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24-5213 Gilbert Campa v. Ingrid Rosenquist, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal holidays judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review prejudice procedural-error time-limits Question not identified
24-5164 Joel Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
24-5153 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit final-order habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-ruling rule-60b standards-of-review timeliness Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely?
23-7845 Kenneth Jackson, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-02 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure clearly-erroneous court-of-appeals manifest-injustice prior-decision Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that its prior decision was not clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice?
23-7552 Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process evidence-review legal-procedure scotus-review summary-judgment use-of-force Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err in reviewing the full facts of the videotape and the use of force report by the commi…
23-7540 Oscar Catalan Ruiz v. California California 2024-05-22 Denied IFP abstract-statutes appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-due-process sentencing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the sentencing court's failure to consider mitigating evidence and impose an appropriate …
23-7530 Deandre Lenier Neal-Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus meaningful-review merits-denial procedural-denial reasonable-jurists standing whether-certificate-of-appealability-denial-requires-explanation
23-7403 Alex A. Campbell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals conflict-of-interest court-appointed-counsel due-process fraud-on-court government-interference habeas-petition habeas-petitions judicial-conflict-of-interest procedural-due-process sitting-judges Whether procedural due process, due process rights, or the provision due process clause is violated/and or an conflict of interest, when an court appo…
23-7300 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas Texas 2024-04-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargain sentencing Whether the trial court erred by sentencing the petitioner to 20 years despite a plea bargain agreement for a maximum of 10 years
23-7198 Ebone East, et al. v. Fix It Auto Repair, Inc. Arizona 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech right-to-appeal standing state-court-discretion Does the federal courts apply proper standards of review when examining lower court rulings on due process, free-speech, equal-protection, civil-proce…
23-7200 Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ Whether the South Carolina District Court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to vacate their conviction with respect to the alleged civil rights…
23-7139 Eugenia Woodard v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure due-process final-decision final-order jurisdiction jurisdictional-review procedural-error sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation How does U.S. Supreme Court address final decision/order of lower courts when dates are in questioned?
23-7095 Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio…
23-7040 Hamid Houbbadi v. Kennedy Law Firm, PLLC, et al. Tennessee 2024-03-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeals constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process legal-principles state-court statutory-interpretation Is the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when the Tennessee …
23-7039 Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's double-jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally-defaulted
23-6930 Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-claim standing supreme-court Whether Supreme Court precedent demands review of this claim where the lower court did not grant the writ of certiorari?
23-6927 In Re Antoine Thomas 2024-03-07 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-6889 Richard Wayne Barton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bureau-of-prisons certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice record-on-appeal Whether the Bureau of Prisons' failure and refusal to tender to Barton his Record on Appeal, provided by the Fifth Circuit to enable Barton to prepare…
23-6852 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case?
23-936 Anne Davis, on Behalf of Braeden Davis v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-proceedings appeals civil-procedure due-process due-process-rights educational-placement idea-dispute individuals-with-disabilities-education-act special-education-law stay-put-provision Whether and to what extent Section 1415(j) imposes obligations on school officials when a child's exact pre-dispute educational placement is no longer…
23-6703 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appeals capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus rhines-stay Is a COA required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for stay of the habeas proceedings
23-6682 Karyn M. Kelley v. Kevin M. Kelley New Hampshire 2024-02-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-attachment judicial-procedure property-rights standing Did the highest state court err in affirming orders that deprived the petitioner of property without a hearing or due process?
23-6677 Michael Isidoro Sanchez v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anders-review appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights colorable-claims due-process indigent-defense of-right-appeal post-conviction-review right-to-counsel smith-v-robbins Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on Chavez II was erroneous
23-6614 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss standing state-law supreme-court Whether NCCOA and NCSC improperly denied appellant's motions and orders, and whether the orders violate constitutional rights and state appellate rule…
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23-6329 Russell G. Finnegan v. David L. Chidester Seventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure jurisdiction pro-se-litigation signature-requirement standing Are the orders from the Court of Appeals valid absent an authorized signature of a judicial officer?
23-659 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Westside Donut Huntington Ventures LLC Second Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied appeals brief-filing circuit-rules civil-procedure clerk-error court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk granting the defendant permission file an Appellee's brief …
23-6124 Moses Estrada v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County, et al. California 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction juvenile-court legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Can the California Supreme Court deny en banc review of a petition for writ of certiorari that seeks to have a juvenile court's order recognized?
23-6117 Gordon Lagerstrom v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion standing Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)?
23-6113 Michael Eugene Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial right-to-counsel texas-criminal-law whether-the-petitioner-was-afforded-effective-assistance-of-counsel
23-6101 Kevin E. Chace v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standards-of-review trial-counsel WHETHER PETITIONER SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO CERTIORARI REVIEW BASED ON MULTIPLE ERRORS OF TRIAL COUNSEL THAT OCCURRED WHILE LITIGATING PETTIONER'S CASE
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence whether-the-record-supports-the-court's-conclusion-that-the-state-court-hearing-regarding-the-inadmissible-hearsay-(crawford-violation)-did-not-violat…
23-5919 Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to use the standard of review for pill mill cases as established by this Court
23-5910 Stuart Alexander Dameri v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fraud judicial-review rule-4-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Amendment's protection of 'Due Process was violated
23-5871 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied IFP appeals criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-sanction pro-se pro-se-prisoner vexatious-litigator Whether judges and magistrates can collectively craft orders to impose a vexatious litigator tag on a pro se prisoner and ban his filings to appeal hi…
23-419 USIC, LLC v. Northern Illinois Gas Company Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction final-order new-argument postjudgment-motion summary-judgment tolling If a federal court of appeals construes a filing below as a postjudgment motion tolling the time for appeal, does that court have authority to reverse…
23-5822 Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-rules jurisdiction jurisdiction-statement motion-for-permission pro-se rule-54b standing Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
23-5818 Eduardo Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relief and…
23-384 Michael Boresky, in His Individual and Official Capacity as a Special Agent for the U.S. Secret Service v. Jeremy Graber Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-remedy implied-cause-of-action standing Whether a district court decision fashioning a new implied cause of action under Bivens is immediately appealable
23-5746 James H. Hayes v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Mr. Hawes' petition for a certificate of appealability concerning the district court's den…
23-5728 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge standing state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court correctly dismissed a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. 2255 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
23-5600 Richard D. Bostwick v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. Massachusetts 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure discretion due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate standing time-limitation Whether Bostwick's Appeal was NOT Reviewed by the Lower Courts (Appeals Case No. 21-P-721) given Bostwick's Notice of Appeal
23-5380 Gary Leon Webster v. Doe, Sheriff, Department Head, Craighead County Eighth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights due-process intervention jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing petitioners' challenge to the Eleventh Circuit's order denying their mo…
23-5321 Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining procedural-barriers right-to-counsel state-courts Question not identified
23-5309 Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3) is a 'crime of violence' under the 'force clause' of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)
23-5293 Alonzo G. Davison v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-07 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure judgments motions sentences statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's Appeal OF The Denial OF The Motion Te Alter Of Amend Fudgment And Sentences Was 'Proper ly Filed' As Required By Section aatd (da…
23-5142 Joseph Counts v. Maine First Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules standing stare-decisis Where the proper way for lower courts to handle the penumbra of filings
23-5110 James K. Silva v. District Court of Massachusetts, Dukes County First Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-5071 Bruce Allen Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights confession constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus police-procedure self-incrimination standing suspect-interrogation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition on procedural grounds without reaching the mer…
23-5009 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete
22-7869 Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in refusing to reverse Wysinger's conviction on count one for conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1)
22-7775 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
22-7725 James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
22-7730 Israel C. Salazar v. Ricardo Salazar, as Trustee California 2023-06-07 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights clerical-error clerical-errors court-filing due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure notice-of-appeal standing trust-document writ-of-certiorari Will the Supreme Court of United States address the concerns of many United States citizens of the published and/or unpublished cases which involve er…
22-7701 Jose Pena v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction, the district court must resentence the defendant de novo on the remaining counts
22-7648 In Re William M. Windsor 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure exceptional-circumstances federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-order in-forma-pauperis judicial-review jurisdiction-challenge state-court-authority void-orders Is a federal court order void when jurisdiction is never determined?
