212 Eric Cain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (9)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment jury trial right or the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause bars a court from imposing a more severe criminal sentence base…
22-6197 Albert Bautista Guzman v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Whether detectives investigating cases should practice integrity under the Due Process Clause of the 5th and 14th Amendments, preventing fabrication, …
22-6164 Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas Texas 2022-11-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judgment restitution sentencing Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar a restitution order entered ninety-nine days after Petitioner's sentence began and after entry o…
22-491 Raymond Delgado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment suppression-of-confession Whether Delgado was denied effective assistance of counsel
22-493 Erica Bojicic, dba Evolve Dance Company, LLC, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process emergency-powers eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-action necessity police-power property-rights regulatory-takings takings takings-clause Is the government required to prove with evidence that its action taken during an emergency which intrudes on private property rights was a necessity …
22-6142 Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Florida courts of appeals provide for evidentiary hearings to determine Strickland's mixed question of law and fact
22-6114 Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz Indiana 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Should respondent benefit from a conspiracy to commit a felony crime?
22-6126 Jeffrey Salt v. Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-contempt civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intellectual-property non-party non-party-injunction trademark trademark-dispute Did Jeffrey Salt's Fifth Amendment due process rights violate when the District Court ruled he was bound by an injunction and subject to civil contemp…
22-6086 Dale McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Petitioner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, justifies 'Equita…
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings Whether Petitioners' procedural due-process, takings, contract-rights were violated by deprivation of federal-remedy
22-466 Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde…
22-454 Garey Webb v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for CRMSI REMIC Series 2006-03 REMIC Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-03 Oklahoma 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-on-court property-rights Whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to address fraud and permitting a foreclosure judgment thro…
22-438 Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims
22-442 Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. California 2022-11-10 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use private-property property-rights takings Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owners' …
22-6038 Gabriel Mangum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-751 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy escape-from-custody fifth-amendment residential-reentry-center statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether Petitioner's 5th Amendment Double Jeopardy rights were violated
22-6041 David Williams, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 whether-defendant's-conviction-and-sentence-for-nonexistent-crimes-violates-constitution
22-5976 Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2022-11-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment Question not identified
22-5993 Malik Ross v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona…
22-405 Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas Texas 2022-11-01 Denied 5th-amendment confession confessions due-process fifth-amendment interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination supreme-court-precedent whether-the-supreme-court's-1987-decision-in-mauro-effectively-abdicated-its-1980-holding-in-innis
22-5935 Devon Miller v. Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied IFP confession-admissibility custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-interrogation police-interrogation-tactics self-incrimination two-step-interrogation voluntariness Whether the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination applies during custodial interrogation
22-5926 Charles Chitat Ng v. California California 2022-10-27 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process extradition-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment stun-belt Was petitioner deprived of due-process, self-representation, fair-trial, confrontation
22-5927 Jonathan Lee Oliver v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure jury-trial non-jury-proceeding preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment supervised-release Did the district court's unindicted, non-jury, preponderance of the evidence fact-finding that Mr. Oliver committed a new federal offense to conclude …
22-5908 Giles McGhee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Did the State fail to meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. McGhee was guilty of two Counts of First Degree Murder?
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency Should a bankruptcy judge be obligated to grant due process to a debtor?
22-377 Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas Texas 2022-10-24 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment Is Texas Penal Code (T.P.C.) § 42.105 repugnant to the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution?
22-372 Skatemore, Inc., dba Roll Haven Skating Center, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does the Fifth Amendment's requirement of 'just compensation' waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunity for a takings claim in federal court against…
22-5828 DeShaun Bullock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Relisted (10)IFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-329 Lu Tuan Nguyen v. David Ribal, et al. California 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived bias conservatee-estate constitutional-rights deception demurrer due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the sustaining of the respondent's demurrer violates the Due Process Clause
22-5790 David Delva v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent section-2255 sua-sponte warrantless-seizure Whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to be heard and due process were violated when …
22-5769 Donovan Lemont Bookman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-5752 Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto Third Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine can be applied to a petitioner with solely consecutive sentences
22-5735 Thomas A. Scott v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review manifest-injustice sixth-amendment Does the judgement of sentence represent a manifest injustice warranting the supervisory powers of this honorable court as it shakes societys confiden…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional?
22-287 Gail Lewis Hicks, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. Indiana 2022-09-27 Denied Response Waived court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fifth-and-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-procedure summary-judgment Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the Indiana Court of Appeals granting Respondent a summary judgme…
22-282 Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings Whether a 'judicial taking' under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action
22-5678 Eugene Roberts v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment giglio-violation internal-affairs internal-affairs-report right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Virgin Islands Supreme Court violated Appellant's constitutional right to due process and right to counsel
22-5647 Jose Antonio Guerrero-Yanez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit first-amendment rule-60b-motion standing Did the Fifth Circuit misapply 28-USC-2253 by requiring a Certificate of Appealability for a Rule-60(b) motion, infringing First-Amendment and Due-Pro…
22-5641 Jay Eugene Reed v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP charging-instrument constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-reasonableness sixth-amendment Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution by allowing an i…
22-5630 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. 2022-09-20 Denied IFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-pleading due-process exceptional-circumstances fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing Whether the exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Court's discretionary powers
22-5585 Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the state agency can require future social-security recipients to prematurely apply for reduced ben…
22-5438 Winfred Scott Simpson v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP and ineffective assistance of counsel unlawful detention compulsory-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jencks-act miranda-rights right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Violation of Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights regarding suppressed evidence
22-5409 Jamal A. Bowman v. Michigan Michigan 2022-08-19 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment property-rights takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
22-5345 Gary Paul Karr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay-statement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t…
22-5352 Travis Thomas, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure factual-description factual-distinction fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment-modification prescription-drug required-element trial-amendment Does the Fifth Amendment's Grand Jury Clause prohibit a trial amendment altering a factually distinct description of a required element?
22-5343 In Re Quelyory A. Rigal 2022-08-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a non-unanimous verdict in a criminal case violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
22-132 Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid judges (or prosecutors) from instructing (or inviting) the jury to take into account a non-testifyi…
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim at h…
22-5304 Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Constitution requires a canvass on the right to testify
22-5248 Douglas A. Hoglan v. Virginia Virginia 2022-08-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-fraud fifth-amendment miranda-rights plea-agreement plea-bargain procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel right-to-due-process Did the extrinsic-fraud deprive-Hooper-of-due-process
22-99 Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Government's uncompensated appropriation of private companies' earnings and net worth through the Net Worth Sweep effects a taking under t…
22-5239 Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize?
22-5218 Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic reversal…
22-5207 Brandon L. Cooper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the lower court's decision was based on an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law
22-5185 Thomas Creighton Shrader v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 18-usc-3742 double-jeopardy federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release When the Federal Bureau of Prisons is misapplying 18 U.S.C. 3583(a) [Supervised Release] not only to Petitioner, but to thousands (1000's) of Federal …
22-5167 Regis Storm Ervin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583g constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-5146 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings standing tenth-circuit-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted judicial proceedings
22-52 Ariyan Incorporated, dba Discount Corner, et al. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-taking inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings May the government, consistent with the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' self-executing command of Just Compensation for takings of private property, …
22-53 Aaron G. Filler, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response Waived assignment-of-claims assignment-of-claims-act civil-procedure fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation patent patent-infringement patent-rights takings Can the Assignment of Claims Act remove the Fifth Amendment right to Just Compensation from the party with the right to exclude in a patent infringeme…
22-5123 Kevin Brazelton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-decorum due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment sixth-amendment stun-belt Were the Petitioner's federal due process rights violated when the trial court denied a mistrial after the Petitioner was electrically shocked in fron…
22-5127 Edward Brown v. United States First Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines Did the district court violate the petitioner's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
22-5128 My Loan Nguyen v. Michael Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights miranda-rights ninth-circuit police-interrogation police-questioning Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied Miranda-v-…
22-5112 Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process
22-5087 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit whether-the-us-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit-departed-from-the-accepted-course-of-judicial-proceedings
22-25 Roy Lynn McCutchen, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Amici (2) agency-authority agency-rulemaking fifth-amendment government-power legislative-delegation legislative-rulemaking personal-property physical-taking property-rights redressability takings-clause Does a delegation of general legislative rulemaking authority to an agency constitute an inherent restraint on title to any personal property that cou…
22-5052 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona Arizona 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury incorporation precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment requiring indictments be applied to the States, thereby overturning precedence from 1884; Hurtado v. Ca…
22-5012 Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause when a district court relies on hearsay statements to enhance a person's sentencing G…
21-8278 Glen Hunsberger v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the aggregation of two statutes, one requiring specific intent and the other strict liability, results in a vague statute in contravention of …
21-1590 Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se Whether a litigant in pro se can be denied their right to due process under the 5th and 14th Amendments solely based on the court's assumption that th…
21-1584 Martin Louis Ballard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived drug-conspiracy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial murder-for-hire sixth-amendment Is the right of Martin Ballard to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and the right to a fair and impartial fact finder in his trial under th…
21-8219 Dante Danil Carter v. California California 2022-06-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure doyle-v-ohio due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda miranda-rights post-miranda-silence self-incrimination Whether the California trial court deprived Carter of his 5th and 14th Amendment rights by permitting the prosecution to impermissibly use his post-Mi…
21-8222 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits federal courts from holding pro se litigants to the same stringent standards as attorneys
21-8224 Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of …
21-8172 Juan Manuel Contreras-Zamora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-rights legal-communication miranda-rights re-initiation right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-invocation waiver Whether a suspect who states 'Look man, 'm going to tell you just like this; I need my lawyer' must have a lapse of time before being deemed to have r…
21-8159 Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-8166 Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation coram-nobis due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Did the presentation of gruesome photographs to each grand juror violate the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?
21-1568 Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied appeal appeal-procedure attorney-client attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct standing Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights were violated
21-1557 Dayonta McClinton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
21-1562 Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when Reed was not…
21-8119 Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire Whether the lower court erred and abused its discretion in not finding petitioner was deprived of his 5th and 14th amendment rights
21-8074 Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-1511 Joy Garner, Individually and on Behalf of The Control Group, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights control-group due-process fifth-amendment government-action mandatory-vaccination scientific-evidence scientific-method standing standing-doctrine vaccine-mandate Do the threatened members of the Control Group have standing to sue the President for systematically destroying their evidence and violating the panop…
21-8006 Charles A. Inko-Tariah v. Federal Medical Center Butner, NC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment medical-malpractice unreasonable-search-and-seizure Was the U.S Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit correct in affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit against Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Caro…
21-8008 In Re James Martin Graham 2022-06-01 Denied IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federalism fifth-amendment habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment Did the indictment fail to charge an offense against the laws of the United States, because no jurisdiction has been ceded or accepted over the place …
21-8026 William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-law constitutional-vagueness due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings vagueness Is the statute 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(8) void for vagueness therefore unconstitutional?
21-7983 Allen James Harrison v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when retained counsel admitted fault concerning a plea bargain, co…
21-7996 George Edward Purdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP 5th-amendment blockburger-rule criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jurisdiction plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion venue Where identical charges are filed for the same alleged victim in multiple counties, is it a violation of the 5th Amendment double-jeopardy rule based …
21-7975 Amir Karim Beigali v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924-c consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum section-924c sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment prohibit a consecutive mandatory penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)(i) when the second § 924(c) offense was …
21-7956 Timothy McClendon v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-technique miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona missouri-v-seibert sixth-amendment Whether jurists of reason could debate the district court's conclusion that the detectives' actions were not a coordinated two-step interrogation tech…
21-7948 Femi Isijola v. Elizabeth A. Bielecki, Director, New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles New Hampshire 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment driver's-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motor-vehicle-registration pre-suspension-hearing Whether NH. Revised Statute Ann. 260:10 violates the Due Process Clause
21-7942 P'erre Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a circuit split should be resolved regarding whether a condition of supervised release requiring submission to polygraph testing violates a De…
21-1465 Austin Channing McGraw v. Kentucky Kentucky 2022-05-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment self-incrimination warrantless-search Whether the government can advise a jury that a Defendant invoked his right against self-incrimination, and refused a consensual, warrantless search o…
21-7910 Kendrick Dwight Marshall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-7855 James Wells Horsey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blockburger-test constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-pornography same-evidence-test sixth-amendment Can possession of juvenile pornography be considered child or adult pornography?
21-7864 Andrew James Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment land-use permit property-rights public-easement takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement across their …
21-7849 Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-segregation confinement-standards constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general prison p…
21-7818 Kenneth Jay Moore v. Washington Washington 2022-05-10 Denied IFP eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for…
21-7825 Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights
21-7802 In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
21-7805 William Paul Burch v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant removal sanctions What is the complete legal definition of frivolous?
21-7810 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Dismissed IFP due-process fifth-amendment land-use property-rights regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a public easement as a conditio…
21-7768 Jowell Travis LeGendre v. Virginia Virginia 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel inquiry pre-trial Were my rights to due process prejudiced when the court failed to conduct inquiry concerning pre-trial claims of ineffective counsel?
21-1409 Prince Bixler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-03 Denied Response Waived controlled-substances cross-examination federal-rule-of-evidence-412 fifth-amendment prostitution sentencing-enhancement sex-trafficking sixth-amendment Whether Bixler's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were violated
21-1393 Clarence Alexander, et al. v. Gwitchyaa Zhee Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived alaska-native-claims-settlement-act due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review land-reconveyance native-participation native-rights recoupment village-corporations Whether the decisions by Alaska Native Village Corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to reconvey land under Section 14(c) must co…
21-7669 Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment legal-precedent sixth-amendment Does new precedent need to be set to protect the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, and the attorney-client privilege?
21-7624 Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require proof of a specific predicate offense?
21-7602 Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney New Hampshire 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment Whether the State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process under …
21-7585 Jayson McNeil v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure traffic-stop Did the Trial Court err in denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress evidence from a traffic stop and resulting search and seizure that was uncons…
21-7577 Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied IFP automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
21-7565 Brandon James Lee v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the district court's fact-finding procedures were unduly prejudicial and denied petitioner a constitutional right
21-7506 Curtis Carr v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-techniques videotaped-evidence Does the admissibility of videotaped interrogations in which the interrogating officers inject their conclusions about the suspect's guilt violate the…
21-7499 David Lopez Gonzales v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland cullen-v-pinholster due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fifth-amendment habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct Does Cullen v Pinholster bar consideration of new evidence in federal habeas proceedings when the prosecutor presented false testimony to rebut the de…
21-7468 Nahid Kadir Moshrefi v. Colorado Colorado 2022-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights evidence fifth-amendment non-custodial police-questioning pre-arrest self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment protects an individual who invokes her privilege against self-incrimination during pre-arrest, non-custodial questioning b…
21-7470 Reggie Orlando Williams v. Texas Texas 2022-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-charging legal-procedure margin-of-error state-court state-prosecution When the State of Texas failed to elect which charging transaction of the offense the State was going to have Petitioner convicted under, did this res…
21-1291 Rodney Muschette v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response Waived 404(b)-evidence 5th-amendment circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment fundamentally-unfair-trial hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment Was Mr. Muschette denied his 5th Amendment right to due process?
21-1260 Kendi Narmer PakeyBey v. Luminant Mining Company, LLC Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights denial-of-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-protections procedural-due-process procedural-protections standing Whether the Petitioners' 5th and 14th Amendment rights were violated under its procedural due process clause by being denied procedural protections
21-7410 In Re Eduardo Pineda 2022-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-liberty due-process ex-parte-watkins fifth-amendment fourth-amendment gonzales-v-raich habeas-corpus liberty marijuana marijuana-prohibition Whether the federal prohibition on the cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana violates the petitioner's constitutional rights, includin…
21-1254 Allen Bregman v. Florida Florida 2022-03-16 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment tactical-advantage united-states-v-lovasco Whether United States v. Gouveia departed from the two-tier test for determining a due-process violation
21-7376 Khalil Stafford v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-dismissal murder new-jersey rico rico-offense sixth-amendment state-law-prosecution vicar Does the Double Jeopardy Clause preclude a Federal jury from considering petitioner's guilt for murder under New Jersey law after a New Jersey jury ac…
21-7355 Jon Charles Vance v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt Whether the Petitioner Jon Charles Vance was denied his fundamental right under the Fifth Amendment to Due Process
21-7339 Robert Donald Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-limits due-process federal-state-powers fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default standing Did the courts act outside of their jurisdictions?
21-7308 Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University District of Columbia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process by failing to consider all of the pet…
21-7296 Frank C. Gonzalez v. California California 2022-03-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury jury-finding sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
21-7263 Michael Halford v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination spousal-privilege Whether the denial of Petitioner's Spousal Privilege to exclude testimony at trial violated his rights against self-incrimination, due process, equal …
21-7265 Victor L. Manns, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment implied-waiver miranda-rights self-incrimination testimony Whether a suspect can provide an implied waiver of Miranda rights when a detective admits under oath that the suspect was not properly Mirandized
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Whether the unrecognized transfer of a case from the Guam Superior Court to the Guam District Court, despite a lack of jurisdiction, led to a default …
21-7252 Terrance Stinson, aka T-Rock v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-guarantee jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether sentencing based on acquitted conduct violates the Sixth Amendment jury guarantee and the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause
21-7222 Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine Is the term 'involved' under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through the …
21-1185 Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies when a second (new) sentencer imposes a harsher sentence following a successful coll…
21-7183 Ruth Diaz-Burgos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy self-incrimination Whether Rule 11(b) requires advice of Fifth Amendment rights before plea colloquy interrogation
21-1136 M. S. v. J. B. Massachusetts 2022-02-17 Denied due-process equal-protection ex-parte-order ex-parte-restraining-orders false-impression-of-dangerousness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment records-expungement restraining-order vacated-orders due-process
21-7119 Victor Carlos Castano v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy
21-7128 Cornelius Riley v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Should the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh be extended to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases significantly due t…
21-1095 "I Am" School, Inc. v. City of Mount Shasta, California California 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived cannabis-regulation civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights retroactive-overruling rule-of-law school-protection takings Whether state appellate courts, consistent with the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, may apply prospective overruling retroactively to a litigant's ca…
21-7047 In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden 2022-02-03 Dismissed IFP constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority Whether the U.S. District Court exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction
21-7025 Derrick Garrell Samuels v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-composition jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether Samuel's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when he was forced to proceed to trial as the only black person in the courtroom
21-1063 Elaine Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response Waived conspiracy criminal-acquittal due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud presumption-of-innocence statutory-interpretation unjust-compensation unjust-conviction-and-imprisonment Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2513's requirement that a defendant acquitted because of insufficient evidence must affirmatively disprove the factual allegations…
21-6993 Damon Willis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions prohibited-status rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen Does Rehaif v. United States preclude a jury instruction that the federal government must prove a defendant knew his prohibited status made it illegal…
21-6961 Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioner abandoned, through failure to brief, a separate claim that he is subject to an illeg…
21-6851 Joel Quiles v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment first-degree-murder trial-procedure Did the defendant's conviction for first degree felony murder violate his constitutional right against double jeopardy?
