| 25-6800 |
In Re Felix Verdejo-Sanchez |
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2026-02-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-error due-process jurisdictional-defect mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal court of appeals may continue adjudicating the merits of a criminal appeal without first verifying subject-matter jurisdiction when … |
| 25-6783 |
Ronald Gerard Boyajian v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-uniformity en-banc-review judicial-review mandamus shadow-docket |
Whether a three-judge panel may usurp the authority of the full court of appeals by intercepting and terminating a petition for a writ of mandamus, th… |
| 25-6763 |
Frederick Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
California |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-taking property-rights vexatious-litigant |
Whether a state appellate court deprives property without due process when dismissing an appeal based on allegedly unpaid court fees despite prior in … |
| 25-929 |
Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights |
Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond that inhibits appellants' pursuit of their statutory right of appeal, contrary to F.R.A.P. 7, … |
| 25-6733 |
May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure default-judgment emergency-motions judicial-conduct summons-and-complaints supreme-court-rule |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6735 |
May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure default-judgment judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct procedural-rules writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals judges violated judicial conduct rules by disobeying procedural rules in May Chen's multiple petitions |
| 25-6695 |
Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure en-banc-review judicial-review mandate-issuance notice-requirements procedural-rules |
Whether a court of appeals violates Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 40 and 41 when it issues a mandate after granting a motion to correct a petit… |
| 25-6696 |
Evelyn R. Benton v. Berkshire Richmond LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review mandamus record-review summary-affirmance |
Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by issuing a summary affirmance without receiving the origi… |
| 25-6674 |
Justin K. Eaton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split commission-authority congressional-review due-process sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines §1B1.13(b)(6) exceeds the Sentencing Commission's authority when Congress has reviewed and ratified the guideli… |
| 25-6601 |
Melvon Adams v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-appeals equitable-tolling government-motion jurisdictional-limits time-limitations |
Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)'s time limitations for criminal appeals are subject to equitable tolling after government objection t… |
| 25-6579 |
Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause |
Whether an accused's rights under the Takings Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment are offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies a… |
| 25A818 |
Dana Escoffier v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline motion-for-relief pro-se time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file an appeal should be granted when the deadline is approaching and the litigant see… |
| 25-820 |
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver |
Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel… |
| 25-6531 |
Rafael Jorge v. Marie Adler |
First Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure district-court judicial-discretion jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant |
Whether a court of appeals can dismiss an appeal by a pro se litigant for failing to file a Notice of Appeal within 30 days of entry of judgment by th… |
| 25A794 |
Segundo Inga-Inga v. Robert A. McDonald, etc., et al. |
New York |
2026-01-08 |
Application |
|
administrative-review appellate-procedure case-controversy judicial-standing legal-dismissal mootness |
Whether a case becomes moot when the underlying administrative or legal dispute has been resolved prior to appellate review |
| 25A773 |
Katherine London v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure due-process first-amendment professional-sanctions rico-litigation zealous-advocacy |
Whether a federal appellate court violates an attorney's First Amendment rights and due process protections when imposing professional sanctions for z… |
| 25-6471 |
Marcia Vazquez Rijos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure conspiracy criminal-procedure indicative-ruling jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
Whether Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure allows for an Amended Notice of Appeal or requires a new notice of appeal for every indicat… |
| 25-6426 |
In Re Tamas Hampel |
|
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-process petition-for-rehearing third-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is required to docket a timely filed petition for rehearing and whether its failure t… |
| 25A739 |
Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time first-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a 60-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari is appropriate under Supreme Court procedural rules |
| 25-710 |
Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. |
Pennsylvania |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
|
appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court |
Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal and whether the Pennsylvania appellate co… |
| 25A704 |
E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari expressive-association nonprofit-organization supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a nonprofit advocacy organization can seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules |
| 25A711 |
Dale Sundby, as Trustee v. Marquee Funding Group, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure intervention post-judgment pro-se property-refinancing trustee |
Whether a pro se trustee's post-judgment intervention and appeal challenging property refinancing claims can overcome procedural barriers and district… |
| 25-6337 |
Reginald Sanders v. Fitness International, LLC, dba Esporta Fitness, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-filing appellate-procedure judicial-order local-rule petition-rejection rehearing-deadline |
Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 40(a)(1)'s mandatory 14-day rehearing deadline may be nullified through administrative filing systems that… |
| 25-665 |
Colin R. Covitz v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice |
Did the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals err when it held there was 'no basis for relief' under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) merely because there was not … |
| 25-6295 |
Caleb L. McGillvary v. Nicholas Scutari, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review legal-standing |
Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportunity… |
| 25-6286 |
Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation time-limit |
Whether the Appellate Court can violate 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(D) by treating the 30-day time limit as a guideline rather than a mandatory requirement |
| 25-6269 |
Lairon Graham v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation plea-agreement |
Whether the right to due process on appeal is violated when an appellate court relies on an argument not presented by the government, despite the part… |
| 25A629 |
Rami Ghanem v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-discretion petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a criminal defendant may obtain a 30-day extension of time to file a petition for certiorari beyond the standard 90-day deadline after a feder… |
| 25-616 |
Juston D. Beyer v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review judicial-review military-justice |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces abuse its discretion by failing to grant review? |
| 25-6251 |
Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation |
Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportunity… |
| 25-6197 |
Edmund Lowell Fields v. Fredeane Artis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief ministerial-duties notice-requirements |
Whether ministerial duties under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(6) regarding 'actual notice' and 'formal notice' create an equitable basis f… |
| 25-591 |
Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claims habeas-corpus judicial-review |
Whether the circuit courts' practices of issuing summary denials for certificates of appealability are consonant with the Supreme Court's guidance in … |
| 25A553 |
Shirley V. Remmert v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure district-court frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court has the authority to dismiss an appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 without providing a detailed explanation of its re… |
| 25-6089 |
Curtis Solomon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-precedent due-process panel-rule stare-decisis statutory-right |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 'prior panel precedent rule' contravenes principles of vertical stare decisis and denies defendants their statutory rig… |
| 25-6056 |
Ruben Santoyo v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sanctions |
Whether a district court may impose punitive monetary sanctions sua sponte after a notice of appeal has divested it of jurisdiction, in light of confl… |
| 25A530 |
John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure due-process jurisdictional-rule merits-determination party-presentation sua-sponte |
Whether a sua sponte dismissal without notice or opportunity to be heard, based on a procedural rule characterized as jurisdictional, violates due pro… |
| 25A531 |
John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal merits-determination party-presentation procedural-rule sua-sponte |
Whether a federal appellate court can sua sponte dismiss a case without notice or opportunity to be heard when characterizing a procedural rule as jur… |
| 25-6054 |
Clyde Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-review firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of certiorari should be granted to settle the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(l) given the Circuit Courts of Appeals and Distric… |
| 25-545 |
Julia M. Robinson v. FedEx Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief |
Whether the lower courts improperly applied federal law and misinterpreted constitutional and procedural rules in denying monetary relief |
| 25-546 |
Julia Mae Robinson v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-standards federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit and Northern District of Georgia courts improperly applied federal law and constitutional standards in denying monetary r… |
| 25-6015 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process and violates the Equal Protection Clause by summarily disposing of appellate iss… |
| 25A479 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-27 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure eleventh-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari given multiple pending cases and no opposition from resp… |
| 25-5941 |
Mohammad Reza Assadi v. Randolph N. Osherow, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure chapter-7-trustee due-process electronic-filing jurisdictional-issue notice-requirements |
Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(b) and Article III permit a federal appellate court to enter judgment in the name of a discharged Chapt… |
| 25-5933 |
Willie Dennis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-abandonment court-of-appeals-inaction deadline-extension pro-se-petition record-access |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant relief due to constructive denial of appellate record access through counsel abandonment and court of appeals' … |
| 25A461 |
Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-10-22 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-discretion petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a state appellate court's procedural ruling can constitute grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a petition for writ of certi… |
| 25A449 |
Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-10-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure indiana-supreme-court legal-standards post-conviction-relief retroactive-law |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly applied retroactive legal standards in denying a post-conviction relief petition by failing to adhere … |
| 25A433 |
Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a pro se litigant's appeal based on a procedural default without considering exceptional… |
| 25-5876 |
William Housman v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-constitutional-claim judicial-review reasonable-jurists state-court-decision |
Does a state court's divided decision on the merits of a federal constitutional claim demonstrate that reasonable jurists would debate the claim's mer… |
| 25-5877 |
Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents |
Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review … |
| 25A417 |
In Re Ramsey E. Clayter |
|
2025-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights emergency-relief judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court |
