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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A785 Bernard Jones v. Dave Bergman, Warden Tenth Circuit 2026-01-07 Application appellate-court jurisdictional-deadline petition-for-certiorari rehearing supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
25A760 Robert Armendaris v. Arizona Arizona 2025-12-31 Application appellate-court certiorari deadline petition supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
25A555 Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2025-11-13 Application appellate-court certiorari gun-club legal-standing regulatory-rights supreme-court-review Whether a state appellate court's decision regarding a local gun club's legal standing or regulatory rights can be subject to Supreme Court review
25-322 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver 1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo…
25-299 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-court collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-review revenue-impact 1. Whether the appellate court committed error by overturning Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U.S. 88 (2004) by holding that any constitutional claim arising di…
25A177 William Lanier v. Guy Bosch, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete appellate-court certiorari-period electronic-filing judicial-procedure supreme-court-rule time-extension Whether a federal appellate court's opinion triggers the standard 60-day certiorari period under Supreme Court Rule 10.2 when the underlying judgment …
23-7597 William Hill v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-05-30 Denied IFP appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles…
23-1080 Warren Mosler, et al. v. Joseph Gerace, et al. Virgin Islands 2024-04-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court civil-procedure corporate-form due-process jury-deliberations shareholders-damages standing trial-proceedings verdict Does Due Process allow an appellate court to shortcut the trial proceedings; the jury deliberations; and the verdict itself; and ignore the plaintiffs…
23-6183 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing Whether a claim of attorney abandonment of material omissions in the record may justify the granting of a motion to recall the mandate of an appellate…
23-5786 Mark Andre Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines
23-5675 Brandon A. House v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-court appellate-court-interpretation concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons section-3582 sentencing-modification When does the power to modify a sentence based on 'extraordinary and compelling' reasons rest with the district court that imposed the sentence?
22-7619 Earl Anderson v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC Sixth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure dismissal district-court due-process in-forma-pauperis standing supplemental-complaint Whether the Appellate Court erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner Andersen's Original Complaint
22-1011 Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause violate Illinois v. Gates?
22-7254 Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Texas Texas 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-motion appellate-court appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process electronic-filing ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal procedural-error Did the Texas Appellate Court(s) depart from judicial-proceedings to deprive petitioner's due-process rights
22-6650 Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska Nebraska 2023-01-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court whether-the-fourteenth-amendment-prohibits-a-state-appellate-court-from-adjudicating-an-application-or-motion-in-complete-absence-of-all-jurisdiction
22-5561 Terrance Brooks v. Illinois Illinois 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review conviction due-process judicial-review napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood Whether the Appellate Court of Illinois rejection of Mr. Brooks assertion of knowing use of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction had a reasonable…
21-1115 In Re Wanda Bowling 2022-02-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues a failure to execute duties or abuse of discretion?
21-6873 Juan J. Torres v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-court court-denial criminal-procedure custody-violation due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment What was the United States Supreme Court ruling about informing a suspect about having a lawyer present during questioning?
21-6520 Mark J. Zimny v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-court due-process motion-for-summary-disposition reasonable-jurists substantial-question summary-disposition supreme-court-precedent Did an appellate court contravene Supreme Court precedent by granting the government's motion for summary disposition?
21-5772 Charles Eason v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation When the Appellate Court of a chemical that 'could' be used to manufacture a 'serious drug' is remand required?
20-8153 Samantha J. Jackson v. AT&T Retirement Savings Plan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure docketing excusable-neglect filing-deadline jurisdictional-issue notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-filer Did the Appellate Court erroneously calculate the filing deadline for the Notice of Appeal?
19-7354 Lawrence Martin v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-court capital-murder constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearing jurisdiction perjury prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether state court violated A.C.A. 5-10-202
19-6751 DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California California 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violation…
19-165 Daniel T. Morgan v. Sheri A. Morgan Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) alimony-contract appellate-court contract contract-interpretation due-process en-banc judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation overrule same-case Whether it is due process of law for an intermediate appellate court, not en banc, to overrule its decision in the same case
19-112 S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC Texas 2019-07-23 Denied appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-9187 Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subsequent h…
18-9188 Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-7585 Lemuel Gay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab…
18-889 Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber Illinois 2019-01-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural-due-process, of their federal-constitutionally-protected-liberty-interest in ha…
18-5897 Arthur Braddy v. Florida Florida 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process florida-statutes legal-procedure minimum-mandatory-sentence sentencing trial-court Did the State of Florida violate petitioner's right to due process by failing to correct the trial court's imposition of a minimum mandatory sentence …
18-5780 Peter Vincent Capra v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of…
18-184 John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. …
18-5283 David McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus relief on an unlitig…