21-6873 Juan J. Torres v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-court court-denial criminal-procedure custody-violation due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment What was the United States Supreme Court ruling about informing a suspect about having a lawyer present during questioning?
21-6834 In Re Hosea Jackson 2022-01-13 Denied IFP acquittal aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hobbs-act insufficient-evidence jeopardy judicial-precedent Whether judicial precedent concerning double jeopardy defines an acquittal to encompass any ruling that the prosecutions proof is insufficient to esta…
21-6838 Bernard Steven Boyd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guideline-sentence guideline-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance Did the Trial Court provide insufficient information or explanation to an upward variance in the Petitioner's Guideline Sentence, from a range of 51 t…
21-6827 Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia Virginia 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing 4th-amendment-rights,electronic-communication-privacy-act,5th-amendment-rights,6th-amendment-rights,8th-amendment-rights,sex-offender-registration
21-990 Aldrich L. Boss, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stewart R. Crane v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment bona-fide-purchase fifth-amendment forfeiture innocent-owner-defense property-forfeiture public-record standing takings-clause Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause permits the establishment of a new category of property for forfeiture purposes
21-6818 Arron Lawson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-01-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a death sentence violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments when the court fails to ensure the defendant's com…
21-6803 Javier Rosales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse of d…
21-6765 Hitoshi Ombe v. George Cook, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-liberty due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment mental-disability pro-se pro-se-litigant How the Court should respond to pro se litigant with mild mental disability, e.g., highly functional autism disability (i.e., least severe autism spec…
21-6757 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review judicial-reviewability perjury sixth-amendment Is judicial reviewability of a trial attorney's failure to impeach a key prosecution witness with regard to the most critical and material aspect of t…
21-6761 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment mlat mlat-evidence search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether this Court should visit the issue of allowing law enforcement to gather information initiated by the United States to use a Mutual Legal Assis…
21-945 Wisconsin v. Manuel Garcia Wisconsin 2021-12-27 Denied confession criminal-confession criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment miranda-warning miranda-warnings misleading-jury witness-testimony Can a criminal defendant's cross-examination of a witness for the State, designed to mislead the jury, open the door to the introduction of the defend…
21-6713 Andrew U. D. Straw v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-12-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment judicial-takings law-license property-rights regulatory-takings takings tucker-act Whether the rule that the Court of Federal Claims cannot review other courts' final orders is wrongly applied
21-934 Lana Weinbach v. The Boeing Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-interpretation capable-of-ascertainment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit escheat-laws fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-scrutiny ninth-amendment Whether the Eighth Circuit exceeded its scope in determining a capable-of-ascertainment criterion, and in so doing, infringed upon constitutional-righ…
21-6706 Billy Dean Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof due-process fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-discretion sentencing uncharged-felony Did the district court violate Mr. Smith's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights by relying on unreliable, unsupported hearsay to, first, find that Mr. S…
21-6667 Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel Whether state courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that he had voluntarily waived the …
21-898 Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv…
21-892 Micah James Patterson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitution constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury judicial-authority Does any court have the authority to amend the United States Constitution by fiat and extinguish a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights?
21-6599 Jeffrey Clinton Michalik v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-seizure miranda-warnings seizure Does the holding in Torres v. Madrid require Miranda warnings before custodial interrogation?
21-6614 Mario Martell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering Whether the Hobbs Act, in accordance with constitutional limits, only punishes a robbery when the Government proves that the robbery itself affected i…
21-6623 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Kloszewski's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated when court-appointed counsel divulged conversations about other uncharged/unrelate…
21-882 Esteban Gaspar-Felipe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether acquitted-conduct sentencing violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or the Sixth Amendment's right to jury trial
21-6556 Richard Bernard Grundy, III v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fifth-amendment judicial-discretion self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the District Court deprived Richard Grundy of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig…
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal be mooted prior to resolution
21-6517 Mark Stinson v. K. Cauley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-segregation civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fifth-amendment inmate-rights prison-administration What limits the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment places on the authority of prison administrators to remove inmates from the general prison p…
21-6545 Debra A. Nichols v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act equal-protection fifth-amendment government-employees medical-privacy state-actors warrantless-search warrantless-searches Can state actors and/or government employees violate the equal protection clause of the 5th amendment of people considered disabled under the ADA?
21-6552 Keith Carr v. Steve Kallis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.-2241 due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-851 sentencing-enhancement title-21-enhancement whether-an-unlawful-application-of-an-enhancement-pursuant-to-title-21-u.s.c.-851-amounts-to-a-fundamental-misscarriage-of-justice
21-6500 Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment When a citizen of the United States becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation for homicide and is induced to give false statements, does the due-p…
21-820 Louisiana v. Christopher Alexander Louisiana 2021-12-02 Denied circuit-split coerced-confession due-process fifth-amendment fruits-doctrine miranda-violation Whether a later voluntary statement must be suppressed as the fruits of statement taken in violation of Miranda?
21-6455 Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated?
21-808 Kimberley Ann Gunnarson, et al. v. Texas Texas 2021-12-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment billboard constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation property-code takings takings-clause Does Texas' refusal to recognize sign rental income from billboards on real property violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutio…
21-6435 James Worley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-29 Denied IFP capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth,…
21-6404 Ngoc Hong Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
21-6405 Ashley McArthur v. Florida Florida 2021-11-24 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver-of-rights Whether a law enforcement officer's violation of a defendant's rights set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), renders a subsequent waive…
21-765 In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company 2021-11-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss…
21-6368 Suzanne Elizabeth Wexler v. Texas Texas 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-detention miranda miranda-custody police-authority search-warrant terry-stop Whether Fourth Amendment reasonableness concerns have any bearing on a determination of custody under Miranda
21-6349 Victor Hurns v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-acquittal judicial-review legal-procedure newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether the denial of petitioners' request for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendm…
21-6326 Farand Skinner v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-18 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review Did the Kentucky Supreme Court violate Mr. Skinner's rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and issue a decision contrary …
21-6336 Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(2) relief
21-6287 Mario Hernandez-Galarza v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history discrimination due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-law liberty noncitizen-rights sentencing-guidelines Whether U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(3) is unconstitutional
21-6311 Curtis R. Gaylord v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law congressional-intent constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process fifth-amendment property-rights public-policy va-proceedings va-regulations veterans-benefits Are Veterans benefits a property right/interest protected under the United States Constitution, Fifth Amendment?
21-735 Jim Olive Photography, dba Photolive, Inc. v. University of Houston System Texas 2021-11-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cedar-point-nursery copyright-infringement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-appropriation right-to-exclude takings-clause Whether the government's appropriation of a copyright owner's right to exclude constitutes a per se taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments i…
21-6268 Cesar Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which the jury acquitted him violates his rights to due process and …
21-6273 Nathan R. Rollins, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing-guidelines booker-standard criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-booker Whether the Tenth Circuit's holding perpetuates the error this Court sought to address in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005)
21-703 RLR Investments, LLC v. City of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exxon-mobil fifth-amendment interlocutory-order property-taking rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-order takings Whether a United States District Court can dismiss claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fifth Amendment due to an interlocutory state court o…
21-715 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer 2021-11-15 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-liberty criminal-justice drug-crime drug-policy due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus Is the incarceration of the petitioner for a marijuana-related offense a violation of their constitutional rights?
21-6250 Joel Rivera-Alejandro v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process excessive-delay fifth-amendment indictment multi-defendant sixth-amendment speedy-trial trial-delay Whether Petitioners Constitutional Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process of Law and his Sixth Amendment Right to a Speedy Trial were violated
21-6253 Baltazar Aguirre-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment special-interrogatory When a jury's answer to a special interrogatory negates an element of the charged offense, must a district court enter a judgment of acquittal when th…
21-6215 Lawrence Oakie, aka LBJ v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
21-6222 Marc E. Bercoon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP bank-of-nova-scotia-v-us chapman-v-california constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Feritiener's rights were violated
21-6195 Ronald C. Fairchild v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Fairchild's rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as…
21-6146 Keenan Rollerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o…
21-6114 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-11-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion Was Petitioner Racially Discriminated because he is Black?
21-6137 Vassily Anthony Thompson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment sentencing Does it offend the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury for a court to ignore legally relevant elements of an offense charged by a grand jury in an i…
21-623 Anthony Penton v. A. Malfi, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived brady-evidence brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence Whether evidence covered by Brady v. Maryland is considered suppressed under the Fifth Amendment regardless of the defendant's knowledge
21-616 Lee W. Yeager v. FirstEnergy Generation Corporation Sixth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment legal-redress notice opportunity-to-be-heard pleading-amendment standing Whether a federal district court's outright dismissal of a stayed action without having first lifted that stay, to permit ruling on plaintiffs pending…
21-6077 Torri McCray v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for unc…
21-6081 Gerund Mickens, aka Breeze v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause criminal-investigation due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment requ…
21-610 Louis S. Shuman, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) court-rules due-process federal-court-rules federal-statutes fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds tax-court Whether an Order of the United States Tax Court is deemed final, and legally enforceable, including enforcement on jurisdictional grounds, when the U.…
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex…
21-6053 Jimmie Barge v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne apprendi apprendi-violation certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment Is the Florida State trial court erring when sentencing Petitioner to minimum mandatory term of life in.prison because the Prison Releasee Reoffender …
21-6037 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fraud hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion judicial-fraud motion-to-vacate supervisory-powers uncontested-motions Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals properly applied its supervisory powers to ensure the proper application of Local Rule 7.3 MOTION PRACTICE
21-5997 Jeremiah Ybarra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process effective-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether appellant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury presentment or indictment
21-5995 Christopher Emory Cramer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure conference-in-chambers due-process eighth-amendment federal-rule federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure-43 fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding record-completion record-on-appeal sixth-amendment whether-an-unrecorded-conference-is-a-hearing-or-trial-under-federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c)
21-5959 Darwin J. Fifield, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied IFP civil-rights coerced-statement counsel-ineffectiveness due-process excessive-force fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement self-representation sixth-amendment Whether law enforcement's unprovoked excessive use of force during an arrest should invalidate as coerced by threat or force a Petitioner's later stat…
21-5968 Timothy Stemen v. Florida Florida 2021-10-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Did law enforcement violate the petitioner's due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings
21-5947 Jorge Petter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals covid-19 due-process fifth-amendment filing-deadlines incarcerated-filers pandemic-response standing-order Whether the Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth Amendment by failing to issue a standing order extending fil…
21-5954 David Lee Smith v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-proceedings takings Whether the Tenth Circuit grossly abused its inherent power by imposing the sanction of appeal dismissal against appellant Hook based on its false and…
21-5963 Norris Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus investigation right-to-silence self-incrimination When does an investigation stop after a defendant says 'No'?
21-529 Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. Georgia 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics Do intentional false statements by an attorney violate opposing party's rights?
21-5937 Odilon Martinez-Rojas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether a plea agreement's appeal waiver can bar a defendant from challenging the unconstitutionality of a sentencing procedure
21-5912 Mark Wayne Gray v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Amendment (right to be free from self-incrimination) and 6th (denial of assistance of counsel) and 14th amendments were violated
21-5910 Carlos Sauzo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights credibility due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment inconclusive-record judicial-review sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment require the lower court to address an evidentiary hearing when the record before the court is inconclusive as to wh…
21-5894 Jeffrey Richard Martinson v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-doctrine fifth-amendment new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-dismissal Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial where the trial court dismissed the case with prejudice for bad faith prosecutorial misconduct after g…
21-499 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-liability section-1983 self-incrimination Whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under Section 1983 based on the officer's failure to provide Mirand…
21-483 David Klug v. Florida Florida 2021-10-01 Denied Response Waived charging-document criminal-charging due-process fifth-amendment jury-unanimity lewd-and-lascivious-molestation sexual-offenses sixth-amendment Whether a state prosecuting authority may bundle several single-act offenses concerning the lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor into the same s…
21-5843 Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming a jury instruction that allowed conviction for sex trafficking under 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1) without proof…
21-5810 Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied IFP administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing Whether the administrator of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitut…
21-5791 Cesar Santana v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-statements miranda-warnings police-assurances police-interrogation self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated, and a defendant's statements are involuntary, when police assure a suspect that his statements will not be us…
21-436 In Re Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. 2021-09-21 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice unlawful-incarceration void-judgment Whether the U.S./Kansas has held petitioner illegally in prison contrary to the U.S. Constitution
21-5689 Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel?
21-5662 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's constitutional rights departed from accepted judicial standards
21-5669 Thomas Woods v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment adversarial-system compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury racial-disparities self-incrimination Where a target of a grand jury investigation is compelled under threat of the pains and penalties of the law to appear to testify at the grand jury an…
21-5609 Matthew Staszak v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege confidential-communications constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment interception legal-interception sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were deprived and violated when his attorney-client confidential communications were intercepted…
21-5617 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure Does the Federal Government have the authority to seize individuals' bank accounts?
21-5622 Michael C. Sullivan v. Karen Carrington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment forest-service government-liability judicial-canon judicial-conduct takings Whether the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation
21-356 Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause bars a criminal defendant's retrial after the government has had a fair opportunity to prove its …
21-5591 Veretta Burnett v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment freedom geographical-profiling justice law-enforcement liberty section-242 standing Whether the plaintiff's constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the FBI and City of Highland Park failed to pay the plaintiff for geogr…
21-5556 Bret Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-bias media-influence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Were my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and due process of the law violated?
21-5500 John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.0.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi…
21-5535 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Indiana Indiana 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process cronic due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Is the Indiana state appellate court's opinion that its trial court did not abuse its discretion when, over multiple objections, it permitted surprise…
21-273 Buck Gene Brune v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing When does jeopardy attach after a guilty plea?
21-5474 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act jurisdiction resentencing standing Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil-rights, due-process, 5th-amendment, first-step-act
21-5475 Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing-review standing Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil-rights,due-process,fifth-amendment,first-step-act
21-5483 David Lee Jackson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-08-25 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation private-property takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-244 Taylor & Sons, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied 5th-amendment economic-impact fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking takings Does the fact that the property is generating profits on the date of taking satisfy the economic impact requirement to find a regulatory taking under …
21-218 John Pietsch, et al. v. Ward County, North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied dolan-v-city-of-tigard extortionate-exaction fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-takings injunctive-relief nollan-dolan-test nollan-v-california-coastal-commission remedy takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions Does the violation of the unconstitutional-conditions doctrine for an extortionate exaction create a stand-alone cause of action?
21-222 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing Whether the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense was violated
21-5385 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol…
21-5366 Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony whether-the-nebraska-courts-reliance-on-witness-statements-induced-erroneous-or-prejudicial-hearsay-evidence
21-5344 Edith Woodberry v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court constitutional-obligation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation public-policy takings Whether the bankruptcy court can discharge the City of Detroit's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation after taking private property via …
21-5338 Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the prosecutor's submission of an affidavit for probable cause listing a tan animal hair found in a wicker trunk, when the DNA report received…
21-154 Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
21-5284 Albert Lamont Hector v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process federal-appeals-courts fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment state-high-courts Whether sentences based on acquitted conduct violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or Sixth Amendment's jury-trial guarantee
21-115 Ivan Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas…
21-5209 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2021-07-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure standing Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari to address the state court of last resort's unsupported, arbitrary, and/or capricious order
21-5214 Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36, which allows a m…
21-5201 Susan Kaytlin Scott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-courts constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure custody-determination due-process fifth-amendment law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-warning Do the Circuit Courts' different tests used to determine custody status for purposes of Miranda lead to inconsistent results?
21-5203 Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, aka Ibrahim Akasha v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-national personal-jurisdiction What level of contact with the United States must a foreign national who never entered this country and committed the offense conduct solely outside o…
21-5167 Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing Whether the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights under the Bill of Rights departed from accepted judicial standards
21-5153 Brian K. Rogers v. United States First Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-examination self-incrimination sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Are admissions made during a polygraph examination required by sex offender treatment compelled for purposes of the Fifth Amendment when failing the e…
21-5139 In Re Donald M. Boswell 2021-07-20 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-petitions Was the denial of Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealibility (COA) to file a second or successive federal habeas corpus for new claims fo…
21-5146 Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision sanctioning a preponderance of the evidence standard to find criminal acts that nearly doubled the advisory sente…
21-76 Linda B. Vacchino v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Florida 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-fraud mortgage-crisis property-rights Whether the constitutional rights guaranteed under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when foreclosures and subsequent sale of primary r…
21-70 Gary E. Albright, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-07-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived certification constitutional-federalism erie-doctrine fifth-amendment railroad-deed state-law state-law-interpretation takings-claim takings-clause Does constitutional federalism require certification of state law issue?
21-5135 Michael Ray Orr v. Texas Texas 2021-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure defendant-rights demeanor fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure Did the trial court err by denying Mr. Orr's objection to improper closing argument by the prosecutor?