Whether the lower court's procedural rulings improperly denied the petitioner's constitutional right to judicial review |
| 25-398 |
Adeayo O. Turton v. Saks Fifth Avenue, LLC |
Pennsylvania |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review waiver-doctrine |
Whether Pennsylvania's appellate procedures and waiver doctrines violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by d… |
| 25-5780 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall |
Indiana |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived the petitioner of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 25-375 |
CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36 violates 35 U.S.C. § 144 by allowing affirmance without opinion when reviewing Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions |
| 25-360 |
J. P. v. J. N. |
New Jersey |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights judicial-corruption judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal |
Did corruption within the NJ judiciary violate the petitioner's constitutional rights and foster impropriety in judicial proceedings? |
| 25-5733 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Jesus Valdivia, Police Officer, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-court appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection |
Did the Appellate Court wrongly dismiss the appeal due to orders preventing effective litigation, and did the Southern District of Florida and Elevent… |
| 25-327 |
Express Scripts, Inc., et al. v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure automatic-stay coinbase-precedent federal-officer-removal remand-order statutory-exception |
Whether a remand order appealed under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is subject to an automatic stay pending appeal |
| 25A297 |
Brent E. Webster v. Redwood Holdings, LLC, dba Wedgewood Inc. |
Oregon |
2025-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se litigant's request for a 60-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the complexity of the … |
| 25A301 |
Michael Anthony Christopher Cochren, II v. White Castle System, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se litigant's request for a one-day extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari meets the legal standard for good caus… |
| 25-298 |
Bi-Qem SA DE CV, et al. v. Trade Links, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-rules docket-notation local-rule order-entry |
Whether an unsigned and uninitialed 'Courtroom Minutes - Civil' document constitutes an 'Order' for purposes of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(… |
| 25-5612 |
Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law procedural-fairness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 41(b) and due process by issuing a mandate during pending en banc rehearing … |
| 25-254 |
Khamraj Lall v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard sentence-reduction |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violated fundamental due process principles by granting a stay to delay proceedings until an unfavorable la… |
| 25-5553 |
Adrian Goudelock v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion legal-argumentation procedural-fairness |
Whether the right to due process on appeal is violated where an appellate court invokes legal arguments not presented by parties or declines to acknow… |
| 25A251 |
Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure legal-filing summary-judgment supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a summary judgment record exceeding 3,800 pages warrants an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 25-218 |
Brian Smith v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent |
Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take precedence over case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988, and what remedy exists when an ap… |
| 25A209 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias |
Whether an employment discrimination claim can proceed when a pro se plaintiff alleges workplace bias without meeting specific pleading requirements |
| 25-197 |
T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Granted |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court |
| 25-5321 |
Jeffrey Ricardo Wimberly v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-violation equitable-tolling jurisdictional-challenge michigan-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does a lower court lose subject-matter jurisdiction when an equitably tolled appeal is pending in a higher court, and did the Michigan Supreme Court's… |
| 25-5291 |
Consuelo Saldana, et al. v. William Campana |
California |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-jury-trial constitutional-rights indigent-litigants seventh-amendment waiver-inference |
May California arbitrarily deny a civil jury trial to indigent litigants in violation of the Seventh Amendment and state constitutional protections? |
| 25A159 |
Richard Rynn, et al. v. Craig Jennings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Application |
|
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias ninth-circuit record-correction |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's procedural actions, including deferring motions to correct the record and permitting premature briefing, constitute a viol… |
| 25-5281 |
Tony Lamons Gooch, III v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error |
When a State court judgment shows counsel of record was ineffective during all three phases of litigation, and a defendant is permanently-barred from … |
| 25-116 |
Nicholas Roddy Ramlow v. Amanda Marie Mitchell |
Idaho |
2025-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment mootness pandemic-law public-health |
Whether mask-wearing constitutes symbolic or expressive speech, and whether an appeal regarding pandemic-related mask mandates is moot given potential… |
| 25-5235 |
Carlton Vose v. Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island |
First Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus state-law |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously applied state law and federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a criminal defendant's const… |
| 25-5166 |
Thomas E. Camarda v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers summary-judgment supremacy-clause |
Whether a federal court of appeals may refuse to enter judgment following an unrebutted dispositive appellate brief and summary judgment motion, and w… |
| 25-5138 |
Stephanie Mykonos v. Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure brief-filing court-administration docketing pro-se writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in failing to docket a pro se petitioner's timely filed brief |
| 25-5120 |
Muzammil Ali v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error |
Was The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 24-1323 |
Peter Kleidman v. Audrey B. Collins, Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure briefing-rules court-of-appeals legal-theory procedural-fairness supervisory-power |
Whether the Supreme Court will use its supervisory power to require Courts of Appeals to provide parties an opportunity to be heard on new authorities… |
| 24A1291 |
Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari lehman-brothers ninth-circuit state-law-certification supreme-court-rules |
Whether the Supreme Court should establish clear standards for when federal appellate courts may deny certification of state law questions to state su… |
| 24-1313 |
Jeremy N. Miller v. Casi A. Miller, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-general-notice federal-preemption state-jurisdiction va-authority veterans-benefits |
Whether a state court can preclude a litigant from arguing federal law preemption on appeal due to failure to notify the state attorney general during… |
| 24A1280 |
Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether the lower appellate court's ruling improperly interpreted or applied the legal standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition f… |
| 24-7345 |
Anita Sue Bryant v. Estate of Laura J. Bryant |
Indiana |
2025-06-03 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure case-dismissal court-of-appeals in-forma-pauperis notice-requirement procedural-due-process |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly closed Appellant's case without addressing pending motions and without providing notice |
| 24A1187 |
Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-procedure deadline-extension justice-standard medical-disability pro-se writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time for a pro se litigant with medical disabilities to file a writ of certiorari beyond the st… |
| 24-7331 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was proper after appellate review |
| 24-7311 |
Percy L. Harris v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure conviction-review judicial-oversight mississippi-supreme-court pro-se record-omission |
Did the appellant receive a proper review from the Mississippi Supreme Court after his conviction was affirmed due to documents that were a part of th… |
| 24-1193 |
In Re Sean Murphy, et al. |
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2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights judicial-recusal judicial-review procedural-due-process |
Whether the Sixth Circuit clerks had the authority to render judgment on dispositive motions without judicial review or proper delegation; whether una… |
| 24A1113 |
Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America |
Maryland |
2025-05-20 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-procedure certiorari motion-to-stay reargument supreme-court-rules waiver-of-costs |
Whether a state supreme court's unanimous denial of a petition for writ of certiorari precludes subsequent motions for reargument or stay of enforceme… |
| 24-7211 |
Jeffrey Spivack v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal |
May a Court of Appeals disregard the scope of an appeal when the appellant has clearly articulated the scope and nature of the appeal by identifying t… |
| 24-1158 |
Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing |
Whether named plaintiffs in a class action retain standing to appeal a district court's denial of class certification when the named plaintiffs' claim… |
| 24-7186 |
Albertico C. Cruz v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-response |
Did the Eleventh Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's due process by ordering a pro se response under Anders when the appeal was not an Anders proceedin… |
| 24-1105 |
Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability |
| 24-1063 |
Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Granted |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights |
Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds th… |
| 24-6926 |
Elijah Bankston, aka Tommy Lee v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-separation manifest-injustice |
Whether appellate counsel's failure to challenge jury separation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel and a manifest injustice under Strickla… |
| 24-6900 |
Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-process legal-documentation procedural-requirement record-submission |
Is a party in the Court of Appeals required to independently submit documents relevant to that appeal as part of the record when said documents are al… |
| 24A937 |
J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline |
| 24-1029 |
Abram J. Harris v. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure district-court jurisdictional-requirements removal-jurisdiction state-court statutory-interpretation |
Whether an action may be removed to the district court after it has been dismissed in the state court and a notice of appeal filed; Whether the remova… |
| 24-6874 |
In Re Robert D. Batson |
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2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit mandamus pro-se-litigant |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has created local rules that arbitrarily encroach upon pro se litigants' rights and violate constitution… |
| 24-6844 |
In Re Gayle George |
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2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure congressional-oversight constitutional-authority dc-home-rule judicial-review |
Whether the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is an agency subject to congressional oversight under the DC Home Rule Act, and whether the DC … |
| 24-6711 |
Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. |
Kansas |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant |
Whether a lower court's vexatious litigant order violates due process rights and is immediately appealable |
| 24-6696 |
James R. Turner, III v. Edward Rapp |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-protections due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion recusal |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying in forma pauperis status and dismissing an appeal without proper constitutional consideration |
| 24-948 |
Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur |
Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, a court of appeals' decision should be vacated when an appeal becomes moot by happenstance while a petiti… |
| 24-6676 |
Louis Angel Mercado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure brief-filing cronic-standard ineffective-assistance-counsel presumed-prejudice state-appeal |
Whether prejudice should be presumed under United States v. Cronic when defense counsel fails to file an appellee's brief under a state-initiated appe… |
