| 25-6704 |
Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 25-6703 |
Pedro Cesar Villalobos-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 25A763 |
Peter Szanto v. Evye Geller Szanto, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension judicial-bias judicial-recusal liteky-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 25-767 |
Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review v. National Association of Immigration Judges |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
csra-preclusion district-court party-presentation personnel-actions summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed for violating the party-presentation principle.
2. Whether the decision below should be su… |
| 25-6462 |
Jamaur Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery … |
| 25-6459 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-6397 |
Mark Dyer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t… |
| 25-649 |
Tamim Shansab v. Nasir Shansab, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
continuing-violations-doctrine due-process evidence-tampering rule-12b6 statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
1. On October 16, 2025, the United States Department of Justice disclosed its indictment of previous National Security Advisor (N-SA) to President Don… |
| 25-6175 |
Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance reasonable-expectation-privacy state-law supreme-court-precedent |
1. THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AND THE U.S.D.C'S DECISION THAT A MANDATORY REQUIRED PIECE OF THE REPORTER'S RECORD THAT IS MISSING IS AN ISSUE OF STATE LAW AND … |
| 25-6128 |
In Re Joseph Cammarata |
|
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-process mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Due Process Clause and the All
Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), by refusing for over eight mo… |
| 25-6105 |
Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State… |
| 25-6087 |
Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process evidence-transcription judicial-proceedings summary-affirmance supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether a Federal Court may grant summary affirmance of an appeal taken from the district court order denying transcription of audio and video reco… |
| 25-562 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-10 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains "pend… |
| 25-5987 |
Francisco Javier Ochoa-Anaya v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE;
Whether the district court and the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Ground One, actual-innocence claim as to hi… |
| 25-426 |
Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent |
In connection with petitioner's capital sentencing proceeding, trial counsel failed to investigate and present voluminous, powerful mitigation evidenc… |
| 25-325 |
Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2025-09-18 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2), which provides that "a person may not possess a firearm if the person has been convicted … |
| 25A299 |
Curtis Solomon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924(c) sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) after the Supreme Court's decisions in Mathis… |
| 25-5531 |
In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy |
|
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
habeas-corpus mandamus panel-rehearing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
1. Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Sixth Circuit to fulfill its obligation® as observed in Missouri v. Jenkins, 495 U.S. 33, 46 n. 14 (1… |
| 25-5505 |
Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights federal-jurisdiction first-amendment judicial-procedure removal-statute supreme-court-precedent |
1) Whether satisfying the second prong of Georgia v. Rachel, 384 U.S. 780 (1966), for removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) requires a formal state statut… |
| 25-199 |
Daniel Concepcion, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, dba MLB, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-exemption baseball-litigation constitutional-challenge equal-protection sherman-act supreme-court-precedent |
1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN FEDERAL BASEBALL CLUB OF BALTIMORE V. NATIONAL LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS, 259 U.S. 200 (1922) AND ITS… |
| 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 … |
| 25-5379 |
Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
discrimination-standard habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss section-1983-challenge statistical-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard of proof ("virtually 100 percent") imposed by the Court of Appeals for statistical evidence of discrimination and arbitrariness c… |
| 25-5341 |
Kenneth Jeremy Laird v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing-discretion supreme-court-precedent |
In 1994, an Arizona judge sentenced Mr. Laird to death for a murder conviction and a total of 129 years in prison for 13 other nonhomicide crimes. Mr.… |
| 25-5331 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol A… |
| 25A153 |
Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bruen drug-trafficking rahimi second-amendment supreme-court-precedent weapon-possession |
Whether a conviction for possessing a weapon in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime is consistent with the Second Amendment's protection of indivi… |
| 25-5151 |
J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use "extreme caution" before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error. |
| 25-5148 |
Jose Antonio Cossio, Jr. v. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
air-force-court article-iii due-process mandamus supreme-court-precedent van-buren-decision |
WHETHER MANDAMUS SHOULD ISSUE AGAINST THE AIR FORCE WHEN ITS COURT DISREGARDED THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN VAN BUREN 593 U.S. 374 (2021) IN VIOLAT… |
| 25-5124 |
Jacob Graves v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As… |
| 25-42 |
Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certiorari constitutional-enforcement constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether this Court still faithfully upholds the core values enshrined in the Constitution, or whether constitutional enforcement has been reduced t… |
| 25-5009 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R… |
| 25A4 |
Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a federal habeas court may deny relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) based on hypothetical reasoning not actually used by the state court, and whe… |
| 24-7479 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Michael Reger, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process recidivist-statute residual-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a judicially crafted residual clause allowing life sentences under a state recidivist statute is unconstitutional in light of recent Supreme C… |
| 24-7449 |
Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating habeas petition merits at the COA stage violates Supreme Court precedent and statutory requiremen… |
| 24-1265 |
Glenn E. Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias |
Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive, an… |
| 24-7400 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-7346 |
Seaga Edward Gillard v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty felony-murder jury-instructions supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated Supreme Court precedent regarding jury instructions for death sentences in felony murder cases in… |
| 24-7306 |
William Thomas Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-failure district-court evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by summarily denying ineffective assistance of counsel claims without conducting an evidentiary heari… |
| 24-7268 |
Oscar Olalde-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 24-1174 |
Chelsea A. Hamilton v. David Steiner, Postmaster General |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causation civil-rights employment-discrimination retaliation supreme-court-precedent title-vi |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Hamilton's Title VI retaliation claim by improperly requiring proof of causation inconsistent … |
| 24-7178 |
Douglas Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process incarceration-setting interrogation-context miranda-warnings supreme-court-precedent |
Whether courts should treat interrogation of an incarcerated person as fundamentally equivalent to interrogation in non-incarcerated settings and whet… |
| 24-1139 |
Joe Patrick Flarity v. Washington |
Washington |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias state-court-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Washington State courts have shown contempt for Supreme Court precedents and constitutional rights through biased judicial proceedings |
| 24-1124 |
Christopher Thomas v. Tracy Pachote |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment officer-assistance qualified-immunity split-second-decision supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
Whether an officer can use force to assist another officer under the Fourth Amendment when making a split-second decision with incomplete information,… |
| 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 … |
| 24-7071 |
Raul Palacios-De Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7053 |
Valente Brito, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition fifth-circuit firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment under plain erro… |
| 24-7040 |
Neville McGarity v. Dan Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa habeas-corpus legal-innocence statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does Jones v Hendrix overturn Bousley v United States regarding actual innocence claims and § 2241 procedures? |
| 24-6981 |
Luis Alfredo Felix-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-1061 |
Project Veritas, et al. v. Nathan Vasquez, in His Official Capacity as Multnomah County District Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny newsgathering speech-restriction supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that Oregon's prohibition of unannounced recordings is content neutral and inconsistent with Supreme Court preced… |
| 24-6805 |
Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Dunn v. United States and United States v. Powell precedents allow habeas corpus detention based on inconsistent jury verdicts |
| 24-959 |
Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
ake-standard due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-expert sentencing-mitigation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court denied Petitioner due process by refusing to provide expert mental health assistance sufficiently independent of… |
| 24-6693 |
Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece… |
| 24-6594 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedural interpretation of Hall v. Florida circumvents the categorical prohibition against executing intellectua… |
| 24-6585 |
Patrick Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment mens-rea statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the child pornography offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove a reckless mens rea as to the minor's age under First… |
| 24-6571 |
Roel Ivan Sanchez-Sosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard procedural-review supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States be overruled? |
| 24-6507 |
Deonta Lowe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether convicted felons have Second Amendment rights based on Supreme Court precedent interpreting 'the people' and 'law-abiding citizens' |
| 24-6490 |
Jose Omero Carrizal-Osornia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-standard statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 24-6477 |
Wilmer Yonathan Doblado-Padilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 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 |
| 24-6404 |
Degny Oshmarlin Molina Villatoro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-precedent statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled |
| 24-6372 |
Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent |
Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes |
| 24-6378 |
Von Clark Davis v. Bill Cool, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-waiver rule-28j supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a court of appeals may render judgment without addressing a new Supreme Court decision cited under Rule 28(j), and whether a defendant is enti… |
| 24-6334 |
John Fredenburgh v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law judicial-deference judicial-independence sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does judicial deference to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary to the United States Sentencing Guidelines violate the principles of judicial indepe… |
| 24-770 |
Darrell Eugene Clark, et al. v. City of Alexandria, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-vii workplace-harassment |
Whether a hostile work environment claim under Title VII requires proof of 'severe or pervasive' harassment when Muldrow suggests only 'some injury' i… |
| 24A708 |
Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state court's denial of an evidentiary hearing in a habeas corpus proceeding constitutes an unreasonable determination of facts under 28 U.S… |
| 24-6304 |
Rafael Paredes-Hinojosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law-review constitutional-law judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled |
| 24-6306 |
Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-history judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner Calixte was properly sentenced as an armed career criminal under Erlinger v. United States when the district court relied on Shepar… |
| 24-6239 |
Charles Randy Bowlds, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in its approach to re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, potentially contrad… |
| 24-6249 |
Taiming Zhang v. Andrew Joseph Bonomolo |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-subversion due-process federal-circuit-rules judicial-procedure magistrate-judge-authority supreme-court-precedent |
Whether federal magistrate judges can issue dispositive orders without parties' consent and whether Supreme Court precedent has been systematically su… |
| 24-6209 |
Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether trial counsel's performance deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel as made applicable by the Four… |
| 24-6188 |
John Earl Broomfield, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
911-call anonymous-tip fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the 911 callers were 'anonymous' and if their identification conflicts with Florida v. J.L. precedent |
| 24-6180 |
Carl Hubbard v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court gateway-claim habeas-corpus judicial-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not applying Schulp v. Del© precedent and denying petitioner's actual innocence gateway claim desp… |
| 24-6138 |
Andre Terial Love v. J. M. Robertson |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-provisions due-process federal-review procedural-default state-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the state court's procedural default finding bars federal review of claims one and two, and whether the admission of other crimes evidence vio… |
| 24-6118 |