22-1086 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veteran Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-authority due-process federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure jurisdiction procedural-defect service-of-process standing summons-requirements Did both the U.S. District Courts have a right to issue any ruling if the defendant was not properly served?
22-7469 Angel Hernan Hernandez v. Ron Godwin, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process standing Whether the Kings County District Attorney's Office has standing to appeal the lower court's judgment
22-7478 Marla Faith Crawford v. David Patrick Corrigan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error rehearing-en-banc standing Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing the petition and refusing to grant a rehearing en banc?
22-7456 Zhaojin David Ke v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-discrimination pro-se-litigant standing Whether the right to present evidence in an appeals court is Constitutionally protected
22-7414 John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Erred When It Denied Certiorari to the District Court Proceedings
22-7355 Demarr M. Meyers v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-25 Denied IFP amendment-violation appeals civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-procedure Was the Vu bing lay He Cline O+ PAppeels Hel cleported frm the accepled And Usvel COUvise of jucltetel procecelt ngs Violale the peh Honers fRtth and …
22-7322 Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability
22-1012 Janet Austen v. Franklin Herman Maryland 2023-04-18 Denied alimony alimony-calculation appeals appellate-review family-law income-calculation income-determination judicial-discretion marital-dissolution permanent-alimony trial-court Was the appeals court correct in upholding the trial judge's alimony decision despite miscalculating the recipient's monthly income?
22-974 Charles J. Weiss v. United States Third Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response Waived appeals certiorari collection-due-process due-process internal-revenue-code levy-actions limitations-period statutory-interpretation tax-law writ-of-certiorari Whether the IRC section providing for the suspension of levy actions and the running of any period of limitations applies to petitions for a writ of c…
22-7211 Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's constitutional due process rights, as protected by the Fifth Amendment, by (1) denyin…
22-6935 William Ingram v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated petitioners' right to choice of counsel and the appellate court's failure to review the trial court's ruling
22-6904 Robert Roderick Stubblefield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-merits petition-review standing writ-of-certiorari Should a COA have been issued and should relief have been granted after review of the merits of all three claims that were raised to the District cour…
22-6806 Torrey Dewayne Walker v. Micha Neal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court-conflict civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-appellate-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
22-6767 Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Dismissed IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in finding that the petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal wit…
22-758 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-immunity procedural-rules record record-review standing u.r.a.p-11 Whether the Court of Appeals allowing materials not on the record conflicts with the requirements of U.R.A.P 11?
22-6760 David Lassegue v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals case-law-analysis circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standards precedent procedural-rights standing third-circuit-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Violated Lassegue's rights
22-6673 Lenwood Mason v. Laurel Harry, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability counsel-replacement court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability after the district court failed to make an inquiry into a Title 18 U.S.C.…
22-6619 Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Donshue's motion for a new trial
22-6418 Christopher Brian Cosimano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder omission-liability statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purpose…
22-6365 Ronald E. Cook v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial jurisdiction right-to-present-defense When can a criminal indictment be changed without due process
22-6252 In Re James E. Hitchcock 2022-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims amounted to a suspension of the writ
22-6206 Albert Holland, Jr. v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judgments judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing Whether a court is required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)
22-6213 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-assignment civil-procedure due-process judicial-procedure procedural-error right-to-counsel rights-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err by denying Mark Stinson due process and violating his right to counsel?
22-6010 Christopher Lamont Penn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional due to a change in the law during the appeals process
22-5940 Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing Whether it was error for the Fifth Circuit to deny Solis' motion for compassionate release?
22-5885 Christopher Surles v. Warden, Limestone Correctional Facility, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-government federal-procedure notice-of-appeal procedural-rules standing time-limitation time-limits united-states-agency Whether the time limit for filing a notice of appeal is extended when the United States or an agency of the United States is a party?
22-5725 Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Banghart's motion for a certificate of appealability
22-5665 Geoffrie Dill v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act?
22-5609 Herve Wilmore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-19 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review case-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-delegation procedural-issue Whether the exception to the law of the case doctrine permit a defendant to relitigate an issue that was erroneously decided by the U.S. Court of Appe…
22-5589 Carrie Helen Fine v. Florida Florida 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-challenge appeals constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment drug-statutes due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal state-law Whether the affirmation of the Appellant Court (that it was proper for trial court to deny Fine's Motions for judgment of Acquittal) was correct
22-5490 Nicholas Wukoson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clisby-v-jones davis-v-us federal-civil-procedure judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review remand Whether the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit departed from its accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5255 Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as untimel…
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
22-5194 Maxo Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing Whether the appeals court abused its discretion by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate, filed pursuant to 2…
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences
22-5166 In Re DeVinche Javon AlBritton 2022-07-22 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law due-process federal-appeals federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus procedural-standard standing Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit be required to articulate the court's grounds for granting or denying authorization t…
22-5140 Nolberto Lemus v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the Correct Standard when it denied the petitioner's Certificate of Appealability and D…
22-5111 Robert Doyle Harper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
22-5038 Kevin Lee Kennedy v. Dan Watts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the U.S. District Court's Summary Judgment is defective or void due to only naming one of the three parties: The White Pine Sheriff's Dept, an…
22-5028 Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines…
21-8147 John P. Tomkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.C. …
21-8031 Michael G. Peters v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing supreme-court Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the merits of a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States
21-7886 Leona Stack, et vir v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate due-process judicial-procedure mandate pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process rehearing standing summary-judgment Did the construal by the Seventh Circuit amount to a mis-construal in presuming the petition for en banc rehearing was a motion to recall the mandate?