| 24-6682 |
Raequan Rucker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-standing procedural-error |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Rucker's Appeal before that Court |
| 24-6683 |
Ferrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability clisby-rule constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the Clisby v. Jones precedent in determining the Certificate of Appealability and poten… |
| 24-6645 |
Joseph DeLarosa v. Village of Romeoville, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-conflict court-procedure federal-question judicial-review supervisory-power |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and warrants supervisory review |
| 24-915 |
In Re Bart Wade Reagor |
|
2025-02-25 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue a decision without delay |
| 24-6551 |
William J. Wise v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit panetti-standard section-2255 successive-petition |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly dismissed an amended section 2255 motion to vacate sentence as a successive petition |
| 24-6462 |
Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-error statutory-interpretation |
Whether a trial judge operating under an erroneous belief about the nature of a defendant's crime violates the defendant's federal due process rights |
| 24-6428 |
Marc Anthony Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure cert-petition constitutional-adjudication direct-review judicial-mandate supreme-court-rule |
Whether a petitioner's direct review is impacted by a new Supreme Court rule when lower courts enter an amended judgment before the Supreme Court's fi… |
| 24-6378 |
Von Clark Davis v. Bill Cool, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-waiver rule-28j supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a court of appeals may render judgment without addressing a new Supreme Court decision cited under Rule 28(j), and whether a defendant is enti… |
| 24-751 |
Giorgi Rtskhiladze v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure circuit-court damages-claim footnote-defamation forfeiture privacy-act |
Did Petitioner forfeit his Privacy Act damages claim where the damages issue was fully briefed and the decision finds no support in existing caselaw? |
| 24-762 |
Gary Pisner v. Robert McCarthy, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review opinion-explanation procedural-requirements right-of-appeal |
Is there a minimum amount of explanation in an appellate opinion necessary to meet due process requirements, to verify that an appellate court has act… |
| 24A686 |
Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court |
Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for extension of time to file a petition for certiorari |
| 24A651 |
Jared Wade Hinman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-12-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure prison-mailing pro-se supreme-court time-limitation writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se petitioner's motion for leave to file a writ of certiorari can be timely preserved when mailed through the prison mailing system and … |
| 24-680 |
Dennis G. Collins, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court rule-9b sua-sponte waiver |
Whether a United States Court of Appeals can sua sponte affirm a district court's judgment on Rule 9(b) and other grounds that were waived on appeal w… |
| 24-6171 |
Demajio J. Ellis v. Linda Carper, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court-review district-court-decision evidence-suppression motion-to-suppress summary-judgment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision to deny defendant's motion to suppress evidence and gran… |
| 24-6116 |
In Re Frank E. Pate |
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2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-officer final-judgment judicial-review mandamus prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether the 5th Circuit can ignore 28 USC 2111 final judgment and review mandates after an 8-year dormant case period, and whether a U.S. Attorney mus… |
| 24-6033 |
Frederico Bruno v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing judicial-review third-circuit |
Whether the District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability and granting an evidentiary he… |
| 24-6041 |
Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing? |
| 24-544 |
Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly limited the post-conviction remedy of a writ of coram nobis and created ambiguity in its scope |
| 24-5816 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park |
Florida |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by entering an order of dismissal before the time prescribed … |
| 24-461 |
Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
appellate-procedure due-process local-rule-36 patent-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the Federal Circuit's use of Local Rule 36 to issue one-word affirmances in patent cases violates due process and the right to reasoned appell… |
| 24-5810 |
Andre Wilburn v. Virginia Nguyen, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-defect in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion oath-of-office pro-se-prisoner |
Whether a district court errs when dismissing a pro se prisoner's complaint without leave to amend for futility reasons when defects could be cured, a… |
| 24-5779 |
Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure court-discretion error-waiver legal-interpretation procedural-rules rule-of-law |
Whether the Commonwealth Court abused its discretion by applying Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) to conclude waiver of error, conflicting with Pa.R.A.P. 1925 and pro… |
| 24-431 |
Danny Ray Dunn v. Caryn Alissa Dunn |
Georgia |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal-motion |
Whether the lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism in Georgia state courts violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 24-414 |
Reuben Larson v. CommunityWorks North Dakota, et al. |
North Dakota |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure brief-requirements constitutional-challenge court-rules judicial-discretion procedural-due-process |
Whether a court rule mandating brief page limits and paragraph numbering, with dismissal for non-compliance, is unconstitutional |
| 24A341 |
Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Colgate Palmolive Co., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rule-60-challenge |
Whether a pro se litigant can successfully challenge multiple court orders and legal proceedings alleging fraud upon the court under Rule 60(b)(4) whe… |
| 24-5734 |
In Re Abdur-Rahim Dib Dudar |
|
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure default-judgment district-court judicial-discretion procedural-motion venue-transfer |
Whether the transfer of a case from District 1 to District 2 under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) was proper and whether the defendant is entitled to a default j… |
| 24-388 |
Kariann V. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services |
Maine |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-review parental-rights procedural-due-process state-supreme-court |
Whether a state supreme court can deny an appeal without addressing all legal questions presented when statutorily required to do so |
| 24A324 |
Harris Brumfield, Trustee for Ascent Trust v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension trust-interests |
Whether the Federal Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a commercial dispute involving trust interests and financial transactions |
| 24A322 |
Charles D. Hood v. Donald J. Trump, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure district-court-judgment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-limit |
Whether a federal court lacks jurisdiction to hear an appeal when the notice of appeal is not filed within the statutorily prescribed 60-day period af… |
| 24-5663 |
George Ashetzie v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights court-notification due-process judicial-review pro-se-appeal |
Whether the appellate court's denial of a pro se appeal and failure to provide proper notice constitutes a due process violation |
| 24A306 |
Ernest Murphy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari en-banc-petition extension-of-time pro-se supreme-court-rules |
Whether a pro se criminal defendant may seek an extension of time to file a certiorari petition pending resolution of a petition for rehearing en banc… |
| 24-5655 |
Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board |
Puerto Rico |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver |
Whether a waiver by the US Department of Justice under Supreme Court Rule 15 constitutes an admission of the illegality of a criminal conviction |
| 24-318 |
BASF Corporation v. Bader Farms, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure circuit-split claim-processing cross-appeal-rule judicial-discretion jurisdictional-issue |
Whether the cross-appeal rule is a jurisdictional rule, a mandatory claim-processing rule, or an informal and flexible rule in civil cases |
| 24-322 |
Kristin Bausch v. Jacob Frost, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accardi-doctrine agency-regulations appellate-procedure due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction turner-rogers-hearing |
Whether the Seventh Circuit lacked subject matter jurisdiction due to failure to conduct a mandatory Turner v. Rogers hearing and potential due proces… |
| 24-324 |
Christina Paylan v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure constitutional-infirmity due-process fair-trial judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics |
Whether Florida's lack of rules governing appellate judicial disqualification violates due process rights of litigants |
| 24-5549 |
Norman Paul Felts v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance legal-abandonment pro-se-representation timeliness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit should have considered an untimely appeal due to alleged attorney abandonment |
| 24-292 |
Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure evidence-standard factual-findings harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review |
When a district court's findings of fact are unsupported by the evidence the district court relied on, may a court of appeals affirm based on other ev… |
| 24-5502 |
William L. Mitchell, Jr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adjudication-on-merits appellate-procedure civil-litigation federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a second voluntary dismissal under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A) and (B) acts as an adjudication on the merits and forms a basi… |
| 24A248 |
Ryan T. Thornton v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County |
Wisconsin |
2024-09-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-appeal ineffective-assistance judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Wisconsin state courts improperly denied the petitioner's criminal appeal and effectively foreclosed meaningful judicial review of his und… |
| 24A244 |
Richard Rynn v. First Transit Incorporated., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights pro-se rule-60 workplace-injunction |
Whether a pro se litigant can challenge a workplace injunction under Rule 60(b) based on alleged constitutional rights violations and procedural irreg… |
| 24-5471 |
In Re Keith Girvan |
|
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure eyewitness-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition state-court-findings |
Whether 3rd Circuit Local Appellate Rules, Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(e), and 28 U.S.C. 2254 apply to Habeas Corpus Proceedings and provide… |
| 24-5439 |
Richard Beasley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a state supreme court dismisses a capital appeal and fails to appoint replacement … |
| 24-5435 |
Orlando Sanchez v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review trial-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5436 |
David Fink v. California |
California |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-of-appeal |
Should an appellant have a voice in their own appeal when the Court of Appeal appoints counsel who fails to raise substantial constitutional claims? |
| 24-214 |
Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment oral-argument |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's policy of denying oral argument violates litigants' constitutional rights to due process and a day in court |
| 24-5400 |
Javontae Quintez White v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-law due-process judicial-review waiver |
Is a Constitutional Due Process violation triggered when an appellate court holds that an issue is waived if not specifically raised in the statement … |
| 24-5403 |
Tynia Levesy v. Christopher Scolese, Director, National Reconnaissance Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rule-26f rule-56d |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over constitutional claims and properly apply procedural rules in this case? |
| 24-207 |
Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-rights fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion pro-se-representation transcript-integrity |
Whether a federal court can prohibit pro se representation in a civil case when the plaintiff has demonstrated prior ability to represent themselves, … |
| 24-5384 |