Ezekiel Isiah Delgado v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confession-admissibility criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Court of Appeal unreasonably apply Supreme Court Miranda precedents by admitting Delgado's second confession without curative measures after d… |
| 24-613 |
Frederick Lewis Washington v. Sunflower County, Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review public-employee-speech summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent |
Should a court of appeals be summarily reversed for defying clear Supreme Court precedent, and should a judge or jury determine whether public employe… |
| 24-596 |
Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers |
Whether workers who fuel airplanes, but who never directly or physically move interstate goods, are engaged in the interstate transportation of goods … |
| 24A509 |
Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional in light of recent Supreme Court decisions interpreting criminal statutes and Second Amendment rights |
| 24A479 |
Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly denied habeas corpus relief by failing to fully address a defendant's constitutional claims and an intervening Su… |
| 24-5894 |
Robert S. Pierce v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rule-10c supreme-court-precedent |
Whether state and federal courts can operate by void judgment and without authority to maintain convictions in violation of Rule 10(c) while disregard… |
| 24-492 |
Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights material-fact nonmovant-evidence probable-cause summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated Supreme Court precedent by improperly weighing evidence and failing to draw justifiable inferences in favor of the … |
| 24-427 |
Ronald Hittle v. City of Stockton, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Relisted (5) |
burden-shifting causation employment-discrimination motivating-factor supreme-court-precedent title-vii |
Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework requires a plaintiff to disprove an employer's proffered reason for adverse employment action … |
| 24-408 |
Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Second Circuit correctly apply standing requirements under Article III and recent Supreme Court precedents for a Section 16(b) Securities Exch… |
| 24A331 |
Patricia A. Allen v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discriminatory-animus job-assignment jury-instructions material-adversity supreme-court-precedent title-vii |
Whether the trial court's failure to provide jury instructions consistent with recent Supreme Court precedents in Muldrow and Chambers constitutes rev… |
| 24-5707 |
Gary E. Peel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-conviction supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by affirming federal convictions for non-criminal conduct and denying an evidentiary hearing when n… |
| 24-5557 |
Michael Avenatti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the 'key role' standard adopted by the Second Circuit conflicts with the Supreme Court's 'crux' nexus test for criminal liability under the ag… |
| 24-5488 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-conviction gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24-197 |
Rose Izzo v. AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., et al. |
Delaware |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
14th-amendment Can the Third Circuit disobey the Supreme Court's class-action disability-rights due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act opt-out
24-196" opt-out-rights settlement stay-put-provision stockholder-rights supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-ruling |
Does the due process clause of the 14th Amendment require courts to give objecting stockholders the right to opt-out in a monetary settlement of a cla… |
| 24-196 |
Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
disability-rights educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act stay-put-provision supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-ruling |
Can the Third Circuit disobey the Supreme Court's holding to rule that age 21 is a condition to end stay-put protection? |
| 24-168 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
|
due-process federal-removal jurisdictional-transfer remand-order statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether an endorsed remand order without a certified remand order violates statutory requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 1443 and Supreme Court precedent, … |
| 24-5305 |
In Re Babubhai Patel |
|
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion district-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus second-in-time-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that a Second-in-Time 2255 Motion based on a new Supreme Court statutory interpretation rul… |
| 24-5221 |
Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' refusal to authorize plenary review of an unrebutted prima facie case of intellectual disability rendered… |
| 24-5128 |
Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled |
| 24-57 |
Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Relisted (9) |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-debate public-forum supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado |
| 24-51 |
Randall Bock v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
|
judicial-immunity licensing-board market-participants professional-licensing quasi-judicial-immunity sherman-act sovereign-immunity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
antitrust-law |
| 24-5053 |
Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith and Lewis v. Casey when prison officials impeded access to courts and proxima… |
| 24-5043 |
Cortlin Reese v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen constitutional-law criminal-statutes due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) and (n) violate the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022)? |
| 24-5012 |
Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process 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)? |
| 23-7839 |
Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime |
Whether a federal court must defer to a state's highest appellate court's 'least culpable' interpretation of a state crime and follow this Court's dir… |
| 23-7759 |
Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent |
May the District Court and Court of Appeals ignore the Supreme Court's decision in Concepcion v. U.S. |
| 23-7691 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924c-offense attempt-offense attempt-offenses crime-of-violence criminal-law predicate-crimes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent taylor-decision taylor-v-united-states |
Can an Illinois' attempt offense be a predicate crime of violence for an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense? |
| 23-7679 |
Thaddeus Rhodes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instructions property-rights realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a crime of violence? |
| 23-7642 |
John A. Beatty v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standards precedent precedent-validity standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Is McCarthy V United States, Ex Parte Milligan, Greenholtz V Nebraska Penal Inmates, Oregon v Hass, Vitak v. Jones still good law |
| 23-7599 |
Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7473 |
Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard |
Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of 'subjective intent to threaten,' as articu… |
| 23-7374 |
David Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a ce… |
| 23-7364 |
Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation |
May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case? |
| 23-1154 |
Kurtis M. Bailey, et al. v. Worthington Cylinder Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
|
appeal case-redress civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-disqualification disqualification-of-counsel due-process justice-stevens legal-modification standing supreme-court-precedent |
Should Richardson-Merrell,-Inc.-v.-Koller-be-modified |
| 23-7106 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history guideline-commentary sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-havis |
Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission's guideline application note 4B1.4 cmt.n.(1) is valid under 18 U.S.C. 924(e) |
| 23-7099 |
Keatron Walls v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in light o… |
| 23-6954 |
Charles B. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states |
Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 23-944 |
Jeremy W. Langley, et al. v. Brendan F. Kelly, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Illinois State Police, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (7) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights common-use constitutional-ban due-process firearm-regulation gun-rights heller-v-dc new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment semi-automatic-weapons supreme-court-precedent |
Is the State of Illinois' ban on certain semi-automatic handguns constitutional? |
| 23-6817 |
Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the First Circuit's Judgment was a valid decision by a quorum |
| 23-6803 |
Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 23A764 |
Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari eleventh-circuit mandate redistricting supreme-court-precedent voting-rights |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's panel opinion conflicts with the Supreme Court's precedents in Thornburg v. Gingles and Allen v. Milligan regarding vot… |
| 23-886 |
Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burks-v-united-states change-in-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence legal-sufficiency prosecution-evidence second-trial supreme-court-precedent trial-rights |
Whether there is an exception to the Burks v. United States holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause forbids a second trial to allow the prosecution to… |
| 23-6752 |
Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied federal law |
| 23-879 |
Caleb Barnett, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (7) |
2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms firearms-ban gun-rights second-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Illinois' sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment |
| 23A734 |
Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
brady-challenge controlled-substances drug-distribution ninth-circuit ruan-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied the Supreme Court's Ruan decision by vacating only some drug convictions and refusing to apply the 'knowi… |
| 23-6656 |
Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 23-6661 |
Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied-bias |
| 23-6650 |
Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent |
Does Lockhart v. Fretwell prevent federal habeas corpus relief despite prejudice when Supreme Court precedent at trial was not clearly inconsistent wi… |
| 23-6612 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender |
| 23-805 |
Christopher Paul George v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and Miller-El, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, … |
| 23-6531 |
Terrance Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court erred in finding that Brown is a career offender under U.S.S.G. §§4B1.1 and 4B1.2, where one of Brown's predicate convictio… |
| 23-6486 |
Schuyler Algernon Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, governs … |
| 23-769 |
Lyft, Inc. v. Million Seifu |
California |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement dismissal federal-arbitration-act individual-claims non-individual-claims paga-claims private-attorneys-general-act state-law-employment-claims state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires the dismissal of non-individual claims brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act |
| 23-6421 |
Remberto Rivera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary … |
| 23-723 |
Joseph Randolph Mays v. T. B. Smith, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
bivens bivens-claim civil-rights damages-suit due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-prisoner race-discrimination racial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a federal inmate prisoner may bring a Bivens claim for racial discrimination against prison officials |
| 23-6357 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-for-relief sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the denial of the Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) Motion is contrary to this Court's ruling in Concepcion? |
| 23-6375 |
Mark E. Sells v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure plea-agreement supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit-court united-states-supreme-court-law |
due-process-access-to-court |
| 23-6333 |
Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow precedent violated the petitioner's right to a fair trial |
| 23A543 |
Mischa Shuman, et al. v. New York Magazine, et al. |
New York |
2023-12-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
defamation first-amendment journalistic-standards libel public-concern supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the First Amendment requires a different standard for evaluating libel claims involving private figures in media reporting about matters of al… |
| 23A504 |
Fernando Diaz Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aiding-and-abetting criminal-statute hobbs-act section-924(c) supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery remains valid in light of the Supreme Court's vagueness and … |
| 23-6116 |
Cynthia Clemons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the plain error standard is contrary to Supreme Court precedents, including Ruan and Henderson |
| 23-6057 |
Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno's case is conflicting with Pirset Circuit precedents |
| 23-6062 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Sixth Circuit's draconian view of the plain-error standard contrary to this Court's precedents, including Henderson-v-United-States? |
| 23-6041 |
Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6043 |
Dwaun Jabbar Guidry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-question law-of-the-case supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of relief violated due process by determining the law of the case doctrine was controlling despite the parties' app… |
| 23A430 |
Ernest Bustos v. Encino Park Homeowners Association, et al. |
Texas |
2023-11-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fraud-upon-court pro-se supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower courts violated a pro se litigant's due process rights by dismissing appeals based on procedural technicalities rather than addressi… |
| 23-495 |
Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Does the TCPA's definition of an ATDS require a number generator to generate the numbers themselves? |
| 23-5975 |
Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent |
Are inferior courts allowed unrestricted freedom to interpret the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan v United States? |
| 23-5942 |
Christopher Rayquaz Singletary v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 23-5858 |
Anthony Schneider v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor |
Whether a guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver bars jurisdictional challenges on appeal |
| 23-405 |
Kristy Ross v. Federal Trade Commission |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
|
arguable-basis article-iii civil-procedure frcp-60(b)(4) jurisdictional-challenge rule-60(b)(4) rule-60(b)(6) subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent void |