21-7693 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' policy of reviewing plain error only prevents appellate counsel from raising all claims of error in a …
21-7696 In Re Stephen Harmon 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-rights constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process federal-statutory-authority harmless-error standing statutory-authority substantive-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, which is not a harml…
21-7704 Kerry Vanderpool v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3742 appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing Does the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f) deprive the federal Courts of Appeals of jurisdiction to vacate a sentence when it is uncontested that …
21-7650 Nathan Terry v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District violated 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circu…
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Whether the criminal justice system lacks common sense in the treatment of pro se litigants
21-7516 Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing Did the Georgia Supreme Court abuse its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence?
21-7517 Damilola Animashaun, aka Damilola Animshaun v. Correctional Officer Regner Second Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint and disregarding the merits of the lawsuit
21-7493 Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York Second Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Does appellant prove exemption from certificate of appealability?
21-7441 Edgardo Maldonado-Arce v. Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency First Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standing state-law statute-of-limitations whether-the-federal-district-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-case
21-7357 Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range?
21-7325 Michael T. Braxton v. Tonya James, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review parole statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Can a state deny due process by making a parole agreement on AFTER and in contrast to a vast majority of appeals courts' rulings
21-7127 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied IFP appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order
21-7087 In Re Wesley Thompson 2022-02-09 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing Was Mr. Thompson's convictions affirmed despite constitutional violations?
21-1096 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied appeal-rights appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-order due-process final-order judicial-error procedural-rules standing Whether the Courts Erred by Misstating Alice's Appeal
21-7058 Adam Pelletier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-upon-the-court gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider rule-60(b)(3) state-court-dismissal Is Petitioner's claim of prosecutorial 'Fraud Upon The Court' a valid claim under Rule 60(b)(3)?
21-6891 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen Boyd, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing whether-the-district-court-correctly-decided-the-case
21-6811 Stephen Cummings v. Lightstorm Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity legal-discovery standing takings Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's constitutional rights, including the right to call witnesses, conduct discovery, and present…
21-865 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived 60(b)-motion 7th-circuit-court appeals civil-procedure district-court due-process final-order jurisdiction procedural-due-process Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals neglected to apply procedural-due-process in accordance with the Fifth-and-Fourteenth-Amendments, by not acce…
21-837 Robert Bohanon, et al. v. Jacqueline Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court federal-courts interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction over an immediate appeal from a denial of qualified immunity
21-6516 Martin Robinson v. Sean Bailey Ohio 2021-12-07 Denied IFP appeals certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-issue due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court-decision meritorious-claims standing supreme-court-review Whether the trial court falsified the trial docket, whether the trial was illegal, whether the plaintiff was denied the right to present evidence, whe…
21-6476 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process frivolous in-forma-pauperis judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standing Whether the district court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's decision in Ellis v. United States
21-815 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Bruce S. Rogow, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts jurisdictional-limits notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-documents standing Has a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the relevance of the resetting of the end date for the filing of the Notice of Appeal under FRAP …
21-6431 Vegas D. Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18…
21-5857 Justin P. Stahmer v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals deprived jurisdiction from the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court to renew petitioner's Rule 60(b) appeal motion
21-5863 Jack Anthony Chatman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief texas texas-law Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioners effective assistance of trial counsel claims in cases like Texas, in light of the Supreme Cour…
21-5845 Danny Collins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violated his constitutional rights
21-5573 Richard M. Miller v. Maryland Maryland 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction standing writ-of-certiorari Did The Intermediate Appellate Court Of Special Appeals Of Maryland Err When Denying Petitioner His Absolute Constitutional Right To An Appeal Or Bela…
21-5249 Megan Elizabeth Kyte v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility Ninth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the petitioner's right to cross-appeal under Section 1291 of Title 28 was violated
21-5061 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide a criminal defendant with a meaningful opp…
20-8302 Calvin Gumbs, II v. Kelly Harrigan, et al. Virgin Islands 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review legal-standing virgin-islands Jurisdiction-over-appeals
20-1699 E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a 'bright line' rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures
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…
20-8181 Linwood Earl Stephens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction clearly-erroneous-fact criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding fourth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding it did not have jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a departure under the United St…
20-8079 Kevin L. Martin v. Kenneth P. Cotter, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's claim of equal protection under the law
20-8080 Jason C. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Whether Jason Johnson should be held culpable for the untimely death of J. Peed, given that he was represented by ineffective counsel
20-7967 Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ why-wasn't-the-dna-evidence-tested
20-7965 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief Whether the prohibition of a criminal appeal with denial after exercising the right to appeal a reserved appealable request when their rules and set w…
20-7954 David Armando Butler v. Florida Florida 2021-05-07 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process florida-district-court standing trial-court written-order Whether the Florida District Court of Appeal denied the petitioner due process in failing to grant him a direct appeal on the merits by virtue of the …
20-7946 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits Whether the First Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding as untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Federal Rule of Appe…
20-7933 Erika Jacobs v. 35 West Apartments Oklahoma 2021-05-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-court judgment-reconsideration judicial-review post-trial-motion standing state-court supreme-court-jurisdiction trial-court-decision Whether the Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal
20-1528 Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment Whether the court of appeals denies due process by refusing to use equitable tolling for a coram nobis petition based on actual innocence
20-1477 Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing Did the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court?
20-7628 Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court trial-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court of Mississippi have jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the Court of Appeals where there are two duty members who refused …
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue
20-7570 David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment When a court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat…
20-7558 Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal?
20-7463 Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-03-17 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process post-conviction standing Whether the trial court exceeded its lawful authority by entering orders that dispose of the merits of the case while a ruling on the Rule 3.850 motio…
20-7472 David Maurice Milner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
20-7392 James Jermaine Woodfork v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence appeals constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-claim oklahoma Did the Oklahoma Appeals Court violate the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to due process by refusing to acknowledge the petitioner's claim of actual…
20-7365 Ronald Brount, aka Ronald Brunt v. Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability?