Carlton Eugene Hooker, Jr. v. Kevin T. Hanretta, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-rights court-remand judicial-discretion procedural-error |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying the appellant's motion for judgment and remanding the case due to procedural irregularit… |
| 24-5371 |
In Re Eric Martin Matthews |
|
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-constitutionality appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Anti-Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) remains constitutional after Jones v. Hendrix and its impact on subject matter jurisdiction and p… |
| 24-177 |
Alison Gershenson v. Elizabet Da Silva |
Florida |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment per-curiam-decision summary-judgment |
Whether Florida's appellate procedure of issuing per curiam decisions without opinion on summary judgment appeals violates due process and equal prote… |
| 24-159 |
The Wall Guy, Inc., et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for The First State Bank |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure bond-surety en-banc-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure governmental-taking judicial-review |
Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to address the appellant's appeal on the merits and in not granting en banc review despite complia… |
| 24-5318 |
Norberto Serna v. O’Brian Bailey, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process judicial-standard miranda-warning |
Whether the Court of Appeals imposed an incorrect standard for granting a certificate of appealability in conflict with Supreme Court precedent |
| 24A163 |
Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari due-process electronic-filing supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's procedural handling of an appeal warrants extraordinary relief due to potential electronic file storage errors that may ha… |
| 24A148 |
Jane Doe v. East Lyme Board of Education |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari litigation pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant's personal and professional circumstances constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a pet… |
| 24-5255 |
Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5223 |
Michael Domonic Sales v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-issue court-record due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-petition related-cases standing supreme-court takings |
Question not identified |
| 24A112 |
David Hatchigian v. ABCO, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure federal-rules good-cause pro-se supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant's motion for an extension of time to file an appeal meets the standard for good cause under Federal Rule of Appellate Proced… |
| 24-95 |
Jason Lou Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2072 28-usc-455 appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct recusal supervisory-powers |
Should-the-United-States-Supreme-Court-impose-a-requirement-of-mandatory-disqualification-of-Chief-Judges-of-the-Courts-of-Appeals |
| 24A109 |
Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar |
Whether a notice of appeal filed beyond the 60-day period established in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(1)(B) can be deemed timely when the … |
| 24A99 |
Nicolyn Plummer v. New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure dismissal human-rights insurance-underwriting motion-for-reconsideration pro-se |
Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge an insurance underwriting decision through an appeal lacking an arguable basis in law or fact |
| 24A44 |
Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se litigant's international travel and limited preparation time constitutes sufficient grounds for an extension of time to file a petiti… |
| 24-5081 |
Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation |
Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation parti… |
| 23-7825 |
Eduardo Margarito Soto, aka Edwardo Margarito Soto v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prejudice record-development |
Whether the applicant was denied effective assistance of counsel in the appeal proceedings, due to the silent and undeveloped record that resulted the… |
| 23-7816 |
In Re William H. Wright, Jr. |
|
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process emergency-motion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review petition-for-review standing |
Question not identified |
| 23A1156 |
Rona J. Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal jurisdiction pro-se sua-sponte |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a sua sponte dismissal by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for lack of jurisdiction warrant … |
| 23-7759 |
Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent |
May the District Court and Court of Appeals ignore the Supreme Court's decision in Concepcion v. U.S. |
| 23-7749 |
Carlos Enrique Lopez-Soto v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal due-process government-objection judicial-procedure notice notice-of-judgment standing timeliness |
Whether the Court of Appeals could dismiss an action based on untimely notice where (1) the district court's judgment was never notified, and (2) in t… |
| 23-7718 |
In Re Christopher L. Takhvar |
|
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-process legal-review petition-for-writ procedural-challenge standing |
right-to-appeal |
| 23-7658 |
In Re Robert Gene Rega |
|
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
due-process |
| 23-7650 |
Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing |
Whether petitioner is entitled to reinstatement of plea offer due to counsel's failure to inform him of mandatory minimum sentence |
| 23A1087 |
Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 |
Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 comports with due process and federal constitutional standards |
| 23-7630 |
Jamaal Elwood Dance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement jurisdiction plea-agreement |
Was the appeal barred by the appeal waiver in the plea agreement? |
| 23A1082 |
Eva A. Nieczyperowicz v. Andrew Nieczyperowicz |
Texas |
2024-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure discretionary-review federal-question page-limits pro-se state-court |
Whether a pro se litigant's application for discretionary leave to exceed page limits in a state court appeal presents a substantial federal question … |
| 23-1258 |
Royce Wade Lander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing |
Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit holding that Petitioner failed to make the threshold showing for a certi… |
| 23-7608 |
Carney Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7610 |
David K. Horsley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment anders-review appellate-procedure constitutional-violation due-process procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel sixth-amendment stare-decisis time-limit |
Does Ohio's App. R. 26(B)(1) violate the 6th Amendment by applying a time limit to reopen an appeal when an applicant has proven counsel error in not … |
| 23A1076 |
Jason Wade Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
anders-review appellate-procedure criminal-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-defendant |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly dismissed a criminal appeal without fully evaluating the defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 23-7558 |
Marcus Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-ruling judicial-review merits-denial merits-determination procedural-denial reasonable-jurists |
whether-court-of-appeals-denial-of-certificate-of-appealability |
| 23A1054 |
Rory Cook v. Mark Williams, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 |
Whether a federal habeas petitioner can obtain a certificate of appealability (COA) after the district court denied relief on a constitutional claim u… |
| 23-7529 |
Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review |
Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law? |
| 23-7511 |
Rodney Johnson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the issuing authority failed to comply with the rules of court to exclude the judge's signed order of the AEE and deny a writ of probable caus… |
| 23-7515 |
Carlos Davis v. Hemmersbach US, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure contract-law due-process evidence evidence-presentation jurisdiction verbal-agreement verbal-contract |
Does the 5th Circuit's circuit rules supersede The Federal Circuit and U.S Supreme Court, particularly when parties may present new arguments for the … |
| 23-7507 |
Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-extend ninth-circuit standing time-extension |
Did the United States District Court Judge Abuse his discretion in denying the Plaintiff's motions? |
| 23-7474 |
Bogdan Nicolescu v. Dave Bobby, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-explanation merits-panel pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness uncandid-briefing |
Is a 3-judge merits panel of a U.S. court of appeals at liberty, perhaps over-reliant on the opposing party's counseled but uncandid briefing, to not … |
| 23-7479 |
Ronald Lee Howard v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review douglas due-process evitts fourteenth-amendment griffin state-court texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and Dou… |
| 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 … |
| 23-7389 |
Brad Evans v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants |
Whether the State of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroach upon the personal rights… |
| 23-7378 |
Frederick Herrod v. Members of the 79th Congress |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus liberal-construction motion necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se pro-se-litigant speech-and-debate-clause |
if-the-congressional-command-of-federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-24(a)(5)-requires-certain-submissions-must-be-included-with-a-motion,-is-a-pro-se-… |
| 23A981 |
Alberta Rose Jones v. Donald David Jones |
Oklahoma |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure jurisdictional-timeliness motion-to-strike procedural-rules supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a state supreme court can dismiss a petition for writ of certiorari as untimely under procedural rules without addressing the underlying merit… |
| 23-7366 |
Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7371 |
Laron Darrell Carter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mandate mandate-rule procedural-law waiver |
Whether the rule requiring a district court to follow the mandate of a court of appeals is jurisdictional |
| 23-7315 |
In Re Craig Michael Ralston |
|
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure clerical-error federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure houston-v-lack judicial-review mail-receipt postal-service prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing |
Is a certified mail receipt and date-stamp from the United States Postal Service along with the Prison Mailroom time-stamp enough to meet the requirem… |
| 23A916 |
Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment ninth-circuit oral-argument |
Whether the First and Fifth Amendments require meaningful oral argument as a fundamental component of due process in federal appellate proceedings |
| 23-7185 |
Lawrence Northern v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden |
Wisconsin |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-of-choice direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-v-machner strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7170 |
Edward Revenous Brown v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation district-court due-process federal-habeas federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-error notice-of-appeal state-habeas |
Did the United States District Court magistrate err in denying the petitioners' 28 U.S.C. §2254 state habeas corpus petition without ruling on the mer… |
| 23A894 |
Terrance Brown v. Andrew Beshear, Governor of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-prerequisite notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant time-limitation |
Whether a pro se litigant's notice of appeal filed outside the standard 30-day window can be considered timely under federal appellate procedural rule… |
| 23-7130 |
In Re William Graven |
|
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals-court appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal judicial-error judicial-oversight judicial-review mandamus motion-to-dismiss orders panel |
Can an Appeals Court Panel 'accidentally' miss/not rule on a second appealed/argued Order, and then just ignore that second argued Order, even when re… |
| 23A877 |
Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Big Sky Water & Sewer District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under the Court's rules governing appellate procedure |
| 23-7095 |
Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio… |
| 23-7103 |
Marilyn Eason v. Cook County Correctional Facility, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standing pleadings standing |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to amend the complaint under Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 23-7084 |
Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness |
Is the undefined, non-specific, ambiguous language used in Ohio's App-R.26(B)(2)(c) that results in arbitrary, inconsistent, and discriminatory enforc… |
| 23-1057 |
Paul Johnson v. Matthew Tepper |