Whether a judgment lacking in subject matter jurisdiction under Article III is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) even with an arguable basis for jurisdiction |
| 23-5825 |
Robert Robinson v. Savvy Ventures, LLC, c/o Gregory Real Estate, Inc., dba Gregory Property Management |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-rebellion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-officials standing supreme-court-precedent |
Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constitution o… |
| 23-5788 |
Roberto Buendia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was 'plain' conf… |
| 23-377 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's precedents are the only source of clearly established law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 23-5749 |
Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Fifth Circuit's selective adjudication and undermining the law of this Court's ruling on conduct outside the statutory definition of a crime … |
| 23-304 |
Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent |
Does 'Heck' or any other procedural issue bar a section 1983 petition asking for declaratory and injunctive relief when a prosecutor defiantly fails t… |
| 23-310 |
Cory Ratzloff v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on the… |
| 23-269 |
Charles Juntikka v. Cadell & Chapman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement arbitrator-decision civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process equity-doctrine federal-arbitration-act serious-error stolt-nielsen-v-animal-feeds supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers holding that an arbitrator's 'serious error' does not suffice to overturn an arbitrator'… |
| 23-5497 |
Malik Woods v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals run contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent |
| 23-5417 |
Ari Misha Liggett v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harris-v-new-york impeachment-exception insanity-defense james-v-illinois supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's expansion of the impeachment exception to the exclusionary rule is consistent with this Court's prior rulings |
| 23-5174 |
Dionte Houff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal |
Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul… |
| 23-5099 |
Dustin Jolly v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Supreme Court use its supervisory authority to resolve the conflict between the Sixth Circuit and other circuits on applying the Supreme Co… |
| 23-20 |
Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler |
Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams and Trevino v. Thaler when it holds an ineffective assistance claim was unexhausted and procedurally defau… |
| 22-7875 |
J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure 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)? |
| 22-7760 |
Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force |
Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be commit… |
| 22-7745 |
James William Walker v. Montana |
Montana |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court coram-nobis due-process judicial-branch motion-for-relief supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-morgan |
Did the Montana judicial branch violate US Supreme Court precedent by denying petitioner relief under United States v. Morgan? |
| 22-7707 |
Kelvun Montrail Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 22-1172 |
Dejuan Andre Worthen v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting attempted-hobbs-act-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor |
Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause |
| 22-7653 |
Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling 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)? |
| 22-1103 |
Edward Bronson v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-order civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-sanctions due-process injunctive-relief penalties punitive-sanctions standing statutory-penalties supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Summary Order of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court |
| 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… |
| 22-7443 |
Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and its… |
| 22-7351 |
Leonard Scaggs v. A. Ciolli, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 actual-innocence habeas-corpus jury-instructions rosemond-decision savings-clause section-2241 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-rosemond |
Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Rosemond was available to petitioner in a motion filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 under the 'savin… |
| 22-1005 |
Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters |
Minnesota |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in qualified immunity cases? |
| 22-7271 |
Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure |
Whether Texas's procedure for failing to apply the Bullcoming standard and violating the 6th Amendment right to confrontation that is incorporated aga… |
| 22-988 |
Credit Consulting Services, Inc. v. Maritza Paredes |
California |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law rotkiske-v-klemm statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the California Court of Appeal erred in holding that the California doctrine of 'equitable tolling' applied so as to toll the one-year statute… |
| 22-7223 |
Raymond Charles Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
142-s-ct-2389-2022 case-compliance civil-procedure concepcion-v-united-states due-process judicial-review legal-remand remand standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this case should be remanded for compliance with Concepcion v. United States, 142 S.Ct. 2389 (2022) |
| 22-7224 |
Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent 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)? |
| 22-7074 |
Christopher White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th… |
| 22-7045 |
John Leendert Oskam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute intimidation mens-rea physical-force supreme-court-precedent |
Does the element of 'intimidation' in the crime of federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113 require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of ph… |
| 22-890 |
Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue |
North Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process interstate-sales judicial-precedent out-of-state-sales precedent state-courts state-taxation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court was correct that state courts and taxing authorities no longer must follow Dilworth because this Court has im… |
| 22-6976 |
Golda D. Harris v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitration-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias judicial-discrimination prima-paint-corp-v-flood-conklin pro-se-litigation stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent unconscionable-claims zahid-n-quraishi |
Is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit allowed to substitute its decision(s) and overrule the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §81-… |
| 22-847 |
Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation |
First Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection |
Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court? |
| 22-6823 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism 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)? |
| 22-6764 |
Michael Ray Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether United States v. Granados, 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Cooper,… |
| 22-6768 |
Stanley Foster Baker v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-procedure miranda-warnings reasonable-person-standard state-court supreme-court-precedent |
Was it objectively reasonable for the State courts to conclude that no reasonable factfinder could believe that Baker was in custody during interrogat… |
| 22-6724 |
In Re Christopher Cobb |
|
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US » 142 §.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review |
| 22-6696 |
Rudy Garcia v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standards precedent prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel |
Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas claim conflict with their previous decision of a similar claim? |
| 22-6637 |
Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent 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)? |
| 22-6596 |
Laverne C. Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights |
| 22-6597 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the District Court lacked statutory authority under 18 U.S.C. 1962(c) if Congress intended for a RICO conspiracy to be complete when reached, … |
| 22-634 |
Richard Estle Carson, III v. Kathryn Hyland, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-action class-actions common-fund incentive-award incentive-awards representative-plaintiff representative-plaintiffs rule-23 service-award supreme-court-precedent |
Does Rule 23 abrogate this Court's holdings that payments in common-fund class actions to compensate representative plaintiffs for their personal serv… |
| 22-6446 |
James Thomas Burke v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-dismissal circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure justice-stevens standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent time-barred |
Whether Hardin v. Straub is relevant to the Supreme Court's holdings |
| 22-6315 |
Iklas Richard Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Third Circuit's presumption that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) defendants knew of their prohibiting status conflict with Rehaif? |
| 22-6220 |
Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-488 |
Darrell Hemphill v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect was harmless |
| 22-6125 |
Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism 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)? |
| 22-477 |
Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
|
arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
Should the requirement that a plaintiff's cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign natio… |
| 22-6094 |
William Milton v. California |
California |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states due-process mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive |
| 22-453 |
Hyuk Kee Yoo, aka Keith Yoo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
extradition-proceedings extradition-treaty individual-liberty judicial-discretion judiciary-role limitations-provisions statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent treaty-interpretation |
Whether interpreting Article 6 of the U.S.-South Korea Extradition Treaty as a discretionary issue for the Secretary of State conflicts with Supreme C… |
| 22-431 |
Gigi Jordan v. Amy Lamanna, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clearly-established federal-law habeas-corpus public-trial-clause sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Whether a federal habeas petitioner seeking relief on the basis of a violation of the Public Trial Clause can demonstrate an 'unreasonable application… |
| 22-6002 |
Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are 'grievously' ambiguous |
| 22-5981 |
Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled |
| 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 |
| 22-5938 |
Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its … |
| 22-371 |
Pennsylvania v. Akim Sharif Jones-Williams |
Pennsylvania |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment blood-draw blood-testing exigent-circumstances mitchell-v-wisconsin motor-vehicle-incident probable-cause supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search |
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issue a decision in conflict with, and fail to properly apply and follow, binding legal precedent from the United S… |
| 22-5785 |
Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent |
Whether state courts are required to accept and rule on the merits of claims presented in writs of habeas corpus by prisoners who dismiss their attorn… |
| 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 |
| 22-5708 |
David K. Lamb v. Susan Wilson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii case-controversy civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-standing jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ripeness standing supreme-court-precedent |
Lack-of-standing-is-a-jurisdictional-defect |
| 22-5627 |
Justin Tyrone Young v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supreme-court-precedent |
Can a lawyer have his client plead guilty to 20 years on a statutory maximum of 15 years? |
| 22-5459 |
Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled |
| 22-5387 |
Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge 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)? |
| 22-5359 |
Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike |
| 22-5372 |
Tony Lee Foster v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Federal and U.S. Supreme Court precedent demands Kansas Supreme Court precedent civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-precedent judicial-review kansas-supreme-court procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-precedent state-statute statutory-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state high court can deny review of a constitutional challenge to its own statute when procedural due process, state precedent, and federal … |
| 22-5356 |
Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified |
| 22-5259 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent |
Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in distegard of the rule announced in Buck v Davis" |
| 22-5271 |
Jose Erbo, aka Tito, aka Pinguita, aka Miguel Garcia v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment autopsy-reports confrontation-clause due-process legal-conflict supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents testimonial testimonial-evidence |
Whether Autopsy Reports Are Testimonial For Purposes Of The Confrontation Clause, And Whether The Unreasonable Application Of Clearly Established Supr… |
| 22-5145 |
Michael Kim v. Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-removal due-process eleventh-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction litigation-costs removal standing supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson, 189 S. Ct. 1743 (2019), affirmed on 54 (1 dissent), or hold that a defendant in a civil… |
| 22-5110 |
Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court has overturned Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and if there is sufficient evidence to justify a conviction |
| 22-5100 |
Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal |
Whether there is a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a federal or state trial court rescinds… |
| 22-5058 |
Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by … |
| 22-5015 |
Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony |
Whether Jackson received due process |
| 21-8180 |
Rives Grogan v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burwell-v-hobby-lobby court-of-appeals hobby-lobby-precedent punishment-magnitude religious-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred, contravening Supreme Court precedent set forth in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., by weighing Mr. Grogan's al… |
| 21-8149 |
Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8035 |
Charlie John Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-7967 |
