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25A893 Thomas M. Adams v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-06 Application appellate-jurisdiction court-of-criminal-appeals final-order habeas-corpus military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application for an Extension of Time Within Which to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari."…
25-6671 M. Norman Hammerlord v. Heather Ferbert, San Diego City Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending IFP appellate-jurisdiction court-procedure judicial-review notice-of-appeal panel-order time-to-file Whether the new appeals court panel erred in issuing an order stating that they lacked jurisdiction due to an untimely notice of appeal, and thereby o…
25-6659 Anthony Allen v. Debra B. Walker, Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, et al. Illinois 2026-01-23 Pending IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure final-order mandamus-statute nolle-prosequi summary-dismissal I. Whether the Appellate Court Did Have Jurisdiction to Consider Notice of Appeal, When the Circuit Court Did Not Follow the Mandamus Statute For Summ…
25-814 Assata Acey Hackman v. Inductev Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review evidence-review judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court-oversight Does the oversight of the US Supreme Court permit its lower courts to ignore submitted evidence in order to refuse pro se petitions?
25A772 Jason A. Czekalski v. William L. Wrenn, Individually, and as former Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-05 Application appellate-jurisdiction extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure mandate-issuance panel-review petition-for-rehearing Question not identified.
25-723 Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction 1. Should the district court have held an evidentiary hearing to address Petitioners' allegations that pieces of paper purporting to be summonses lack…
25A722 Richard R. Lawless v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process frivolous-dismissal pro-se-litigant section-1915 Whether a federal appellate court can summarily dismiss a pro se civil rights appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) without providing meani…
25A685 Gopher Media LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Corporation, fka Local Clicks, dba Doctor Multimedia, et al. v. Andrew Melone, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order federal-courts interlocutory-appeal state-law-privilege Whether orders denying state-law anti-SLAPP motions qualify as immediately appealable 'collateral orders' under federal appellate jurisdiction standar…
25-637 Mark Hanneman, Minneapolis Police Officer, et al. v. Karen Wells, as Co-Trustee for the Next of Kin of Amir Rahkare Locke, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deadly-force fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant qualified-immunity use-of-force 1. When the Respondents' own factual allegations, the facts assumed by the courts, and the undisputedly authentic video footage, show the officer was …
25-602 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz Santiago v. José Ramon Cárrion Morales, Chapter 13 Trustee, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-violation due-process mandate-stay 1. Whether a federal court of appeals violates Due Process and exceeds its jurisdiction under Article III by denying an emergency stay request without…
25-569 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus In Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, this Court held that federal appellate courts do not "have jurisdiction under [28 U.S.C.] § 1291 . . . to review an order…
25-562 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-10 Rehearing Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction case-finality civil-procedure direct-review retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Whether a civil case dismissed without prejudice, in which appellate review was prematurely terminated and certiorari previously denied, remains "pend…
25A495 Mark Hanna v. John Bel Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-30 Application appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights good-faith-standard in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation procedural-default Whether a prisoner's in forma pauperis (IFP) status can be denied on appeal when procedural challenges prevent full review of the underlying civil rig…
25A387 Robert D. Schneider, et al. v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete 18-usc-922 appellate-jurisdiction court-martial criminal-appeals firearm-prohibition military-justice Whether military courts of criminal appeals have jurisdiction to correct errors related to post-conviction firearm prohibitions under 18 U.S.C. § 922
25A380 William Scott v. Howard Hanna Third Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-defect mandatory-deadline notice-of-appeal time-limit Whether the federal appellate courts properly dismissed an appeal for untimely filing under the mandatory 30-day notice of appeal deadline
25A372 Derrel L. Thomas v. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., et al. Florida 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction discretionary-review district-court-appeal florida-supreme-court judicial-review summary-dismissal Whether a district court of appeal's summary dismissal without an elaborated opinion precludes discretionary review by the Florida Supreme Court
25-5513 In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello 2025-09-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court mandamus notice-of-appeal pro-se Whether an Appellant proceeding Pro Se without counsel and without notice can challenge a district court's decision through a writ of mandamus or appe…
25A183 Pamela McKenzie v. Walgreens Texas 2025-08-14 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari petition supreme-court texas-supreme-court time-extension Whether a state supreme court's ruling warrants Supreme Court review under principles of appellate jurisdiction and certiorari discretion
25A117 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability that would have allowed further review of a potentially me…
25A74 Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon Second Circuit 2025-07-18 Application appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-appeal non-judicial-foreclosure res-judicata substitute-trustee-deed Question not identified.
25-5053 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-review habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation transfer-order Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) precludes the Supreme Court from reviewing a circuit court's dismissal of an appeal regarding a transfer order in a …
24-7444 Jameel Ibrahim v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 without remanding to the district co…
24-7410 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-12 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts final-judgment multi-count-indictment sentencing Whether a judgment which convicts and sentences a defendant on a count of a multi-count indictment is appealable under § 1291 where, although others c…
24-7377 Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to review a potential violation of the Supremacy Clause by the District Court of New Jersey
24-7371 Abraka Vanessa Okposio v. Barry University, Inc., et al., a Florida Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order default-judgment fraud-upon-court judicial-review Is a District Court's Collateral Order denying a Motion for Default Final Judgment Due to Opposing Counsel's Fraud Upon the Court immediately appealab…
24-1184 In Re Grand Jury Investigation Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-client-privilege discovery-order grand-jury-subpoena perlman-exception third-party-compliance Whether Perlman permits an immediate appeal of orders compelling both the objecting privilegeholder and a disinterested third party to comply with a g…
24-7034 Jacques Dorcinvil v. Marlyn Kopp, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals-jurisdiction district-court-procedure notice-of-appeal prisoner-litigation pro-se-appeal Whether the late filing of a Notice of Appeal by a District Court's clerk sent by a pro se prisoner can deprive the Court of Appeals of jurisdiction o…
24-1065 Richard Alan Haase v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Texas 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process nunc-pro-tunc standing statutes-of-limitation Whether the fundamental right of due process is violated when a non-final non-appealable order is modified via nunc pro tunc to create a final appeala…
24-6912 Kenneth R. Talley, et al. v. Judith C. Horn, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se Does a lack of basic literacy skills have significant legal implications for an elderly individual's ability to act as a lawyer to represent himself, …
24-6861 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri…
24-6837 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-judgment custody-challenge federal-relief habeas-corpus state-court Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a grant of federal habeas relief after a state court's vacatur of the un…
24-979 Legacy Recovery Services, LLC, dba Legacy House, et al. v. City of Monroe, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response Waived amendment-rights appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure finality-doctrine pleading-standards rule-12 Do federal courts have authority to create pleading requirements beyond the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and when does a Rule 12 dismissal order b…
24-6674 Kevin Millette v. United States First Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing-modification Whether a federal district court's compassionate release order can be appealed after the defendant has been released from custody
24-6655 Raul Hiram Mata-Gardea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres appellate-jurisdiction downward-departure indictment-requirement pre-removal-felony sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's denial of a motion for downward departure under the Sentencing Gui…
24-6498 In Re Thomas Sawyer 2025-02-07 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court filing-fee judicial-review mandamus-relief procedural-rules Whether the 7th Circuit improperly denied a second appellate filing fee and mandamus relief for a petitioner seeking to challenge a lower court's ruli…
24A762 Jermaine Lamar Rutledge v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-05 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari criminal-procedure state-court-review supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision in a criminal case warrants Supreme Court review under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a)