20-7346 In Re David A. Diehl 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process en-banc rehearing standing Whether the denial of Petitioners' en banc petition to the Fifth Circuit should have been considered late, and were there grounds not to have accepted…
20-1209 In Re Raymond L. Rogers 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the Kansas District Court's criminal conviction and sentence of the petitioner
20-1169 William Albert Haynes, III, et al. v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Second Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consolidated-cases final-judgment hall-v-hall procedural-catch-22 standing timely-appeal Did the Second Circuit err in ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the Petitioners' appeals in three of seven consolidated cases, which were fil…
20-7158 Raymond J. Ramirez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge standing Whether a certificate of appealability should have been granted
20-7164 Marcelino Hernandez-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process sentencing supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming the significant increase of the base offense level by the D…
20-7111 Carlos Lopez-Vanegas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation judicial-interpretation jurisdiction jury-trial state-court Should the 'Speedy Process' globally regarded as a 'Miracle Appeal' be properly adjudicated?
20-1096 Philip Jay Fetner v. Hotel Street Capital, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process final-order mootness Whether the appellate courts erred in denying a constitutional appeal on the false premise of lack of jurisdiction
20-6934 Fred Cartwright v. Silver Cross Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-rehearing equal-protection legal-counsel medical-condition post-traumatic-stress-disorder standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated due to the dismissal of his case and denial of his motions for rehearin…
20-6833 Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review Whether the appellate court has a constitutional duty to state its reasons for denying a petition for a writ of certiorari?
20-6801 Mauro C. Palacio v. B. Sullivan Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts standing Did the appeals court's decision conflict with other appeals courts on the issue of due process?
20-6764 James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, Circuit Court of Arkansas, St. Francis County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Question not identified
20-6707 Cary Lee Peterson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judgment procedural-irregularity standing transcripts Whether the court erred in issuing an unpublished opinion without including the 'Bill of Costs' or 'Attorney's Fees' or 'Costs of Appellate Procedure'…
20-6625 Shane Q. Whipple v. Michael Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court statute-of-limitations Whether Marcth Morales Howard should be allowed to stop the prosecution of all defendants in claims?
20-6579 Aimee O'Neil v. Weld County, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-procedure legal-representation liberty-interest procedural-protection standing Did Attorney Andrew Poland provide adequate representation?
20-6563 Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner failed to make the requisite showing to receive a COA, when two other Circuits have rul…
20-736 Adam Frasch v. Florida Florida 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to determine if a violation has occurred pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83…
20-6384 Owen McCants v. Steven Silva First Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the trial court, appeals court, and Supreme Judicial Court abused their discretion?
20-6319 Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final order dismissing Petitioner's claims
20-6217 Adrian Rangel v. Steven P. Meyer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-review legal-procedure state-courts trial-rights Did Petitioner Adrian Rangel receive meaningful due process?
20-6208 Ira L. Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-due-process counsel-representation district-court-writ due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-errors standing Whether the Elevant Circuit was in error when it failed to grant the certificate of appealability
20-6077 Johnathan Pinney v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts frivolous-claims judicial-discretion pleading-standards pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes-rule Issues being raised
20-513 Jan Rouven Fuechtener v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response Waived appeal-as-of-right appeals civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure merits-panel motions-panel Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment is violated when an appeal as of right is heard and disposed of by a motions panel, rather than …
20-6033 Arrello Barnes v. Louis Fedele, et al. Second Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims
20-6002 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts adverse-decision appeals case-seizure criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-law-enforcement pro-se procedural-due-process warrant-search Does Petitioner have a procedural due process right to access the Court and file an initial brief in the appeals court related to the district court's…
20-5906 Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing Where does the petitioner have standing to bring this case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of appellate jurisdiction
20-5839 Henry McCall v. Homer Hillis Texas 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts standing statute-of-limitations Did the lower courts err in concluding that the petitioner's claims were barred by the statute of limitations?
20-5641 Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Petitioner's claims regarding allegations of counsel being ineffective according to t…
20-5511 Debbie Pittman v. Ronnie Pittman Illinois 2020-08-27 Denied IFP appeals civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection notice-of-appeal premature-filing prematurely-filed standing Whether a notice of appeal filed on May 10, 2016 is considered prematurely filed when the orders being challenged cover the period between 2013 and 20…
20-5371 Keith Lemont Farmer v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's application for a writ of certiorari
20-5251 Michael Owen Harriot v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar Whether the Fourth Circuit's lack of authority to raise 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)'s time bar on its own when the district court's opinion did not rest on § …
20-5134 Donald Robin Barren v. Charles Daniels, Director, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability was improperly denied
20-5097 Robert Earnest Wilkerson v. Texas Texas 2020-07-17 Denied IFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-5067 James A. Riggs v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-process civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-deficiency standing Whether the 4th Circuit Court displayed an abuse of its enumerated power, in contravention of the 10th Amendment
19-8867 Leonard Lashun Bradley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure district-court-discretion federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction motion-for-permission out-of-time-appeal procedural-error standing time-limits Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Bradley's Motion for Permission to File Out of Time Appeal
19-8799 James Johnman, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied IFP appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act Whether the 'additional special assessment' in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses…
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-1394 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
19-8608 Kison Robertson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-evidence appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling judicial-misconduct standing trial-procedure How does the U.S. Court of Appeals hold the District Court Decision to be erroneous based on the evidence that was not proven to have occurred in the …
19-1340 David Tribble, et al. v. First Security Bank, et al. Arkansas 2020-06-04 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review arkansas-judiciary civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection procedure state-court supreme-court Did reliance on the Appellate Review Attorney for the Office of the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals' instruction for drafting…
19-8476 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction oklahoma-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in their original 3-3-2020, and subsequent 3-4-2020 request for rehearing, decision to refuse jur…
19-8419 Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition can be appealed to federal court when no state remedy is available
19-8436 In Re Michael A. Young 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing Whether indigent petitioner's 'gateway factual innocence' showing while being 'constructively' denied appointment of counsel on first and all other ap…
19-8386 David L. Culverhouse v. Texas Texas 2020-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion standing May the Court of Chimie Appeals of Fougs tin consbtutsena lly deny actually anocent Petitioners motion Por leave to Pile original applicatisa For weit…
19-8373 Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing Did the Arizona court err in upholding the state court's ruling contrary to federal law on a reasonable appeal of federal claims?
19-1251 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts appeal appeals civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process employment equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment official-discrimination school-district Whether School District of Philadelphia discharged the petitioner from his teaching position without due process of law
19-8366 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court have subject-matter jurisdiction to decide 41(g) motions for recovery of property that is unrelated to a criminal judgment on ap…
19-8315 Todd Michael Vincent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Is issuance of a certificate of appealability a prerequisite to appealing the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion?
19-8218 Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-853 appeals controlled-substances criminal-forfeiture drug-trafficking due-process standing statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-interest Whether modern criminal forfeiture statutes can be squared with the Due Process Clause and whether petitioner can properly be considered a third-party…
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus?
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question May the District Court overrule the previous unanimous Court of Appeals decision in the same case?