21-5085 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-07-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights competence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-system Does due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a presumption of competence for a criminal defendant to proceed pro se, such that a…
21-5073 Brian Adrian Sloan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-country major-crimes-act native-american native-american-rights racial-classification Whether United States v. Antelope, 430 U.S. 641 (1977), should be overruled
21-15 Don Peterson, et al. v. Russ Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech Is an order punishing a citizen's exercise of guaranteed constitutional freedoms patently unconstitutional and void, subject to mandatory relief under…
20-8446 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-rules retrial united-states-law Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars the retrial of the petitioner after the trial court's erroneous dismissal of the charge…
20-8421 Braulio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony Issue 1
20-8397 Louis A. Banks v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights custodial-interrogation due-process edwards-violation fifth-amendment judicial-immunity law-enforcement rule-23 rule-60 Whether law enforcement violated Edwards v. Arizona by interrogating a minor who invoked the Fifth Amendment, and whether claims for declaratory and m…
20-8401 Tyler Landon Thornton v. Florida Florida 2021-06-23 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession non-state-actor plea-bargaining plea-involuntariness Whether coercion from a non-state actor can render a plea involuntary and therefore invalidate it under the Fifth Amendment?
20-8362 Damion Sleugh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment judge-made-law Pinkerton-liability substantive-offense substantive-offenses May a defendant be found guilty of a substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability where that offense was not an object of the alleged conspiracy?
20-8363 Outhdorm Ros v. California California 2021-06-21 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights prosecutorial-argument self-incrimination Whether a suspect's silence after arrest but before Miranda warnings can be admitted and commented upon to prove guilt
20-8369 Clarence Clark v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent
20-8326 Michael Adefemi Adeyemo, aka Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment incriminating nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice plea-colloquy self-incrimination separate-offense testimonial Whether the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause protects a defendant during the change of plea colloquy against compulsory self-disclosure of in…
20-1746 Temor S. Sharifi v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment citizenship due-process fifth-amendment foreign-law just-compensation property-rights takings Whether a United States citizen can be denied his Fifth Amendment rights to just compensation for property taken by the United States based upon forei…
20-1750 Danesh Rahimi v. Troy Kohler Utah 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment group-quiet-title judicial-taking property-rights real-property standing state-courts takings May the Utah State Courts enter orders on the basis of a 'group quiet title doctrine' which has no precedential authority?
20-1756 Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations?
20-8318 Jason C. Youker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment informant-distribution law-enforcement narcotics police-misconduct standing takings Do police violate the Fifth Amendment when providing narcotics to confidential informants?
20-8302 Calvin Gumbs, II v. Kelly Harrigan, et al. Virgin Islands 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review legal-standing virgin-islands Jurisdiction-over-appeals
20-8280 Trent Slone v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal drug-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearms firearms-violation presumption-of-innocence sentencing Does the presumption of innocence and the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment protect a defendant at a firearms violation sentencing when the go…
20-8287 Kenneth Wayne Walker, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-8278 L. Powers v. Arthur J. Morburger Florida 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court property-rights Can the Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Innocent Persons Thrust in 'Criminal' Courts Rendering False Judgments albeit in Civil Court? When There's no …
20-1708 Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing?
20-1694 Gregory Molden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud medicare medicare-regulations regulatory-compliance Is it a constitutional Fifth Amendment Due Process violation when a Health Care provider under the Federal Title XVIII Medicare Program is pursued by …
20-8254 Demario M. Peterson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implica…
20-1693 Erick Allen Osby v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments
20-1683 James A. Gideon v. Ohio Ohio 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived disciplinary-investigation exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment garrity-doctrine garrity-v-new-jersey professional-license self-incrimination Whether a professional license holder's objectively reasonable, subjective belief that assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimi…
20-1684 Sean Hartranft v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intervention standing telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Court of Appeals committed reversible error when it denied Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) motion to intervene as a ma…
20-8211 Christian M. Allmendinger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment witte-v-united-states Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments forbid sentencing guidelines from enhancing the presumed reasonable punishment for an offense, unless the facts…
20-8217 Donald R. Turner, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance just-compensation mandatory-minimum private-property procedural-error sentencing-enhancement takings Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
20-8219 Clark D. Young v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the defendant was deprived of his Sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when counsel failed to investigate his criminal history
20-8169 Yessenia Jimenez v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hispanic jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes pretextual-reasons Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky
20-8141 Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-05-26 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights Whether the state courts erred and abused their discretion by depriving and denying the defendant of his statutory rights to DNA testing
20-1652 Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission District of Columbia 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award Do the statutory rules of the SEC violate the Double Jeopardy Clause and Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
20-8129 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising certain claims on direct appeal constitutes a substantial den…
20-8067 In Re Jeremiah Ybarra 2021-05-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Is an American citizen's Fifth Amendment violated when his case is not presented to a grand jury to gain an indictment on the alleged offense?
20-8011 Troy Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
20-8024 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process When there is no requirement to file a notice of appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability, is the COA seeker's Fifth Amendment right to…
20-7981 Stephen Nivens v. J. Phillip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights double-jeopardy duplicitous duplicitous-charging fifth-amendment jury jury-trial multiplicitous multiplicitous-charging Whether the Petitioner has a right to be free from Double Jeopardy
20-7991 Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant is sentenced for a conspiracy offense that exceeds the maximum penalty for the …
20-1563 Amin A. Rashid v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process fifth-amendment final-judgment notice notice-and-opportunity rule-60(b) rule-60b4 Whether the court of appeals denies a petitioner due process
20-7963 Lugene L. Scott v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felonious-assault fifth-amendment manslaughter sentencing time-served Is the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when a defendant is denied credit for time served when…
20-7979 Talmadge Adib Talib v. Juan Guerrero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge summary-judgment Where jurisdiction was never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with violations of right…
20-7953 Alena Aleykina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent due-process evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment legal-separation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was it fair to affirm 18-U.S.C-1519-charge
20-1548 Natalio Fridman v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response Waived act-of-production collective-entity-doctrine corporate-records fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion-doctrine irs-summons self-incrimination testimonial-evidence Does an individual retain his Fifth Amendment privilege in the face of the 'foregone conclusion doctrine' when an IRS summons requires him, in effect,…
20-7923 Edward Shane West-El v. Miami Parking Authority, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment kent-v-dulles liberty liberty-interest natural-person right-to-travel Why was the Petitioner denied the Right to Travel and had to pay a fine?
20-1528 Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment Whether the court of appeals denies due process by refusing to use equitable tolling for a coram nobis petition based on actual innocence
20-7886 Shirl A. Stephen v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment Whether impeachment of a witness in a criminal trial under D.C. Code § 14-305 requires proof that the witness was actually sentenced for the prior con…
20-7890 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing standing Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due-process, due-process, fifth-amendment, first-step-act
20-7853 Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the trial court's errors in allowing modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements violated the defendant's Fifth a…
20-7857 Benjamin Ayala v. New York New York 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated
20-7829 Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7818 Stephon Lindsay v. Alabama Alabama 2021-04-22 Denied IFP and its progeny capital-trial consistent with Miranda v. Arizona expand the narrow public-safety-exception to Mira fifth-amendment involuntary-confession miranda-rights public-safety-exception criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-warnings public-safety-exception self-incrimination Can a court
20-7827 Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia Maine 2021-04-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe…
20-7806 Zacharias Christopher Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights discovery-manipulation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision finding reasonableness in the sentence imposed by the district court is contrary to the Fifth Amendment due proc…
20-1465 Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated to deny Petitioners a fair trial due to the bias of the presiding…
20-7786 Obidiah McCaskill v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-hearing fifth-amendment florida-statutes liberty sixth-amendment supervised-release unconstitutional Whether Florida Statutes and case law have deprived the petitioner of his liberty and a fair hearing, in violation of the 14th Amendment
20-1436 Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Brothers, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-04-14 Denied amendment-rights bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights court-documentation due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct postal-delay Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about information that they read in document sent by the Petitioner?
20-7679 Troy Allen Lucas, aka Troy Madron v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-rule-of-evidence-807 fifth-amendment forensic-evidence inconsistencies sixth-amendment third-party-guilt Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from denying, under Federal Rule of Evidence 807, the admission of testimony provided …
20-7694 Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act
20-7673 Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis…
20-1401 James Dennis v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-06 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor to …
20-7630 Scott Paul Madlock v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's decision sanctioned a departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc…
20-7637 Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing Can a state corrections arbitrarily change a defendant's prison sentence, nearly two decades later, even after having initially structured said court-…
20-7647 Gerti Muho v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-justice-system evidentiary-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment financial-disability pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment witness-subpoena Whether the deprivation of essential, singular witness testimony supporting an indigent defendant's theory of defense violates the right to compulsory…
20-1380 Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review deprived Petitioner of its vested property in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-7624 Jeremy Randolph Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition constitutional-rights due-process electronic-devices fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech internet-monitoring supervised-release united-states-v-holena Do the conditions of petitioner's supervised release violate the First Amendment and Due Process?
20-7584 In Re Terril Lee Graham 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-threats due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech public-defender Is California Penal Code 422, Criminal Threats, an invalid statute, prohibiting the exercise of 1st Amendment free speech rights?
20-1333 Roy Sheridan v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. Third Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judgment-on-partial-findings procedural-fairness united-states-v-james-daniel-good-real-property Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(c) violate the Due Process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-7510 In Re Leonard English 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fairness fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-discretion ninth-amendment Does any judge have the discretion to arbitrarily pick what relevant written & verified facts to consider and not apply them to governing laws for no …
20-7462 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-17 Denied IFP capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury denied when a juror believes the death penalty should be used in all cases of mu…
20-7468 Aaron Feazell v. United States District of Columbia 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-protection-order constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness notice variance variance-doctrine Whether there is sufficient evidence to satisfy Due Process and to convict the defendant for disobeying the hundred (100) yard provision of the order,…
20-7425 Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr…
20-1259 Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lujan-standard standing takings takings-clause Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims
20-7400 Drashawn Bartlett v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 double-jeopardy felony-murder fifth-amendment harris-precedent harris-v-oklahoma robbery sixth-circuit Can the offense of robbery be included as an element in a felony murder instruction and also presented separately in a jury instruction for robbery wi…
20-7379 Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida Florida 2021-03-09 Denied IFP conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges Can a criminal defendant be charged and convicted with multiple conspiracies for a single continuous conspiracy act without violating right to be free…
20-7391 Marcus A. Turner v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution and punishment for Felony-murder and Felonious-assault following an acquittal on Aggravat…
20-7356 Eron Michael Spivey v. Texas Texas 2021-03-08 Denied IFP custodial-interrogation exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause wong-sun wong-sun-doctrine Do authorities violate the Fourth Amendment when they involuntarily detain, in back of a patrol car for three hours, then at the police station for tw…
20-7325 Eric Todd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment government-misconduct witness-testimony Did the timing and method of the Government's disclosure violate Todd's Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial
20-7258 Toi Horn v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied IFP administrative-limitations bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-appeal due-process estate-claims fifth-amendment standing takings trust-property Whether the infant/minor's denial of their constitutional appeal be final from the District Court District of Maryland, Greenbelt division and the Cou…
20-7252 John Raymond Travis v. California California 2021-02-25 Denied IFP capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment jury-instructions mitigating-factors sixth-amendment Whether a trial court may preclude all counsel from referencing the word 'mercy' during argument to the jury in the sentencing phase of a capital tria…
20-7253 Nancy Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied IFP constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes applies to the elements of drug type and quantity
20-7257 Tito Knox v. Elizabeth G. Magera, U.S. Probation Officer, Individually and in Her Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing Whether the court erred in denying petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that the government's prosecution violated the Double …
20-1171 Michael Madison v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-25 Denied capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment mental-health mitigation self-incrimination When a capital defendant intends to present mitigation evidence from mental health experts who have interviewed him, but affirmatively represents to t…
20-1184 Kee Food, Inc., et al. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-25 Denied civil-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment meaningful-hearing property-rights state-seizure Whether the meaningful hearing aspect of due process is satisfied when a party faced with state seizure and retention of property under civil forfeitu…
20-7216 Antwan Seawood v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment Did the District Court abuse its discretion and violate Appellant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by sentencing him to a term of 240 months based u…
20-7214 Eric Kurt Patrick v. Florida Florida 2021-02-23 Denied IFP fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-strategy voir-dire Where the purpose of voir dire is to empanel an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, but an actual biased juror is not removed for cau…
20-7172 Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida Florida 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Was Constantin denied due process when the sentencing court relied upon uncharged conduct in imposing a sentence in excess of that recommended by the …
20-1127 Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia Virginia 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings Should Hurtado v. California be overruled?
20-7118 Terry Allen Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in overruling Petitioner's objection to the inclusion …
20-1095 Darius Wayne Haws v. Idaho Idaho 2021-02-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-agreement Whether a criminal defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary
20-1099 Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied 5th-amendment court-of-federal-claims due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings takings-clause tucker-act Whether the Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation 'takings' law
20-7088 Mohamad Jamal Khweis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fbi-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violations interrogation interrogation-process miranda-rights missouri-v-seibert self-incrimination Did the intentional utilization by the F.B.I. of a two step interrogation process, without taking remedial measures as required by Missouri v. Seibert…
20-7084 Mindy Hill v. Google LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights closed-captioning digital-content due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing terms-of-service youtube-terms-of-service Whether the court should resolve the issues regarding Google's YouTube terms of service, safety concerns, and violation of Ms. Hill's first amendment …
20-1079 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights federal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents?
20-7059 Glen Thomas Dotson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination witness-testimony Was the petitioner deprived of a fair trial due to prosecutorial misconduct?
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 …
20-7041 Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-7044 Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir…
20-1039 Elizabeth Aviles-Wynkoop v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-employment federal-regulations fifth-amendment whistleblower Can the Federal Government violate a Federal Employee's 5th Amendment right by depriving a federal employee of his or her property right (job) without…
20-1014 Organic Cannabis Foundation, LLC, dba Organicann Health Center v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied administrative-law due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment judicial-notice jurisdictional-deadline tax-law tax-procedure Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) filing deadline jurisdictional under current Supreme Court case law?
20-6977 Joshua Ryan Dorman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6914 Ryan Clark Petersen v. Alabama Alabama 2021-01-26 Denied IFP buchanan-v-kentucky capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-smith expert-testimony fifth-amendment mental-health-evaluation psychological-evaluation self-incrimination Where a court-appointed mental health expert assures a criminal defendant that the evidence gathered in his psychological evaluation will not be used …
20-6931 Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court may require a defendant to present his own evidence refuting a presentence investigation report's factual claims leading to a…
20-6940 Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing Whether the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides an opportunity for a full and fair litigation of an unconstitutional state law that is nev…
20-6942 Juan Jose Camarena v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment gang-affiliation liberty plain-error sentencing-conditions supervised-release vagueness Is this condition of supervised release a violation of the Fifth Amendment due process right against vague conditions of release and/or a greater depr…
20-6944 Jose Manuel Zavala-Marti v. United States First Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-act whether-zavla-made-a-substantial-showing-of-a-denial-of-his-right-to-due-process
20-991 Stevie L. England v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-standard miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona objective-inquiry right-to-counsel subjective-factors Whether the 'objective inquiry' required by Davis may be based on subjective factors
20-6925 Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury
20-6928 Timothy Ivey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination due-process fifth-amendment out-of-court-identification reliability revocation revocation-hearing supervised-release Does a district court violate a defendant's due process rights by relying solely on an uncorroborated, recanted, out-of-court identification to revoke…
20-6888 Christina Elizabeth Pandey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-937 Robert Andrews v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-01-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution evidence-discovery fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode-disclosure password-disclosure self-incrimination state-supreme-court testimonial-compulsion Does the Fifth Amendment protect against compelled disclosure of a memorized passcode?
20-928 National Coalition For Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (3) combat-roles constitutional-challenge equal-protection fifth-amendment gender-discrimination military-draft rostker-v-goldberg selective-service Whether the federal requirement that men but not women register for the Selective Service, authorized under 50 U.S.C. § 3802(a), violates the right to…
20-912 Abigail Ladd, et al. v. Jack Marchbanks Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation knick-v-township-of-scott mandamus property-rights takings takings-clause Whether Ohio's mandamus scheme provides its citizens with a reasonable, certain, and/or adequate procedure or process sufficient to meet the guarantee…
20-6776 Charod Becton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial pinkerton-doctrine sixth-amendment Should this Court abrogate the judicially established Pinkerton doctrine
20-6770 Lelis Ezequiel Treminio-Tobar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-court Whether the Fifth Amendment Due Process right to present a defense requires the trial court to instruct the jury that it has a duty to acquit any defe…
20-885 Next Energy, LLC v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources Illinois 2021-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment hydraulic-fracturing mineral-rights oil-and-gas permit-moratorium property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings shale-oil shale-oil-leases takings Whether an unauthorized moratorium on permits needed to drill wells, together with onerous regulations and procedures that exceeded the term of the le…
20-6711 Pat Dee Leatherman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the defendant's statement was clearly used against him in violation of the 5th Amendment
20-6713 Danielle Devona Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation Whether Section 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses - 'carry or use' and 'possession in furtherance of' - and whether both elements must be expl…
20-6715 Michael Adair Mankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6701 Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a third party has expectation of privacy in cell-phone data obtained without a warrant
20-6707 Cary Lee Peterson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judgment procedural-irregularity standing transcripts Whether the court erred in issuing an unpublished opinion without including the 'Bill of Costs' or 'Attorney's Fees' or 'Costs of Appellate Procedure'…
20-6708 Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the court of appeal should have granted COA where the district court employed a constitutionally impermissible standard in evaluating the volu…
20-6690 Randolph Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense
20-6691 Cesar Armenta Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment procedural-fairness sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Did the district court's failure to afford petitioner an opportunity to be heard prior to adjudicating him guilty of supervised release violations as …
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction
20-6669 Brian Zellner v. Georgia Georgia 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-provision criminal-charges criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment first-offender-statute state-prosecution substantive-criminal-charges Double Jeopardy Clause
20-6670 Janice Sue Taylor v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes fifth-amendment first-amendment jurisdiction title-26-usc Has the petitioner's constitutional rights been violated by the appellate court's denial of due process?