Jairo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Can a defendant procedurally default a claim that the court lacked jurisdiction to imprison him under an unconstitutional statute? |
| 21-1478 |
Nicholas Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation due-process finality-requirement finality-ripeness knick pakdel ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings takings-claim williamson-county |
Whether Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019) and Pakdel v. City and Cty. of San Francisco, 141 S.Ct. 2226 (2021) have sanctioned a pervas… |
| 21-7895 |
Antoine Mayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether it was error for the Second Circuit to deny Mayes the right to file an appeal or collaterally attack his conviction in light of the Supreme Co… |
| 21-1439 |
Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-7832 |
Daniel Casamayor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-indictment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute indictment knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if Casamayor's indictment for being a felon in possession of a firearm is valid in light of Rehaif… |
| 21-7727 |
Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-judgments criminal-judgments final-judgment indian-territory mcgirt-decision mcgirt-v-oklahoma race racial-classification retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision applies retroactively to all persons in Indian Territory irrespective of race, including their final civil and… |
| 21-1380 |
Seun Banjo Ojedokun v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-cases congressional-intent criminal-statute extraterritorial-application presumption-against-extraterritoriality statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, as in civil cases, a clear indication of congressional intent is required to rebut the presumption against extraterritorial application of a … |
| 21-7663 |
Guy Adam Rook v. Donald Holbrook |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-law gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus harmelin-v-michigan lockyer-v-andrade state-constitutional-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state constitutional test that is less protective than the federal constitutional test fails to 'adjudicate[ ... ] the merits' of the federa… |
| 21-7639 |
Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues and Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues were correctly interpreted, or contr… |
| 21-7535 |
Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Question Presented |
| 21-7546 |
Ronald Scott Eddington v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-decoster wilson-v-sellers |
Should the Ninth Circuit or the Federal District Court of Idaho have issued a COA on Petitioner's claims |
| 21-1320 |
Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution |
Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications |
| 21-7503 |
Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism 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)? |
| 21-1307 |
Santa Ana Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, et al. v. Rubyann Mondragon |
California |
2022-03-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act iskanian-rule iskanian-v-cls-transport lamps-plus-v-varela representative-claims supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim… |
| 21-7383 |
Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho… |
| 21-7389 |
John Peyton Alexander, II v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-03-16 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis parole post-conviction-relief sentence-computation sentence-modification standing supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Whether a financially solvent prisoner has a constitutional right to receive in forma pauperis status to file a meritorious petition for writ of certi… |
| 21-1242 |
Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Supreme Court require the Eleventh Circuit to follow Supreme Court precedent and resolve challenges to Article III standing before resolvin… |
| 21-7240 |
Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts erroneously employ the wrong legal standard? |
| 21-7192 |
Thomas Johnny Wilkins v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-interpretation civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-evidence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-supervisory-power |
Whether new reliable evidence for the purpose of Schlup's actual innocence gateway must be newly discovered, previously unavailable evidence or relate… |
| 21-7207 |
Robert Brewer v. New York |
New York |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Saad v Arizona continues to apply following Ramos v. Louisiana and Edwards v Vannoy |
| 21-7217 |
Thomas Allen Twobabies v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act mcgirt-decision montgomery-v-louisiana native-american-law oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals retroactivity schriro-v-summerlin supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for Major Crimes Act purposes |
| 21-7181 |
Mary Ellen Samuels v. Janel Espinoza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-supreme-court conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice performance prejudice prejudice-presumption supreme-court-precedent |
Did the California Supreme Court unreasonably fail to apply clearly established Supreme Court precedent that requires prejudice to be presumed where a… |
| 21-7135 |
Daniel Joseph Dawson v. Jeremy Larson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel eighth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a circuit court can deny a certificate of appealability when the Applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of important constitut… |
| 21-1121 |
Handy Technologies, Inc. v. Patrick Pote |
California |
2022-02-14 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act preemption representative-claims supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim… |
| 21-1116 |
Matthew Liebovich, et al. v. Diane Janice Tobin, et al. |
California |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure discretion due-process notice notice-requirement state-court-discretion state-statute supreme-court-precedent void-judgment |
Does Peralta compel courts to vacate void judgments entered absent notice, or does the lack of express reference in this Court's opinion to California… |
| 21-7099 |
Edwin Disla v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure eleventh-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus precedent remand rule-60b3-motion second-and-successive supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a Rule 60(b)(3) Motion for Fraud on the Court overcomes a Second and Successive Ruling Pursuant to the dictates of Supreme Court Precedent set… |
| 21-7074 |
Benny Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a certificate of appe… |
| 21-6942 |
Alison Gu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether making false statements on a passport application form violates 18 U.S.C. § 1542 |
| 21-6902 |
Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that United States v. Powell precludes consideration of the jury's other verdicts when conducting harmless … |
| 21-6858 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the ACCA, 851, and Career Offender enhancements should be removed in light of the First Step Act Section 401 and the First Step Implementation… |
| 21-6804 |
Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation cone-v-bell criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the October 7, 2021 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, finding that Timothy Kemp was not prejudiced under Brady v. Maryland, was in confl… |
| 21-977 |
Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. |
Washington |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
|
case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion |
Whether the state courts failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial, which conflicts with three decisions of the Supreme Court r… |
| 21-946 |
Michael Coscia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel |
Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28-U.S.C-2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 |
| 21-923 |
Delila Pacheco v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
|
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6585 |
Freddy Crespo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule on certificates of appealability conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 21-6553 |
Chad L. Enderle v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process heemstra legal-retroactivity pending-appeals retroactive-application retroactive-availability statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
Do the federal Supreme Court cases require Iowa law to apply full retroactive availability to pending appeals? |
| 21-6520 |
Mark J. Zimny v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-court due-process motion-for-summary-disposition reasonable-jurists substantial-question summary-disposition supreme-court-precedent |
Did an appellate court contravene Supreme Court precedent by granting the government's motion for summary disposition? |
| 21-6494 |
Benjamin Robert Cole v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6462 |
Clarence Rozell Goode, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgment habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6464 |
John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
convictions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 14058. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-6457 |
Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-6432 |
James Chandler Ryder v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure final-judgments habeas-corpus indian-law mcgirt-v-oklahoma oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 1408. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-785 |
Richard Riccardi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states |
Whether the exception to the procedural default rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957) applies |
| 21-6355 |
Everett Earl Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 should be vacated due to lack of two prior qualifying 'serious violent felony' convictions |
| 21-6320 |
Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a federal court may certify the divisibility inquiry to state court and rely on the newly created judicial interpretation of state law to enha… |
| 21-6243 |
Richard Barnhart, Jr. v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial ohio-appellate-court search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Is a Petitioner denied his due process rights when the Ohio Appellate Court applies an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in reg… |
| 21-624 |
Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit circuit-court commissioner direct-tax frivolous income-tax internal-revenue supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax taxable-income |
May the Commissioner of Internal Revenue collect a uniform direct tax on Petitioner's taxable income? |
| 21-6084 |
Jacquelyne Jones v. Nicole Jobe |
Kansas |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
canon-of-judicial-ethics civil-rights court-procedure due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding judicial-canon judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-rules state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Kansas Supreme Court fail to follow the law and rules of the judiciary in condoning a procedure of one of its state courts in violation of Kan… |
| 21-6101 |
Paul D. Timms v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
When a federal district court denies a state prisoner's 28-U.S.C.-2254-petition based upon an improper standard-of-review |
| 21-612 |
Isaac Wolf v. University Professional and Technical Employees, Communications Workers of America Local 9119, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-consent civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-law labor-rights public-workers standing supreme-court-precedent union-dues |
Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the 'affirmative consent' required by Janus v. AFSCME |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause unconstitutional? |
| 21-588 |
United States v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Dismissed |
Amici (20) |
abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Texas's S.B. 8 violates the Supreme Court's precedents on abortion rights |
| 21-582 |
Mark Lee Dickson v. Whole Woman's Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
|
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review reproductive-rights severability standing stare-decisis state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Should the Court overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey? |
| 21-583 |
Stephen Brint Carlton, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
|
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-precedent judicial-review reproductive-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent texas-law |
Whether the Court should overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey |
| 21-587 |
Penny Clarkston v. Whole Woman's Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
|
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-precedent judicial-review reproductive-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court should overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey |
| 21-497 |
T. E. L., a Minor v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-04 |
Granted |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-statute due-process elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-requirement speech-protection supreme-court-precedent virginia-v-black watts-v-united-states |
Whether Florida Statute § 790.162 violates the First Amendment |
| 21-486 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-487 |
Oklahoma v. David Deval Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-5829 |
Amar Taylor v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid in light of United Sta… |
| 21-467 |
Clifton Merrill Parish v. Oklahoma, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus indian-law oklahoma-law retroactivity supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced |
| 21-5817 |
James E. Pearson v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-uscs-2254 constitutional-standards federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel malloy-v-hogan miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-procedure supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
Does the reasoning within Malloy v Hogan require specifically apply to claims of insufficiency or ineffective counsel, and were the federal habeas rev… |
| 21-466 |
Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's … |
| 21-453 |
Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg |
California |
2021-09-23 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
california-labor-code contract-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption supreme-court-precedent |
Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali… |
| 21-444 |
Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (22) |
aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire |
Denial of constitutional rights to impartial jury and effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-5651 |
Taniko C. Smith v. Brian E. Williams, Sr., Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurisprudence ninth-circuit state-court state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Does a federal habeas court owe deference to a state's wider jurisprudence when a state court arbitrarily fails to follow its own law? |
| 21-391 |
Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, it inte… |