24-6445 Neelam Uppal v. Florida Department of Administrative Hearings, et al. Florida 2025-02-03 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violations due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-review Did the Florida Supreme Court err in dismissing the appeal and consequently failed to address the constitutional violations raised
24-758 The GEO Group, Inc. v. Alejandro Menocal, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-16 Granted Amici (20)Relisted (2) 28-USC-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order final-judgment government-contractor sovereign-immunity Whether an order denying a government contractor's claim of derivative sovereign immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrin…
24-730 Robert H. Gravatt, III v. Montgomery County, Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction court-procedure federal-rules reconsideration-motion rule-4 time-limit Whether the 28-day limit to toll a postjudgment reconsideration motion of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(4)(A) is jurisdictional
24-697 Terry J. Clark v. Debra Anne Taylor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction case-preclusion district-court federal-procedure legal-doctrine rooker-feldman What are the standards and exceptions to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in appellate courts
24-658 In Re Securus Technologies, et al. 2024-12-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court federal-communications-commission forum-shopping statutory-interpretation venue-transfer Whether the First Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2112(a) by refusing to transfer consolidated challenges to a Federal Communications Commission order an…
24A563 Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler Second Circuit 2024-12-10 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari pro-se summary-affirmance supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standard for extraordinary circumstance…
24-6096 David C. Lettieri v. Paul E. Bonanno Second Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-594 Arthur Seale v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability criminal-judgment post-conviction-relief resentencing section-2255 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) bars courts of appeals from exercising jurisdiction over post-conviction appeals seeking full resentencing
24A512 Steven Burda v. Alla Korenman aka Alla Burda Pennsylvania 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction emergency-relief legal-extension pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant's procedural request for an extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari constitutes a valid legal basis for emergenc…
24-6019 In Re Anthony Norman 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights court-obstruction federal-review judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief Whether the Supreme Court should issue a permanent injunction against state courts that have created an absolute bar to seeking Supreme Court review t…
24-5933 Garry David Gallardo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-07 Closed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review structural-defects Whether the federal criminal courts can review structural defects in lower court proceedings when constitutional rights have potentially been violated
24-5892 Toccara Yvonne Puller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-review Question not identified.
24-502 John Doe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-client-privilege criminal-investigation filter-team injunction-order privilege-review Does the fact that the privilege holder is under criminal investigation deprive appellate courts of jurisdiction to review orders refusing to enjoin a…
24-470 Michelle R. Gilbank v. Wood County Department of Human Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Amici (3) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-claims rooker-feldman-doctrine state-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the Rooker-Feldman doctrine extend to bar federal claims for damages where the state judgment neither awarded nor denied damages, meaning the f…
24-5798 Gene Tony Cooper, Jr. v. William Langdon, III, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure Question not identified.
24-5759 Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal Whether a bankruptcy court's denial of a debtor's motion to voluntarily dismiss a Chapter 7 case is a final appealable order under 28 U.S.C. § 158
24-387 Malikah Asante-Chioke v. Nicholas Dowdle, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine discovery-order immunity-cases interlocutory-appeal judicial-review Whether federal appellate courts have jurisdiction to review routine discovery orders under the collateral order doctrine
24A317 Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn Second Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari pro-se procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari meets the legal standards for extraordinary relief unde…
24-5642 Nawaz Ahmed v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-26 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss voluntary-dismissal Whether the Court of Appeals lacks appellate jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case 21-3542 due to district court orders lacking finality and failure …
24-5641 In Re Nawaz Ahmed 2024-09-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus lack-of-finality voluntary-dismissal writ-of-prohibition Whether a writ of prohibition is available to challenge an appellate court's jurisdiction when district court orders lack finality due to unadjudicate…
24-5584 Pierre C. Marc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine due-process fraud-on-court pre-trial-appeal right-not-to-be-tried Whether an appeal of a collateral order based on a defendant's right not to be tried is reviewable under the Collateral Order Doctrine
24-5582 Clement Mosseri v. 7 West 21 LI LLC Second Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-review judicial-jurisdiction Whether the United States Supreme Court has an obligation to correct lower court deviations from constitutional procedures and ensure jurisdictional p…
24-5495 Madena Bishop v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights court-procedure judicial-misconduct pro-se-petition service-of-process Whether multiple legal issues can be raised in a pro se petition involving alleged procedural irregularities and constitutional violations in Cook Cou…
24-5426 Carl Dwayne Stevenson v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A127 Arthur Lopez v. Perla Elias California 2024-08-05 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction final-judgment judicial-finality petition-for-review state-court-procedure supreme-court-review Whether a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review without an opinion constitutes a final judgment for purposes of federal appell…
24-5207 E. C. v. Q. T. Texas 2024-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-review legal-procedure witnesses Whether the petitioner was denied due process when the trial court failed to allow him to present witnesses and evidence in his defense, thereby depri…
24-5202 James B. Jordan v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights common-carrier constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure liability passenger-safety statutory-interpretation transportation Question not identified
24-5184 Alexander Kates v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-validity habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lackawanna-v-coss legal-procedure plea-agreement statutory-interpretation strickland-v-washington Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
24-64 Nicholas Piazza, et al. v. Gramercy Distressed Opportunity Fund II L.P., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Dismissed Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-stay circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-order motion-to-compel motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-pending-arbitration Whether, under 9 U.S.C. § 16, a circuit court has appellate jurisdiction over an interlocutory order denying a motion for a stay pending arbitration o…
24-5088 In Re Gavin B. Davis 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-motion-for-pretrial-release
24A20 H.C. v. A.N. California 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction equitable-tolling filing-extension medical-disability pro-se-litigant procedural-deadline Whether a pro se litigant's medical disability and physical limitations can constitute good cause for equitable tolling of procedural filing deadlines…
23-1330 Michael Stern, et ux. v. Mark Mcdonald Washington 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction certiorari constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-procedure judicial-review state-courts supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Washington's order to deny review violate the United States Constitution?
23-7742 Clifton William Batts v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure direct-review due-process finality habeas-corpus Question not identified
23-1304 Edward L. Clark, Jr. v. Deborah L. Clark California 2024-06-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-authority legal-procedure rule-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction summons void-judgment Question not identified
23-7664 Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit administrative-review agency-decision appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure judicial-procedure jury-trial mandamus pending-motions remand Question not identified.
23-7533 Chadwick Wright v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-collateral-proceedings state-law Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution mandate the appointment of counsel by indigent prisoners in state collateral proceedin…
23-7477 Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing 'any sentence of imprisonment' can be knowingly entered into well before…
23-7443 Irvin Thomas v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process excessive-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-errors provocation sentencing trial-procedure video-evidence Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when several arguable issues apply to why the petitioner's sentence was excessive given the …
23-7395 Wesley Carl Panighetti v. California California 2024-05-07 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-precedent privacy standing statutory-interpretation Whether the state courts' determination of the facts of this case was objectively reasonable?