19-8016 Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline…
19-7957 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance
19-7945 Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Aguedo's conviction and his motions for judgment of acquittal should have been granted
19-7922 Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl…
19-7940 Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
19-7898 Richard C. Murphy v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-ethics due-process judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation procedural-integrity representation standing Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abuse their discretion by allowing counsel to continue representation after counsel documented his unwillingnes…
19-7900 Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan Michigan 2020-03-06 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether the evidence sufficiently proves the facts necessary for the petitioner's conviction
19-7844 Buck Otto White, aka Timothy Joseph Hoffman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing Was the petitioner's 40 sentence back-dated by the district court's works on a woman who was only sentenced to 10 years?
19-7845 Omar Weise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing Did the Circuit apply an improper, too demanding, and unduly burdensome COA standard? Should a COA be granted in this case?
19-7739 H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed the petitioner's claims without proper jurisdiction
19-7596 Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS Whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict with the federal guidelines handout of the lower…
19-7523 Micah L. Lawson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-discipline standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims alleging due process and equal protection violation…
19-7483 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts
19-7419 Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing Whether the trial court abused its authority by revoking a community supervision because of a new honest mistake charge which was ultimately dismissed…
19-7411 In Re Lionel McCray 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration Whether Mandamus should issue to compel the Second Circuit Court to enter a Finding of Contempt
19-7374 In Re John Wallace 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute whether-magistrate-judge-exceeded-authority-in-issuing-strike
19-7347 Broderick Marshall v. Texas Texas 2020-01-21 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial standing Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction and sentenc…
19-7279 Charlotte Oliphant-Johns v. Good Deal Remodeling Pennsylvania 2020-01-17 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-records court-system due-process jurisdiction legal-filing municipal-court procedural-error record-keeping standing What laws of Gwil Court jurisdiction were applied in this Municipal Court; why were the defendants barely questioned concerning my complaint; why did …
19-7257 Dillon Mvuri v. American Airlines, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-reasoning pro-se summary-judgement summary-judgment Where the district court issues a summary judgement without giving reasons on the record contrary to Rule 56 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and t…
19-7264 Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings appeals appellate-review case-review civil-rights court-decision criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in denying petitioner's request for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel and due process …
19-7253 Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg Was the district court and appeals court wrong to deny the Rule 60(b)(6) motion and certificate of appealability, respectively, when this court has sp…
19-7119 Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit whether-reasonable-jurist-could-debate-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-adoption
19-7014 Geoffrey Scott Gaffney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals constitutional-provisions district-court due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procunier-v-atchley stare-decisis Should this court grant this petition to address the obvious failure of the eighth circuit court of appeals to require a district court to conduct an …
19-6928 Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court fa…
19-6829 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeals civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process federal-procedure federal-rules in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure procedural-rules recusal due-process,civil-rights,access-to-court,federal-procedure,recusal,civil-rico
19-6783 Virgil Lamont Jarvis v. David Allison, Sheriff, Pearl River County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-review appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies in-forma-pauperis jury-trial legal-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing summary-judgment Whether officials can refuse to process inmate grievances and then dismiss a subsequent civil rights lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative rem…
19-6782 Adrienne Mallard v. Next Day Temps, et al. Virginia 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal appeals civil-procedure court-appeal court-orders discovery document-withholding due-process evidence evidence-disclosure judicial-review workers-compensation Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia erred in requesting all documents from the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission on the petitioner's appe…
19-6787 Robert Lee Mitchell v. Miller, Magistrate Judge, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Is the order of the U.S. district court dated 11-19 valid?
19-6730 Cameron A. Harinarain v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of his constitutional rights
19-6734 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing Whether a petitioner who is indigent and unable to afford private counsel is entitled to a court-appointed attorney for a civil proceeding under the D…
19-6705 Keenan G. Wilkins v. J. Galvin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-award civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-standard manifest-disregard motion-to-strike motion-to-vacate standing Does the Court of Appeal have jurisdiction to decide an appeal before hearing an oral argument by the appellants, and is the appellants' request for I…
19-6669 Donnie Berry v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-or-declaration appeals civil-rights costs due-process habeas in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty redress security sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
19-6556 In Re Therian Wimbush, et vir 2019-11-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus joint-petition judicial-review petition-denial procedural-barriers standing Whether co-convicted, co-tried, co-convicted and sentenced, even though the same co-defendant husband and wife, can file a joint federal 28 U.S.C. 225…
19-581 Paul Dovin, et ux. v. Kenneth L. Sweitzer, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-11-05 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders collateral-orders-doctrine due-process judicial-review pennsylvania-supreme-court procedural-doctrine right-to-appeal standing Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Erred in Denying Petitioners Right to Appeal Under the Collateral Orders Doctrine?
19-6424 Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals misapplied 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing Does federal law under A952(c) permit a civil justice system to respond to a No-Merits review of a procedural default that can only be waived as a mer…
19-6385 Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements
19-6342 Michael Shavers v. Lavern Sharp, Deputy Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process excessive-force excessive-use-of-force prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Whether plaintiff is entitled to relief from dismissal of lawsuit - Shavers v. Bergh (excessive use of force claims dismissed on the nature of the sus…
19-6299 Victor Lopez v. Sterling Correctional Facility, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit appeals case-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance innocence judicial-review sentencing-enhancement substantial-innocence Whether Mr Lopez should be in prison on a case that the 10th Circuit found substantial Innocence on and the Trial Court Dismissing 3 cases that were u…
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing When a defendant meets the requirements for issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA), is he then entitled to issuance of the certificate?
19-6196 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal right-to-be-informed standing Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated by the court's failure to appoint counsel and provide adequate assistance of counsel
19-6133 Jeremy S. Cochran v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights conviction convictions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Did the court of appeals of Maryland err in denying petitioner's appeal?
19-6153 Davontah Lee Nelson v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision that conflicts with federal procedures and precedents
19-6098 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. First Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in staying the appeal and requiring the appellant to seek relief from the automatic stay in the Title…
19-6099 Khalil Stafford v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-01 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error time-barred Whether the courts erred in failing to grant the defendant a partial evidentiary hearing on challenges to the fourth and fifth convictions, particular…
19-6089 Joseph Signore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration department-of-justice due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-of-perjury sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is Recier DUE. To fr ConvicTioN 1 Devoid OF THE RUD MENTARY DEmAwos of FAIR Pacegouns ?
19-5984 Daniel H. Jones v. Claudia C. Bonnyman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis sovereign-immunity standing Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the petitioner's absolute right in filing as well as to appeal his civil action in forma pa…
19-5959 Loretta Fergerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255?
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts?
19-5974 Duane L. O'Malley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals circuit-operating-rule civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules criminal-procedure criminal-rule-33 direct-appeal due-process judicial-assignment motion-appeal newly-discovered-evidence panel-reassignment recharacterization standing Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals violate Circuit Operating Rule 6(b) when failing to reassign panels?