20-6679 Larry Dortley v. Florida Florida 2020-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights Whether the Equal Protection and Due Process of Law Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and the United S…
20-6633 Eduardo David Vargas v. California California 2020-12-15 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
20-802 Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law Are Pennsylvania state laws constitutional?
20-801 Frank DeLucia v. Greenbuild, LLC, et al. New York 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment subpoena witness-appearance Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United State Constitution, 5s Amendment and 14th Amendment to punish a party by dismissing his pro…
20-6611 John Paul Mullaney v. University of St. Thomas Minnesota 2020-12-11 Denied IFP academic-sanctions censorship civil-rights discovery discovery-rule due-process ferpa fifth-amendment Is the intent of FERPA to protect the privacy of student and faculty as a preliminary subsociety, not use 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(B)G&ii) in a punitiv…
20-6613 C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Whether the construction of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses o…
20-6583 Edgar Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea element of the offense
20-6585 Bernard Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Dismissed IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights Whether courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if the defendant's substantial rights were af…
20-6591 Jose Delores Vanegas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct remand whether-the-trial-court-abused-its-discretion
20-6557 Richard Cruz v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness after Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis
20-6566 Anilou Beltran Del Rio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-775 Clifford Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Whether a state court's arbitrary decision to deny a defendant the ability to present his self-defense case amounts to a denial of the fundamental con…
20-6511 Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Antonio Moraima, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, aka Alex v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether this Court should grant this petition because the First Circuit's judgment affirming the district court's judgment violates Mr. Lugo-Guerrero'…
20-6513 Calvin Teko Coston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-imprisonment revocation sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
20-6507 Darrell Berry, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreclosure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court Whether the Berrys' Fifth Amendment Rights to Due Process were Violated
20-742 Steven Bruce v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process false-and-misleading fifth-amendment medically-acceptable-indications medicare-part-d ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-section-504 Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sidestep issues under Medicare Part D by not looking behind a compendium's Medically Acceptable In…
20-6434 Julian Madero-Diaz, aka Hector Ramon Castillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 constitutional-punishment fifth-amendment jury-trial punishment-scheme sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether a judge's decision to revoke a person's supervised release and send him to prison subjects him to an unconstitutional punishment scheme under …
20-710 John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings Does Grove have a protected property interest under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil-rights-claim and takings-claim agains…
20-6371 Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements Double Jeopardy
20-691 Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell California 2020-11-18 Denied civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
20-6339 George B. Larsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP bad-faith-defense bank-fraud due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the district court's bank-fraud jury instructions that erroneously omitted a factually supported bad-faith defense violated the defendants' Fi…
20-6346 Demarcus D. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing Whether the RICO and drug conspiracy counts in the indictment are unconstitutionally vague, whether the evidence supports the crack cocaine distributi…
20-6354 Richard A. Poplawski v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fee-provisions fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act standing Can courts strategically exempt litigants from the law to thwart test cases?
20-6357 Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles California 2020-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality Can a for-profit law firm be contracted to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial under the Due Process clauses?
20-6335 Duane Allen Sikes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based on conduct, uncharged and unrelated to t…
20-6342 Pedro Gutierrez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment general-verdict judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-case special-verdict Whether a RICO 'Gang' Case Certified as Complex Should Require the Use of a Special Verdict Form Rather Than a General Verdict Form
20-6317 Robert Petty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Indiana Courts erred in denying Appellant effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing, violating the Fif…
20-6285 Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6292 Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-645 Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (13) 16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law Does Colorado's state-legal cannabis sales violate the Controlled Substances Act?
20-6262 Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
20-6254 Roberto Yoquigua Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidentiality criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process duress-defense fair-trial fifth-amendment pre-trial-disclosure sixth-amendment testimonial-confidentiality Whether and to what extent the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a defendant to keep all of the details of his duress confidential before trial, or wh…
20-6257 Finnis Davis, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records murder-evidence Whether the state presented sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Davis of attempted capital murder
20-6260 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-circuit equal-protection fifth-amendment flowers-v-mississippi foster-v-chatman juror-strikes jury-selection miller-el-v-dretke prosecutorial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the full context of the other evidence of discriminati…
20-6227 Cameron Battiste v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plain-error-review sixth-amendment Whether a defective indictment that omits an element of the charged offense deprives the defendant of Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights
20-6215 Abrahan Garcia-Morales, aka Abraham Garcia-Morales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment right-to-silence self-incrimination Whether the prosecutor's use of a defendant's 'partial silence' during a custodial interrogation violates the Fifth Amendment
20-591 Daniel Greer, Rabbi, et al. v. Eliyahu Mirlis Second Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-inference fifth-amendment privilege self-incrimination What factors determine whether an adverse inference may be drawn against a party to a civil action following the party's invocation of the Fifth Amend…
20-6188 Joshua Chiazor Ezeka v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning plain-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's custodial statements should be suppressed due to lack of Miranda warning
20-6189 Francisco Javier Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment base-offense-level constructive-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearm firearm-enhancement scienter sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment in this constructive poss…
20-6144 David Allen Kuntz v. California California 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure coercion confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights personal-autonomy psychological-evaluation trial-counsel Whether appellant's waiver of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary
20-546 Michigan v. Laricca Seminta Mathews Michigan 2020-10-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Miranda v. Arizona is satisfied when a suspect in custody is advised of the right to an attorney but not explicitly advised of the right to th…
20-6123 Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida Florida 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property Whether possession of an item that is one or more transactions removed from an alleged theft constitutes possession of stolen property
20-529 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights enforcement-scope fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review standing Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents?
20-6101 Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 3§583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6102 Dontayous Tonard Cameron v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment parole revocation-sentence sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment statutory-maximum supervised-release Is 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) unconstitutional as applied?
20-6066 Rodolfo Segura-Virgen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration judicial-review pro-se-waiver removal-order Whether courts evaluating a prior removal order in the context of a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry are required to apply the law as it is no…
20-513 Jan Rouven Fuechtener v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response Waived appeal-as-of-right appeals civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure merits-panel motions-panel Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when an appeal as of right is heard and disposed of by a motions panel, rather than …
20-6049 Isidoro Gonzalez-Ferretiz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment immigration judicial-review mendoza-lopez pro-se-alien waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a pro se alien's waiver of the right to appeal is 'considered and intelligent' under Mendoza-Lopez in the absence of an opportunity to dispute…
20-489 Pedro M. Bess v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-15 Denied convening-authority court-martial due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment military-justice racial-discrimination standing Whether 10 U.S.C. § 825 violates the Fifth Amendment
20-491 Sandy Perez Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2020-10-15 Denied capital-murder criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter texas-law Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar conviction for intentional injury to a child following acquittal for capital murder, but convict…
20-6012 Allen Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect discovery-violations due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment indictment-defects insufficient-evidence perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure Question not identified
20-5999 Sonya Porter v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuous-crime criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plea-bargaining prosecution welfare-fraud Where a state criminal rule allows for dismissal of a case on the merits rather than via conviction or acquittal, is this sufficient to trigger protec…
20-460 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-determination due-process fifth-amendment irs property-seizure tax-liability withholding-certificate Did the IRS deprive the petitioner of his Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process?
20-455 Daniel Carpenter v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-amendment post-indictment-delay post-verdict-delay pre-indictment-delay sentencing-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Government's prosecution of the Petitioner violated his Sixth Amendment right to a Speedy Trial and/or his Fifth Amendment right to Due Pr…
20-5922 Julia Hook v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-5939 Kadeem Burden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Relisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether a reviewing court may affirm a conviction under plain error review based on speculation about the defendant's knowledge of his prohibited stat…
20-438 Tatiana Reiter, et al. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-10-06 Denied affordable-housing constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment marital-property property-rights takings tenancy-by-entirety Whether a temporary, notwithstanding extended, absence by one spouse from a marital residence justifies a court ordered termination of a tenancy by th…
20-431 John L. Corrigan, Sr. v. Grant County, Washington, et al. Washington 2020-10-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte summary-judgment Was Corrigan's U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process violated?
20-432 S. O., et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-neglect civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process evidence fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment perjured-testimony perjury standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding…
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ…
20-5910 Robert Coleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation What constitutes relevant conduct?
20-5891 Mauricio Alvarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, is unconstitutionally vague
20-5894 Jorge Eduardo Nava v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-liability criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof unrelated-offense Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause require a heightened standard of proof to dramatically increase a criminal defendant's prison sentence f…
20-417 Sanjay Bhardwaj v. State Bar of California California 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment forgery new-trial new-trial-motion standing state-bar trial-transcripts Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent forgery after trial, for purpos…
20-413 Jozlyn Thomas v. James Scott Blevins California 2020-09-30 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment beneficiary-rights civil-procedure constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirements trust trust-administration Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments void a trial court order approving a trust account and distribution between trustee and beneficiary withou…
20-401 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine prejudice from a constructive amendment under Rule 52(b)?
20-403 Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California California 2020-09-28 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e) is unconstitutional
20-404 In Re John Masiz 2020-09-28 Denied 5th-amendment article-ii article-iii civil-rights consent-decree due-process fifth-amendment securities-law sua-sponte Whether the federal court exceeded its Article III authority by initiating a sua sponte investigation into a defendant's compliance with a consent dec…
20-5795 Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-24 Denied IFP discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
20-368 Eric Christopher Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-counsel constructive-possession contraband due-process fifth-amendment intent physical-evidence presentence-report residence Does constructive possession violate due process?
20-5770 David A. Bridgewater v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen…
20-5752 Christopher Aundre Faulkner, aka Christopher A. Faulkner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-obligations due-process fifth-amendment government-diligence government-misconduct pretrial-detention Whether a prolonged length of pretrial detention violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the government has failed to exercise …
20-350 Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who…
20-5723 Demetrius Calhoun v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
20-335 Maryland Reclamation Associates, Inc. v. Harford County, Maryland Maryland 2020-09-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-variance due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights takings-clause Whether an administrative variance decision precludes a subsequent independent Takings Clause lawsuit
20-5689 Orlando Bell v. United States District of Columbia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a defendant's sentence on conduct for which the jury acquitted the defenda…
20-5693 In Re Terron Garhard Dizzley 2020-09-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hung-jury jury mistrial trial-procedure unanimous-verdict Whether the judges ruling that the jury's failure to reach a unanimous decision was not a failure on the jury's part was acquittal and the constitutio…
20-323 John S. Barth v. City of Peabody, Massachusetts First Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment municipal-ordinance property property-rights regulatory-taking takings Did municipal denial of permission to rebuild a home effect a taking of private property, where an ex post facto ordinance prohibited all other econom…
20-5669 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-restitution equity-practice fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-verdict seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Apprendi applies to a mandatory criminal restitution order, and whether the Seventh Amendment requires a restitution order to comply with trad…
20-303 United States v. Jose Luis Vaello Madero First Circuit 2020-09-09 Judgment Issued Amici (31)Relisted (6) civil-rights congressional-authority due-process equal-protection federal-benefits fifth-amendment puerto-rico statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income territorial-rights Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
20-5622 Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment Whether the court of appeals erred in terminating the inquiry into whether the petitioner met the requirements for a writ of certiorari
20-265 Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Texas 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit common law courts from eliminating property ownership by changing or disregarding their common la…
20-5565 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-interference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-order fifth-amendment first-amendment investigation-misconduct national-security standing Whether this case is frivolous
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
20-248 Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Charles Koch, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Whether the lower courts deprived the petitioner of due process rights by failing to provide an opportunity to be heard, properly weigh the evidence, …
20-5540 Ugunda Giovanni Sanders v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charge constructive-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct Did the Government violate Sanders's rights under the Fifth Amendment to have a grand jury consider the charge and to have the Government honor its im…
20-5512 James L. Miller v. Scott S. Harris, Clerk, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
20-5531 Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional
20-5532 Larry Golden v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-review fifth-amendment government-taking government-use implied-in-fact-contract intellectual-property just-compensation takings Has the Government taken private property under the Fifth Amendment Clause of the U.S. Constitution for the benefit of the public without paying just …
20-5505 Keith O. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health Whether a defendant can be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of the defendant's competency has been raised and recognized by…
20-5481 Fredrick Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment mens-rea prior-acts sixth-amendment victim-witness-evidence Were the Petitioner's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments infringed?
20-5484 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. J. C. Smith, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fifth-amendment parole parole-revocation retaliation supervisory-liability Whether Petitioner's claims that his parole was revoked due to invoking his Fifth Amendment Right to refuse to incriminate himself could establish Sup…
20-5488 Franklin Rafael Lopez Toala v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-Amendment appellate-record due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment Gardner-v-Florida judicial-procedure presentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit may consider new materials not presented to the sentencing court
20-203 LaDonna Degan, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Fifth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights dallas-pension-statute federal-circuit-split fifth-amendment legislative-amendment property-interest retirement-funds takings-clause Whether a retiree's ownership interest in earned and accrued retirement funds is a cognizable property interest for purposes of a Fifth Amendment Taki…
20-5415 Gillman Roddy Long, aka Dave Gillman Long v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appeal-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sixth-amendment Does an objection to the government's argument that a defendant 'had not denied the accusations against him' violate the Fifth Amendment?
20-180 Matthew William George v. Virginia Virginia 2020-08-18 Denied 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech post-commitment probation-restrictions Does a Virginia Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's post commitment First Amendment Rights?
20-181 Daniel L. Miles v. Kristine Svinicki, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights class-action class-certification discriminatory-hiring due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment involuntary-servitude thirteenth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit panel majority's decision conflicts with the Thirteenth and Fifth Amendments
20-5377 Brandon Ray Buckles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prisoner fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is a district court's summary denial of a federal prisoner's § 2255 motion without an evidentiary hearing improper when the prisoner alleges ineffecti…
20-5381 Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge First Amendment right to petition Florida's Judicial Qualification Commission, the government, in writing, for a redress of grievances about state cou…
20-5326 Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment
20-5335 Dustin Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice (\'actual\' methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance containing …
20-5294 Byron Becton v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive the petitioner of a fair trial that violated petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against self-i…
20-5301 David L. Shanks, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fifth-amendment judicial-procedure sixth-amendment trial-commencement trial-in-absentia Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43 and a criminal defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights are violated
20-5281 Steven Robinson, aka Michael Moore v. United States District of Columbia 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech self-incrimination sixth-amendment standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
20-5287 In Re Eddie Allen Jackson 2020-08-06 Denied IFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-modification judicial-error Whether the district court constructively amended the indictment in petitioner's case and if so does it rise to a Fifth Amendment violation?
20-107 Cedar Point Nursery, et al. v. Victoria Hassid, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (40)Relisted (2) agricultural agricultural-access civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment labor-regulation labor-relations property property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the uncompensated appropriation of an easement that is limited in time effects a per se physical taking under the Fifth Amendment
20-5203 Derrick Ivan Jim v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-country major-crimes-act native-american-rights united-states-v-antelope Whether United States v. Antelope, 430 U.S. 641 (1977), should be overruled
20-80 Diane S. Blodgett, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights contract-rights due-process federal-trade-commission fifth-amendment ftc-act pleading-stage rule-60(b) standing takings takings-clause Did the court of appeals err in this FTC-Act-Section-13(b) case in failing to apply Rule-60(b) at the pleading-stage
20-71 Stephen P. Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and due process…
20-5175 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-07-24 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a second criminal prosecution for the same offense after the first prosecution was dismissed without prej…
20-66 G&M Realty L.P., et al. v. Maria Castillo, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment graffiti-art recognized-stature statutory-damages vara visual-artists-rights-act Did the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment permit the district court to impose liability against a property owner under the 'recognized stature…
20-61 Joan Orie Melvin v. Stephen D. Zappala, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-crimes workplace-rule workplace-rules Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are violated when charged with state crimes based on alleged deviation from an internal workplace rule ra…
20-5113 Jeremias Robertson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment guideline-sentencing self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-deliberations silence Whether a sentencing court's focus on a defendant's silence during sentencing deliberations violates the constitutional right against self-incriminati…
20-5121 Brayan Gutierrez-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether and to what extent a mistranslated Miranda warning, which does not reasonably convey the right to appointed counsel during interrogation, fail…
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-20 Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
20-12 Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest Did the Trial Court improperly deny the Petitioner due process of law?
20-5039 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment habeas-corpus personal-liberty Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
19-8928 Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 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…
19-8910 Trinity Rolando Cabezas-Montano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment miranda-rights post-arrest-statement pre-miranda-statement self-incrimination Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution when they use a Defendant's pre-Miranda, post-arrest statements…
19-8874 Robert Warren Scully v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing fact-finding fifth-amendment jury-trial restitution restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a restitution order imposed as part of a federal criminal sentence and based on fact-findings made by the district court, rather than the jury…
19-1446 Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation Does the 'right for the wrong reason' doctrine allow federal appellate courts to violate due process?
19-1438 George Abernathy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech property-forfeiture standing summary-judgment takings Whether the Court has abandoned the principle that 'one constitutional right should not have to be surrendered in order to assert another'
19-1430 Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Amendment provides a remedy for ethics violations
19-8779 Nader Salem Elhuzayel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process electronic-surveillance ex-parte-proceedings ex-parte-review fifth-amendment fisa in-camera-review sixth-amendment Whether the district court's in camera, ex parte review of the materials, application, and surveillance order without permitting disclosure or partici…
19-8782 Lisa Graham v. Alabama Alabama 2020-06-22 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment functional-equivalent-interrogation marital-communications-privilege miranda-warnings pereira-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy wolfle-v-united-states Whether the marital communications privilege can be defeated by the 'reasonable expectation of privacy' doctrine
19-8738 Charles Clark v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-06-18 Denied IFP competent-jurisdiction constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment state-trial-court subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Due Process Clause violated where the State court was without subject-matter-jurisdiction to pronounc…
19-1372 Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts circumvented the standard of review for issuing a certificate of appealability
19-1362 Jason Laut v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights?