23-7408 Melvin Warren Rivers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-order judicial-review motion-denial probation probation-revocation procedural-appeal revocation Whether the denial of a motion to terminate probation made during a probation revocation hearing but prior to the final revocation hearing is a final …
23A993 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's denial of a pretrial release motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3164 is immediately appealable as an interlocutory order when circuit…
23-7310 In Re Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. 2024-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying the petitioners' request for rehearing en banc
23-7077 Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing Whether the Fifth Circuit's dismissal of the petitioner's appeal as untimely conflicts with the 'mailbox rule' established by this Court and other cir…
23-7066 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion is an unauthorized s…
23-7048 Justin L. Dalcollo v. Anthony Wills, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review legal-standing mental-health standing Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a higher level of procedural protections for individuals faci…
23-7037 Billy Joe King v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility judicial-review mental-capacity standing Whether the petitioner has met the burden of proof to establish his mental incompetence and entitlement to a competency hearing
23-6817 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-criminal-procedure first-circuit judicial-quorum nguyen-v-us notice-of-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the First Circuit's Judgment was a valid decision by a quorum
23-896 Sean Garnand, et al. v. Greg Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation legal-question qualified-immunity Can a Circuit Court of Appeals avoid deciding purely legal qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdiction?
23-6730 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the fundamental fairness of the criminal trial was violated by the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictmen…
23-6719 In Re Anthony Michael DelaRosa 2024-02-09 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court proceedings, including issues of due process, ineffective assistance o…
23A727 Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete 28-USC-1257 appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure state-court-review Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals correctly applied state law in affirming a criminal conviction that may raise potential federal consti…
23A697 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler Vermont 2024-01-29 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process rocket-docket state-supreme-court time-extension Whether a state supreme court's expedited 'rocket docket' decision implicates due process rights when rendering a final judgment in a domestic relatio…
23-6583 Muhammad Khan v. SAP Labs, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP 9th-circuit appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment judicial-review notice-of-appeal personal-property special-needs time-limitation unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property, without any showing of exigent circumstances or…
23A689 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction federal-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60(b) statutory-interpretation Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to review a district court's threshold determination that a Rule 60(b) motio…
23-6544 In Re Mo Savoy Hicks 2024-01-23 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process emotional-harm enhancement-factor miscarriage-of-justice prejudicial-variance sentencing-guidelines third-party-harm Does the Minnesota sentencing guidelines enhancement factor particular cruelty in relying on emotional harm to third parties instead of conduct exacte…
23-6313 In Re Jason D. Fisher 2023-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion standing sua-sponte-dismissal Do appellate courts and district courts have authority to raise and decide issues without party input?
23-619 Puerto Rico Supplies Group, Inc., et al. v. Bautista Cayman Asset Company Puerto Rico 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction misrepresentation mistake puerto-rico-law relief-from-judgment rule-49.2 whether-puerto-rico-courts-can-foreclose-access-to-relief-from-appellate-court-judgments
23-549 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd…
23-539 Raymond De Botton v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii case-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process good-behavior judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-review standing Whether Article III courts are required to apply the law to the facts of a dispute
23-465 Timothy Dolbin v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights class-action mootness personal-stake relation-back rule-23 stare-decisis veterans-affairs veterans-appeals Whether a named plaintiff whose individual claim becomes moot after the denial of a request for class certification and class action can still appeal …
23-403 Emma Serna, et al. v. William Cooksey, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding standing void-judgment Whether an appellate court has jurisdiction to vacate a 'void judgment' under the Fifth Amendment, and whether a wrongful foreclosure judgment should …
23-384 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
23-5747 Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals properly denied Petitioner due process and Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to consider newly discov…
23-5716 Jimmy Zavala v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10(e) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition motion-to-correct procedural-rules rule-10e successive-appeal When should the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e) be recharacterized as a successive appeal?
23-352 Christopher A. Rogalski v. Laureate Education, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (3) 12(b)(6) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment forum-non-conveniens forum-selection forum-selection-clause standing Must the result of a motion to dismiss based upon a claimed forum selection clause under F.R.C.P. 12(b)(6) be considered the same as a dismissal for f…
23-355 Donnie T. A. M. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County Fourth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1964 civil-rights-removal district-court-remand due-process removal section-1443 section-1447d standing Whether the Fourth Circuit has appellate jurisdiction when a District Court remands a case that was removed pursuant 28 U.S.C. §1443, whereas the Peti…
23-5679 Joshua Stephenson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-rights standing Whether the discretion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to deny a certificate of appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) is co…
23A277 David Wong v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-petition extension-of-time memorandum-opinion ninth-circuit standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the applicable standard of review in evaluating petitioner's claims on appeal
23-5643 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction assignments-of-error constitutional-rights due-process mandamus mandamus-writ procedural-rules rules-of-court supremacy-clause supreme-court-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia impeded the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Virginia and/or the Supreme Court of the United St…
23-267 Marilyn Williams v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure final-decision interlocutory-ruling rule-41 rule-41(a) voluntary-dismissal Does an interlocutory ruling that dismisses some (but not all) of a plaintiff's claims with prejudice become an appealable 'final decision' if the pla…
23-5578 April Paw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-5559 Jarrish Outlaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-remedy manifest-injustice manifest-of-injustice standing supreme-court-review writ-jurisdiction Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's petition to invoke all writ jurisdiction on a manifest of injustice claim
23A228 Susan Chana Lask, aka Susan Lusk, aka Susan Lesk v. Margaret Rhee-Karn Second Circuit 2023-09-11 Presumed Complete administrative-closure appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-jurisdiction final-judgment finality-requirement rule-60b-motion Whether an administrative closure order that does not terminate the merits of a case or reflect an intent to end litigation constitutes a final judgme…
23-5394 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the denial of a defendant's motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds constitutes a constitutional violation
23-5395 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the government's prosecution of an individual complies with the Fourth Amendment and due process when the individual's behavior does not const…
23-141 Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a removal action supported by 28 USC 1338 and 1454 is justiciable by way of a district court order of remand issued pursuant to 28 USC 1447?