19-5935 Rachel C. Brown v. Civil Service Commission Michigan 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals civil-rights civil-service civil-service-commission due-process hearing long-term-disability procedural-rights property-interest Is Petitioner, and All Others Similarly Situated, entitled to a hearing and due process in long-term disability (LTD) appeals?
19-5861 Louise K. Saine v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer When can Rule 35 be used error?
19-5885 Olufemi S. Collins v. Mark Gonzalez, et al. California 2019-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure california-appellate-law california-law california-rule-of-court civil-procedure court-rule due-process motion-to-recall parties procedural-dictate remittitur standing Whether the Appellant's motion to recall remittitur and reinstate appeal should be denied contrary to California Rule of Court 8.54
19-5849 Sara Elyas v. Edward Andrew Johnston, et al. Michigan 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insurance jurisdiction standing supreme-court Whether the state court erred in dismissing the case against the defendant Auto-Owners Insurance Company
19-5773 John Franklin Kenney v. P. D. Brazelton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasoned-decision statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether a federal court can deny a habeas corpus petition without providing a reasoned decision, in violation of the Due Process Clause
19-239 Larry Benzon, Warden v. Troy Michael Kell Tenth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Amici (1) appeal appeals appellate-review capital-case capital-punishment collateral-order-doctrine district-court federalism habeas-corpus rhines-v-weber stay Whether a district court's order staying and abeying a capital prisoner's habeas corpus petition under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005), is immedi…
19-5664 Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute Whether the trial court lacked the authority to set aside the conviction and dismiss the cause
19-5681 Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence …
19-5668 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hust, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-counsel continuance due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-preparation appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing Whether the United States District Court for the District of Idaho erred in denying the petitioner's motion for counsel on post-conviction appeal
19-5683 Isaiah Jermale Legall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-deadline appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion standing time-limit Whether equitable tolling applies to the time limit to appeal set forth in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)(1)(A)
19-5562 Sekou Kouyate v. United States Customs and Border Protection Second Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and due proce…
19-5534 James W. Royster v. Virginia Virginia 2019-08-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-interpretation Did the Henrico County Circuit Court err in determining that it did not have jurisdiction to consider such motions for Virginia Supreme Court Rule 5:1…
19-5511 Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of a civil case by a district court for lack of jurisdiction over an incarcerated petitioner violates the Eighth Amendment's pro…
19-5512 Gregory Green v. Donald Beckwith, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the Fourte Curcoct erred by denying 4 Coch fegte of oppealadibly ast the apileshle Sond of revrews
19-5526 Frances W. Lake v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure appeals civil-rights compassionate-release disability due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-prisoner financial-hardship first-step-act government-benefits medical-expenses sentence-reduction Whether the VA pension was properly denied after medical expenses were incurred, despite the widow's disability and financial hardship
19-5439 MacKendy Strachan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-sanctions due-process federal-review judicial-review legal-mail legal-procedure prison standing Whether the Court should review the question of a Departure from the usual rules of judicial proceedings on an order of denial of a motion for reconsi…
19-5417 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdiction native-american-rights standing Whether the state court had jurisdiction to convict the petitioner under the Major Crimes Act
19-5395 George Cleveland, III v. Jerry B. Adger Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-and-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus procedural-limitations standing suspension-clause writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether Slack v. McDaniel requires the Court of Appeals to determine if a Habeas Corpus Petitioner's Appeal states a valid claim of the denial of a co…
19-5273 Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case
19-5249 George E. Kersey v. Herb Chambers 1186, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-07-22 Dismissed IFP appeal appeals civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals district-court due-process filing-fee frivolous in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation sanctions screening standing Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's certification that the appeal was not taken in good faith
19-5265 Benjamin E. Schreiber v. Nick Ludwick, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-remedies appeals bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation dismissal due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-courts parties section-1983 standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's Due Process Rights when it 'ADDED' extra Defendants not in the original lawsuit and in which the U.S. Di…
19-5257 In Re Vincent Johnson 2019-07-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-60-b-6 clerk clerk-filing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdiction motion motion-for-relief relief-sought rule-60-motion sixth-circuit standing Whether the clerk for the Sixth Circuit Debbrah Hunt should be order to file movant's R. 60(b)(6) motion
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants?
19-5190 Steven Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of his civil-rights, due-process, and free-sp…
19-5137 Albert Duval Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-5017 Shanta Phillips-Berry v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the petitioner a fair trial by jury and the opportunity to present evidence against the re…
18-9804 Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for \'plain unreasonableness\'?
18-9786 Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-06-25 Denied IFP appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty Whether a State may condition appeals from termination of parental rights on a parent's ability to pay appeal fees when the parent's income is half of…
18-9797 Mark Anthony Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review procedural-due-process right-of-appeal standing Was the petitioner improperly denied his right of appeal?
18-9720 Frederick H. Banks v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine due-process jurisdiction standing timeliness Whether the District Court erred in committing federal law to the State Burner
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed…
18-9680 Elester Middlebrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims Does a corroborated claim of actual-innocence constitute an extraordinary-circumstance that justifies reopening the habeas-proceedings to adjudicate t…
18-9682 Andre Forbes v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review motion-denial standing unconstitutional Whether 'rubber stamping' defendant's motion with a order of 'Denied' by an Court of Appeals are unconstitutional when Appeals Courts have not reviewe…
18-9645 Victor J. Black v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit had jurisdiction to adjudicate Petitioners' Appeal
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18-9577 Jose Pena v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion opportunity-to-appeal procedural-remedy relief-from-judgment rule-60(b) standing Should this court grant certiorari to determine whether federal civil rule 60(b) may be used to restore the opportunity to appeal?
18-9508 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. I. Jimenez Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appeals civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process internal-bleeding medical-care medical-indifference ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment triable-issues Deliberate-indifference-to-medical-needs
18-9452 In Re Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. 2019-05-31 Dismissed IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-authority clerk-discretion court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts filing-requirements habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority procedural-compliance standing title-28 title-28-usc-1915 Does the United States District Court have the authority to gather and review civil service records & complaints to determine whether the party is a p…
18-9482 Jorge J. Rubio v. Tina Raburn, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-31 Dismissed IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1291 to review an order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C.…
18-9413 Hozay Royal v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2107 appeal-deadline appeals civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadlines mail-filing notice-of-appeal postmark statutory-interpretation time-computation time-limits Does the thirty-day period under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Fed.R.App.Proc. 4(a)(1)(A) allow for the notice of appeal to be filed in the United States Distr…
18-9345 Billy Gene Drake v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process findings findings-of-fact judicial-review lower-court lower-court-decisions procedural-rights standing Was the petitioner's procedural due process violated by the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to adopt the lower court's findings?