19-8675 Issac Oral Chandler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Should this Court grant review to determine whether the mandatory provision for revocation of supervised release set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) viol…
19-8656 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated
19-8644 Michael L. King v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-bias When a court shows partiality and bias by adopting nearly verbatim the prevailing party's brief as its order or opinion, particularly in capital cases…
19-8637 Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule the 'legislative override' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-8602 Eugene Washington v. Santa Rita Jail Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied IFP case-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-order due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing supreme-court-procedure supreme-court-procedures Was the District Court following proper Supreme Court procedures and case law when they issued their final order on August 7th, 2019 in violation of P…
19-8579 Jonathan Frank Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining voluntary-plea Does an appeal waiver clause bar a criminal defendant from later appealing their conviction on the ground that the guilty plea was not knowing and vol…
19-8540 Antwoyn Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law
19-8525 Julio Gabriel Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances conversion criminal-defendant drug-conversion due-process fifth-amendment lsd self-incrimination sentencing-guidelines Whether a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are implicated by the conversion required by U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1
19-8527 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment affidavit constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment probable-cause waiver Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when an unverified Complaint and Information is used in lieu of a probable cause hearing
19-8515 Michael Munday v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a 12-year upward departure sentence that violates due-process, double-jeopardy, reaso…
19-1293 Michael Ludwikowski v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence for conduct underlying a count on whic…
19-8442 Erica J. Walker v. Florida Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation Was the petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and due process violated?
19-8429 Tariq Maqbool v. Marcus O. Hicks, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance claim violated constitutional rights
19-8432 Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California California 2020-05-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices Whether the 4th and 8th Amendment protections, as incorporated by the 14th Amendment, were violated by the conditions of confinement in California sta…
19-8433 Anthony Paul John v. Florida Florida 2020-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court
19-8411 Charles Burton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Whether mailing a verdict to a criminal defendant through his counsel in violation of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Federal Criminal Rule o…
19-8400 Roy Allen Nichols v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process
19-1265 Friends of Danny DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-05-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) assembly constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech police-powers takings Whether the Order exceeded the Governor's permissible scope of his police powers and as such violated Petitioners' rights guaranteed by the U.S. Const…
19-1254 Pennsylvania v. Joseph J. Davis Pennsylvania 2020-04-29 Denied Amici (1) 5th-amendment civil-rights electronic-devices encryption fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion search-warrant self-incrimination Does the foregone conclusion exception to the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination apply to the compelled production of passwords to e…
19-8367 Brandon Blake Coleman v. Texas Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP adjudication constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment merits-review standing Whether the State of Texas has violated Petitioner's right to Due Process protections under the Fifth & Fourteenth amendments, U.S. Constitution
19-8342 Dearieus Duheart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence?
19-1244 Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process
19-8334 James Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation totality-of-circumstances If a statement by the presiding officer that the defendant is not 'under arrest' precludes a finding of custody despite the totality of the circumstan…
19-8338 Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8321 Charlie Ray Carney v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-courts Whether a state prisoner's right to due process requires the state trial court to ensure correct and accurate information is relied upon when sentenci…
19-1228 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and on alternative grounds first raised by the respondents at or…
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition Whether the fact that the contempt charge was brought in response to Brian Clark's petition for a writ of prohibition required Judge Williams to recus…
19-8286 Edward Tiger v. Florida Florida 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac…
19-8289 Jose Yeyille v. Cecilia M. Altonaga, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-review due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement ex…
19-8278 In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence 2020-04-16 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment,…
19-8267 Jon Cascella v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confidential-informant constitutional-error due-process fifth-amendment independent-inquiry testimony uniform-practice witness-testimony Whether permitting a blanket claim of Fifth Amendment privilege and total exclusion of a confidential informant's testimony without independent inquir…
19-8237 Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review?
19-8229 Donnie L. Harris, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-04-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Does Oklahoma's strict application of its statutory requirement that all newly discovered evidence in capital cases must be presented within one year …
19-1204 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent-law patent-law-retroactivity patent-office retroactive-application retroactivity takings Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review to patents that were applied for before the America Invents Act violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-8226 Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition Whether federal constitutional claims were fairly presented under federal law
19-8206 Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio Ohio 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment Should state courts be allowed to hide behind procedural bars when the record indicates the accused was denied constitutional rights?
19-8180 M. H. v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights compulsion constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights parental-rights self-incrimination waiver What are the present-day parameters to any assertion of privilege pursuant to the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution (re: compulsion and …
19-1195 Adalberto Frickson Palacios-Solis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied case-in-chief criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights pre-miranda-silence self-incrimination Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause when it uses a criminal defendant's post-arrest, pre-Miranda silence …
19-1193 Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in Jn re Ruffalo, fail to…
19-8160 Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida Florida 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation Did the Florida trial court violate the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against double jeopardy?
19-8167 Charles Talbert v. Blanche Carney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment just-compensation patent takings-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not require th…
19-8111 Todd James Broxmeyer v. L. Ray Ormond, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Is the use of the preponderance of evidence standard to enhance at sentencing deemed unconstitutional when the presumption of innocence is restored, i…
19-8120 Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest Was it unreasonable to be seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive the Petitioner of his Fourteenth…
19-8125 Wendell Ray Thomas v. California California 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Defense Counsel Craig Wormley's Mental Health Issues Had An Adverse Effect & Influence on the Outcome of the Trial
19-8126 Garry Wayne Wilson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-03-27 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-law state-prosecution treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether the State of Oklahoma has jurisdiction to prosecute a Cherokee Indian whose alleged crime of murder occurred within the historic and treaty-se…
19-1175 John Fritz, et ux. v. Washoe County, Nevada Nevada 2020-03-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived economic-impact economic-impairment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-regulation loretto-v-teleprompter physical-invasion physical-taking property-rights regulatory-takings takings To constitute a taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, must a physical invasion also destroy or substantially impair an owner's economicall…
19-8099 Brandon Perry Smith v. Utah Utah 2020-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment heightened-clarity miranda-rights sixth-amendment state-courts suspect-comprehension waiver-standard Have the Utah courts adopted a rule of law which, in applying the 'heightened clarity' standard as expanded by Berghuis v. Thompkins, dispensed with a…
19-8062 Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8072 Saul Cervantes v. M. D. Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus meaningful-review schlup-standard Whether petitioner established actual innocence to overcome the untimeliness of his habeas corpus petition
19-8078 Brandon L. Banks v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-safeguards counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied due process of law, a fair trial by an impartial jury, and equal protection of the laws
19-8082 Altius Willix v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment multiplicious-charges sixth-amendment structural-error Is an indictment considered duplicitous or multiplicious when it charges 2 counts occurring out of the same sequence or events that led to one episode…
19-8049 Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In…
19-8051 Jack Benjamin Hessiani v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-defect jurisdictional-challenge mens-rea sixth-amendment Whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential element of the offense
19-1150 Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su…
19-8035 Manuel de Jesus Valencia v. California California 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-extraction constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation edwards edwards-rule fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement-deception miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination undercover-operations Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a deceptive ploy in which uniformed and undercover officers work together to extract a confession f…
19-1134 Lonny E. Baley, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (6) endangered-species-act federal-agency federal-reserved-water-rights fifth-amendment mccarran-amendment reclamation-act state-law state-water-law tribal-rights water-rights Whether federal agency regulatory action under the Endangered Species Act can constitute the adjudication and administration of water rights for triba…
19-1123 Leo Lech, et al. v. Chief John A. Jackson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Amici (3) 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation police-power property-rights takings Whether there is a categorical exception to the Just Compensation Clause when the government takes property while acting pursuant to its police power?
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does the Fourth Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein?
19-7944 In Re Steven Beebe 2020-03-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-order double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,united-states-v-di fifth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-developments legal-precedent probation probation-condition publish-opinion united-states-v-dixon Whether this Court should issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus
19-7960 Reginald Edward Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment prejudicial-evidence prison-garb shackles Is displaying a defendant shackled, handcuffed, in prison garb prejudicial?
19-7920 Iverylee Arashella Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unsworn-testimony Was Johnson's due process and Sixth Amendment confrontation clause protections violated by allowing Powell's unsworn testimony to be presented to the …
19-7931 Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the defendant's sentence by concluding there was no unconstitutional motive for the government's failure …
19-7904 Jason Bonds v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph Polygraph-Examination Right-to-Remain-Silent right-to-silence self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release requiring a defendant to participate in sex offender treatment that may include polygraph examinations viola…
19-7862 Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing Whether the execution of a defendant with intellectual disability that arose after age 18 violates the Eighth and Fifth Amendments
19-7834 Travis Soto v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure federal-courts fifth-amendment finality plea-bargaining constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-courts fifth-amendment finality jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause attaches to charges dismissed during a negotiated plea agreement
19-1074 Celgene Corporation v. Laura A. Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-review america-invents-act fifth-amendment inter-partes-review lucas-test patent-rights patent-rights-takings patent-trial-and-appeal-board patents penn-central-test property-rights takings takings-clause Whether retroactive application of inter partes review to patents issued before passage of the America Invents Act violates the Takings Clause of the …
19-1075 Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review
19-7769 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation Whether the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a fair trial was violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and lack…
19-7752 Daniel Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custody due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona pre-miranda-questioning public-safety-exception self-incrimination Whether Mr. Ochoa's Fifth Amendment rights were violated
19-7759 Lyarron T. Emers v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentence-investigation right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-discretion Question not identified
19-7733 Gustavo Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co…
19-7734 Andre Dennis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Did counsel render ineffective assistance by failing to seek suppression of Mr. Dennis' statements to police because he was not re-Mirandized followin…
19-7662 Juan Orellana v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-violation admissibility-of-statement criminal-procedure criminal-trial custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment obstruction right-to-counsel unambiguous-request Whether Orellana's Fifth Amendment right to counsel was violated
19-7684 Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7689 Nicholas Todd Sutton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-18 Denied IFP capital-punishment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactivity vagueness 5th-amendment capital-punishment due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-united-states retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Tennessee's facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance provided fair notice as required under Johnson v. United States and t…
19-7696 In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton 2020-02-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury Whether the Court should exercise its authority to issue an original writ of habeas corpus and hold that Mr. Sutton's conviction and death sentence sh…
19-7649 Socorro Susan Caro v. California California 2020-02-12 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
19-7650 D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights Whether the State violated the Due Process Clause by failing to provide a court-ordered domestic violence/anger management evaluation and treatment to…
19-7638 Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits Can a court count a defendant's constitutionally-protected-conduct against the defendant when determining whether the defendant qualifies for a 2-poin…
19-991 Samson Primm v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture forfeiture-case fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing suppression-hearing Whether one who has the requisite standing to move to suppress based on contentions, which if validated show his Fourth Amendment rights were violated…
19-7547 Phillip Boyd Cashion v. Texas Texas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure Should the Petitioner's trial structure have been free from the fundamental unfairness of having the prosecutor tell the jury on two occasions that 'y…
19-970 Retail Ready Career Center, Inc. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Amici (1) 5th-amendment civil-forfeiture constitutional-counterclaims due-process fifth-amendment in-rem in-rem-proceeding seizure-of-funds sovereign-immunity Does the United States have complete immunity from constitutional counterclaims asserted in an in rem civil forfeiture case initiated by the United St…
19-948 Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-01-29 Denied civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances?
19-7450 George Maurice Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release witness-testimony Whether the district court erred by allowing testimony at the revocation hearing that violated Mr. Steele's Fifth Amendment due process right to confr…
19-7473 Milon Jarr Brown v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-29 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights discretion due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-bias photographic-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment Was the petitioner denied a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense?
19-7429 Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
19-7433 Anthony Russell Wilson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-sentencing fifth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether the Fifth Amendment's protection against double jeopardy is violated when a defendant is prosecuted and punished for a firearm possession offe…
19-7435 In Re Robert N. Brooks 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-clause fdic-insured fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment indictment-clause notice-clause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-a-manifest-miscarriage-of-justice-occurred
19-7396 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim(s) …
19-7408 Daniel Jay Bowman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-prosecution parallel-construction standing Whether the Government's use of 'Parallel Construction' violates 4th-and-5th-amendment-rights
19-7416 James P. Griffin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w Whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying a continuance due to medical problems
19-7390 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that the defen…
19-7379 Lee Samuel Capers v. California California 2020-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior…
19-7323 Leo Stoller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that knowingly making a false statement under penalty of perjury in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding violates …
19-7336 Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal judge from imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the judge by a …
19-7278 Terrance Cobb v. Florida Florida 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether Mr. Cobb's right to due-process was violated by the Florida courts in denying him post-conviction-relief based on newly-discovered-evidence
19-7290 Tamarkqua Garland v. New York New York 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial Defendant's speedy trial rights violated
19-7309 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (5)IFP capital-punishment chambers-exception chambers-v-mississippi codefendant-confession due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence innocence parole third-party-confession Was the Florida Supreme Court's analysis of Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), employing a factor-based approach that has been embraced by …
19-874 William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. Louisiana 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26 Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital recordin…
19-877 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability on fundamental Fifth and Sixth Amendment violations?
19-7283 Fairly W. Earls v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard
19-7254 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-01-13 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-trial martial-law military-justice sixth-amendment Whether the absence of a grand jury indictment violates due process and the right to a jury trial under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-7242 Bryan Whitehead v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 5th-amendment conviction conviction-and-sentence crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment jury-determination residual-clause sentence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Petitioner was denied his Fifth Amendment right to due process of law by virtue of his conviction and sentence under the residual clause o…
19-7218 Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay whether-dying-declaration-exception-overrides-crawford-v-washington
19-7169 Daniel Eric Cobble v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-value due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation patent physical-appropriation public-use standing takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
19-7186 James R. Young v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bivens bivens-claim civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-review fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis inmate-rights property property-theft standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abuse Petitioner's 5th Amendment due-process right to be heard on his Bivens claim on appeal by summarily di…
19-7151 Erick David Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7139 Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation Whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process clause
19-7128 Mojisola Popoola v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment digital-evidence encrypted-devices encryption fifth-amendment miranda-warnings police-custody search-and-seizure self-incrimination standing suppression testimonial-conduct testimonial-evidence Whether the physical act of a person in police custody responding to a request to enter her passcode to unlock an encrypted cellphone is testimonial c…
19-7086 Walter Daniel Prezioso v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment Whether reliance on acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
19-7089 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7070 Gary R. Tomey, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-instructions material-variance self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether a constructive amendment and/or material variance of the indictment occurs when a court instructs the jury for the first time — during its del…
19-812 Charles T. Marshall v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment right-to-counsel self-incrimination summary-judgment Whether a civil defendant invoking the privilege against self-incrimination in his pleadings and discovery responses is unconstitutionally penalized
19-813 Loring Edwin Justice v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment professional-conduct quasi-criminal self-incrimination Whether Tennessee violated the self-incrimination clause when it forced Justice to testify or suffer adverse inferences costing him his Tennessee law …
19-7057 Johnny L. Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 'death results' enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm…
19-6971 Comfort Delando Roberts v. Texas Texas 2019-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-7001 Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, aka Haji Bagchagul v. United States District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied IFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-and-service-act racial-bias racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant can be denied time to inspect jury records where the jury office's policy prohibited earlier observation of the venire or…
19-6973 Taiwan Wiggins, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure Where a DEA agent stops two air travelers, who had been cleared, to board their flights, and takes from them (in a warrantless seizure) a sum of money…
19-6975 Jason Lee Bennett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co…
19-6957 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida 2019-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the trial/lower court create a manifest injustice when it allowed the petitioner to plea to charges that violated double-jeopardy laws, when the t…
19-6960 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction Does an inaccurate Jury Instruction on the content of the indictment violate due process of law?
19-764 Mark I. Sokolow, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-16 GVR Amici (3) anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-act-1992 anti-terrorism-clarification-act-2018 congress due-process fifth-amendment international-terrorism national-security palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism united-states-citizen Whether the PLO and PA consented to personal jurisdiction when they chose to maintain facilities within the United States after the date specified in …
19-6909 Efrain J. Rosa v. R. L. Rhodes, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation conviction-reversal criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Has the government's suppression of exculpatory evidence violated due process under the Fifth Amendment?
19-6914 Levi Rockefeller v. California California 2019-12-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights collusion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-procedure Did the court err by failing to inquire, explore, and/or avoid potential conflicts of interest by creating a scenario equivalent to collusion or couns…
19-6916 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v…
19-6917 In Re Sherri Jefferson 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination Whether the order of disbarment should be reversed, remanded, or vacated and set aside for violation of the Due Process and Self-Incrimination Clause …
19-741 Estate of Esther Klieman, By and Through Its Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. v. Palestinian Authority, aka Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-11 GVR anti-terrorism-act civil-liability civil-litigation congress-power congressional-intent criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment foreign-sovereign Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment
19-6894 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP ashe-v-swenson blockburger-v-united-states brown-v-ohio compounding-charges constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment pro-se-appellant successive-prosecution Whether State prosecuting an accused under pretense of successive prosecution based upon temporally distinct conduct from prior prosecution, and compo…
19-6876 Mauricio Aguirre, aka Mauricio Aguirre-Orcutt, aka Peter Holston-Aguirre, aka Peter Holston, aka Miller Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether a federal defendant may suffer additional imprisonment on the basis of facts that have never been placed in an indictment, nor proven to a jur…
19-723 Oliver Lee White v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment incompetence incompetency liberty-interest sexually-dangerous sexually-violent-conduct Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause forbids the civil-commitment trial of an incompetent person whose prior conduct is disputed
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state district-court judge violated the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges and immunities clause as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendm…
19-6801 Marcos Palomar v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights police-advisement police-interrogation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a Miranda v. Arizona 384 U.S. 436 (1966) rights advisal is invalid if police indicate the right to appointed counsel prior to questioning is d…
19-6821 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. Georgia 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments …
19-692 Sunil Deo v. California California 2019-12-02 Denied Amici (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-law fifth-amendment penal-code property-rights state-law takings takings-clause Does California's application of Penal Code section 115 to deprive lienholders of their property constitute an uncompensated taking in violation of th…
19-6778 Michael Daemon Blackburn v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Is a written-only advisement of Miranda rights -without time or silence to read it - a sufficient advisal allowing a knowing, intelligent and voluntar…
19-6760 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment indictment indictment-modification polygamy polygamy-charge Whether a constructive amendment occurred at trial when the court found defendant guilty of multiple marriages, a charge not on the indictment, and wh…
19-6691 Robert H. Smith v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-review sixth-amendment state-court-conflict strickland-standard Whether the Indiana Supreme Court/Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with other decisions previously made in the United States Suprem…
19-6692 Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release Whether the revocation of supervised release and imposition of additional imprisonment for a violation of the conditions of supervised release violate…
19-6699 Andrew McWhorter v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal amended-charges charging-information criminal-procedure deadly-weapon double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment barred the State of Indiana from 'retrying' Petitioner
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…
19-624 Mark Graf, et al. v. Hyung Seok Koh, et ux. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones qualified-immunity seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's renouncement of jurisdiction over Petitioners' interlocutory appeal misapplied Johnson v. Jones
19-6644 Darrell Freeze v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2?