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
23-111 United States, ex rel. Howard Beck v. St. Joseph Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions rule-59 timely-appeal Whether a court-created exception barring successive post-judgment motions can deprive a court of appeals of jurisdiction over an appeal that is timel…
23-112 Ian A. McElroy v. City of Corvallis, Oregon Oregon 2023-08-04 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review municipal-law municipal-ordinance statutory-interpretation Does the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals under ORS 221.360 include a judicial determination of the constitutionality of a municipal city ordin…
23-5270 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss Whether a court can verbally deny a motion to dismiss on Double Jeopardy grounds without a full record
23-5090 Travis J. Brown v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP acquittal appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review mistrial procedural-error Whether principles of double jeopardy protect a defendant from successive prosecutions of inconsistent verdicts contrary to Powell's analysis
23-5004 Gregory L. Randle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
22-7766 Ramon Ramirez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court federal-courts interstate-commerce jurisdiction second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the district court had jurisdiction based on evidence supporting the interstate c…
22-1081 Bruce J. Chasan v. Correale F. Stevens, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-05-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction credibility-determinations defamation excess-of-jurisdiction fact-finding judicial-authority judicial-immunity non-monetary-relief statutory-limitations usurpation-of-authority Where Superior Court judges in Pennsylvania are deprived by statute of jurisdiction to make findings of fact and credibility determinations as appella…
22-7398 Michael A. Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 appellate-jurisdiction ayestas-v-davis clemency-case collateral-order-doctrine eighth-circuit harbison-v-bell mcfarland medical-testing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the district court had jurisdiction to order transportation for medical testing in a clemency case
22-1027 The Dutra Group, Inc., et al. v. Kelly Zaradnik, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied administrative-law agency-review appellate-jurisdiction benefits-review-board judicial-review longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Whether appellate courts can restrict the limited jurisdiction of the Benefits Review Board
22-7202 Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-writ mandate-law pro-se-plaintiff rule-60-motion standing Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
22-962 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied 28-usc-1443 anti-injunction-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal finality jurisdictional-challenge remand removal statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review when finality is not reached in the District case as there is no formal written remand order i…
22-7176 In Re Thomas J. M. Goodin 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus mandamus-petition pro-se-litigant standing Whether granting of this writ will conform to the Court's appellate jurisdiction that only exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Court…
22-6956 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly determined that the orders appealed were neither final nor worthy of consideration under the All-Writs Act 18 USC …
22-810 Andrea Liebman v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review pro-tunc-order standing willful-violation Did the 11th US Court of Appeals err in affirming the Bankruptcy Court's use of an arbitrary Nunc Pro Tunc technique after a willful violation of the …
22-790 Vanessa Wereko v. Lori Rosen, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 28-usc-1292 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure congressional-intent discretionary-appeal district-court interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion status-quo statutory-interpretation Whether Congress' intent for an interlocutory appeal as of right, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1), can be 'unilaterally converted into a discretionary ap…
22-6744 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-circuit standing supreme-court whether the Sixth Circuit Court erred in dismissing petitioner's motion as second/successive under 28 USC 2255
22-751 Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split disgorgement equity-practice joint-and-several-liability mandate-rule net-profits procedural-requirement profits-based-remedy third-party-funds Whether the decision of the Ninth Circuit requiring petitioners to disgorge funds they raised and disbursed to unrelated third parties, but never pers…
22-712 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied appellate-jurisdiction attorney-disqualification case-dismissal court-of-appeals court-procedure district-court due-process false-reporting judicial-misconduct judicial-nominee lack-of-jurisdiction Did Judicial Nominee Mr. Iain D. Johnston fabricate a non-existent certiorari petition case name on his response to the U.S. Senate's Questionnaire fo…
22-6589 In Re Moses Jackson 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-review due-process federal-question judicial-power jurisdiction standing state-court-discretion supreme-court supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the judicial power of the United States under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution extends to the issues raised in this case
22-6463 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction brady-violation certificate-of-appealability district-court-jurisdiction due-process eighth-circuit-court exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel title-28-usc-2253 title-28-usc-2255 Jurisdiction-to-address-non-adjudicated-claims
22-6184 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order denying petitioner's §2254 petition legal?
22-6157 Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review Questions Presented
22-6120 In Re Olayinka Famofo-Idowu 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights cohen-v-beneficial collateral-order-doctrine due-process fraud-allegations fraud-upon-court standing supreme-court-discretion writ-of-prohibition Whether appeals by substituting finality for ripeness in a proceeding implicating fraud upon the court by the government and erstwhile defense counsel…
22-6011 In Re Dale Richard Pate 2022-11-08 Denied IFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure discretionary-powers discretionary-review due-diligence exceptional-circumstances statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari Did respondent usurp this court's appellate jurisdiction?
22-5911 Clark Wesley Betts, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review merits merits-review procedural-order statutory-interpretation Is a certificate of appealability needed to appeal an order unrelated to the merits of a habeas proceeding if that order is part of an order on the me…
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?
22-300 Wessie Sims v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process final-judgment judicial-code standing takings zoning-law Whether the Court of Appeals is in conflict with Catlin
22-5646 Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did Court of Appeals err in ruling on disability claims under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act?
22-5630 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. 2022-09-20 Denied IFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-pleading due-process exceptional-circumstances fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing Whether the exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Court's discretionary powers
22-232 Shane Place and Misty Blackwell, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Angel Place v. Joyce Anderson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction deliberate-indifference due-process foster-care substantive-due-process summary-judgment Did the court of appeals in its de novo review of summary judgment abuse its appellate jurisdiction and deny petitioners due process by refusing to ad…
22-5545 Clinton Folkes v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction direct-appeal indigent-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-misrepresentation procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's right to counsel on direct appeal attaches throughout the period when the appellate court has jurisdiction over the cas…
22-5454 Jesus Carreon-Grimaldo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals discretionary-decision discretionary-decisions downward-departure jurisdictional-label sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the advisory Sentencing Guidelin…
22-172 Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction article-iii article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus microsoft-v-baker voluntary-dismissal Does an appellate court have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and Article III when a plaintiff voluntarily dismisses its claims with prejudice in o…
22-5430 Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts Whether the lower courts abused their discretion and erred in light of Supreme Court precedent
22-5418 Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad…
22-5407 In Re James R. Austin 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent miscarriage-of-justice procedural-mechanism rule-60b-motion standing supreme-court supreme-court-holding Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Gonzalez v. Crosby controls and must be followed by respondents
22-5384 In Re Randell Joseph Redmond 2022-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-rights standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus
22-5289 Phillip A. Brown, II v. Cindi Curtin, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction calderon-v-thompson circuit-split collins-v-miller federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-54(b) final-judgment habeas-claims habeas-corpus jury-bias remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Circuit Court must recall the mandate in extraordinary cases where it lacked subject-matter-jurisdiction
22-105 Coinbase, Inc. v. Abraham Bielski Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-appeal circuit-split civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel Does a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration oust a district court's jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending ap…
22-27 Alyssa Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group, LLC, nka Noatoz LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cell-phone-privacy cell-phones civil-litigation civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief privacy privacy-interests riley-v-california standing sua-sponte-order Whether orders requiring the turn over of cell phones for cloning and global searching have the practical effect of granting or denying an injunction …
21-8073 Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jen, aka Jennifer, aka Jennifer Sullivan, aka Lei Sullivan, aka Lei v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine court-of-appeals criminal-procedure divestiture-rule final-judgment non-appealable-order pro-se pro-se-status sentencing-phase Can a criminal defendant immediately appeal the revocation of her pro se status by a district court judge sua sponte during the trial?
21-1438 Tamia Banks, et al. v. Cotter Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction atomic-energy-act claim-severance federal-jurisdiction final-decision nuclear-incident price-anderson-act public-liability statutory-interpretation Whether there has been a 'nuclear incident' such that the Price Anderson Act is applicable and provides original jurisdiction when the Congressional c…
21-7866 Carlos Alberto Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the courts of appeals have improperly narrowed the 'fair and just reason' standard for evaluating a defendant's request to withdraw a guilty p…
21-7850 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-12 Dismissed IFP ada-disability appeal appellate-jurisdiction clerk-error constitutional-rights counsel-substitution habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-substitute-counsel pro-se pro-se-motions Question not identified
21-1404 Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P., et al. v. Perry Cline, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Tenth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court-order finality finality-doctrine good-faith-appeal protective-appeal Whether a court of appeals can refuse to exercise its jurisdiction to determine its own jurisdiction
21-7634 In Re Lin Ouyang 2022-04-15 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-of-appeals exceptional-circumstances finality-of-judgment judicial-procedure mandamus motion-reconsideration reconsideration writ-of-mandamus Whether the court of appeals has reached a genuinely final judgment?