Texas |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-neutrality party-presentation pro-se pro-se-plaintiff sua-sponte sua-sponte-arguments supreme-court-review |
Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the actions of a Texas Court of Appeals, which departed from its role as a neutral arbiter by enga… |
| 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… |
| 23-7043 |
C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-review procedural-due-process standing substantial-rights |
Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of appea… |
| 23-7016 |
Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California |
California |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review |
Whether the terms and conditions of a patent license agreement are admissible as evidence in a patent infringement case |
| 23-7006 |
Kelly Porter v. Axelon, Inc., et al. |
Kentucky |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fraud legal-notice standing workers-compensation |
Whether the Supreme Court's decision affirmed the Appellant Court is an abuse of discretion and against the rule of law |
| 23-6955 |
Donald Kissner v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-breakdown constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense |
Was Mr. Kissner's state and federal constitutional rights to effective assistance of appointed appellate counsel violated? |
| 23-6930 |
Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-claim standing supreme-court |
Whether Supreme Court precedent demands review of this claim where the lower court did not grant the writ of certiorari? |
| 23-983 |
Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship |
Does the 'state wherein they reside' provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdiction… |
| 23-6910 |
Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction |
Does the United States jurisdiction over a vessel under 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a) present a question of subject-matter-jurisdiction? |
| 23A813 |
Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington |
First Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default |
Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file an appellate brief and pay filing fees warrants dismissal of an appeal under First Circuit procedur… |
| 23-6846 |
In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders |
|
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court violated petitioner's fundamental due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment by denying her pet… |
| 23-6853 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination procedural-denial standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals must state the basis for denying a certificate of appealability |
| 23A799 |
Raul Mendez v. Moonridge Neighborhood Assocociation, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure due-process frivolous-dismissal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-appeal |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated due process by dismissing a pro se appeal as frivolous without providing legal reasoning or analysis, and whether s… |
| 23A767 |
Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-precedent criminal-sentencing en-banc-review procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether a federal appellate court can affirm a criminal sentence by an equally divided en banc court when the original panel found the sentence proced… |
| 23A759 |
Warren Chen, et al. v. Razberi Techologies, Inc., et al. |
Texas |
2024-02-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Texas Court of Appeals improperly applied procedural rules in a manner that prejudiced the applicants' right to seek Supreme Court review |
| 23-883 |
Lawrence Wilson Kingsley v. Ann Elizabeth Lange |
Louisiana |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-intervention procedural-intervention standing |
Should this case be allowed to conflict with federal and state cases on nonparty intervention |
| 23-887 |
In Re Eugene Misquith |
|
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review magistrate-judge magistrate-review procedural-fairness |
Did the Eleventh Circuit's opinion improperly introduce the Magistrate Judge and deny due process by providing no reasoning? |
| 23-870 |
Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 26(b) precludes equitable tolling of 49 U.S.C. § 5127(a)'s ordinary and nonjurisdictional deadline to peti… |
| 23A735 |
Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari medical-hardship pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant's medical condition and surgical recovery constitute sufficient grounds for an extraordinary extension of time to file a pet… |
| 23-6677 |
Michael Isidoro Sanchez v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anders-review appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights colorable-claims due-process indigent-defense of-right-appeal post-conviction-review right-to-counsel smith-v-robbins |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's reliance on Chavez II was erroneous |
| 23A716 |
Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari due-process federal-circuit judicial-transparency summary-judgment |
Whether the Federal Circuit's summary judgment procedure without an opinion violates due process or appellate transparency requirements |
| 23-6613 |
Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. |
North Carolina |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rules due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss national-interest north-carolina standing |
Did the NCCOA and NCSC improperly deny appellant's motions or was it a violation of appellate rules and of national interest to court litigation and c… |
| 23-6603 |
Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the defendants' actions, which allegedly caused him more than 30 minutes of delay in r… |
| 23-6593 |
Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus? |
| 23-810 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Almonte Stream Food Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-rule civil-procedure court-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error procedural-default second-circuit standing |
Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk by not ruling for default judgment |
| 23A694 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Carolyn Hansen |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure failure-to-prosecute pro-se procedural-rules tenth-circuit |
Whether a pro se litigant's failure to prosecute an appeal constitutes grounds for dismissal under Tenth Circuit procedural rules |
| 23-806 |
Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-cause intervening-circumstances judicial-discretion pioneer-investment-services |
Whether Congress intended to treat 'excusable neglect' and 'good cause' separately in Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5)(A)(ii) and the appropriate standard of r… |
| 23A681 |
Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Holding Corporation, et al. |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure court-filing forma-pauperis jurisdictional-challenge petition-for-review pro-se |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural filings and petition for review can be substantively evaluated when submitted with potential formatting or juri… |
| 23-6549 |
Delon Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-to-withdraw penson-v-ohio right-to-counsel standing |
Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the United States Court of Appeals granted counsel's motion for leave to withd… |
| 23-791 |
Peter Thompson v. Gregg Sullivan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-proceedings due-process fraud ninth-circuit-rules pro-se-filing procedural-due-process record record-exclusion standing |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the lower US District Court of Montana proceedings could be equitably affirmed when the district court ob… |
| 23-6519 |
Tonette L. Vazquez v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mediation remand settlement |
Whether the district court erred in approving the proposed settlement of $50,000 through mediation |
| 23-780 |
Eugene Misquith v. St. Mary's Medical Center |
Florida |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure florida-constitution florida-statute judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-decline legal-process motion-to-dismiss standing |
Did the Supreme Court of Florida invalidate the law itself when it did not assume mandatory jurisdiction? |
| 23A662 |
Jacques Saade v. Fay Servicing, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure filing-restrictions judicial-economy mortgage-default pro-se-litigation sanctions |
Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of substantially similar lawsuits challenging a mortgage default constitutes vexatious litigation warranti… |
| 23A650 |
Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media Inc., a California Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari filing-deadline ninth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a federal appellate court's procedural ruling can extend the standard 90-day certiorari filing deadline under Supreme Court rules |
| 23-741 |
Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law |
Whether the cross-appeal rule is jurisdictional or mandatory, or admits of exceptions |
| 23A633 |
Sean P. Gaskin, et al. v. Stephen May, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari |
| 23A625 |
Shaheryar Khan v. Kent Seton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure court-dismissal frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit pro-se-litigant |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal as frivolous and denying in forma pauperis status |
| 23-6395 |
In Re Daniel Lee Beckley |
|
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
all-writs-act appellate-procedure federal-appeals filing-deadline houston-v-lack incarcerated-person mandamus prison-mail prisoner-litigation pro-se-filing supreme-court-mandate timely-filing |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to abide by the Supreme Court's holding in Houston v. Lack and accept Petitione… |
| 23-6375 |
Mark E. Sells v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure plea-agreement supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit-court united-states-supreme-court-law |
due-process-access-to-court |
| 23-6330 |
Raymond Ghaloustian v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harmless-error harrison-v-united-states miranda-rights miranda-warning opening-brief |
Does a defendant forfeit reliance upon Harrison by failing to anticipate in his opening brief on appeal that the Government would argue violations of … |
| 23-6332 |
Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 8.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error |
| 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? |
| 23-6321 |
Barbara Johnson-Luster v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel disability-rights due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances title-vii |
Whether an appellant in the Circuit Courts, with an invisible disability and previous court appointed attorneys in the Lower District Courts should re… |
| 23A546 |
National Religious Broadcasters v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari religious-broadcasters supreme-court-rules time-extension trade-association |
Whether a trade association representing religious broadcasters can seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court pr… |
| 23-6254 |
William Graves, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants |
Whether the state of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroaches upon the personal righ… |
| 23-6239 |
Christopher Everson v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court independent-action judicial-procedure mandate-rule rule-60 timing timing-limitations |
Is the filing of an independent action under FRCP 60(d)(1) for fraud on the court distinguishable from FRCP 60(b)(3) fraud? |
| 23-6214 |
Sealed v. Sealed |
Florida |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceeding judicial-review manifest-injustice parental-rights |
Does the decision of the Florida State Courts to deny the Petitioner opportunity for belated appeal of the Lower Court's decision to terminate her par… |
| 23-6224 |
Terry Daum v. Joseph Corey, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-statute gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-probability sawyer-v-whitley |
Does the 'reasonable probability' standard, established in Brady v. Maryland, conflict with the 'clear and convincing evidence' criteria, defined unde… |
| 23-629 |
DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability must issue when a circuit judge votes to grant one |
| 23A525 |
Randall Cope v. Thomas Lillard, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari prisoner-petition pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension |
Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted under Supreme Court Rule 30 |
| 23-6192 |
David Lewis Holland v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process right-to-counsel speedy-trial trial-preparation |
Whether the new Speedy Trial requirement created by the Texas 7th Court of Appeals in the instant case is in conflict with current case law precedent,… |
| 23-6148 |
Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue |
Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge |
| 23-6113 |
Michael Eugene Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial right-to-counsel texas-criminal-law |
whether-the-petitioner-was-afforded-effective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 23-6114 |
Andre Jackson v. California |