| 21-5625 |
Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United States, Stinson v. United States, and Davis v. United … |
| 21-5580 |
Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-question judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions… |
| 21-336 |
Shiyang Huang v. Brian F. Spector, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure class-action class-certification future-harm monetary-damages money-damages risk-of-harm supreme-court-precedent transunion-v-ramirez |
Whether class-action plaintiffs can still rely on mere 'risk of future harm' allegations alone to establish Article III standing, achieve class certif… |
| 21-5462 |
James Michael Kerns v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing-challenge sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether Count 3 conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 is valid given the unconstitutionality of the predicate crime of violence in Count 2 |
| 21-233 |
Mike Finnin Motors, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy civil-procedure direct-takings due-process economic-valuation federal-defense property-rights regulatory-takings supreme-court-precedent takings takings-liability |
Whether the novel Federal Circuit 'but for' defense to takings liability conflicts with precedents |
| 21-180 |
Michael Patrick Lathigee v. British Columbia Securities Commission |
Nevada |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement-order due-process foreign-judgment-enforcement foreign-judgments international-law international-legal-comity penalties penalty-characterization supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's opinion enforcing the BCSC's $21.7 million (CAD) Canadian 'Disgorgement Order' against Lathigee as a judgment in… |
| 21-5317 |
Mauricio Melendez v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-concession criminal-autonomy criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-defense stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the right to secured autonomy over one's defense requires express objection to an attorney's concession of guilt |
| 21-5234 |
Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent 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)? |
| 21-5105 |
Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States that a carjacker's intent to seriously harm or kill the driver can be conditioned on th… |
| 21-31 |
Fast Auto Loans, Inc. v. Joe Maldonado, et al. |
California |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-arbitration preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent |
Is California's McGill rule preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act? |
| 21-5065 |
Blake Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines a single offense or two (or more) separate and divisible offenses |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Whether Mr. Wilkins's conviction for Texas aggravated robbery is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 in light of Borden v. United States |
| 21-13 |
KinderCare Education, LLC v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. |
California |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-agreement contra-proferentem federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus-v-varela preemption state-common-law state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether California courts can avoid consideration of Lamps Plus v. Varela and instead adhere to a contrary state appellate precedent |
| 21-5031 |
Luis Pitt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bradshaw-v-stumpf circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review kercheval-v-united-states plea-acceptance plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated |
| 21-5005 |
Erwin Eugene Semien v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment administrative-claim due-process federal-tort-claims-act first-amendment jones-v-bock jurisdictional-threshold supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts violate Semien's right to due process under the 5th Amendment due process clause by failing to follow Supreme Court precedent est… |
| 20-1808 |
Adam E. Billings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach |
Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process |
| 20-1768 |
Ron Fenn v. City of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability government-actor qualified-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts err in dismissing Petitioners' case on the basis of Qualified-Immunity |
| 20-1672 |
Joan Carol Lipin v. Wisehart Springs Inn, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
|
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process first-amendment fraud-on-the-court judicial-authority summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent trust-agreement |
Whether the sanctity of the express and unambiguous written intent, terms, and conditions of an Act of Congress are inviolate |
| 20-8196 |
William Severs v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error right-to-counsel supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court |
Whether the Decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the District of New Jersey were contrary to the United States S… |
| 20-1642 |
Brian Doty v. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court circuit-court-split construction-site jones-act jury-determination maritime-worker seaman-status supreme-court-precedent vessel-navigation |
Whether the injured worker was entitled to a jury determination of his status as a Jones Act seaman |
| 20-8083 |
Derrick Baer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision … |
| 20-7986 |
Kevin Dunbar v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempted-first-degree-murder consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-weighing kidnapping self-representation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the petitioner's aggravated sentences were in violation of due process and conflict with the United States Supreme Court holdings in Apprendi … |
| 20-1539 |
Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner based… |
| 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)? |
| 20-7830 |
Firas M. Ayoubi v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof canton-analysis civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process likelihood-on-the-merits monell-claim preliminary-injunction seventh-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Seventh Circuit's decision put an unreasonable requirement and heightened burden of proof in establishing likelihood on the merits at the prel… |
| 20-7805 |
Melvin Knight v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
brumfield-v-cain clinical-standards death-penalty documentation-requirement intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a State may require a defendant to present an IQ score of 75 or below that was 'documented prior to age 18' to have his intellectual disabilit… |
| 20-7783 |
Michael A. Farrell v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus lower-court-ruling perjured-testimony standing supreme-court-precedent |
Are the lower court's rulings in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent? |
| 20-1379 |
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Center for Investigative Reporting |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
categorical-ban commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-speech political-speech public-forum supreme-court-precedent transit-advertising transit-authority |
Whether this Court's decision in Mansky overruled or abrogated the Court's holding in Lehman that transit authorities have the discretion to categoric… |
| 20-7547 |
Saloman Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence are in conflict with the Supreme Court's precedents in (1) Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004),… |
| 20-1344 |
Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
16th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process income-definition irs standing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent tax-law taxation |
Can the IRS/United States consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis) on the definition of income, as 'legally frivol… |
| 20-7519 |
Angadbir Singh Salwan v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstract-idea administrative-law civil-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent patent-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether the lower courts' rulings are tainted by corruption financed by China's Communist party, and whether the Supreme Court should reverse the CAFC… |
| 20-7520 |
Shante Bruce Rice v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-defendant constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-sentencing equal-protection equal-protection-clause life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision that the ban on mandatory sentences of life without parole applies to only those defendants who wer… |
| 20-7523 |
Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-03-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Is Petitioner convicted by a non-unanimous verdict, whose case is not yet final, entitled to the benefit of the holding in Ramos? |
| 20-1296 |
Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent |
Does precedent in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allow defendants to circumvent FRCP 15 and FRCP 16 requirements for amendin… |
| 20-7504 |
Ray A. Gough v. Daniel Q. Sullivan, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sexually-dangerous-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act are 'criminal prosecutions' under the Sixth Amendment |
| 20-7457 |
Mark Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry |
Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which conflicts… |
| 20-1252 |
Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
|
arbitration attorneys-fees circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure federal-courts federal-labor-law labor-arbitration labor-law supreme-court-precedent union-rights |
Can arbitrators disregard Supreme Court precedent on awarding attorneys' fees to union members wrongfully denied mandated arbitration? |
| 20-1233 |
Johnny Gatewood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim |
| 20-7360 |
Emmanuel Feaster v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that petitioner Emmanuel Feaste… |
| 20-7311 |
Juan Matthews v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection jury-verdict racial-discrimination ramos-v-louisiana standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Louisiana's jury verdict scheme that convicted the petitioner violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution |
| 20-1165 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-282 access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process patent-law separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming collateral estoppel without once proving it nor applying Supreme Court precedent dating back more tha… |
| 20-7038 |
David Paul Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) must be reversed |
| 20-1031 |
Northern California Small Business Assistants, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax-law |
Is 26 U.S.C. § 6213(a)'s deficiency petition (90-day) filing deadline jurisdictional |
| 20-6947 |
Alphonso Cave v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual-disability on the merits for cases on coll… |
| 20-6885 |
David Alan Vogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 2255-appeal 2255-motion 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent constitutional-grounds sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment |
Did the 5th Circuit violate the precedent of this Supreme Court and the legal standard of every other circuit when it denied Certificate of Appealabil… |
| 20-6842 |
Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the majority opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under the co… |
| 20-6809 |
Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit… |
| 20-6774 |
Craig B. Snoddy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on invent… |
| 20-852 |
Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA… |
| 20-830 |
Washington v. Said Omer Ali |
Washington |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… |
| 20-6498 |
Tony Barksdale v. Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in Buck v. Davis when it denied Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech
20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud |
Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-744 |
Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab… |
| 20-6463 |
Alex Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge 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)? |
| 20-731 |
Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 suffers from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and overbreadth as 18 U.S.C.A. § 201 under McDonnell v. U.S. |
| 20-6418 |
Michael A. Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-714 |
Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States |
| 20-670 |
Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson diverged from its previous holdings in Whalen v. Roe and… |
| 20-673 |
Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreements arbitration-enforcement eastern-associated-coal-vs-umwa federal-arbitration-act federal-policy labor-arbitration public-policy public-policy-exception supreme-court-precedent united-paperworkers-vs-misco w-r-grace-vs-local-union |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court erred as a matter of law by expanding the scope of the public policy exception to enforcement of labor arbitration … |
| 20-6307 |
Gary Lawrence v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Hall v. Florida applies retroactively on collateral review |
| 20-6234 |
Karen Moynihan v. West Chester Area School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process endrew-f-v-douglas-cty-sch-dist individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review special-education standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit third-circuit-court |
Did the United States District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disregard this Honorable Court's Opinion on the Individuals with Disabilities Ed… |
| 20-6194 |
Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. |
Texas |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a cell phone's digital contents and location information by a private citizen debt collector violates th… |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Illinois Appellant Courts must be required to follow the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983), when ana… |
| 20-487 |
Ho Wong Jeong v. Angel Cabrera, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion motion precedent pro-se rule-60 standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the district court act contrary to SCOTUS precedents in denying appellant's pro se Rule 60(b)(3) motion on untimeliness without oral argument? |
| 20-6004 |
Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent 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)? |
| 20-5914 |
Clifton Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower courts erred in determining that the scheme involved in this case did not affect 'interstate commerce' as required by the Hobbs Act |
| 20-420 |
Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid… |
| 20-240 |
Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White |
Kentucky |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia |
| 20-5510 |
Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the governing provisions in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals precedent case law, In re Goddard, has unlawfully created an arbitrary or ambi… |
| 20-5468 |