21-1325 Estate of Samuel I. Roig, By and Through Its Personal Representative Gail Olivera, et al. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure consent-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Whether a Panel of the Circuit Court erred when it dismissed an appeal holding that there is no appellate jurisdiction to consider on the merits wheth…
21-1329 Estate of Geraldine F. Jennings, et al. v. Gulfshore Private Home Care, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process final-judgment notice notice-requirement sua-sponte sua-sponte-vacatur vacatur Whether a district court has the power to sua sponte vacate a final judgment without notice to the parties
21-1270 MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) and even when a remedy could be fashioned that do such that it is not subject to waiver appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-363(m) circuit-split jurisdictional-limitation lease-assignment remedy sale-order statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate courts' jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed 'integral' to a sale order, such …
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
21-1211 Constance George v. House of Hope Recovery, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant service-of-process service-requirement standing Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 permits a court of appeals to dismiss an appeal because the appellant did not serve the notice of appeal
21-7213 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief speedy-trial When does the direct appeal of a jury trial conviction of six (6) different criminal offenses and sentence become final?
21-7142 C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction article-iii-court civil-procedure de-novo-review dispositive-motions due-process judicial-review magistrate magistrate-referral standard-of-review Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari regarding denial of the timely request for the substantial right of de novo determination by Articl…
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)?
21-1039 In Re Gregory Charles Kapordelis 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writ federal-courts mandamus recusal recusal-orders statutory-jurisdiction Whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus
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…
21-6790 Timothy Ryan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Ryan's § 2255 habeas corpus petition without holding an evidentiary hearing
21-6778 In Re Mark Thomas Garrett 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief legal-remedy qualified-immunity standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-6720 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mixed-question state-law When does AEDPA grant habeas petitioners complete relief or just review?
21-892 Micah James Patterson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitution constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury judicial-authority Does any court have the authority to amend the United States Constitution by fiat and extinguish a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights?
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appealability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition where there was a dispute in the U.S. District…
21-885 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Meredith Callahan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut…
21-6591 Daniel Spottsville v. Georgia Georgia 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdictional-limits standing state-court-jurisdiction state-court-procedure takings Whether the State of Georgia's denial of Petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari violates the Petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal be mooted prior to resolution
21-837 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
21-828 The Estate of Omar Fontana, et al. v. ACFB Administracao Judicial LTDA-ME Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-finality chapter-15 courts-of-appeals discovery-order discrete-dispute finality ritzen-group-v-jackson-masonry Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the courts of appeals over whether a stand-alone discovery order entered in a Chapter-15…
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
21-6483 Robert A. McNeil v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process irs judicial-review passport-revocation standing tax tax-law Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen…
21-807 In Re Amelia Eng 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction disqualified-judge due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure retroactive-disqualification standing writ-of-mandate Whether the California Supreme Court should be directed to order appellate review of Petitioner's appeal before a court of appeal having jurisdiction
21-6398 Roy M. Belfast v. M. Breckon, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-review standing takings Did the Rope, Aly Covell, Bid to the Violation of the Equal Powers U.S. to the Writ of Certiorari?
21-759 WeBuildTheWall, Inc. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-22 Dismissed appeal appellate-jurisdiction asset-forfeiture asset-restraint criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-order forfeiture-statute injunction standing Can a non-party whose assets were restrained by a District Judge presiding over a criminal case, and who was blocked from a timely opportunity to be h…
21-6359 Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority Whether magistrate judges exceed their statutory authority by issuing orders with the practical effect of granting or refusing injunctive relief
21-740 Richard E. Paulus, M.D. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ethical-violations fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court government-misconduct Did the Sixth Circuit err in ruling it lacked jurisdiction to consider allegations of fraud upon the court and due process violations in evaluating a …
21-725 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Whether district court proceedings must be stayed pending appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration
21-710 Valerie Jackson v. Lupe Valdez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal standing statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may disregard this Court's precedent and the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 144, review and rebut the merits of an affidavit s…
21-5869 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2021-10-04 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure executive-committee judicial-transfer nunc-pro-tunc standing transfer venue void-ab-initio whether the 7% Circuit shall transfer pending Appeal # 20-2419 and Appeal # 21-1591 to a different circuit
21-481 Betty R. Shipley v. Helping Hands Therapy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction notice-of-removal procedural-defect remand removal reply statutory-authority Whether the court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an order remanding a case to state court based on a procedural defect, when the plaintiff file…
21-409 Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules
21-5608 David Angel Sifuentes v. John Prelesnik, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure standing Whether a district court has discretion to reopen a case under Rule 60(b) more than a year after the final judgment was entered
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Which appeals court has the duty to issue supervisory writs of mandamus under the All Writs Act during a combined antitrust and patent infringement la…
21-292 Robert H. Healy v. Ledura Watkins Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether malicious prosecution is a cognizable tort for § 1983 suit
21-5459 Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest double-jeopardy due-process final-decision jurisdiction pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment Whether the court has jurisdiction over the defendants, and whether the court of appeals order was a final decision and this petition was timely filed
21-5421 Michael A. Payne v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction-challenge magistrate-orders motion-to-reconsider pandemic-impact Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio erred in refusing to accept jurisdiction of appellants' memorandum, despite the fact that the appellate court erred …
21-5415 Jarvis Brown v. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing supreme-court-review Whether the United States District Court and United States Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's case
21-224 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure common-law-agency employee-classification erisa-employee-definition final-judgment standard-of-review Does a court of appeals have jurisdiction to reconsider its prior decision?
21-5357 Sandra Harmon v. Department of Finance, Sussex County, Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-closure appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court-order due-process final-order judicial-misconduct jurisdiction notice-of-appeal third-circuit-court Whether the Third Circuit Court can create a reason unsupported by the District Court Judge that the docket was mistakenly marked closed and rule admi…
21-202 Mylan Laboratories Ltd. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction inter-partes-review judicial-review nhk-fintiv-rule patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board statutory-interpretation Does 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) categorically preclude appeal of all decisions not to institute inter partes review?
21-5190 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Interim Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order district-court-screening final-order judicial-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) rule-59e rule-60(b) standing whether-appellate-court-erred-in-dismissing-appeal-for-lack-of-jurisdiction
20-1758 RD Legal Funding, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cfpb-enforcement cfpb-structure constitutional-structure enforcement-action jurisdiction ratification seila-law separation-of-powers standing Whether ratification is an appropriate remedy for the violation identified in Seila Law
20-8338 Mark Woods v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process final-judgment jurisdiction mandamus writ-of-procedencia Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Abused Its discretion in denying petitioner's Writ of Procedendo ad Judicium or Manda…
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
20-8181 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…
20-8145 Tamara Rouhi v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Fourth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure injustice judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standing There has been no redress of my grievance
20-7956 Bryan Montalvo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure?