18-9348 Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing Whether or not the Stote Court And Federol Courhis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing Crime (sd and Charge ls)
18-9331 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US…
18-9288 In Re Sherman Lamont Fields 2019-05-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Do petitioner have a Constitutional Right to be set free Immediately in light of the overwhelming evidence showing that he was framed for the crime(s)…
18-9169 Andre McDaniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255 6th-amendment appeal appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment standing transcripts Does a pro-se petitioner forfeit his constitutional rights when denied opportunity to have merits heard?
18-9208 Robert Tringham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights core-judicial-functions court-of-appeals due-process habeas judicial-delegation judicial-functions non-judicial-officer procedural-authority remand rule-12.1' 'Does the Court hold that pursuant to rule-22b2 rule-60b6 rule-60b6' 'Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court standing Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access to justice
18-9203 Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County Third Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have jurisdiction?
18-9153 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Petitioner a new trial?
18-9139 Calvin Lyndale Gaddy v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process standing unpublished-opinions Was the petitioner's original complaint properly dismissed as frivolous and without issuance and service of process?
18-9129 Delroy T. Booth v. Trevonza Bobbitt, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-fees dismissal docketing-fees due-process eleventh-circuit fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal by stating 'Failed to Pay the Docketing & Filing Fee…
18-9112 Daniel Bronson v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's appeal
18-9038 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioner's rights as a disabled individual, including his right to reasonable accommodations and equal acce…
18-9020 Michael Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid
18-8989 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Donald Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 appeals civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandate motion-to-vacate record standing successive-petitions Whether my motion to vacate the mandate & record of successive petition is considered a second successive application that the Court of Appeals should…
18-8962 Ronald Collins, Jr. v. Kristen Keller Fourth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), despite the petitioner's argument…
18-8923 Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals
18-8901 Daniel H. Jones v. James F. Goodwin, Judge, Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the petitioner's absolute right in filing as well as to appeal his civil action in forma pa…
18-8904 Octavius Matthews v. Terry Ratliff (TR Motors) Alabama 2019-04-18 Denied IFP appeal appeal-procedure appeals civil-procedure court-dismissal down-payment due-process jurisdiction legal-timeliness plaintiff-claim procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations timeliness Why did the courts find that the Appeal was improper, because the plaintiff did not do it right?
18-8867 James A. Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of jurisdiction and standing
18-1303 Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell California 2019-04-15 Denied appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing Whether a single court of appeals justice can dismiss an appeal after the appellant has shown that all notices of appeal were timely filed and fees pa…
18-8609 Robert L. Clark v. Carroll County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process in-forma-pauperis standing Is the appeal lacking merits?
18-8629 Rogelio Barajas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process search-and-seizure sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
18-8604 Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., resets the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) for a timel…
18-8617 Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari…
18-8573 Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued
18-8551 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness Whether or not the Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, correctly viewed Appellant's Motion To Dismiss this Appeal, submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules…
18-8530 Steven Dennis Young v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-8502 John Allen Alexander v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction standing Whether a clerk of a court issuing an opinion denying a petitioner his right to appeal violates the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 1…
18-8425 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals brady-violation civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal-timeliness-dismissal-rules- constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression new-trial-motion procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rules-of-court standing timeliness Did the Virginia Supreme Court rule erroneously in dismissing petitioner's appeal as being untimely under Rule 5:9(a) of the Supreme Court of Virginia…
18-8428 Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review Should the United States District Court of Colorado have granted the Petitioner Counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing Complaint agains…
18-8358 Joel S. Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure brief-denial certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits standing Did the Circuit Court err when it denied in part the appellants Combined Opening Brief and Application for Certificate of Appealability on the merits?
18-1158 Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Jarrod Taylor's habeas corpus claims challenging the State's concealment of evidence during his trial
18-8243 In Re Andre David Leffebre 2019-03-05 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether civil procedure rules should be applied to habeas corpus proceedings
18-8284 Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeal-restrictions appeals constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction jurisdictional-bars pro-se standing Does it violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th Amendment for pro se parties to have less time and more restrictions to file …
18-8206 Robert L. Clark v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis standards standing How Could the US. Court of Appeals grant a leave to proceed in forma pauperis in US. Court of Appeals Case no.18-10949 under the 'imminent danger' sta…
18-8212 Harry Brantley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions dismissal district-court due-process federal-review federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus petition-dismissal standing state-court timeliness Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his state court convi…
18-8167 Frederick H. Banks v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights competency due-process error-correction indian-law standing tribal-sovereignty Did the Appeals Court err in failing to find that sound reasons existed for filing the error correction motion?
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition Whether the Certificate of Appealability standard can be consistently applied when petitioners are denied relief under Rule 60(b)
18-8097 Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Mr. Benton's appeal and the Texas Court of Appeals stated that his counsel's actions were below a reaso…
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict…
18-7902 Mario Akothe v. Carl Bear, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions What avenues are available to seek habeas corpus relief when a certificate of appealability is denied without due process of law?
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7926 Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing Whether indigent and/or pro se defendants in criminal prosecutions have constitutional protection from the presence of socioeconomic discrimination as…
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by denning a Certificate of Appealab…
18-7879 Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland Maryland 2019-02-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy?
18-7770 Michael Paul Bradley v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's conviction should be overturned due to procedural errors in the trial court
18-7806 George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut Connecticut 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure due-process judicial-review notice notice-of-rights public-health-law state-law Did the Connecticut Department of Public Health act improperly, and deny the Petitioner his right to due process, by failing to inform him on how to p…
18-7831 Curt Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing Should a circuit court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to correct an illegal sentence after the petitioner has been barred from that co…
18-7777 In Re Jaron Brice 2019-02-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in denying habeas corpus relief to the petitioner
18-7733 Tyrone Justin Cowan v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit right-to-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claims
18-7709 John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group Fourth Circuit 2019-02-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-7684 Raynard Reginald Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process patent standing takings Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying the petition for appeal
18-7502 Edjuan Payne v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-24 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated by the trial court's failure to conduct a competency hearing despite evidence of the defendan…
18-7535 Timothy S. Chalfant v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Third Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process judicial-review social-security standing Whether the Social Security Administration and federal courts have to follow the same laws and rules that apply to all other litigants
18-7541 Adrian G. Rangel v. Tippecanoe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity appeals civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals dismissal due-process federal-court federal-trial-court immunity jurisdiction legal-error standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and the Hammond Indiana Federal Trial Court err in dismissing Petitioner's Complaint based sole…
18-7560 Marcus Leland Freeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation Whether the court below erred by misconstruing the petitioner's motion based on Buck v. Dinis by failing to apply the correct legal analysis standard …
18-7566 Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action?