Corey Manning v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence |
Whether defendant-appellant was denied his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of trial |
| 20-5366 |
Anthony Bernard Smith, Jr. v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance judicial-precedent ninth-circuit reasonable-diligence statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
Whether reasonable diligence to remedy an extraordinary circumstance is sufficient for equitable tolling to stop the clock on a statute of limitations |
| 20-5370 |
Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
whether-the-petitioner's-petition-is-timely-and/or-the-one-year-statute-of-limitations-in-petitioner's-case-are-equatably-tolled-under-holland-v.-flor… |
| 20-5362 |
David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee… |
| 20-5304 |
Stephon Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation |
Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated |
| 20-5258 |
Nikole Marie Hunter v. Government Employees Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure evidence evidence-interpretation expert-witness judicial-function procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the District Court failed to review evidence and ignored expert witness testimony in conflict with Supreme Court precedent on summary judgment… |
| 20-5262 |
Stephen Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search |
Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones and Carpenter v. United States be applied retroactively under Title 28 U.S.C. § 2253 |
| 20-5194 |
In Re Kevin D. Moore |
|
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) based on the COVID-19 pandem… |
| 20-5132 |
Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner is actually, factually, legally, and lawfully innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) conviction |
| 20-5037 |
Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record |
Whether plain-error review allows courts to review beyond the trial record |
| 20-5099 |
Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop |
Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals conflicts with Terry-v-Ohio |
| 20-5088 |
Francisco Javier Ponce-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-below different-result holguin-hernandez Holguin-Hernandez-v-United-States lower-court-decision reasonable-probability reconsider-decision reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 20-5042 |
Julian Silva-Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea ninth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is inconsistent with McCarthy v. United States |
| 20-1 |
Nicholas E. Davis v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver |
Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha… |
| 20-5018 |
Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Did the courts apply SCOTUS precedent in Price v. Georgia and Strickland v. Washington correctly? |
| 19-1443 |
S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments |
Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States |
| 19-8860 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2020-06-30 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appointments-clause aqua-products arthrex constitutional-redress equal-protection fletcher-v-peck patent-prosecution patent-prosecution-history patent-review supreme-court-precedent virnetx |
Whether this Court must Order the Circuit Court to apply Arthrex, Virnetx, Aqua Products, consider Patent Prosecution History, and enforce Fletcher, i… |
| 19-8869 |
Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine was properly applied |
| 19-8707 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the USPTO/PTAB and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution against repudiating Government-issued contract grants |
| 19-8708 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Presidio Bank |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-ethics patent patent-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's duty to enforce its Governing Precedents |
| 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 |
| 19-8671 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
chief-justice-roberts conflict-of-interest constitutional-redress government-issued-patents judicial-misconduct knights-of-malta patent-rights supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents |
Whether Chief Justice Roberts' conflict of interest as a member of the Knights of Malta prejudices inventors' patent rights |
| 19-8658 |
Garian King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
__U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8640 |
Paul N. Littles v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness Johnson-v-United-States mandatory-sentencing-guidelines postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent unconstitutionally-vague |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28-U.S.C-2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S-Sentencing-Guidelines is timely when filed… |
| 19-8633 |
Weylin O. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-review due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus miller-el-standard precedent remand section-2255 supreme-court-precedent title-28-U.S.C-2255 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision not to remand for an evidentiary hearing was contrary to precedent requiring such a hearing under 28-U.S.C-225… |
| 19-8613 |
Abdul Shabazz Wiggins v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
anderson-v-creighton civil-rights due-process graham-v-connor hope-v-pelzer hudson-v-mcmillian qualified-immunity strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
Whether the General District and Circuit Courts of Suffolk ignored the defendant's right to Qualified-Immunity |
| 19-8617 |
Homar Perez Chavez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 19-8580 |
Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states |
Whether a state court is required under the federal constitution to retroactively apply interpretations of a substantive criminal statute that narrow … |
| 19-8463 |
Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase 'parents' marital status' by holding that it refers exclusively to 'legiti… |
| 19-8313 |
Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Did the lower courts err in determining Petitioner's reliance on McQuiggin v. Perkins |
| 19-8257 |
Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition |
Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud… |
| 19-1191 |
Ohio v. Shawn Ford |
Ohio |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
What is the test for determining whether someone is 'intellectually disabled' for purposes of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-1170 |
Ricky W. Campbell v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion causal-connection civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc-filing employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-bar standing staub-v-proctor-hospital supreme-court-precedent |
issue being raised |
| 19-8066 |
Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8073 |
Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo… |
| 19-8029 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty to the Queen of Englan… |
| 19-7887 |
Juvenile Female v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status |
Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult… |
| 19-1070 |
Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search |
Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D… |
| 19-1060 |
Victor Thomas v. New York |
New York |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal |
Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court… |
| 19-7750 |
Russell Patrick Brown v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-degree-murder constitutional-due-process constitutional-violation conviction criminal-conviction due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia jury-instruction premeditation self-defense supreme-court-precedent |
Whether it's a U.S. constituion Due Process violation proscribed by this court in Jackson v. Virginia, for Mr. Brown's 1st degree murder conviction to… |
| 19-7729 |
Aaron New v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar |
Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2… |
| 19-7726 |
Larry Watkins, Sr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-reform-act constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence moot-question mootness pretrial-bail residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness |
Whether the judgment below should be vacated for deciding a moot question |
| 19-7645 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6) |
| 19-7705 |
Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver |
Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense |
| 19-7630 |
Paris Hollingshed v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record |
Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense allows courts to review beyond the trial record |
| 19-7595 |
Rickey Todd Major v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-constitution retroactivity state-courts substantive-function supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states |
Does the federal Constitution require state courts to apply retroactively decisions that narrow the scope of criminal laws? |
| 19-7567 |
Richard Ben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2111 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-law dimaya-decision dimaya-vs-sessions due-process firearm-brandishing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states johnson-vs-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Ben's conviction for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence should be vacated |
| 19-7568 |
Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter |
| 19-7469 |
Olga Palamarchuk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard for materiality in a mail fraud case is determined by the likely behavior of the recipient of the alleged misrepresentations |
| 19-7461 |
Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified |
| 19-941 |
Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Georgia's requirement that a capital defendant prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violates the Eighth Amendment |
| 19-7170 |
Dante Taylor v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin… |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision is in conflict with Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. 522 (2011) and Hughes v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1765 (201… |
| 19-7074 |
Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-7080 |
Stanley Jaboin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdi… |
| 19-7073 |
Anthony Thomas v. Kenmark Ventures, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure bankruptcy-law civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-fraud mandate mandate-recall supreme-court-precedent void-judgment |
Did the Ninth Circuit commit error by failing to recall the mandate based upon this Court's intervening decision in Lamar, Archer & Cotrin. LLP v. App… |
| 19-6995 |
Richard Alan King v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent |
Was the presiding magistrate's analysis so flawed as to warrant this court to reverse and remand so that a correct legal standard may be applied? |
| 19-6980 |
John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers |
Whether mandatory vehicle liability insurance using criminal sanction violates NFIB v. Sebelius |
| 19-6945 |
Kevin Dameron v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Illinois state court erred in its application of well-established United States Supreme Court precedent declared in Neil v. Biggers, 409 U… |
| 19-6845 |
David Steward v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-decision supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the newly established constitutional right announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500(2018), created a substantive decision that applies … |
| 19-6873 |
Anthony Dale Carter v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights individual-rights judicial-review standing state-court supreme-court-precedent |
Is it a departure from the essential elements of law to deny a notion based in part or whole on the Court's failure to rule within a reasonable time? |
| 19-6799 |
Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether counsel's admitted inaccuracy, misinformation, and failure to make specific inquiry regarding the petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA) conflic… |
| 19-6802 |
Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the state courts and federal courts err in determining that the identification process violated Supreme Court precedent? |
| 19-6804 |
Michael Helms v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process extinguishment foreclosure foreclosure-judgment rescission rescission-rights security-interest statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act |
Whether, where the right to foreclose is extinguished as a matter of law by federal statute and a unanimous Supreme Court decision, and whether the in… |
| 19-6805 |
Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner? |
| 19-6737 |
Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin… |
| 19-6640 |
Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search |
Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had violated federal law and in doing so, violated petitioner Bradley's Fo… |
| 19-6594 |
David Ingraham v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
violate the principals of due-process constitutional-fairness due-process eight-amendment eighth-amendment judicial-integrity juvenile-offenders parole stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in overturning its previous decision violate due-process,judicial-integrity |
| 19-6626 |
Allen Dodson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-6486 |
Eduard Bangiyev v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt |
Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute |
| 19-6488 |
Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven… |
| 19-6478 |
Abdul King Garba, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony jackson-v-virginia kumho-tire ninth-circuit restitution sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence supreme-court-precedent weight-vs-admissibility |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Memorandum conflicted with this Court's decisions (e.g., Kumho Tire) regarding whether unreliability of an expert's testimon… |
| 19-6401 |
Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 gives the court of appeals error correction power to set aside or reverse a lower court's decision that is clearly inco… |
| 19-6394 |
Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's opinions on collateral orders |
| 19-6331 |
Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework |
| 19-6314 |
Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal |
Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States? |
| 19-6289 |
Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. United S… |
| 19-6231 |
William Dean Chapman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent |
Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered? |
| 19-6260 |
Craig Cross v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process juvenile-sentencing precedent retroactivity state-supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Montgomery v. Louisiana when deciding Franklin v. State and State v. M… |
| 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… |
| 19-6126 |
Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention |
Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger-Abstention conflicts with the Supreme-Court's-decision-in-SP… |
| 19-6136 |
Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent |
Is the state of Oklahoma unconstitutionally imposing continued imprisonment on juvenile's sentenced to life, in disregard of the United States Supreme… |
| 19-6002 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Cou… |
| 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 |
| 19-5983 |
Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-5990 |
David Alan Vogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-defect right-to-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals conflict with Supreme Court precedent by denying the petitioner's right to appeal based on a minor defect in th… |
| 19-344 |
Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process retaliation standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether lower court could not comply rulings of Supreme Court |
| 19-323 |
Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with rulin… |
| 19-324 |
Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of 'prosecution history disclaimer' i… |
| 19-5869 |
Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5852 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5853 |
Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether the defendant is entitled to a judgment of acquittal for extortion when the defendant directed the victim to transfer property to third partie… |
| 19-5854 |
Sabrina D. Davis v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company |
South Carolina |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and SCRCP(South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-bias precedent standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent time-for-service |
Can the South Carolina courts ignore precedent set by the US Supreme Court that clearly states that time for service cannot be reduced and produce con… |
| 19-304 |
Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. |
Virgin Islands |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law |
Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to … |
| 19-5804 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the appellate court's reliance on the unconstitutionally vague definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) requires remand f… |
| 19-5817 |
Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state… |
| 19-5778 |
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison |
| 19-5793 |
Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Alexander's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction must be vacated in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) |
| 19-5760 |
Aly Toure v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights |
Did the appellate division violate clearly established federal supreme court ratified law? |
| 19-5709 |
Sam Newman v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-5565 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Perez's 18 U.S.C. §922(g) conviction should be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-163 |
Margaret A. Norton v. Colgate Palmolive Company |
New Jersey |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-judgment due-process fairness judgement judicial-mistake legal-procedure mistake-of-fact precedent right-of-fairness standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court failed to apply Supreme Court Precedent, when an acknowledged mistake by the court resulted in an improper judgem… |
| 19-5476 |
Anthony L. Williams v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. |
California |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-defense default-judgment due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts make an exception in this case in denying statutory default judgment to the petitioner in support of a corporate defendant and vi… |
| 19-5485 |
Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's decision violates the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011) |
| 19-162 |
Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack? |
| 19-5456 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) |
| 19-5383 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5397 |
Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's application of the 'dark web' doctrine creates a circuit split |
| 19-125 |
Gale Zamore v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Individually and as Trustee for JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH5 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-CH5, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
15-usc-1635 amos-v-glynn-county civil-rights claim-preclusion due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction federal-vs-state-law-for-res-judicata jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata semtek-v-lockheed-martin statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tila tila-rescission tila-rescission-as-completed-event |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit can ignore Exxon Mobil and apply its own discarded standard |
| 19-122 |
David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment |
| 19-5308 |
Oscar Minaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 19-5331 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony |
Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its 'prior panel precedent rule? |
| 19-5295 |
In Re Larry Charles |
|
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus right-to-appeal sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent writ-of-mandamus |
Do exceptional circumstances exist in the Petitioner's case that justify granting his Petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus when he has demonstrated a c… |
| 19-5296 |
Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder |
Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's denial of the challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence resulted in an unreasonable application of Suprem… |
| 19-5104 |
Maurice Samuel Arrington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights court-records due-process evidence-assessment factual-findings federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-standards legal-review standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Court of Appeals deny prisoners Due Process by Ignoring vital Facts necessary to determining their Pre-COA issues and Merely quoting Black v.… |
| 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… |
| 19-5102 |
Dan Pizaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 18-9719 |
Jason M. Lund v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act burrage-v-united-states federal-habeas federal-prisoner habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations summary-relief summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Seventh Circuit's decision directly conflict with the holding of McQuiggin v. Perkins? And does the error warrant summary relief? |
| 18-9648 |
Jamelle Edward Armstrong v. California |
California |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
african-american batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-neutrality supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Did the California Supreme Court improperly decide the issue of the race-neutrality of respondent's exercise of its trial peremptory challenges to exc… |
| 18-9521 |
Christopher Anthony Jones v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-exception welch-v-united-states |
Whether due process requires the states to retroactively apply a decision narrowing the interpretation of a substantive criminal statute |
| 18-9530 |
Terry Margheim v. Kenneth Buck, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
favorable-termination fourth-amendment innocence legal-process malice probable-cause supreme-court-precedent unlawful-seizure |
Are malice and favorable termination indicative of innocence, necessary elements to prove a violation of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-1493 |
Brittany Montrois, Class of More than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-record agency-action chenery-corp civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-return-preparers user-fees voluntary-act |
Whether a U.S. court of appeals can decline to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent on user fees, and instead apply its own test |
| 18-1421 |
Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) |
aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street |
Whether the state court's admission of an accomplice's inculpatory statement, accompanied by limiting instructions, violated the Confrontation Clause |
| 18-9215 |
Dale Giles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit fair-notice in-forma-pauperis judicial-process opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's due process rights to fair notice and an opportunity to be heard? |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya and Johnson v United States invalidated the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3… |
| 18-1403 |
Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent |
Whether petitioner was denied due process when respondents revoked his license without adequate procedural protections |
| 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 … |
| 18-9158 |
Robert B. Lynn v. Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias bias-standard circuit-court-procedure due-process ex-parte-proceedings federal-courts judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal legal-standard precedent recusal recusal-standard supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals use the wrong legal standard; in conflict with the precedents of The Supreme Court and the Other Courts of Appe… |
| 18-9159 |
Freddy Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci… |
| 18-9069 |
Hector Rengifo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead |
Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court |
| 18-9101 |
Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski |
Illinois |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the subject of peremptory challenges are valid under the Separation of Powers, Due Process, and the Supremacy Clause |
| 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… |
| 18-8963 |
Jose Cobian v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the rule announced in… |
| 18-8936 |
William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler |
Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide… |
| 18-8910 |
Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent |
Why do the Fifth Circuit courts continue to ignore the United States Supreme Court's authoritative precedent? |
| 18-8921 |
Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court |
What is a reasonable time period for trial counsel to be required to become aware of recent precedence before he/she may be deemed ineffective for fai… |
| 18-8890 |
Carl Lee Jones v. Willie Smith, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-treatment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transgender-rights |
What is the appropriate medical treatment for individuals with gender dysphoria? |
| 18-8892 |
Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8898 |
Melinda J. Campbell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a… |
| 18-1299 |
Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Does the precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict Supreme Court precedent and the intent of Congress regarding the … |
| 18-8793 |
Larry Burstein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a forty-eight (48) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug dealing, sixty-nine (69) year old grandfather is unreasonable, vio… |
| 18-8797 |
Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-8799 |
Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8771 |
Timothy Barr v. Rebecca Pearson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process due-process-rights judicial-authority jury-trial prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-precedent |
Does the 8th circuit federal court of appeals have the authority to supersede the standards and precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in pr… |
| 18-8714 |
Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-1274 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
|
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion |
Whether the USPTO abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every requirement of Title 35 by insisting on extra-statutory requirem… |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault qualifies as ACCA predicates |
| 18-8645 |
David Dean Harris v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent victim-identification witness-testimony |
Was the state's use of the complaining witness's name specifically as the victim a violation of presumption of innocence, Supreme Court precedent, Uni… |
| 18-1244 |
David Pickup, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abrogation civil-rights content-based content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall recall-mandate supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it refused to recall its mandate after this Court explicitly abrogated its opinion by name |
| 18-8411 |
Lecephrus Pierce v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no … |
| 18-8430 |
Juan Bosco Alvarez v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 aedpa constitutional-claim due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-rules supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a federal habeas court contravenes this Court's precedent when it evaluates the merits of a petitioner's claim without regard for the state co… |
| 18-1181 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a state prisoner's conviction is constitutional under current Supreme Court precedent, even if it violated now-overruled precedent at the time… |
| 18-8382 |
Guy Ennis Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech military military-medals ninth-circuit speech-restrictions standing stolen-valor-act supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Alvarez has any effect on the subsection that criminalized the unauthorized wearing of military meda… |
| 18-8393 |
Irma Ovalles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-8399 |
Randall Scott Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida violations violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-8202 |
Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when the … |
| 18-8104 |
Robert William Frazier v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-screening due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-analysis procedural-standard standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the circuit justice supplanted the COA screening procedure with a merits analysis |
| 18-1077 |
Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Does Hall v. Florida apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 18-8027 |
Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari |
Does Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 18-1073 |
Tara King, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether a lower court mandate should be recalled when the Supreme Court expressly abrogates the ruling by name and the lower court opinion continues t… |
| 18-7949 |
In Re Reginald Watson |
|
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watson's 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction? |
| 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… |
| 18-7675 |
Eric Hayes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstract-approach circuit-court collateral-appeal constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-appeal daubert-v-merrell-dow double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence illinois-v-vitale sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent whalen-v-united-states |