20-7693 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. C. Joksch, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-appeal pro-se-litigant standing three-strikes Is a prisoner who is found to have three strikes pursuant to 28 USC 1915 entitled to a one-time appeal on the merits of this finding?
20-1411 Starline Tours of Hollywood, Inc. v. EHM Productions, Inc., dba TMZ, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-participation ninth-circuit-interpretation pragmatic-approach technical-construction Whether the Ninth Circuit's undefined requirement for meaningful judicial participation impermissibly abandons this Court's longstanding mandate that …
20-7634 Nevia Abraham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-review rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the District Court's February 13, 2019 Order granting Petitioner's Federal Ru…
20-7599 Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera…
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…
20-1141 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appellate …
20-1144 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
20-1138 Cimznhca, LLC v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction good-cause good-cause-analysis intervention motion-to-intervene non-final-order procedural-due-process standing Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously exercised jurisdiction over a non-final order
20-1018 Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine interlocutory-appeal public-entities state-action-immunity Whether and under what conditions orders denying state-action immunity to public entities are immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctri…
20-6946 Barry Cashin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se…
20-960 Khue Nguyen v. Hai Phu Nguyen, as Administrator of the Estate of Thin Thi Ta, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied appellate-jurisdiction breach-of-contract civil-procedure immunity mediation mediation-immunity non-final-judgment summary-judgment tort-claims Whether an appellate court can take the act of refusal to settlement at mediation out of the mediation context to strip off the immunity from liabilit…
20-900 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island First Circuit 2021-01-05 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order
20-6758 Patrick Koroma v. Katti Lanham, et al. Georgia 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order death-penalty-act district-court due-process equal-protection final-judgment habeas-corpus standing writ-of-appeal Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the petitioners' case, and whether the collateral order denying the petitioners' motio…
20-867 Shalini Ahmed v. United States First Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention Is a bond forfeiture proceeding sufficiently civil in nature such that it falls under certain rules governing civil actions and should be treated as a…
20-6686 Benjamon Ray Stewart v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus standing supreme-court-review Whether the Texas' 'procedural' scheme for addressing claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel on direct appeal denies petitioner his fundame…
20-6670 Janice Sue Taylor v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-statutes fifth-amendment first-amendment jurisdiction title-26-usc Has the petitioner's constitutional rights been violated by the appellate court's denial of due process?
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-6603 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-12-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mandamus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the court to provide the peti…
20-6501 Shannon Riley v. Carrie Kathleen Meehan South Carolina 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit original-jurisdiction public-interest writ-of-mandamus Has the 'public interest' requirement been met under the Full Faith and Credit Clause to entertain review of a petition for a Writ of Mandamus?
20-6359 Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p…
20-623 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdictional-dispute patent patent-infringement pro-se-litigant standing takings writ-of-certiorari Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Writ of Certiorari under the All Writs Act against the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or against the …
20-6062 Montgomery Carl Akers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure criminal-process district-court due-process legal-counsel post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court has subject-matter jurisdiction
20-478 CBX Resources, L.L.C. v. ACE American Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice finality finality-trap judgment-finality Whether the Supreme Court should abolish the Fifth Circuit's judicially created 'finality trap' and resolve the conflict among the courts of appeals r…
20-471 Y. W. v. Patricia Aufiero, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied appeal appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-procedure microsoft-baker-precedent microsoft-corp-v-baker without-prejudice without-prejudice-dismissal Whether the mere using of the word 'dismissed' is enough to make an order final within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1291
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?
20-5885 Mario Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-representation settlement-agreement Question not identified
20-5820 In Re Gregory Lamar Mathis 2020-09-25 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a…
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in denying my motion (Stanles) for a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5754 Palani Karupaiyan v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process homelessness notice-of-appeal pro-se-petition standing timely-filing Jurisdiction-under-28-USC-2107
20-5504 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the Petitioner's due process and equal protection claims were correctly dismissed by the distric…
20-152 Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. v. Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied appellate-jurisdiction class-action fake-products federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-interpretation legal-procedure marketing state-law-claims subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals erred in finding federal question jurisdiction over a state-law class action complaint alleging marketing of fake pet foo…
20-5259 Robin Hood Who v. Department of the Treasury Ninth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bias civil-procedure constitutional-rights corruption due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
20-5277 Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in d…
20-5118 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints?
20-5092 Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-07-16 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-construction supreme-court Whether the ruling by the Supreme Court constitutes a clearly established law error in the United States Supreme Court Ineffective Assistance of Couns…
20-5045 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified
20-5046 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure extraordinary-writs judicial-review mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity state-law supervisory-power writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a…
20-5047 In Re Daniel H. Jones 2020-07-13 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus prohibition sovereign-immunity standing state-law writ-of-prohibition Whether the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus would be justified
19-8796 Gary Daniel Rodgers v. R. McIntyre, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process evidence legal-equivalence motion motion-to-release notice-of-appeal procedural-requirements Whether Petitioner's timely filed 'Motion and Order to Release Evidence' satisfies the requirements as a functional equivalent of a Notice of Appeal
19-1397 Michele Gray v. Department of Justice Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-rules forma-pauperis improper-service judicial-procedure lower-court-decision motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Can a party request extended time to file a petition for Writ of Certiorari within 60 days of the lower court decision
19-1381 BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., fka MonoSol RX, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-review agency-discretion appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review mandate-implementation patent patent-office sas-institute Does the Judiciary have authority to review a Patent Office decision refusing to implement its mandate and this Court's precedent?
19-8716 Eric Martin Pepke v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Whether the Fourth Circuit appellate court erred in dismissing Pepke's motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 which included an unconstitutionality challenge t…
19-8403 Juan Miguel Lopez v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-oversight jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing-review Whether the Court can exercise its encompassing jurisdiction to redress the imposition of a disproportionate amount of time added to a primary base te…
19-1228 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and on alternative grounds first raised by the respondents at or…
19-8262 Miguel Algarin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-636 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-statute judicial-review magistrate magistrate-review objection-standard procedural-waiver waiver Whether a party's failure to object to a magistrate's ruling under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A) creates a jurisdictional bar to appellate review, or merel…
19-8193 John Purifoy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance Whether the courts of appeal have jurisdiction under Booker to review a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure under 5K1.1
19-1178 Robert K. Zabka, et ux. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-final-judgment-receivership-appeal conflict-of-laws conflicting-precedent due-process federal-courts final-judgment jurisdiction net-operating-loss partnership-property receivership standing tax-liability timeliness Where the court clerk has entered the final appealable judgment, and the district court judge has initialed it as such, and then the litigant appeals …
19-1140 In Re Wesley Perkins 2020-03-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction recusal statutory-construction access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process probation-revocation standing statutory-construction texas-code-of-criminal-procedure Is TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 42A.755(e) unconstitutional, as applied?