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability?
18-947 Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-timeliness appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion in-camera-review judicial-misconduct misconduct procedural-rules Whether if a member of the Court of Appeals sends a party a 'racist' mailing of a court initiated letter, whether intentional or unintentional, does a…
18-7333 DeShawn Maurice Moffett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-adjudication standing writ-of-certiorari whether-certifying-petitioner's-request-for-certificate-of-appealability
18-7360 Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742(a) allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence if a defendant could show a violation of law?
18-7369 Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. California 2019-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process judicial-petition judicial-review procedural-safeguards property-rights standing vexatious-litigant Does due process require the State to provide meaningful procedural safeguards when responding to judicial petitions?
18-7321 Michael A. Young v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden Second Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-action standing statutory-provisions supreme-court Whether indigent petitioner's freestanding factual innocence showing is being constructively denied appointment of counsel on first and all other appe…
18-7311 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Paul Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection standing Whether the reasoning of the Court in Buck v. Davis (2017) 137 S.Ct. 759 also applies to the Court of Appeals
18-7243 Javier Rojas-Cisneros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus notice-and-warning pro-se standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to undertake the notice-and-warning requirement of a pro se filing as a 2255 motion as …
18-7248 Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage?
18-7059 John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's due process rights and access to the courts
18-7026 Bryan Coats v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts government-action jurisdiction jurisdiction-filing legal-procedure order-denying-rehearing petition-for-rehearing rehearing standing takings timeliness united-states Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
18-7006 Gordon C. Reid v. Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis plra prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes Whether the PLRA's 'three strikes' provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), which bars prisoners from proceeding in forma pauperis if they have had three prior…
18-6924 Larry E. Walden v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court time-limits Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to grant certiorari from a decision of the Arkansas Court of Appeals?
18-6790 Clarence Otworth v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeal appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-jurisdiction final-order jurisdiction notice-of-appeal oath-of-office presidential-nonfeasance standing Is an appeal of a final order and a notice of appeal the same thing?
18-6746 Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-6772 Donovan Grant v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court Whether the plain-error doctrine permits an appeals court to affirm a conviction based on a potential crime that it identifies in the record that was …
18-639 Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
18-633 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial Should a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and c…
18-6627 David Timothy Curry v. Florida Florida 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure direct-appeal due-process issue-preservation judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning standing state-court state-courts Where a state appellate court is required to address every issue that was presented when they decline to review a lower court's decision
18-6592 Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven…
18-6512 Jabril Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search Whether petitioners were arrested without probable cause
18-6434 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-6391 Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano whether-the-eleventh-circuit-misapplied-fed-r-crim-p-52(b)-and-united-states-v-olano
18-6276 Marcus Anthony Terrell v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing state-courts Whether the dismissal of petitioners' certificate of probable cause by the Supreme Court of Georgia violated their due process rights and resulted in …
18-6145 Maurice Nichols v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing successive-petitions Did the Appellate Court and District Court close their discretion in construing the petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion as a Second and Successive Habeas P…
18-6123 Ameen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal legal-standing notice-of-appeal procedural-error standing third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in dismissing Mr. Green's Notice of Appeal?
18-6063 Craig Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should resolve split decisions in the lower court as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to grant…
18-6026 James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing Whether the Circuit Court's decision nullified amendments to Petitioners' sentences and deprived him of the ability to seek habeas corpus relief in th…
18-5989 Gary Dan Bilbo, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation 28-usc-2255 appeals district-court habeas-corpus motion-to-reopen standard-of-review What is the appropriate standard of review for a district court's denial of a motion to reopen a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
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…
18-320 CEH Energy, LLC, et al. v. Kean Miller, LLP, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived appeal appeals appellate-deadline circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure motion-to-alter new-grounds rule-59(e) rule-59e successive-motions tolling tolling-provision Should the Supreme Court reverse this outlier Fifth Circuit case and provide clear guidance to practitioners on when successive Rule 59(e) motions are…
18-5889 James Ronald Welch, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review standing Whether the U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kevin C. Newson erred in denying Appellant's appeal
18-5811 Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question
18-5827 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal?
18-5757 Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing Whether the petitioner's federal constitutional claims were properly presented and preserved for review by the lower courts
18-5703 Joshua D. Blair v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP appeals arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction martinez-v-ryan procedural-defect standing Did the Foortis Cirecit Coors of Apgeals errored in Peii toner I writ, usinauny Vasiierer Shavoeck cont yi ed 1c an LYYPETrary ISSOL LWHYn Ane YM Circ…
18-5645 Eric E. Johnson v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Dismissed IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, knowingly denied a petitioner's final appeal of a constitutional right to appeal his capital criminal…
18-5650 Carl Javon Ross v. Maryland Maryland 2018-08-20 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process innocence standing Whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain the petitioner's convictions
18-5602 Stephen D. Leonard v. Florida Florida 2018-08-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process records standing state-courts subpoena transcripts Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to probe a constitutional demand for records and transcripts of the proceedings on app…
18-5609 Michael Alexander LaJeunesse v. Iowa Iowa 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct shower-curtain Whether the lower court erred in its analysis of the issues raised in the petition for writ of certiorari
18-5623 Garland E. Williams v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals appellate-rules circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process harmless-error motion-practice motion-rules notice notice-service panel-assignment standing Whether inadvertent failure Circuit Court Panel Assignment and failure notice service of all alleged court contending deficiencies notices conflict di…
18-5599 Anson Chi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining pro-se sentencing standing Whether the defendant's guilty plea was involuntary due to an unconstitutional no-parole sentence
18-5477 Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation Has the U.S. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and committed reversible error in dismissing Ebron's 42 USC § 1983 appeal, finding no reversable e…
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio…
18-5459 Zachary David Warnell v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel Can a state deny a criminal defendant the constitutional right to appeal with the effective assistance of counsel?
18-5260 Mike McGlocklin v. FNU Blankenship, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis motions procedural-posture standing statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner's motions and request to proceed in forma pauperis should have been granted based on the circumstances and procedural posture of th…
18-5203 Khalif Abdul Qawi Mujahid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure-rules due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) …
18-5139 Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for a new trial and vacating his sentence, and whether the court violated the Double J…
18-5119 Ambrose King v. Mary King Maryland 2018-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-dismissal appeals award civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion monetary-award procedural-due-process standing substantive-due-process vacatur Did the lower court violate substantive and procedural due process in not vacating the dismissal of the appeal?
18-5076 Billy R. Melot v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing tax venue Whether the 5th Circuit Decision is an intervening controlling precedent that affects the Justiciability of Appellant's claims
18-10 Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer Whether a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee is a 'United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity' for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(…
18-5046 Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied a motion where the petitioner showed new evidence to warrant an immediate release due…