19-6641 Michael Anthony Clayton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Must an Officer Tell a Criminal Suspect in Custody That He Has the Right to Have an Attorney Present During the Interview, in Order to Use the Suspect…
19-6629 Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-charges driver's-license drivers-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement parking-tickets suspension Whether the District of Columbia violated Petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-607 Woodcrest Homes, Inc. v. Carousel Farms Metropolitan District Colorado 2019-11-12 Denied Amici (1) 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking private-benefit property-rights public-use takings Is the Fifth Amendment's restriction of eminent domain to 'public use[s]' satisfied even if a condemnation is undertaken 'for the purpose of conferrin…
19-6574 Marco Gonzalez v. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. California 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure res-judicata standing vexatious-litigant Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based on…
19-6560 Matthew Joseph Lucio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP consideration contract-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus plea-agreement united-states-court-of-appeals Whether Mr. Lucio's plea agreement which extracted his guilty plea lacks consideration, and if so, whether his guilty plea violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-6561 Maurice D. Joseph v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-interrogation right-to-privacy secret-recording self-incrimination unlawful-interrogation warrantless-recording Whether a detective's interrogation of a suspect at the suspect's home and secret recording of the suspect without consent, court authorization, or a …
19-6503 Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje…
19-573 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense Did the Eleventh Circuit improperly determine that the Prosecution's pattern of deliberate and egregious improper comments in closing arguments did no…
19-6463 Michael A. Albert v. New York New York 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment outrageous-conduct police-agent right-to-present-defense sexual-inducement voluntariness Whether the promise and delivery of sex by a police agent is sufficient inducement to trigger 5th and/or 14th Amendment protections
19-6444 Jermaine D. Harris v. Stephen T. Moyer, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aiding-and-abetting appeal cell-phone-technology cell-tower-testimony criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legally-inconsistent-verdicts sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective f…
19-6445 Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis or structural error
19-554 50 Murray Street Acquisition LLC v. John Kuzmich, et al. New York 2019-10-30 Denied Amici (2) due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-takings lower-manhattan-revitalization-plan property-rights rent-stabilization section-421-g takings-clause Whether courts can eliminate established property rights without just compensation
19-6418 Wayne Neville Morris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process fatal-variance fifth-amendment modified-categorical-approach rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment Whether a conviction based on an erroneous legal theory can be sustained when the petitioner presents clear and convincing evidence that the accused, …
19-6390 Edward L. Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial miranda-rights self-incrimination sixth-amendment Was the Petitioner's right to due process and freedom from self-incrimination violated?
19-6349 Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decisions below conflict with the decisions of other U.S. circuit courts of appeals and state appellate courts, and misapply this court's dec…
19-6315 John David Stahlman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) Did the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violate the petitioner's Fif…
19-6317 In Re D'Angelo Hildan Shipman 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-sentence legal-sentence mandate Why am I still in prison? I filed a federal habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Divis…
19-6341 Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to…
19-6303 Jeffrey Jason Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process evidence fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the lower Courts erred in allowing multiple hearsay statements of five alleged witnesses and other non-testifying witnesses whom did not testi…
19-498 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution fifth-amendment habeas-corpus immediate-release sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability
19-6278 Kenneth Lyle Spangle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 arbitrary-and-capricious bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence due-process federal-bank-robbery fifth-amendment meaningful-review Whether the Circuit's decision to deny a certificate of appealability without any analysis or explanation for its decision at all was so arbitrary and…
19-6265 Alex Knight v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a …
19-6275 Dennis Jones v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP act-of-production compelled-decryption due-process exception fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion self-incrimination testimonial-evidence Does the Fifth Amendment's act of production doctrine apply to compelled decryption? If so, what does the foregone conclusion exception to the act of …
19-6202 Manuel Rodriguez-Santana v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit constitutional-procedure criminal-complaint criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment magistrate magistrate-review probable-cause Whether the District Court Violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendment; Federal Rule Criminal Procedure
19-6175 K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau California 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth A…
19-6188 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment grand-jury-indictment-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to assume interlocutory appellate jurisdiction over petitioner's Fifth Amendment grand-jur…
19-6191 K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Montana 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process fifth-amendment freedom-of-religion parental-rights religious-discrimination self-incrimination state-action state-overreach Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment?
19-6154 Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as 'all data/software' pertaining to the crimes is off…
19-6123 Castor Quintaires Gonzales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment mandate-recall presumption-of-innocence structural-error Does the Fifth Amendment compel a court of appeals to remedy its inadvertent affirmance of unrecognized structural error that was apparent from the re…
19-6146 Hector Rosario-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process due-process,sixth-amendment,fifth-amendment,ineffe fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Fifth and Six Amendment Rigths were violated by plain error made in calculating petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways …
19-447 Keith Puntenney, et al. v. Iowa Utilities Board, et al. Iowa 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived common-carrier eminent-domain fifth-amendment incidental-benefits kelo-precedent kelo-v-city-of-new-london public-purpose public-use takings takings-clause Does a state's exercise of eminent domain satisfy the 'public use' requirement of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause if the only benefits experience…
19-427 Durant Brockett, et al. v. Matthew E. Orso, as Receiver for REX Venture Group, LLC, dba ZeekRewards.com Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived absent-defendants adequate-representation circuit-court civil-procedure class-action defendant-class due-process error-correction fifth-amendment hansberry-v-lee Is the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment violated by the entry of a final judgment against a class of absent defendants, if the absent defenda…
19-6107 Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges?
19-6118 Aaron Brent v. Ashley Workman Michigan 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review law-enforcement-database mootness personal-protection-order takings Whether Michigan's personal protection order statute unconstitutionally deprives the accused of meaningful due process
19-6072 Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1) and 22.011(a)(2) unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment right to Due Process?
19-411 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (8) brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment materiality self-incrimination suppressed-evidence witness-testimony When assessing under the Brady materiality standard whether 'disclosure of the suppressed evidence to competent counsel would have made a different re…
19-388 Mimi Korman v. Julio Iglesias Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied where a district court dismisses the action on th civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-estoppel pleading-stage pleadings property-rights standing takings Is a civil plaintiff deprived of property without due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment where a district court dismisses the action on …
19-6039 Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied IFP congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vargas - an Ecuadorian national with no ties to the United States - for trafficking controlled substances in internatio…
19-6027 Jordan Combs v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment possession sentencing Whether Jordan Combs' due process rights under the Fifth Amendment were violated when the district court sentenced him to 120 months on possession of …
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-364 Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment Does the Fifth Amendment grand jury right apply to state indictments via the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-366 Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercis…
19-5967 Cameron Thomas v. Nevada Nevada 2019-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment trial-court-narrative Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated when…
19-5977 Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California California 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
19-5927 Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
19-5933 Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o…
19-5921 Lisa M. Montgomery v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Amici (2)IFP attorney-client-relationship capital-case capital-trial due-process fifth-amendment in-chambers learned-counsel notice-requirement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment termination-of-counsel In a federal capital trial case, may a federal district court judge, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, terminate the appointment of lear…
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state reco…
19-5892 Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. Illinois 2019-09-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings Whether the trial court's actions amounted to a violation of the Due Process Clause
19-5900 David Earl Ison v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-v-alabama civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-bargaining self-incrimination sentencing Whether the introduction of a defendant's involuntary plea or statements in violation of the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination is…
19-300 Beth Lewis Maze, Circuit Judge v. Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission Kentucky 2019-09-05 Denied administrative-hearing civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-conduct self-incrimination stay Did the denial of the stay in the civil proceedings deprive Petitioner of her fundamental Fifth Amendment right to remain silent in the state criminal…
19-288 Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition against instructing juries that certain f…
19-5818 Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession-reliability corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment miranda-rights parole-revocation supervised-release Whether the Fifth Amendment requires the district court to apply the exclusionary rule in a supervised release revocation hearing
19-5825 Mario Garcia-Zavala v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment booking-exception booking-information-exception constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-of-identity fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-crimes miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings stop-and-identify Does the booking information exception to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), apply to evidence of identity in prosecuti…
19-5792 Randall Turner v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-09-03 Denied IFP bias-adjudicator capital-adversary-procedures conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations structural-defect term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment
19-5794 Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing Whether Mr. Young's conviction violated due process and his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights due to the use of tampered evidence
19-5770 Danny Lee Banks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing Did the appeals court and district court violate bank's fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendment rights by upholding a sentence that was based on the unc…
19-258 Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment deed-dispute due-process fifth-amendment government-action government-taking just-compensation land-ownership property-rights remand takings takings-clause title-claim unsalable-property Whether the Government can claim title to privately owned land and actively work to make that property unsaleable, without triggering the Fifth Amendm…
19-253 Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-law procedural-due-process summary-judgment Whether Rule 36(e) of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure violates the Fifth Amendment by authorizing panels of the Federal Circuit to affirm, wi…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5669 Matthew Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether Petitioner is entitled to further consideration on his initial motion under 28 U.S.C. 2255 that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing …
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Does judicial confession in this case, without a waiver and without prior appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant, violate the Legal Assistan…
19-5660 Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta…
19-5614 Robert Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witness due-process fifth-amendment immunity perjury perjury-threat prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-immunity witness-intimidation Whether the grant of use and derivative use immunity to a defense witness cured the government's misconduct when the case agent threatened the defense…
19-5554 Andres Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment Whether courts must give significant weight to whether an accused person reasonably feels free to leave a police encounter when determining if they ar…
19-5497 John McGill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions pattern-jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment When a district court issues erroneous jury instructions that include (a) to consider conviction with less than guilt beyond all reasonable doubt and …
19-5471 J. A. M. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during inte…
19-5479 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federalism fifth-amendment precedent separate-sovereigns sovereign-immunity Whether this Court should overrule the separate sovereigns exception to Double Jeopardy
19-5481 Jomo Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment jury sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated
19-150 Lynn Lumbard, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 5th-amendment federal-court-review fifth-amendment just-compensation loretto-v-teleprompter permanent-physical-occupation physical-occupation san-remo-hotel state-court-exhaustion takings takings-claim takings-clause Whether Petitioners' Takings Clause claim should be reinstated
19-5431 DeAndre Cherry v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause?
19-5409 Brady Daniel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution warrantless-search Whether the actions of Nawis County Sheriff's Department violate the constitutional and statutory rights of petitioner Brady A. Daniel under the Fourt…
19-5418 Walter Lee Brown v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech jurisdiction land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from requi…
19-142 Timothy C. Harry, et al. v. American Brokers Conduit, et al. First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights document-fabrication due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment lending-transaction property-rights standing takings Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals was correct in denying Petitioners' Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to Substantive and Procedural Du…
19-5379 Michael Boyd Crowley v. Texas Texas 2019-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination,right-to-counsel,due-process,fi trial-procedure Was the information given by Dr. Dunham sufficient to warn the defendant of the danger of self incrimination?
19-5390 In Re Francisco Narvaez 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-representation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel legal-representation procedural-error professional-conduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to his attorneys' failure to file a motion to suppr…
19-5375 Sean Daniels v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was Mr. Daniels denied effective-assistance-of-counsel
19-5351 Johnny Lee Johnson v. William Sperfslage Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error-review shackling sixth-amendment Whether the due process provisions of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require a plain error review when a defendant is shackled in view of a jury or if…
19-5355 Benny Ray Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment hearing-neutrality judicial-procedure neutral-hearing-body parole plea-bargaining probation probation-revocation revocation-hearing waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant waives his right, under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, to a neutral and detached hearing body at his probation-rev…
19-5358 Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis 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…
19-5341 Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights Whether the courts overlooked federal law and the U.S. Constitution when they overlooked the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, the 5th Amendment right …
19-5310 Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat…
19-5281 Ronald Wesley Jiles v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-right jury-bias jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether a defendant's right to exercise his Fifth Amendment right was prejudiced by the prosecution's comments on it during closing arguments
19-107 Vincent Asaro v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t…
19-5253 Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles West Virginia 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a Stay …
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings
19-95 Linda Bolton, et vir v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct grand-jury judicial-precedent perjured-testimony tax tax-prosecution Whether tax prosecutions can be authorized by the IRS Commissioner instead of the Department of Justice
19-80 Shreveport Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Caddo Parish Commission Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment monument-preservation standing treaty-rights Does the Court's ruling in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association afford the owner of a monument to have standing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…
19-5193 Jonathan R. Burrs v. United Technologies Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-dismiss procedural-obstruction seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Does a District Court Judge engage in a Fraud Upon The Court
19-5168 Stephenson Lamar Smith v. Ted Jackson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects an individual from being tried on different charges related to the same offense
19-5177 James Alvin Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury inter-circuit-split juror-allegation juror-misconduct jury sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure Is a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment right of due process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury violated when the trial court…
19-5167 Christian Don'tae Hood v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone co-defendant compelled-testimony compulsory-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights jury-instruction post-arrest-interview search-and-seizure self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in admitting the appellant's post-arrest interview when the government violated his Fifth Amendment rights by forcibly u…
19-5131 Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations statute-of-limitations
19-5137 Albert Duval Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-5110 Barry Bays v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a 'control…
19-5114 Jovanny Rodriguez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi due-process evidence fifth-amendment indictment indictment-variance interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial variance Petitioner was convicted and sentenced without having an opportunity to establish an alibi due to a variance between the indictment and evidence at tr…
19-39 Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of Mira…
19-5061 Akeem Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B)
19-5023 Jason Keith Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states brady-violation due-process fifth-amendment giglio-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-v-illinois plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability
19-5028 Osvaldo Vasquez v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fundamental-fairness gps-tracking gps-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-challenge wiretap-warrant Whether the Petitioner was denied his fundamental constitutional rights to Due Process and Fundamental Fairness
19-1 Karen Khan v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-procedure plausibility-standard standing Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Iq…
18-9792 Charles Mensah v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment severance witness-bolstering Does the trial court's refusal to grant a conspiracy defendant severance violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when the Government's c…
18-9823 Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9825 Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione…
18-9828 Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions …
18-9829 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause judicial-review Did the Court of Appeals affirm a Constructive Amendment, which requires reversal per se?
18-9838 Cedric Floyd v. Alabama Alabama 2019-06-27 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fifth-amendment remorse right-to-remain-silent Whether the Fifth and Eighth Amendments are violated when the State argues for a death sentence based on the defendant's failure to express remorse in…
18-9816 Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-9787 Jace Crehan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9800 Barton Joseph Adams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-contempt civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-incarceration section-2255 supervisory-powers Whether the district court and the appeal court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
18-9773 Arie Robert Redeker v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment coercion coercive-detention coercive-tactics constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree involuntary-confession law-enforcement-tactics self-incrimination Whether fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine applies to a custodial interrogation that has been tainted
18-1562 Lisa Fisher v. Bessie Huckabee South Carolina 2019-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conservatorship constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection fifth-amendment property-rights standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-elder-abuse-f takings will-reformation Whether petitioner had standing to assert the due process rights of the decedent
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
18-9717 Kenton G. Findlay v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. Florida 2019-06-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-violation disqualification due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fraud fraud-on-court impartiality judicial-impartiality Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendment …
18-9698 Ruben Perez Gomez v. California California 2019-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co…
18-9707 Blair Cook v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-18 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process facial-challenge facial-vagueness fifth-amendment rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation threshold-question vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18A1328 Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation land-ownership property-rights taking Whether the Government's unfounded assertions of title to private land that render it unsaleable and valueless constitute a taking of property without…
18-9686 Bobby Bordelon v. Texas Texas 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict constitutional-issue criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus manifest-necessity mistrial mistrial-standard texas-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bars a retrial on one pending count since manifest necessity was not shown for the grant of a mis…
18-9688 Emanuel Rivera-Martinez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment habeas-corpus standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
18-9693 Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9694 Oliver Douce v. New York New York 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under …
18-9678 Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson?
18-9681 Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Montana Supreme Court's imposition of a 10-year sentence pursuant to MCA § 46-18-502 violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
18-9682 Andre Forbes v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review motion-denial standing unconstitutional Whether 'rubber stamping' defendant's motion with a order of 'Denied' by an Court of Appeals are unconstitutional when Appeals Courts have not reviewe…
18-1543 Michael A. Katz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Second Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-stay article-iii civil-procedure consent constitutional-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-review standing voluntary-consent waiver wellness-international-network-v-sharif Whether Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) § 3 requires the district court to stay the action after it compels arbitration of all claims and a stay is requ…
18-1535 Letica Land Company, LLC v. Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, Montana Montana 2019-06-12 Denied 5th-amendment claim-of-right due-process fifth-amendment government-liability inverse-condemnation mistaken-claim-of-right physical-invasion property-rights takings takings-clause takings-clause-5th-amendment Whether the Montana Supreme Court erred in holding that the government can avoid Fifth Amendment liability when it continually physically invaded and …
18-9636 Donald Furtys v. Florida Florida 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment artificial-intelligence automated-technology criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment video-voyeurism Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause bars multiple convictions of video voyeurism stemming from a camera that has new automated technolo…
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9602 Colby L. Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination Did the district court violate petitioner's Fifth Amendment right as set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (19…
18-9606 Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia Virginia 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination Whether the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized without probable cause
18-9601 Lawrence J. Strickland v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment for the district court to make a finding that two 'armed career crimina…
18-1522 Doe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Relisted (2) adverse-spousal-testimony adverse-testimony compelled-testimony criminal-investigation document-authentication document-compulsion document-production fifth-amendment grand-jury spousal-privilege witness-testimony Whether a grand jury witness may invoke the privilege against adverse spousal testimony where the target of the grand jury investigation is the witnes…
18-9584 William Earl Miller v. Arizona Arizona 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-9587 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-suspension attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial legal-ethics professional-conduct property-rights we-the-people Can license to practice law be suspended only on the basis of remaining silent without considering the merits of alleged violation?