California |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights court-opinion due-process evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-issue legal-relief procedural-error record-development |
Whether APPELLATE Counsel's PERFORMANCE WAS deFiciut uNneteR StrickiANnd |
| 23-6127 |
Shawna Karnes, et al. v. Tiffany Montengo, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception judicial-review jurisdiction rocker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-judgement |
Does the federal district court and federal court of appeals have the jurisdiction to reverse or modify a state-court judgement though a fraud excepti… |
| 23-563 |
Obaida Abdulky, et al., as Parents and Next Friends of Anthony Abdulky v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review legal-standards notice procedural-fairness |
Whether the Appeals Court of Massachusetts violated the due process rights of the Petitioners |
| 23-6089 |
Christopher Lenard Blockson v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
What is the proper course of action when a court ignores the record on appeal and engages in fraud on the court? |
| 23A462 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction and sentence |
| 23-528 |
Michael S. Barth v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process intervention-rights judicial-access media-representation procedural-due-process recusal standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to intervene |
| 23-6041 |
Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-505 |
Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence |
whether-the-record-supports-the-court's-conclusion-that-the-state-court-hearing-regarding-the-inadmissible-hearsay-(crawford-violation)-did-not-violat… |
| 23-508 |
Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment |
Whether the United States District Court For the District of Iowa erred in denying Petitioner Matthews a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-494 |
MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in substituting its own findings of fact for those of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instead of remanding as requ… |
| 23-5950 |
Kent Leroy Clark v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-remedy federal-prisoner postconviction-relief |
Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of remed… |
| 23-448 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC |
Utah |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal |
Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5 |
| 23-5883 |
Shardaye Jeacole Malik Bey v. Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1443 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-procedure criminal-removal due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis |
Whether filing fees are required for removal of a criminal action under 28 U.S.C. § 1443 |
| 23A377 |
Anthony Andrews v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure frivolous-dismissal imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act serious-physical-injury |
Whether a prisoner with three prior frivolous dismissals can proceed in forma pauperis under the Prison Litigation Reform Act without demonstrating im… |
| 23A373 |
Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time judicial-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the lower court's judgment |
| 23-5865 |
Jason Dix v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte |
Whether an appellate court may relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide the issue sua sponte, and t… |
| 23-5810 |
Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability? |
| 23-5822 |
Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-rules jurisdiction jurisdiction-statement motion-for-permission pro-se rule-54b standing |
Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| 23A337 |
Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure federal-rule-appellate-procedure-4 incarcerated-litigant petition-for-rehearing prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing |
Whether the prison mailbox rule under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(c)(1)(A)(i) and 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires a federal appellate court to dee… |
| 23-5772 |
Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure court-records due-process federal-review habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence meaningful-appeal procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in sustaining the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas' hol… |
| 23-5746 |
James H. Hayes v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Mr. Hawes' petition for a certificate of appealability concerning the district court's den… |
| 23-5750 |
Todd Ferry v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure brady-violation civil-rights default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-petition state-court |
Did the State and the Federal Habeas courts' decision that ineffective-assistance-of-counsel issues were defaulted conflict with precedents |
| 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? |
| 23-297 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York |
Indiana |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata |
Whether the Indiana courts' judgments violated Newman's Constitutional rights to due process by denying hearings, imposing punitive attorney fee award… |
| 23A257 |
In Re Gregory Mercer |
|
2023-09-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing federal constitutional claims on procedural grounds without… |
| 23-5569 |
Francisco Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing |
Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record? |
| 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 |
| 23-231 |
Linda A. Porter v. Kennard Law PC, dba Kennard Richard PC, et al. |
Texas |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the appellate court violated Porter's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights |
| 23-5560 |
Anthony Ravon Ruffin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts jones-v-hendrix judicial-review ninth-circuit rehab-act standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifteenth Amendment |
| 23A229 |
Richard Summerall v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-prisoner |
Whether a prisoner's right to adequate access to legal resources and law library facilities is violated when institutional lockdowns and heavy caseloa… |
| 23-5537 |
Euphrates Earl Bean v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-rights contracts due-process equal-rights judicial-review standing takings vested-rights |
Was there an 'obligation of contracts' inferred? |
| 23-204 |
WY Plaza LC v. Safeway Stores 46 Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
|
affirmance affirmance-standard alternative-bases alternative-grounds appellate-procedure brief-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-waiver waiver |
Whether an appellee is obligated to raise all alternative bases for affirmance in its answer brief, or risk waiver of those alternative bases |
| 23-5495 |
SirMichael Dyess v. California |
California |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default |
Whether the District Court violated ADA rights under Title II, whether the District Court's procedural and evidentiary rulings constituted an abuse of… |
| 23-5480 |
Jesus C. More v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure competency-hearing due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar procedural-rules remedies separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified |
| 23-5487 |
Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5471 |
Scott A. Shreffler v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure clerical-error due-process evidentiary-hearing houston-v-lack notice-of-appeal prisoner-mailbox-rule pro-se-filing timeliness |
Whether the Pennsylvania appellate court erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal for untimely filing of notice of appeal |
| 23-5384 |
Wayne Lee Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-discretion due-process judicial-process legal-petition merits-review procedural-issue supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court should have allowed counsel to withdraw from petitioner's appeal, knowing the petitioner had issues of merit for an appeal on … |
| 23-5368 |
Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner a COA? |
| 23-137 |
Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits |
When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant, was its intent clear that a substituted appellant co… |
| 23-5337 |
Noel Brown v. State Correctional Institution at Somerset, Administration Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-rules default-judgment due-process federal-rules inmate-accounts notice-of-appearance standing stare-decisis |
Does the substantial holding in Commonwealth v. Spotz apply on appeal from the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania? |
| 23-5221 |
Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-66 |
Norbert A. King, II v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure child-sex-crimes due-process federal-appellate-practice judicial-impartiality military-judge military-justice prosecutorial-ethics record-on-appeal record-supplementation statutory-interpretation |
Does the lower court's decision to allow the government to supplement the record mid-appeal demonstrate a misapplication of statutory canons and affec… |
| 23-5124 |
Quincetta Yvonne Cargill, aka Queen, aka Tonya, aka Angela Scott, aka Antela Scott, aka QuincetTucker, aka Quincetta Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing right-to-counsel |
Whether the exclusion of the appellant's opinions, requests for inclusion of psychiatrist's testimony, and other information as to the preserved issue… |
| 23-5077 |
In Re Ronald Boyajian |
|
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court appeal-of-right appellate-procedure appointed-counsel court-access due-process legal-representation ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation supplemental-brief |
Did the Ninth Circuit violate the defendant-appellant's due process right of access to the court in denying his pro se supplemental brief? |
| 23-25 |
Michael Charles Ward v. James V. Chafin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
|
absolute-immunity appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit overextended the holding of Ashcroft v. Iqbal such that § 1983 plaintiffs are unjustly deprived of an opportunity to cond… |
| 23-11 |
Gary Victor Dubin v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure claims-processing-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion temporary-disability |
Whether the dismissal of timely filed appeals for failure to file opening briefs, a claims processing rule, without verifying the factual circumstance… |
| 23-5006 |
Robert Timothy Blake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-procedure case-consolidation consolidation due-process judicial-discretion prejudice procedural-fairness relevant-issues |
Whether a defendant may suffer prejudice when a court orders consolidation of cases where one case will lose its specific issues raised on appeal |
| 22-7777 |
Saria Walker v. R. Castriotta, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias rule-interpretation standing |
Why is the Constitution ~~ Right To Due Process ' NOT being Upheld ? |
| 22-1201 |
Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation |
Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard if it maintains the authority … |
| 22-1188 |
Douglas K. Smith v. Eric Terry |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellant-brief appellate-procedure bankruptcy circuit-court civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal extension-of-time judicial-discretion procedural-dismissal |
Whether the Circuit Court's March 8, 2023 denial of a second motion for thirty-day extension of time to file appellant brief, and resultant dismissal … |
| 22-7732 |
George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. |
Florida |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure deadlines discretion dismissal motions |
Whether the Second District Court of Appeals erred in granting the appellant's former counsel's motion to amend the initial brief and extend the deadl… |
| 22-7737 |
Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson |
South Dakota |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure beneficiary-standing civil-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation real-party-in-interest rule-60b-motion standing trust-beneficiary trust-representation trust-trustee trustee-rights |
Whether the sole beneficiary and sole trustee of a trust is the real party interest and can represent that trust pro se? |
| 22-7713 |
Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-7647 |
Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7648 |
In Re William M. Windsor |
|
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure exceptional-circumstances federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-order in-forma-pauperis judicial-review jurisdiction-challenge state-court-authority void-orders |
Is a federal court order void when jurisdiction is never determined? |
| 22-1143 |
Renee Sweet v. Douglas County Board of Commissioners |
Colorado |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights colorado-revised-statutes constitutional-rights courtroom-security douglas-county-colorado-zoning-resolutions due-process property-rights property-taking zoning zoning-resolution |
Is a zoning resolution a policy or the equivalent of a zoning ordinance? |
| 22-1138 |
John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine |
Whether complying with a court order disqualifies a petitioner from the equitable remedy of vacatur |
| 22-7579 |
Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the appellate court has a duty to conduct a full review of the record under Anders v. California when appointed counsel files an Anders brief … |
| 22-7563 |
Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated when a request for delayed appeal was denied |
| 22-7574 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment mental-illness notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion separate-document-rule separate-judgment statutory-interpretation timely-appeal |
whether-the-court-of-appeal-erred-in-its-reliance-on-28-u.s.c.-§-2101(c) |
| 22-1105 |
Carlo Giuseppe Civelli, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Securities, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure fifth-circuit notice notice-requirement preservation sua-sponte summary-judgment trial-court |
Whether an appellate court may sua sponte raise grounds for summary judgment, which were not noticed or preserved in the trial court |
| 22-7499 |
Judy Thorpe v. Rosemarie Cipparulo, et al. |
New Jersey |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-certification due-process equitable-review judicial-review legal-review manifest-error prejudicial-error trial-court-decision |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 22-7478 |
Marla Faith Crawford v. David Patrick Corrigan, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error rehearing-en-banc standing |
Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing the petition and refusing to grant a rehearing en banc? |
| 22-7454 |
In Re Reginald Swinton |
|
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-law circuit-court discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Is the Circuit Court's order an abuse of discretion? |
| 22-7433 |
Carlos Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a COA on the basis that the Petitioner was not able to argue his case without appoint… |
| 22-1036 |
Ronda L. Cormier v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit meaningful-access pro-se pro-se-appeal summary-judgment willis-v-cleco |
Did the Fifth Circuit's automatic application of Willis v. Cleco violate the pro se Petitioner's rights to equal-protection, meaningful-access-to-cour… |
| 22-7322 |
Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability |
| 22-7325 |
Noel Brown v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review court-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-appeal standing |
Did the denial of appellant's motion for in forma pauperis violate Rule 24(A)(5) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure? |
| 22-7313 |
Rakim Moberly v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court-standard compassionate-release criminal-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-step-act notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appeal |
Whether the petitioner's letter to the district court clerk qualified as a notice of appeal |
| 22-994 |
Wall Street Apartments, LLC, et al. v. All Star Property Management, LLC, et al. |
Washington |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
|
access-to-court appellate-procedure constitutional-rights court-hearing decision-based-on-record due-process equal-protection judicial-review meaningful-hearing scrutiny-of-state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Court of Appeals violated the constitutional rights of Appellants to due-process, equal-protection, meaningful-hearing, decision-based-on-… |
| 22-7252 |
Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing? |
| 22-7215 |
Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-04-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction |
Did the trial court have jurisdiction to convict the petitioner? |
| 22-7220 |
Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7159 |
Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit |
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts |
| 22-7161 |
Moses D. Estrada v. California |
California |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeal-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process finality procedural-fairness time-limitation timeliness transcript-denial |
Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to issue its order for over 11 months and then denying the appellant the opportunity to file a petition for rehe… |
| 22-7140 |
George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. |
Florida |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment nonfinal-appeal nonfinal-order standing state-law |
Does a nonfinal appeal qualify to be dismissed by the court, claiming it is dismissed as being from a nonappealable nonfinal order? |
| 22-944 |
Lois Yankah v. Sgt. Moore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadline fugitive-disentitlement fugitive-disentitlement-doctrine speedy-trial speedy-trial-act |
Whether an appellate court may dismiss an appeal filed after the filing deadline but before the 3-day extension for notices sent by mail |
| 22-7114 |
Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-7092 |
Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit |
Did the appeals court for the Third Circuit err by denying petitioners certificate of appealability where appellate counsel rendered ineffective assis… |
| 22-7096 |
Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to … |
| 22-7033 |
DeAndre Forrest v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Forrest's Sixth Amendment was violated when his counsel conceded his guilt during trial |
| 22-6939 |
Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default |
Whether a state habeas petitioner's pleading was timely filed under the mailbox rule |
| 22-6942 |
Kwame Burrell v. Willis Chapman, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion right-to-counsel state-constitution |
Did the trial court fail to protect the petitioner's fundamental due process right to substitute appellate counsel after the original appellate counse… |
| 22-6897 |
Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6851 |
David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation and due process rights when it raises an issue sua sponte that the parties did… |
| 22-6804 |
Joseph Mark Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-procedure appellate-procedure civil-procedure criminal-statute due-process legal-timeline minor-protection motion-to-withdraw standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the 90 days under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 and Supreme Court Rule 13 applies to an order granting a motion to withdraw an appeal |
| 22-6805 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection precedent-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in contradicting a statute pursuant to Peery v. Rinehart, 2015 1 App (a) 135935 and denying the defen… |
| 22-6788 |
In Re Kent Williams |
|
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing |
Should this court order the ninth circuit court of appeals to discontinue its practice of sending orders and answers to prisoner litigants to a third … |
| 22-6767 |
Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in finding that the petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal wit… |
| 22-758 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC |
Utah |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-immunity procedural-rules record record-review standing u.r.a.p-11 |
Whether the Court of Appeals allowing materials not on the record conflicts with the requirements of U.R.A.P 11? |
| 22-6671 |
Rodney P. Mazzulla v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process franks-hearing Franks-v-Delaware ineffective-assistance reasonable-performance search-warrant Strickland-v-Washington |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 22-6667 |
Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas… |
| 22-6637 |
Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6630 |
John Butler v. Howard Sissem, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure correctional-facility federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing prisoner-rights standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third Circuit, did in fact have jurisdiction concerning Petitioners' appeal under the Federal Rule… |
| 22-6596 |
Laverne C. Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights |
| 22-6603 |
Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6610 |
Nicodemo S. Scarfo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel court-appointment due-process en-banc-petition legal-remedy petition-for-certiorari standing withdrawal-of-counsel |
What remedy is available for petitioner, where court appointed attorney is granted withdrawal from filing a petition for certiorari, when the attorney… |
| 22-6611 |
Joseph P. Counts v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights cohen-collateral-order due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-counsel notice-of-appeal pro-se standing timeliness urgent-matters |
Whether district courts must rule on pro se motions regardless of representation |
| 22-671 |
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
28-usc-46 appellate-procedure case-law judicial-administration judicial-review panel-composition patent-law statutory-interpretation written-description |
Whether 28 U.S.C. §46 and principles of sound judicial administration preclude a court of appeals from adding a new judge to form a new panel and rede… |
| 22-6557 |
Diana Louise Houck v. Lifestore Bank, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure cumulative-finality dismissal finality interlocutory-appeal right-to-appeal rule-58 vacatur |
Cumulative Finality |
| 22-637 |
In Re Larry Elliot Klayman |
|
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure civil-rights court-intervention due-process injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus new-trial standing |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the District Court to conduct a new trial in the JW Case |
| 22-645 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference appellate-mandates appellate-procedure civil-procedure compliance due-process false-statements federal-agencies judicial-deference judicial-review |
Whether federal agencies are exempted from the rule requiring strict compliance with appellate mandates |
| 22-6425 |
Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability? |
| 22-578 |
Richard Behar v. Department of Homeland Security |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-records appellate-procedure confidentiality foia-exemption-7c freedom-of-information-act party-presentation-principle presidential-administration privacy-interests statutory-interpretation |
Whether documents obtained and used by a federal agency in the legitimate conduct of its official duties are not 'agency records' and thus never subje… |
| 22-6361 |
Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review |
Question for review #One |
| 22-6328 |
Versiah M. Taylor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing |
Whether the USCA erred in screening or denying notice of appeal and reasons for costs |
| 22-6249 |
Ruben James Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-reopen notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-deficiency |
Whether a pro se litigant's 'Notice of Appeal' constitutes a liberally-construed 'Motion to Reopen Time to File' as well as a 'Notice of Appeal |
| 22-6251 |
Onofre Tommy Serrano v. California |
California |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review medical-treatment reasonable-time-to-consult right-to-counsel |
Whether the court has a prompt duty to appoint counsel once indigency attaches |
| 22-6218 |
Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6220 |
Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6196 |
Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing |
Whether the TN U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's ex-post-facto-claim |
| 22-6198 |
Darrel Thorn v. Racetrac Petroleum, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-leniency meaningful-opportunity pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether the procedural treatment currently afforded to pro-se litigants by federal courts comports with due process or whether more leniency is requir… |
| 22-6153 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review |
What is the correct mechanism and procedure to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court to the appellate court after Certiorari denial? |
| 22-6105 |
Eric Malmstrom v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-precedent en-banc federal-courts judicial-review stare-decisis |
Must a federal court of appeals adhere to the principle of stare decisis and abide by prior circuit precedent absent an intervening decision from this… |
| 22-6111 |
In Re Katrese Nickelson |
|
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-sealing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard motion-to-quash service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detainer writ-of-mandate |
Whether Assembly Bill No.2819's mandatory automatic and permanent case sealing requirements in limited unlawful detainer cases extends to sealing Appe… |
| 22-6066 |
Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority |
Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment |
| 22-6043 |
Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6034 |
Francis Stock v. Chanelle Braswell, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-filing notice notice-of-appeal prisoner-rights service-of-process standing |