19-7912 Ali Mehdipour v. Keith Sweeney, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-filing dismissal erroneous-ruling fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree judicial-review legal-timeliness prejudice procedural-error review statute-of-limitations timeliness Does a fruit-of-a-poisonous-tree follow from an initial erroneous ruling on timeliness of filing the initial complaint follow through subsequent rulin…
19-7884 In Re James Ernest Frye 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances jurisdiction standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
19-1060 Victor Thomas v. New York New York 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court…
19-7747 Christopher Robert Sueiro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment interlocutory-appeal self-representation sixth-amendment Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine, a criminal defendant may appeal an interlocutory order denying the defendant's requ…
19-7727 In Re Chakakhan R. Davis 2020-02-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction equitable-intervention fraud-upon-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co hazel-atlas-glass-v-hartford inherent-duty judicial-integrity mandamus-writ usurpation-of-judicial-power Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violated its inherent duty to uphold the integrity of its jurisdiction by failing to vacate orders obtained…
19-1025 City of Ferguson, Missouri v. Keilee Fant, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal required-entity rule-19 section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-law Whether an interlocutory appeal lies from a refusal to dismiss for failure to join a required-entity sovereign
19-1013 Darru K. Hsu v. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied class-action controlling-question-of-law exculpatory-clause interlocutory-review appellate-jurisdiction arbitration civil-rights class-action due-process federal-arbitration-act investment-contract jurisdictional-challenge sec-regulation securities standing statutory-violation Whether the Supreme Court should grant the judgment for the violation of SEC Heitman Capital No Action Letter in UBS MAC wrap-fee investment contract …
19-1005 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re…
19-7466 In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez 2020-01-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court erred in excessively delaying the case, engaging in discriminatory conduct, and refusing to recognize the corporate structu…
19-7489 Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon Whether the Circumstances regarding the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule § 2010F not evolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of evidence…
19-7441 Anthony Earl Ridley v. Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation damages due-process exhaustion-of-remedies section-1983 sovereign-immunity standing state-employee Whether Petitioner's request for compensatory damages is barred by 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e)
19-7348 Raymond Alston, aka Raymond Austin v. New York New York 2020-01-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution sentencing-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to due process, double jeopardy, and malicious prosecution
19-872 Matthew Reid Hinson v. R. A. Bias, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order district-court factual-review factual-sufficiency qualified-immunity summary-judgment surveillance-video Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its limited jurisdiction when, on appeal from a denial of summary judgment in a qualified-immunity case, it vacated th…
19-7165 Omar Macias-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con…
19-787 Michael Lynn Robertson v. Banner Bank Tenth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-procedure claim-processing-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-requirement jurisdictional-requirements notice-of-appeal whether-an-untimely-motion-to-alter-or-amend-a-jud Whether the time prescription for filing an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 158(c)(2) is a jurisdictional requirement
19-6925 Sulaiman Taalibdin v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court due-process final-decision habeas-corpus motion-timeliness rule-60(b) rule-60b standing third-circuit Did the Circuit Court possess appellate jurisdiction when the district court ruled petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion untimely under Rule 60(b)(6) which w…
19-6898 Demicko Billie Thomas v. Maggie Miller-Stout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment musacchio-precedent musacchio-v-united-states ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt supreme-court-review washington-state-supreme-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires each and every element of a charged offense to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
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…
19-6702 In Re Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-writ pro-se-litigation social-security standing transfer Whether Petitioner has a Right for direct appeal to this court?
19-648 CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) alien-tort-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-immunity civil-rights collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine derivative-sovereign-immunity due-process federal-contractor government-contractors jus-cogens military-operations sovereign-immunity Whether an order denying a federal contractor's claim of derivative sovereign immunity is an immediately appealable final order under the collateral-o…
19-6435 Iyang Peter Oduok v. Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority, dba Grady Memorial Hospital, et al. Georgia 2019-10-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-preemption constitutional-violation due-process federal-law georgia-supreme-court judicial-procedure preemption rule-13 rule-38 writ-of-certiorari Does Georgia Supreme Court Rule 38 conflict with federal law and preempt it?
19-542 Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California California 2019-10-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged to have occurred, eve…
19-6394 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine conflict-with-supreme-court fourth-circuit interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge memorandum-order supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's opinions on collateral orders
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention Whether a state court criminal defendant can enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held…
19-528 John Wayne Scantlebury, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii collateral-attack criminal-procedure cross-border-tort due-process federal-officer-liability final-judgment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether criminal appeals from dismissals without prejudice are 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §1291
19-6335 James Morris Balagia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine counsel-of-choice disability-accommodation interlocutory-appeal legal-review reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-of-1978 right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez abrogate Flanagan v. United States and permit interlocutory appellate review of the denial of counsel of a defend…
19-516 Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine is categorically not applicable to § 2241 petitions?
19-486 Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether an appellate court may review disputed material facts and substitute its own findings when deciding qualified immunity
19-6239 Randell Glen Laws v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-due-process supervisory-power Whether a federal appellate court necessitates the exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory power when it decides that a petitioner/appellant has n…
19-455 ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-315 35-usc-315(b) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction due-process estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab time-bar Whether the Federal Circuit has appellate jurisdiction to review a PTAB decision denying inter partes review
19-6188 John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment grand-jury-indictment-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to assume interlocutory appellate jurisdiction over petitioner's Fifth Amendment grand-jur…
19-5984 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…
19-5990 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-defect right-to-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals conflict with Supreme Court precedent by denying the petitioner's right to appeal based on a minor defect in th…
19-5873 In Re Richard Arjun Kaul 2019-09-09 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction district-court fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-corruption mandamus summary-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court's arbitrary refusal to adjudicate the petitioner's 22 motions for summary judgment was a consequence of judicial corruption…
19-5821 Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence prior to trial
19-5822 Ronald Tuttle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing supervisory-powers supreme-court-review the-supreme-court Did the United States Supreme Court err in denying the petition for writ of certiorari
19-5786 Joshua George Nowland v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction barker-v-wingo civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction prejudice pretrial-detention speedy-trial Is oppressive pretrial incarceration still an important aspect of the Barker balancing test?
19-261 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel due-process informal-notice statute-of-limitations sua-sponte-sanction tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-assessment-statute-of-limitations tax-code tax-court tax-return valid-return Whether the court below erred in holding that Petitioners' timely-filed tax return did not start the running of the 3-year statute of limitations on a…
19-5580 In Re Sebastian Eccleston 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-writ federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus Whether the exceptional circumstances of this case warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary powers to issue a writ of mandamus pursuant to 2…
19-5559 In Re Arnold King 2019-08-12 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-power due-process extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus legal-standing memorandum-of-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court has the power to dismiss a case and discharge the relator where the case itself is against the law, as has been made by one …
19-140 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation Whether the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the entire remand order or only the portion addressing particular issues
19-5408 Gregory Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal
19-5314 Aurora Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
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
19-5237 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging bad faith conduct by the respondents in a patent settlement agreement
19-5218 In Re Teon Jamell Williams 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-evidence due-process exceptional-circumstances indictment indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity search-and-seizure short-form-indictment Was the conviction obtained by use of evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure?