18A1276 Karen Khan v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-06 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection fifth-amendment money-mandating sovereign-immunity Whether a civil rights statute that broadly defines 'person' to include government agencies creates a money-mandating cause of action that waives sove…
18-9559 Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates due process?
18-9529 Anibal Del Valle-Hiraldo v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining rosemond-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's advice to a defendant to plead guilty to aiding and abetting the carry, use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crim…
18-9537 Stephen S. Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review whether-fraud-on-the-court-can-be-reviewed-in-a-§-2255-habeas-proceeding
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York 2019-06-03 Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury Does a petitioner have a right to have a witness in their favor protected by the Due Process Clause and the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9484 Paris Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C…
18-9460 Quentin Perry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth Am…
18-9463 Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-1488 John S. Cammalleri v. Florida Florida 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency Whether a 'specific' and 'direct' promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth…
18-1491 Kaitlyn Nguyen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-admission fifth-amendment inflammatory-evidence medical-clinic patient-deaths prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner's right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution was violated by the prosecution's introduction of highly i…
18-9419 Mario Laron Waiters v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Virginia Statute 19.2-72 violates due-process, equal-protection, 1st-amendment, 4th-amendment, 5th-amendment, 6th-amendment
18-9389 Antonia Shields v. Juda Klein Second Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-action civil-rights constitutional-review court-fees due-process fees-and-costs fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-access standing unconstitutional Is 28 U.S.C. § 1915 unconstitutional, discriminatory, based on a person's ability to pay fees and costs and/or to give security for fees and costs for…
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab…
18-9358 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Whether the Florida Department of Correction's restrictions on Mr. Long's execution witness and refusing to allow him to have a non-clergyman as his s…
18A1199 Gregory Waddell Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-protection criminal-conviction double-jeopardy federal-statute fifth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits revoking supervised release based on conduct for which a defendant has already been criminally convicted …
18-9308 Clarence Scranage, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner waived his Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights
18-9287 Carole L. Scheib v. James Rozberil Pennsylvania 2019-05-16 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte federal-question fifth-amendment foreclosure property-law real-property statute-of-limitations Whether an appellate court must apply established state rules and laws pertaining to real-property, statute-of-limitations, due-process, but continue …
18-9258 Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the 'vagueness challenge' of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is conside…
18-1429 Stahl York Ave. Co., LLC v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2019-05-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-law due-process fact-findings fifth-amendment independent-judicial-fact-finding independent-judicial-factfinding judicial-review just-compensation property-rights takings-clause Whether a property owner suing an administrative agency for violating the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is entitled to develop the facts suppo…
18-1417 Yankton County, South Dakota v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response Waived accrual-suspension accrual-suspension-rule fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-taking government-action gradual-physical-process inverse-condemnation property-rights stabilization-doctrine takings takings-clause united-states-v-dickinson When a taking arises from a gradual physical process, may the claimant postpone filing suit until the situation stabilizes?
18-9220 Earl C. Handfield, II v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury immunity legitimate-source self-incrimination use-immunity witness witness-rights Who or what is a 'legitimate source' under use immunity?
18-9169 Andre McDaniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255 6th-amendment appeal appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment standing transcripts Does a pro-se petitioner forfeit his constitutional rights when denied opportunity to have merits heard?
18-1410 James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed …
18-1404 Dorsey Eugene Wallace v. Gary Edward Wallace, et al. Georgia 2019-05-08 Denied 5th-amendment corporate-stock court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals judicial-review judicial-taking property-rights standard-for-judicial-taking stock-ownership stop-the-beach takings takings-clause well-established-property-right Judicial taking of petitioner's stock ownership in Wallace Electric Company
18-9200 Andrew Cox v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue civil-procedure civil-rights docket-manipulation due-process fifth-amendment fraud judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution obstruction-of-justice standing Does the Fifth Amendment demand immediate correction of a fraudulently manipulated district court docket (arrest post-dated 35 days) used to per se ma…
18-9177 Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
18-9183 Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a…
18-9147 Donald G. Flint v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment boykin-admonishments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Was the federal district court's finding and the Fifth Circuit Court's finding contrary to the precedent of the Supreme Court, as well as a violation …
18-1396 Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Arkansas 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution Whether a state supreme court can overcome a defendant's multiplicity challenge under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by classifying…
18-9067 Sharma Ross v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner denied his due process rights as enumerated under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9070 Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses had a valid Fifth Amendment pr…
18-9097 Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel
18-9114 Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations Is it a violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to ignore, alter or reinterpret commitments not to charge or prosecute individuals over time?
18-9088 Charles W. Gray v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana has erred whether Petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel
18-9094 Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment Has the State of Louisiana committed Constitutional Error in its refusal to Order production of Dr. Laga's grand jury testimony to petitioner?
18-1377 Kwame Gyamfi v. R. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-procedure standing trojan-servers Whether the use of 'Trojan Servers' by federal courts to manage cases violates the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth Amendment
18-1378 Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna Whether the constitutional due process requirements that apply to a federal agency or federal court comparing the elements of state and federal offens…
18-1368 San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. California Public Utilities Commission California 2019-05-01 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation public-utility ratepayers strict-liability takings takings-clause Whether it is an uncompensated taking for public use in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to impose strict liability for in…
18-9055 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extra-territorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment international-law sovereign-territory supreme-court-precedent Does the fact that the Appellant was arrested and questioned in Canada immunize the United States Attorney from following the Constitution of the Unit…
18-9030 Juan Reyes Rivera v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied IFP confrontation-rights constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment ineffective-assistance Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance for failure to quash or dismiss Constructive, Amended Indictment, amended by the court on third day af…
18-9013 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence Whether the use of a coerced confession as substantive evidence at trial violates due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-8983 Patrick Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a sentence for a specific offense that is greater than the maxim…
18-8952 Boris Murphy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest deficient-performance direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Did the Fourth Circuit review the District Court's error in denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2255 claim de novo that was based on conflict of interest a…
18-8915 Jonathan Zepeda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a appellate-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fifth-amendment independent-counsel judicial-manipulation sentencing sixth-amendment standing waiver Whether an individual's challenge to the constitutionality of his sentence and case proceedings in a criminal prosecution on bases outside the limited…
18-8916 Steven Lawrence Wright v. California California 2019-04-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standard motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review Did the trial court's erroneous jury instruction violate the Due Process Clause?
18-8866 Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders Whether compelled self-incrimination through the use of polygraph examinations as a requirement of parole violates parolees' Fifth and Fourteenth Amen…
18-8854 Steve Zinnel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-schedules constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stirone-v-united-states wamu-personal-checking-account Whether there was an unconstitutional constructive amendment or prejudicial variance
18-8823 Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure Whether a long-term legal resident with no criminal record who was removed from the U.S. based on falsified records has due process rights
18-8753 Carl Devon Powell v. California California 2019-04-10 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
18-8776 Tam Le v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-1283 Joseph Montano v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response Waived consent consent-requirement cross-examination double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy plain-error united-states-v-olano Whether the underlying reason for a sua sponte declaration of mistrial was plain error that overrides the consent requirement of Oregon v. Kennedy, an…
18-8750 Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal Must a judge recuse himself after improper ex parte communication?
18-8762 Jason Curtis Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment indictment remand standing superceding-indictment superseding-indictment Whether Brown's Fifth Amendment right to double jeopardy, due process and the expressed terms of the 6th Cir. Court of Appeals limited remand order we…
18-8697 Frederick H. Banks v. Pennymac Holdings, LLC, fka Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust Holdings I, LLC Pennsylvania 2019-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-submission due-process electronic-filing fifth-amendment immigration institutional-barriers judicial-access land-use pacer prisoner-litigation privacy privacy-policy property-rights regulatory-takings social-security takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide a public easement as a condition…
18-8699 Marckenson Chery v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2422b criminal-offense criminal-offense-element double-jeopardy fifth-amendment indictment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) must identify the ''criminal offense'' element in order to meet the required nature of the …
18-8702 Vernon Carter v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-04-04 Denied IFP fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-traffic-stop ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in affirming the denial of Carter's petition for writ of habeas corpus, where Carter raised sufficient allegat…
18-8652 Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated
18-8660 Tyree Mansell v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing guideline range violated his Fifth Amendment right to due process and his Si…
18-8623 Justin Cole Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review Are appeal waivers in federal criminal plea agreements unconstitutional?
18-8624 Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test Whether trial counsel's failure to make a timely objection or file a pretrial motion to dismiss a fatally flawed indictment can validate a 'constituti…
18-8627 Frank Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing Whether the sentencing court's failure to disclose the 'Confidential Recommendation' of the Probation Officer regarding the Petitioner's sentence viol…
18-1254 Jeremiah L. King v. United States Armed Forces 2019-03-28 Denied Response Waived child-pornography criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts fifth-amendment permissive-inference search-terms sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals relied upon permissive inferences that violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment in finding Petitioner's con…
18-1250 Corey Lea v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture Sixth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agricultural-law civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause exhaustion-requirements fifth-amendment foreclosure moratorium-relief usda Denial of formal hearing for Black and socially disadvantaged farmers on discrimination complaints
18-8581 Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud Whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Constitutional rights
18-8577 Gerald W. Long v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure Did the Trial Court violate Gerald Long's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jur…
18-1241 Demetrius Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-25 Denied child-protective-services criminal-procedure fifth-amendment police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether interrogations by state-employed child protective services caseworkers violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, where the caseworkers are requi…
18-8526 Marcel Henderson v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure dixon-standard due-process fifth-amendment imminent-threat justification-defense sixth-amendment Were the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights violated by the ambiguity of the Dixon standard as applied regarding what constitutes a 'well-f…
18-8534 Gino Carlucci v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-procedure-retroactivity fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-communications-privilege mccoy-v-louisiana ninth-circuit retroactive-application retroactivity Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to issue a C.0.A. to determine if McCoy v. Louisiana applies retroactively to cases on collatera…
18-8459 Wayne A. Bisso v. Florida Florida 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment blockburger-test common-law-marriage double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause estate-inheritance fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-theft property-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a surviving spouse, who is factually and actually innocent, from being convicted a…
18-8460 Antonio Avilez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment kidnapping petitioner-rights Whether the Petitioner's conviction for kidnapping violated the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
18-1207 In Re Twelve Grand Jury Subpoenas Ninth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 5th-amendment act-of-production-privilege business-entities business-records closely-held-businesses closely-held-corporations closely-held-entities corporate-privilege fifth-amendment limited-liability-companies self-incrimination subchapter-s-corporations subpoena-duces-tecum Should Braswell v. United States be limited or overturned?
18-1186 Anthony Johnson v. Edward Winstead, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment heck-v-humphrey inculpatory-statement section-1983 statute-of-limitations unconstitutional-evidence unconstitutional-statement Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim based on the use of an unconstitutional inculpatory statement begins to run when criminal …
18-8396 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-right-to-counsel 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-counsel adversarial-process civil-rights constitutional-violation counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing terrorism terrorism-investigation Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel are violated
18-8403 Sergio Caballero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment habeas-corpus third-party-culpability Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights by failing to allow evidence of third-party culpability
18-1168 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking When the lower federal courts abandon the imperatives of the Fifth Amendment to provide just compensation and the Fourteenth Amendment to provide equa…
18-1152 Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process
18-1149 George A. Gallenthin, III v. Borough of Paulsboro, et al. New Jersey 2019-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain Fifth-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment just-compensation procedural-due-process property property-rights state-action takings Uncompensated takings of private property without procedural due process
18-8289 Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee…
18-8183 Gregory Frank Sperow v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-fairness government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement property-rights rule-11 waiver waiver-provision Whether the government can breach a Rule 11(c)(1)(c) plea agreement concerning the return of seized properties and then rely on the agreement's waiver…
18-8210 Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion Did trial court abuse discretion by considering nolle prossed charge in sentencing, violating 5th and 14th Amendment rights
18-8224 Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) should be interpreted as including at least a recklessly mens rea element regar…
18-8230 Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction legal-obstruction record standing Does petitioner/appellant/defendant have a constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment due process clause to have his case heard by the district co…
18-8172 Corinthian Bostic v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest due-process fifth-amendment indigent indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance motion-to-withdraw pre-trial-hearing pre-trial-motion right-to-appeal Did the pre-trial judge abuse its discretion by denying Bostic's appointed attorney's motion to withdraw where Bostic and his trial counsel had a conf…
18-8173 Ruben R. Herrera v. Brandon Price Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement pre-trial-detention Whether petitioner's pre-trial detention violates his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against double jeopardy and due process
18-8174 Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed IFP brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order Should federal habeas corpus rule 8(a) require a written order from a federal district court judge when not appointing a magistrate judge to oversee a…
18-8147 Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest Question not identified
18-8128 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2019-02-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
18-1115 Ronald DeCoster v. Waushara County Highway Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process fair-notice federal-funding fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation res-judicata takings uniform-relocation-assistance ura Whether petitioner's claims under the URA, the Fifth Amendment, and 42 U.S.C. §1983 are barred by claim preclusion and res judicata despite lack of no…
18-8120 Jerry Lynn Lofton v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-comment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence self-incrimination testimonial-privilege Whether a prosecutor who this Court has held may not comment to a jury concerning a defendant's failure to testify in a criminal trial may submit his …
18-8075 Godwin Oriakhi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi…
18-8108 Michael Bush v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-hearing postconviction postconviction-hearing trial-transcript Did the failure of the State of Florida to provide Mr. Bush with a complete copy of his trial transcript to be used in a postconviction evidentary hea…
18-8077 Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor to …
18-8081 Jared King v. Karen Creed, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights coppedge-v-united-states due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis notice-of-hearing standing summary-judgment Whether the panel violated plaintiff's right to due process
18-7960 Andracos Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states luis-v-united-states pretrial-restraint pretrial-seizure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-assets Whether the Government's pretrial criminal forfeiture and seizure of petitioner's untainted substitute assets under 853 has been invalidated based on …
18-7975 William Krisstofer Wolf v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury perjury-subornation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision now conflicts with this court's long standing rulings on the known and willing use of perjury of material fact, t…
18-1064 In Re Octavious DeMont Williams 2019-02-13 Denied 21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial Octavious Demont Williams petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the…
18-7878 John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence Whether the interpretation of conspiracy in the Fourth circuit is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment departing from th…
18-7881 Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea compulsory-process due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment motion-to-reopen-time rehearing-en-banc right-to-counsel rule-4(a)(6) sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the appeals court infringe upon petitioner's Fifth Amendment due-process rights
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering
18-7829 Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated
18-7834 Brent William Bogseth v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deliberation due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment murder premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether the lack of evidence to show the defendant actually committed the offense of murder means premeditation and deliberation cannot exist, or if t…
18-7839 Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-7846 Reginald Hough v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances Was there probable cause for the search warrant?
18-7767 Joshua Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden…
18-7734 Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County Iowa 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Iowa violate the petitioner's 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendment confrontation and due process rights to be present during a critical stage o…
18-7702 George Reese v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the prosecutor committed misconduct
18-7716 Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guideline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below guidel…
18-7695 Leroy O. Williams v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review civil-procedure clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error constitutional-law constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment veterans veterans-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects veterans seeking review of allegations for Clear and Unmistakable Error?
18-7669 Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments?
18-7591 Kofi Kyei v. Tessica L. Swift, et al. Oregon 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process due-process,civil-procedure,turner-v-rogers,state- fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-statutes state-support-statute turner-v-rogers Do state support statutes like the Oregon Statute (ORS) at Chapter 416.440 (8) contravene the 2011 United States Supreme Court rulings in Turner v. Ro…
18-7582 Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process
18-7495 Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952)
18-946 Abigail Arroyo v. Angel M. Torres-Sanchez, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment judicial-discretion property property-rights public-interest standing takings Whether the Petitioner's rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, property and due process were violated by the Respondents' alleged deceit, abu…
18-7457 Charles Edward Case v. California California 2019-01-16 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
18-7466 Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the erroneous jury instruction given in Mr. Bennett's case negated his only defense and relieved the State of the burden of proving all elemen…
18-7400 Damion Sleugh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility Whether the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications ends once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at tr…
18-902 Paul Poupart v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act clearly-established-federal-law custodial-interrogation federal-review fifth-amendment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus miranda-rights unreasonable-application Whether a habeas corpus application should be granted when a state court decision was contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly e…
18-7305 William Hilts v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury hearsay hearsay-testimony indictment witness-testimony Whether a criminal defendant's right to be prosecuted on an indictment voted by a Grand Jury under the Fifth Amendment is violated when the Grand Jury…
18-7318 Jesus Gomez v. California California 2019-01-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process
18-7328 Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires compensation when the government imposes a regulatory burden on private property that does …
18-7330 Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense encompasses the right to have the jury instructed on a theory of defense that constitu…
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) states a claim for violation of the First, F…
18-876 Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to opt-…
18-7250 Diane S. Jones v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigenous-landowner indigenous-rights property-rights standing takings Whether Petitioner has standing to challenge Respondents' business practices
18-7227 Antonio Ledon Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3553a6 due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-review sentencing sentencing-disparities unwarranted-sentence-disparities Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth Am…
18-839 Pablo Colon v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights police-procedure right-to-silence self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Miranda guarantee requires police to inform a custodial suspect of his right to stop questioning at any time?