Whether the circuit court departed from the established rules of Whalen v. United States and Illinois v. Vitale regarding the double jeopardy clause |
| 18-7649 |
Sergeyi Bazar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty |
When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908), … |
| 18-7652 |
Brian Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017) |
| 18-7493 |
Hayward Jackson v. Equifax Workforce Solutions, dba Labor Ready Southwest, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-sufficiency conley-v-gibson due-process federal-causes-of-action judicial-review leatherman-v-tarrant pleading pleading-standards second-amended-complaint supreme-court-precedent |
Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with this Court's Decisions in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U. S. … |
| 18-7494 |
Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent |
Whether guilty plea cases are cognizable for federal review |
| 18-7508 |
Patrick Brooks v. Pinnacle Financial Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consumer-protection due-process foreclosure home-rescission jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata rescission supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act |
Whether a lender can use res-judicata to bar examination of an invalid foreclosure that was barred by federal-consumer-protection-law |
| 18-7473 |
William Dale Albright v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Does this Court's decision in Alleyne v. United States, 570 US 99 (2013) announce a new rule or was it dictated by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 US 466 … |
| 18-7442 |
Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision conflicts with Apprendi v. New Jersey and Ring v. Arizona |
| 18-918 |
John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a plaintiff need show that a law is vague in all of its applications to succeed in a facial vagueness challenge |
| 18-7377 |
Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t… |
| 18-7335 |
Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t… |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Can a court of appeals sanction a lower court's departure from this court's well-established precedents that effectively conflates the standard of rev… |
| 18-7242 |
Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016) |
| 18-7201 |
Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund… |
| 18-7212 |
Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis |
Whether the U.S. District and Appellate Courts violated Castro v. United States, 124 S.Ct., by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-7180 |
Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-7185 |
Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) |
| 18-7149 |
Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
Did the Sixth Circuit err by applying the pre-Wilson 'could-have-reasoned' approach—which blatantly disregarded Wilson and created a split with other … |
| 18-7168 |
Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable in federal habeas |
| 18-7141 |
Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-7166 |
Gerard Mann v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-802 |
James DeHoog, et al. v. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
|
antitrust antitrust-law brown-shoe brown-shoe-v-united-states clayton-act clayton-act-section-7 market-concentration market-share merger-analysis potential-competition supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-el-paso united-states-v-el-paso-natural-gas united-states-v-penn-olin-chemical |
Whether the Court should reaffirm its commitment to the structural evaluation of mergers and acquisitions under § 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act |
| 18-7157 |
Cody Wayne Mayfield v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
clearly-established-law deferential-review due-process estelle-v-mcguire federal-claim federal-law habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court state-court-adjudication supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Whether deferential treatment is given when a state court's adjudication of a federal claim is not merely unreasonable, but too involved an incorrect … |
| 18-7090 |
Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-19 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhauf v. Holder, Bankers Life and Casualty Co.… |
| 18-7042 |
Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent |
What is the proper application of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to Petitioner… |
| 18-713 |
Stuart Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby drawing-inferences-in-favor-of-nonmovant. genuine-issue-of-material-fact procedural-rules tolan-v-cotton adickes-v-s-h-kress-co anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure due-process genuine-issue-of-fact inference-drawing nonmovant-evidence procedural-rules summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the U.S.A.'s failure to 'respond' and the Magistrate Judge's failure to 'deem admitted' conflict with Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-6795 |
Darrell Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process great-writ habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings remand section-2255 standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari in this case |
| 18-6737 |
Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 |
Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by United States v. Booker and its progeny |
| 18-6689 |
Israel Sanchez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pleading-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Is California's stringent pleading standard to allege a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations contrary to the governing … |
| 18-612 |
CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence |
Whether Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on interstate motor carriers justifies its facially discriminatory sales and use tax on railroad die… |
| 18-6566 |
Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overturn its prior decision in Evans? |
| 18-582 |
Stephen Yagman v. Michael J. Colello |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
|
anti-SLAPP civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure iqbal rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent twombly |
Whether a state anti-SLAPP statute can be used to dismiss a claim in federal court when its application is contrary to the Rules Enabling Act, Federal… |
| 18-6522 |
Robert Prunty v. DeSoto County School Board, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process education educational-rights federal-regulations first-amendment free-speech standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Does the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals three judge panel have the right to create conflicts amongst the circuits when it unilaterally changed the Supr… |
| 18-6492 |
Pascual Rentas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-law due-process eleventh-circuit giglio giglio-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard supreme-court-law supreme-court-precedent |
Should the denial of Mr. Rentas' COA be reversed and reconsidered due to the recent ruling by this Court in Marion Wilson v. Eric Sellers, Warden 584 … |
| 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 |
| 18-6433 |
Robert Norman Smithback v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, constitutional-guarantees cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection farmer-v-brennan prison-conditions prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Texas jurisprudence enforces constitutional guarantees, especially the Supreme Court's Farmer v. Brennan decision |
| 18-6359 |
Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U.S.C. 3661 and 3… |
| 18-6387 |
Spencer Bowens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent |
Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retro… |
| 18-6353 |
Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict… |
| 18-482 |
Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
|
bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. regarding the Fair Debt Collection Practic… |
| 18-467 |
Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent |
Whether collectively-bargained retiree healthcare benefits may be implied and do not require unequivocal contract language |
| 18-6119 |
Gary Long, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years |
Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner? |
| 18-387 |
Ben Gary Triestman v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-restraint liberty-restraints order-of-protection restraint-of-liberty risk-of-incarceration standing state-court-orders supreme-court-precedent |
Triestman v. Underwood |
| 18-354 |
Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass |
Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states? |
| 18-6010 |
Babubhai Patel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep the COA process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application |
| 18-5961 |
Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible legal e… |
| 18-5965 |
Rayburn Scott Harmon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force-clause statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-castleman violent-act violent-felonies violent-felony violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force |
| 18-319 |
E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al. v. Refugio Arreguin |
California |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
arbitrability circuit-court-split circuit-split class-arbitration federal-arbitration-act gateway-question gateway-question-of-arbitrability oxford-health-plans oxford-health-plans-v-sutter stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a court, or an arbitrator, decides whether an arbitration agreement permits class arbitration |
| 18-5923 |
Brent Eugene Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force misdemeanor-force-clause precedent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-act violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force |
| 18-297 |
Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
New York |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Does New York's assessment and collection of taxes within the Seneca Nation of Indians violate the treaty rights of the Seneca Nation? |
| 18-289 |
Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law |
| 18-5887 |
Cecil L. Morton v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-component procedural-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5808 |
Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-5774 |
Rochelle Driessen v. Royal Bank of Scotland |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-standard standing summary-order supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's May 25, 2017, summary order is in direct conflict with a decision of the United States Supr… |
| 18-5739 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the federal bank fraud statute plainly covered the defendant's conduct |
| 18-5764 |
Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) and Garner v. Jones (2000) to apply to in… |
| 18-5687 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar |
Whether rights generated by federal procedural and substantive due-process prohibit the state from concluding direct review |
| 18-5685 |
Clifton Patterson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-216 |
Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation |
Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667 (2000), because the lower courts have interpreted it such that 'any funds f… |
| 18-217 |
Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Granted |
Amici (13)Relisted (9) |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that Montgomery v. Louisiana modified and expanded the rule announced in Miller v. Alabama |
| 18-211 |
Steven Morris Hurd v. California |
California |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement |
Whether the search incident to arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applied to digital data on a cell phone prior to Riley v. … |
| 18-5628 |
John Richard Tacquard v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standards post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Arizona state courts violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying his post-conviction claims despite a lack of physical evidenc… |
| 18-5631 |
Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire |
Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, … |
| 18-5557 |
Matthew Joseph Bussing v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the court abused its discretion in permitting a rebuttal witness who was not an expert in pediatric child abuse to testify outside his compete… |
| 18-5520 |
James Morris Sellers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents |
Whether the lower courts improperly subjected the petitioner to an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act by arbitrarily and irrational… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
|
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals has abused its discretion by failing to decide petitioner's application for permission to file a second or … |
| 18-5357 |
Michael C. Redifer v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-legislation criminal-procedure due-process kastigar-doctrine law-of-the-case rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents |
Does the Rules Enabling Act preclude a court from invoking the law of the case doctrine against a defendant in a criminal proceeding when the law of t… |
| 18-108 |
David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme… |
| 18-5229 |
Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion unreasonably insulates the state court decision from review and conflicts with Ohio v. Reiner |
| 18-66 |
Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Arizona courts err in failing to apply the proper federal standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary plea… |
| 18-5184 |
Ahmad Sayed Hashimi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
appeal criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-maintain-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial-strategy |
Whether the case of United States v. Anmad Hashimi should be remanded for review and decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in light of the U… |
| 18-5160 |
Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless-error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida in pre-Hurst cases violates the Eigh… |
| 18-5169 |
Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Inmate-trust-fund-management |
| 18-5166 |
Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations |
Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when… |
| 18-31 |
Joel Beck v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-claims mortgage motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-plaintiff procedural-dismissal rule-12(b)(6) standing state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a pro se plaintiff's pleading of plausible state law claims, including an allegation that would stop a pending foreclosure, is subject to dism… |
| 18-5036 |
Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether attempted illegal reentry is a specific-intent crime or a general-intent crime |
| 18-5041 |
Louis Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States and Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 23A1158 |
Rickey Lynch v. United States |
Second Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a district court judge's recusal order violates constitutional due process standards and binding judicial ethics guidelines |
| 25A356 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when a state court disregards clearly established Supreme… |