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether a Court of Appeals may ignore an appellant's request to recuse itself in an appeal where the Court of Appeals is the only defendant and appell…
19-5080 Reyes Vega, aka Ray Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review section-1291 section-2255 unadjudicated-claims Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju…
19-20 William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den…
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui…
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
18A1285 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1447d appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split federal-jurisdiction remand-order Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an entire remand order under 28 U.S.C. §1447(d) or only a specific portion of that order
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.…
18-9428 Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements Whether the testimonial statements of witnesses about forensic testing may be admitted only where the declarant is unavailable, and only where the def…
18-9388 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-remedy free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-provisions Whether the federal abstention doctrine restricts federal courts from providing relief to state criminal defendants who seek to challenge their convic…
18-9401 Daniel H. Jones v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-findings injunctive-relief judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review legal-standards procedural-error sovereign-immunity wrong-legal-standards Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in allowing the District Court to abuse its discretion
18-9370 Mark A. Blankenship v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s…
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-9332 In Re Nawaz Ahmed 2019-05-17 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus mandamus prohibition standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request for an extraordinary writ of mandamus and/or prohibition
18-9170 Cynthia Ortiz v. Charles Perry, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1292 abuse-of-discretion ambiguity appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-dispute objections transfer venue-transfer Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider for Interlocutory Appeal, under 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (a)(1) and (b), denial of Injunctive Relief
18-1397 Prism Technologies LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., dba Sprint PCS Federal Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-scope mandate-rule patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-invalidity retroactive-expansion Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals may retroactively expand the scope of its appellate jurisdiction to invalidate patent claims under 35 U.S…
18-1343 Princeton Digital Image Corporation v. Adobe Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consent-final-judgment consent-judgment cross-appeal federal-circuit final-judgment interlocutory-ruling jurisdictional-dismissal standing third-circuit Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with a decision of the Third Circuit, that it may vacate a district court's consent final judgme…
18-8976 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-code legal-review standing writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court has the power to issue a Writ of Certiorari to review the action of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
18-8836 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP sovereign-immunity-waiver 28-usc-2106 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act judicial-process judicial-recusal judicial-review recusal sovereign-immunity standing Whether the Supreme Court may consider the risk of manifest injustice and potential effect on public confidence in the judicial process when an impair…
18-8560 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals can ignore its jurisdiction powers under Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and file a void order on October 31, 2018 wi…
18-8585 Zhordrack Bloodywone v. Joseph Bellnier, Superintendent, Marcy Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process privacy right-to-counsel 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-court Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the prosecution's misconduct and the trial court's denial of his request for appointment …
18-1237 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Argante R. Grippa, et al. New York 2019-03-22 Denied accident appellate-jurisdiction dismissal-without-explanation highway judicial-bias leaving-scene motor-vehicle motor-vehicle-accident negligence new-evidence police-report racial-discrimination state-trooper sudden-stop taxi-driver-negligence traffic traffic-law Can a driver suddenly stop on a highway without warning?
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process antitrust claims involving patent fraud lies in the regional circuits, not the Federal Circuit
18-8334 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Alfredo Ernesto Gonzalez Florida 2019-03-07 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus-writ standing state-court-review state-courts writ-of-mandamus Whether Petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus
18-8220 In Re Damon Graham 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals discretionary-powers due-process exceptional-circumstances Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to promptly decide Mr. Graham's certificate of appealability
18-8149 Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's order denying the petitioner's request for a fair review of court and jury proceedings violated the petitioner's constitutio…
18-1080 Anderson Living Trust, fka The James H. Anderson Living Trust, et al. v. WPX Energy Production, LLC, fka WPX Energy San Juan, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification federal-rules-civil-procedure final-judgment microsoft-v-baker mootness settlement-agreement standing tenth-circuit Whether plaintiffs who settle their individual claims may appeal an earlier denial of class certification under Microsoft v. Baker
18-7749 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy Florida 2019-02-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay denied Petitioner access for certiorari review
18-7592 Zane Hubbard v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process fair-procedure government-action judicial-review legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation Whether the government's denial of Petitioner's request for a letter of recommendation violates the Constitution by denying the Petitioner's right to …
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1)
18-7449 Joel Darnell Patton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment gonzalez-standard habeas-corpus post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions reconsideration rule-59-motion successive-motions successive-petition Does a district court have the authority to reconsider the merits of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 action in response to a prisoner's timely post-judgment motion…
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t…
18-7248 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
18-7261 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appealability appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits motion-to-reconsider procedural-error rule-60(b) Whether the lower court clearly erred in abusing its discretion by dismissing the appeal as premature/no jurisdiction without addressing the merits of…
18-833 Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f…
18-7002 Clifton Stanley Diaz, Jr. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority District of Columbia 2018-12-13 Denied IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law damages default-judgment due-process employment judicial-review legal-procedure motion reinstatement remand standing statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erred in denying the plaintiff's request for monetary damages and reinstatement to his job
18-6957 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals can ignore its jurisdiction powers under Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and file a void order on August 20, 2018 wit…
18-6857 Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal?
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege con…
18-594 Robert R. Snyder v. California California 2018-11-06 Denied appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation constitutional-deprivations due-process grievance-system prison prisoner-rights standing state-court state-court-procedure state-prison unsupervised-determinations Should this court grant review to remedy the conspicuous violations of due process
18-6536 Lewis Waters v. Charles L. Lockett, Warden District of Columbia 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-safeguard court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction unindicted-crime Where the Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be held to answer for a crime unless upon presentment of a Grand Jury's indictment, does the…
18-536 Harmon L. Taylor v. Texas Texas 2018-10-23 Denied 'appellate-jurisdiction' 'civil-jurisdiction' 'compelled-consent' 'plea-to-the-jurisdiction' 'special-appearance' 'tex-transp-code-unconstitutional' appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compelled-consent due-process jurisdiction plea-to-jurisdiction special-appearance standing takings texas-transportation-code transportation-code Whether the federal question rulings on compelled consent are final
18-6319 William Shane Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)
18-434 Dawn Mosby v. Matthew G. Parilla New York 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-practice civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion Judicial-review Legislative-authority legislative-intent notice-of-appeal separation-of-powers timeliness-of-appeal Whether the Appellate Division, Second Department, violated the New York State Constitution's separation of powers doctrine by permitting a late appea…
18-406 Aaron J. Schock v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine immunity legislative-immunity non-justiciability pendent-appellate-jurisdiction rulemaking-clause separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause Whether a member of the Legislative Branch may immediately appeal the denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment on Rulemaking Clause grounds
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?
18-6010 Babubhai Patel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep the COA process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application
18-5827 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?
18-5791 Robert Wharton v. Donald T. Vaughn Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law federal-laws judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure relief standing takings third-circuit Did the Third Circuit erroneously apply, enlarge and/or ignore several established federal laws in denying petitioner relief?
18-5777 Rodney S. Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Alaska 2018-08-27 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision alaska-supreme-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings Whether the Alaska Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims against Arctic Slope Regional Corp. for lack of standing
18-5738 Bill Paul Marquardt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction capital-collateral-regional-counsel collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-claims self-representation whether-the-three-collateral-order-doctrine-conditions-are-satisfied-and-the-u.s.-court-of-appeals-can-take-jurisdiction-on-my-pro-se-claims,-where-th…
18-5555 William Womack v. Landan Adams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review the district court's erroneous decision
18-5548 Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt…
18-95 Kyrt M. Wentzell, et al. v. BP America, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal deepwater-horizon dismissal due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion mdl-procedure multidistrict-litigation oil-spill procedural-compliance standing timeliness Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioners' appeal to the Fifth Circuit was not timely filed