18-7215 Salih Zeki Uces v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment-amendment international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions mens-rea parental-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated Mr. Uces's rights under the Fifth Amendment
18-821 David Keith Wills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty fifth-amendment gamble-v-united-states supreme-court Whether the Court should overrule the dual sovereignty exception to the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause
18-809 Curtis T. Lovelace v. Illinois Illinois 2018-12-26 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) acquittal bail-bond bail-bond-forfeiture clerk-of-courts due-process due-process,excessive-fines,equal-protection,bail- equal-protection excessive-fines fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether charging a person who was tried and acquitted a $35,000 bail bond forfeiture, not related to individualized costs or compliance with bail bond…
18-7155 Alfredo Provencio v. Joe Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aedpa custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether defendant's incriminating statements and body language should be excluded as custodial interrogation without Miranda advisement
18-786 Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. Texas 2018-12-20 Denied child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction over my daughter and I when they issued a child support order
18-7101 John Samuel Ghobrial v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa…
18-7107 Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the 6th Amendment right to effective-assistance-of-counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally-deception
18-7111 Johnny Joe Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 constitutional-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment fifth-circuit injustice jurisdictional-review mandate-recall unadjudicated-claims Whether the Fifth Circuit erred when it did not recall the mandate in order to prevent an injustice relative to two unadjudicated claims in the distri…
18-765 James H. Brady v. New York, et al. New York 2018-12-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)?
18-7047 Anthony Casanova v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custodial-confession custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-confession miranda-rights self-incrimination Did the trial court's admission of Anthony Casanova's custodial confession deprive him of his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incriminati…
18-7025 Tyree Marquez Burt v. California California 2018-12-13 Denied IFP coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure Was the trial court's admonition to a deadlocked jury coercive, implicating the petitioner's due process rights to a fair trial?
18-7005 Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment
18-739 Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn?
18-6923 Donatos Sarras v. Unknown Party Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-motion suspension-clause Whether pro se petitioner's rights under the Suspension Clause and the Fifth Amendment (Due Process) were impeded or impinged and he may proceed with …
18-731 Stefany Vega Duron, a Minor, et al. v. Ron Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy constitutional-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment iirira immigration immigration-law judicial-review selective-prosecution Is there an administrative remedy in the immigration courts to decide American citizens' claims of a violation of their First and Fifth Amendment cons…
18-6925 Warren Tarver v. Florida Florida 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim Whether it is a violation of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment for a person to be detained for an offense that is legislatively designated a …
18-6916 Troy Lincoln Powell v. California California 2018-12-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment Does the imposition of the death penalty on a severely mentally ill defendant violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-6896 Jeffrey S. Wingate v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentment presentment-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing strickland strickland-standard uncharged-conduct Does a substantially greater sentence imposed based primarily on a count for which a grand jury refused to indict and which did not appear in a supers…
18-6873 Angela Armenta v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Is the absence of evidence probative evidence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-6840 John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects the petitioner's property rights against the government's actions that result in a complete…
18-698 Clement Reynolds v. Maryland Maryland 2018-11-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment impeachment miranda miranda-rights police-interrogation police-misconduct self-incrimination Was Petitioner denied Due Process and protections against self-incrimination?
18-6836 Carlos Dagoberto Rivas v. Sherman Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-waiver miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Does the State meet its burdens of showing that it clearly informed a criminal defendant of his Miranda rights and that a defendant validly waived the…
18-6800 Robert Ryan Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instructions jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Where jury instructions lack the dates and timeframes specified in the indictment, do the jury instructions constructively amend the indictment, and t…
18-6824 Martavious Detrel Banks Keys v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 349 U.S. 81 (1955) on double-jeopardy bell-v-united-states congressional-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-enforcement mens-rea multiple-punishments single-statute testimony Whether the Fifth Circuit violated this Court's holding in Bell v. United States, 349 U.S. 81 (1955), that there must be a showing of congressional in…
18-683 Bradley Christopher Stark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading sovereign-immunity Whether a plaintiff possesses a burden to do more than allege an unequivocal waiver of sovereign immunity on a motion to dismiss raising a defense of …
18-659 Mostafa Masomi v. Mehrandokht Madadi First Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Relisted (2) alimony civil-procedure civil-rights divorce divorce-law due-process fifth-amendment human-rights procedural-due-process religious-divorce Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when a judge denies a hearing or a trial in a civil (divorce) case, and as a result the petitioner was forced …
18-6784 In Re Samuel Rivera 2018-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdictional-rules standing whether-court-judges-uphold-constitution
18-6683 Cody Sakoman v. California California 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-6654 In Re Gary Ray Debolt 2018-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Is it in violation of the fifth Amendment and Brady v. Maryland to convict a person with the use of false and manipulated evidence?
18-6676 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment wire-fraud Whether Mr. Wilmore's right to be tried on charges accepted by a grand jury, and Mr. Wilmore's right to effective assistance of counsel, were violated…
18-604 Lorina G. Delfierro v. Pensco Trust Company, fbo Jeffrey D. Hermann Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing beneficiary custodial-arrangement custodian due-process fifth-amendment promissory-note self-directed-ira standing standing-article-iii,self-directed-ira,custodian-b Whether a self-directed IRA custodian has standing to litigate over an IRA asset without joining the beneficiary
18-6592 Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven…
18-6583 Dionysius Fiumano v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states Does the undefined element 'scheme to defraud' in 18 U.S.C. § 1343 satisfy Fifth Amendment due process notice requirements?
18-6584 Larry Flenoid v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-irregularity second-or-successive section-2255 supervisory-powers Whether the supervisory powers of the United States Supreme Court will be asserted to correct the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals summarily affirming …
18-6552 Thomas A. Woods v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-testimony constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury self-incrimination self-incrimination-protection Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from introducing evidence of a defendant's grand jury testimony which was taken when th…
18-6536 Lewis Waters v. Charles L. Lockett, Warden District of Columbia 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-safeguard court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction unindicted-crime Where the Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be held to answer for a crime unless upon presentment of a Grand Jury's indictment, does the…
18-564 Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test
18-568 Bart H. Rippl v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment internal-revenue-code statutory-interpretation substantive-regulations Does the Fifth Amendment's due process of law guarantee apply to the specific language set forth in the Internal Revenue Code and other laws, and in s…
18-6527 Jedediah C. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2018-10-31 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-incarceration pre-trial time-served west-virginia Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights been violated when the Courts of West Virginia refused to grant cred…
18-6481 Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary Does the sentencing court violate the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) when it delegates its restitution payments to the BOP?
18-6462 Juan Carlos Mendez v. California California 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the prosecution's use of 'were they lying' questions and argument to secure a criminal conviction constitutes prosecutorial misconduct and vio…
18-6428 Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit incorrectly denied a certificate of appealability
18-6432 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult Whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, young adult that has been startled awake by…
18-532 Sixty-01 Association of Apartment Owners v. Penny D. Goudelock Ninth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived assessment-discharge bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-discharge chapter-13 chapter-13-bankruptcy community-association community-association-assessments due-process due-process-clause federalism fifth-amendment property-ownership ripeness-doctrine takings takings-clause Does the Bankruptcy Code discharge community association assessments that accrue after the filing of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy even if the debtor retain…
18-6399 Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy Whether the officer conducted a valid inventory search of a closed container without a written policy governing such searches
18-471 Jay Sandon Cooper v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis property-foreclosure property-rights res-judicata standing statute-of-limitations Is Cooper's appeal taken in good faith, arguable on its merits, and therefore, not frivolous?
18-6303 Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine?
18-6304 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment article-iii confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 self-incrimination sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Defendant's rights under Article III, Section 2, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment were violated when the Defendant is induced to enter a p…
18-456 Michael J. Persico v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived apprendi due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence, which would have been deemed substantively unreasonable in the absence of the district court's factual findings, violat…
18-6273 Antoine Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu…
18-6283 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-safeguards fifth-amendment grand-jury individual-rights liberty prosecutorial-interference prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers structural-error structural-protections Whether the indictment in this case should have been dismissed because the structural protections of the grand jury designed to safeguard individual r…
18-6262 Richard Penunuri v. California California 2018-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
18-6193 Kenneth A. White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument?
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts Whether a claim made in the habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invokes the same constitutional protections, but labeled differe…
18-409 Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights Whether the Electoral College clause (1787) has violated the Comity clause (1787) and three subsequent amendments, the First (1789), the Fifth (1789) …
18-6148 Atul Nanda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Brady-Doctrine brady-rule brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment Giglio-Doctrine giglio-rule giglio-v-united-states new-trial plea-agreement Plea-Agreements plea-bargaining sixth-amendment witness-testimony Are the defendants' constitutional rights under the sixth and fifth amendments violated when the government fails to fully disclose plea agreement ter…
18-401 Faye Rennell Hobson v. James Mattis, Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violation evidence fifth-amendment judicial-bias legal-standard pro-se pro-se-litigant united-states-constitution What is the level of bias that must be demonstrated before it constitutes a violation of a pro se litigant's right to due process guaranteed by the Fi…
18-6093 Brian Tate v. Maryland Maryland 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state court to conduct an inquiry on the record into the effects of a juvenile defendant's age, mental healt…
18-6065 In Re Eric M. Richardson 2018-09-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violated his Fifth Amendment right to be tried only on an offense made out in a presentment or indict…
18-6034 In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case
18-6044 Richard James Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-19 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania Does the right to due process require a finding of structural error where one member of the reviewing court is the son of the elected attorney general…
18-343 Raiden J. Andrews v. United States Armed Forces 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-provision-involved constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error harmless-error-standard military-justice military-justice-system prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower court erred in failing to apply the harmless error standard to the prosecution's improper arguments
18-6001 Demario Carman v. Georgia Georgia 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-exception reasonableness trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the protection against Double Jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment is an empty promise
18-6018 In Re Gary Ivan Terry 2018-09-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP actual-bias all-writs-act bias due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-bias mandamus recusal-statute separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus Whether the federal recusal statute was violated when a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the motion…
18-5977 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply?
18-6008 Anibal Pagan-Romero v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial dictionary dictionary-use due-process fifth-amendment first-circuit jury jury-instructions presumption-of-prejudice remmer-presumption remmer-v-united-states Whether the Petitioner was denied due process of law where the District Court, over the objection of Defendant provided the jury with a dictionary whi…
18-5996 Gene Lemay Barris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence Whether the sentencing court erred in imposing an unreasonable sentence on the defendant in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel a…
18-324 Douglas Leone, et ux., as Trustees Under That Certain Unrecorded Leone-Perkins Family Trust Dated August 26, 1999, as Amended v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (3) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment economic-benefit economically-beneficial-use fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment investment-use just-compensation land-use lucas-v-south-carolina-coastal-council natural-state property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether holding undeveloped property as an 'investment' or using it as a 'park' in its natural state constitutes economically beneficial or productive…
18-5966 Joseph Faulkner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduct sh…
18-5972 Assane Faye v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof fifth-amendment indictment jury-instruction jury-instructions non-statutory-element prosecutorial-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure Does the government heighten its burden of proof at trial by adding a non-statutory element to the indictment, pursuing its case to include that extra…
18-5979 Malik Derry v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-of-case right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments, or Rules 43 and 44 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, are violated
18-5941 Robert Earl Tippens, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech just-compensation property-rights regulatory-takings standing takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their private prop…
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction?
18-293 Janos Farkas v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights dispositive-motion due-process federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-practice standing time-limits time-to-respond Does a federal court deprive a party's constitutional due process right when allowing only three days to respond to a dispositive motion?
18-295 Alexander Alimanestianu, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied due-process eminent-domain espousal fifth-amendment foreign-affairs foreign-state international-law just-compensation property-rights takings Can the United States seize, use, and compromise the claims and judgments of its citizens against a foreign state—a practice in international law know…
18-5881 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association Pennsylvania 2018-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act violates the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments and the Fair Housing Act
18-5899 Rashod Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment probation self-incrimination Whether a probationer can be ordered to truthfully answer questions posed by his probation officer without a caveat that he still has the right to inv…
18-5849 Jose Soza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-postconviction Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5790 Uiki Teaupa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment entitle a pro se defendant the right to conduct discovery and have an evidentiary hearing on claims of government m…
18-246 Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., and violative o…
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…
18-5720 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna C. Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment Whether Respondent Judge Susanne C. Pineda abused discretion in denying Petitioner Bartlett's motion to dismiss for double jeopardy, in violation of h…
18-5691 Darryl Jerome Baker v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 2241-habeas 2241-motion 2255-motion 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment savings-clause state-priors title-28 unconstitutional-enhancement Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Rights are violated
18-5701 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis Did the Second Circuit err by dismissing petitioner's appeal?
18-5653 Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson Whether the prosecutor's elicitation of evidence through a colloquy with a venireperson violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to cross-examin…
18-5669 Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing Whether the petitioner can be punished with life without parole when not charged, tried, or convicted of first-degree murder
18-5601 Jose Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a…
18-5587 Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable…
18-5535 Paul Lynn Schlieve v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland case-dispositive-motion due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment materiality prosecutorial-duty suppression-motion suppression-of-evidence Does the prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory evidence under the Fifth Amendment include evidence that is favorable and material to a Fourth Amen…
18-5576 DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 unconstitutional?
18-183 Advanced Audio Devices, LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 5th-amendment aia america-invents-act constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent patent-law patents takings-clause Whether inter partes review (IPR) of patents filed before enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") violates the Takings Clause of the …
18-5525 Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states Whether application of the Taylor rule bars consideration of materials beyond the charging instrument in determining a defendant's qualification for e…
18-5528 Brian Thurman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-constitution Whether the District Court violated Mr. Thurman's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by increasing his sentence based on acquitted conduct
18-5482 Jose Guadalupe Zepeda-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-distribution motion-for-acquittal possession-with-intent-to-distribute presumption-of-innocence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Presumption of Innocence and Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process are violated when the district court denies a motion for acquittal whe…
18-5446 Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5467 Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida Florida 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light of …
18-5468 Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct appellate-review constitutional-rights dismissed-conduct fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sixth-amendment statutory-law statutory-maximum Whether an upward departure from the advisory Sentencing Guidelines is subject to appellate review
18-154 Roderic Rooks v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment franks-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-available-evidence pretrial-motion prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court erred in denying a certificate of appealability on petitioner's constitutional challenges to his state court conviction
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation Does the automatic-resentencing-to-life provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) violate due-process, double-jeopardy, ex-post-facto
18-5436 Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him constitute interrogation under Miranda?
18-5442 Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment forced-appeal fourteenth-amendment hearsay-exception separation-of-powers sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) violates the Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights of defendants, whether a state court can force a defendant …
18-5413 Clarence D. Lewis v. Johnny Hedgemon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargain self-incrimination voluntary-plea Is a plea bargain voluntary or involuntary if a petitioner invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before the plea is induced?
18-5390 Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance Whether the district court violated Khalil Abu Rayyan's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by imposing an upward variance of almost three times the top …
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits retrying a defendant on a higher level charge after being convicted of a lesser include…
18-5362 Omar Qazi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review miranda-warnings standing unpublished-decisions Whether the Ninth Circuit panel decision conflicts with established Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedents on Miranda warnings, and whether the pa…
18-5364 Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of Austin's petition under 28 U.S.C. §2254 for writ of habe…
18-118 Jeff Schwartz, et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. California 2018-07-25 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-relief non-discretionary non-discretionary-relief right-to-be-heard standing sworn-statement Did the court violate Schwartz's Fifth Amendment right to be heard by refusing to consider his sworn statement in support of his application for manda…
18-5347 Marquis D. Costic v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-25 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights credibility cross-examination fifth-amendment jailhouse-informant jury-instructions prosecution-witness prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Was my Sixth Amendment U.S. Constitutional Right, under the Confrontation Clause violated when the prosecution kept interrupting during cross-examinat…
18-5300 Gary Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a trial attorney can constitutionally stipulate elements of a charged crime over the expressed objections of the defendant under the Fifth, Si…
18-5291 Martin Louis Ballard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendme without any hearing 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bank-account bank-account-seizure civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment pretrial-seizure procedural-due-process seizure sixth-amendment Whether the pretrial seizure of petitioner's bank account, without any hearing, deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendment to the United Stat…
18-5307 Andrew Wayne Hulen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-admissions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment garrity-v-new-jersey minnesota-v-murphy penalty-situation self-incrimination self-incrimination-clause sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Whether the Ninth Circuit's failure to analyze Petitioner's argument under the classic penalty situation addressed by this Court in Minnesota v. Murph…
18-82 Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia Georgia 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict
18-5201 Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-5211 Taylor B. v. California California 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation when-child-interrogated-miranda-waiver
18-5189 Glenvert Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing …
18-5157 In Re Jose Luis Arevalo 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt Whether the due process clause was violated by failure to prove every element of money laundering beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5158 Mario Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability descamps-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment florida-robbery-statute sixth-amendment stokeling-v-united-states Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
18-5153 Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previously c…
18-5132 Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him violated his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-23 Edward R. Stolz, dba Royce International Broadcasting Company v. Federal Communications Commission District of Columbia 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process fcc fcc-ruling fifth-amendment interlocutory-judgment judicial-review mootness reversionary-interest telecommunications-act Whether the FCC violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process
18-5079 Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California California 2018-07-03 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violated the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth…
18-5105 Atnafu Ras Makonnen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Whether Makonnen's prior convictions for felony battery and attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon qualify as violent felonies under the A…
18-5069 William M. Uschock v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation mineral-rights natural-gas property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the Pennsylvania Dunham Rule, which excludes natural gas from the definition of 'minerals' for purposes of mineral rights ownership, violates …
18-5003 Rolando Mulet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-protection criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-questioning miranda miranda-rights pre-arrest pre-arrest-silence pre-miranda self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence from being used as evidence at trial
18-5031 Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's conviction for third-degree murder should be overturned due to self-defense, violation of the Confrontation Clause, and ineff…