Whether a prisoner's notice of appeal was timely filed when he did not receive notice of the district court's dismissal order within 21 days |
| 22-5953 |
Robert Lee Swinton v. New York |
New York |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-of-right appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal |
Whether counsel can fail to file a Notice of Appeal after a defendant has shown a desire to appeal |
| 22-5924 |
Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing claims a standard and scope of constitutional dimension prohibit an appellate court from … |
| 22-391 |
Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute appellate-procedure appellate-review case-transfer civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ghostwriting judicial-procedure standing |
Does California anti-SLAPP statute protect illegal activity? |
| 22-392 |
Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins |
| 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… |
| 22-5912 |
William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5904 |
Matthew S. Becker v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standards threshold-determination |
Whether the Court should clarify and resolve the circuit split on the standards to be utilized when deciding the threshold determination on whether to… |
| 22-5865 |
Charles Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal |
| 22-5819 |
Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing |
Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability? |
| 22-5758 |
Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2022-10-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings |
Does the Louisiana statute banning the sale of petrol-based motor vehicles violate the dormant Commerce Clause? |
| 22-5734 |
Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Question not identified |
| 22-5740 |
Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-304 |
Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit |
Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl… |
| 22-284 |
Gary Frisby, pka G-Money v. Sony Music Entertainment, dba RCA Records, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisprudence appellate-procedure case-consolidation copyright-infringement judicial-review musical-composition procedural-error sound-recording subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power |
Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the musical composition infringement claim appeal constitute a wrongfu… |
| 22-5668 |
Thomas Guerriero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule should be overturned |
| 22-5620 |
Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver |
Whether the government may use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen registe… |
| 22-5603 |
Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5607 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. Mr. Hansen, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine federal-rules-civil-procedure filing houston-v-lack notice notice-of-judgment pro-se pro-se-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's holding in Houston v. Lack was based on equity or the interpretation of the word filed? |
| 22-5598 |
Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5571 |
Wamel Allah v. L. Latona, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure brief-submission briefs circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure dismissal due-process government-misconduct government-response judicial-review procedural-due-process |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeals without a response from the government who faile… |
| 22-5551 |
Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-206 |
Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System, et al. |
New York |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process pension pension-benefits property-rights standing state-constitution state-retirement-system state-statute |
Whether the word 'substantial' in the governing statute CPLR 5601(a) and the New York State Constitution provision for appeals as of right on constitu… |
| 22-5511 |
Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5499 |
Scott James Repella v. Luzerne County Children and Youth Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-error procedural-challenge standard-of-review standing |
Did the court of appeals err in denying the COA and not taking into account the complexity and severity of the constitutional rights violation? |
| 22-5506 |
Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of his rights to a fair trial |
| 22-5395 |
Michael Gorrio v. Correctional Officer Francis, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rico civil-rico-conspiracy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review well-pleaded-facts |
Did the appellant's amended complaint ECF 43 present substantial 'well pleaded facts,' as to plausibly state a claim and support the claim to overcome… |
| 22-5392 |
Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-accountability due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-procedure |
Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to disregard the US Supreme Court's law, the US Code, the Federal Rules, the Constitution, the … |
| 22-5375 |
Nathaniel Waugh v. A. Ralph, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-principles court-procedure due-process evidence-application judicial-review legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice standing |
Whether lower Court proceeded 'according to Justice' or deprived petitioner of fundamental Substantial rights? |
| 22-5376 |
Jerico Matias Cruz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis standing |
Whether the pro se plaintiff-appellant was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the district court denied his motion … |
| 22-5339 |
Maria Navarro Martin v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief standing state-court-decision state-law |
Whether the court erred in declaring the federal law 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(4) and the Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.430(b) invalid |
| 22-128 |
Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas |
Texas |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment |
Is the denial of a fair trial or appeal rights for a decorated police officer who was a victim of sexual assault and harassment repugnant to the Const… |
| 22-122 |
Philip Snyder v. Tenth Presbyterian Church |
Pennsylvania |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process factual-findings legal-review pennsylvania-law rule-of-law standard-of-review superior-court |
Did the decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly stated rule of law? |
| 22-127 |
Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned… |
| 22-5317 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Merrifield Hotel Associates, LP |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-reasoning standard-of-review standing summary-affirmance unpublished-opinion |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the Order, Dated, July 28, 2022 |
| 22-5325 |
Malcolm Bernard Benson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-registry due-process standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's notice of appeal obligation was satisfied when the funds were deposited in the court registry before the filing deadline |
| 22-5272 |
J. R. v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-findings juvenile-court standing |
Did the Juvenile Court's record contain substantial evidence to support the court's jurisdictional findings as to the father |
| 22-5258 |
Jeremy Lafitte v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal pleading procedural-error rule-8(a) |
Whether a plaintiff must plead a specific set of facts that constitute a cause of action under the federal pleading requirements of Rule 8(a) of the F… |
| 22-94 |
Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b |
Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds? |
| 22-5222 |
Travis Lee Combs v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings |
Unsure |
| 22-5194 |
Maxo Jean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing |
Whether the appeals court abused its discretion by dismissing petitioner's notice of appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate, filed pursuant to 2… |
| 22-5200 |
Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard |
Can a specific record reference by an indigent be considered a substantive part of demonstrating a substantial showing of the denial of a constitution… |
| 22-31 |
Arizona v. Brian Mecinas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-iii-standing civil-procedure intervention mootness munsingwear-doctrine political-question standing vacatur |
Whether the motion to intervene was timely |
| 21-8259 |
In Re Johnny Brett Gregory |
|
2022-06-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus mandamus ninth-circuit standing united-states-court-of-appeals writ-of-certiorari |
Should this court issue a writ of mandamus ordering the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to issue a writ of mandamus |
| 21-8273 |
Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8252 |
Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the court of appeals correctly concluded that petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was filed untimely |
| 21-8256 |
Ortaz Sharp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals violates the party-presentation principle |
| 21-8175 |
Adrian Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals due-process government-objection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-jurisdiction sua-sponte sua-sponte-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals may sua sponte raise an alleged inadequacy of its own Certificate of Appealability after the parties have fully briefed t… |
| 21-8147 |
John P. Tomkins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion |
Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.C. … |
| 21-8098 |
Rocky Christian v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment |
Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738… |
| 21-1545 |
Allen Whitaker v. District of Columbia Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process gun-rights license-revocation standing vagueness |
Can the government render moot a fully briefed appeal challenging the denial of a license to carry a pistol by granting the license — though not confe… |
| 21-1541 |
Quannah L. Harris v. Jerry Biddle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-limitations standing |
Does Rule 4(a)(6) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure limit equitable relief as it is part of the broad powers granted to the Federal Courts? |
| 21-8072 |
Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7967 |
Jairo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute |
Can a defendant procedurally default a claim that the court lacked jurisdiction to imprison him under an unconstitutional statute? |
| 21-7972 |
Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in affirming the post-conviction court's denial of my post-conviction petition for relief |
| 21-7962 |
Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability, which deprives the petitioner of a direct appeal from the … |
| 21-7938 |
Larry Wayne Kimes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion rule-52 |
Should federal appeals courts require district courts to explain their opinions and orders in sufficient detail to aid in appeals? |
| 21-1468 |
Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion party-presentation sineneng-smith standing sua-sponte |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation |
| 21-7932 |
Sameer Muhammad v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-constitution judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction mandate trial-court-authority |
Whether the trial court was without jurisdiction to enter an order reinstating the previous order vacating offense under double jeopardy principle des… |
| 21-7895 |
Antoine Mayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
Whether it was error for the Second Circuit to deny Mayes the right to file an appeal or collaterally attack his conviction in light of the Supreme Co… |
| 21-7875 |
Freya D. Pearson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-right direct-appeal due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-deficiency notice-of-withdrawal notice-requirement prosecutorial-misconduct tax-deficiency |
Right To Counsel |
| 21-7882 |
In Re Lin Ouyang |
|
2022-05-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals court-rules exceptional-circumstances final-judgment finality-of-judgment frivolous-appeal mandamus statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to rule the motion for reconsideration |
| 21-1442 |
In Re Adriano Kruel Budri |
|
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing |
Did the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err by dismissing for want of prosecution a pending Appellant's Opening Brief filed i… |
| 21-7873 |
Charlie Branner, Jr. v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process georgia-appeals-court motion-for-reconsideration service-of-order service-of-process state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Was the Georgia Supreme Court's denial of the writ of certiorari error when the Georgia Appeals Court failed to serve all parties with the order dismi… |
| 21-7765 |
Rafael Lora v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence judicial-review standing |
Whether the Appeals Court erred in denying, neglecting, avoiding, and failing to document the appellants' submitted evidence |
| 21-7738 |
Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7692 |
Manuel Geraldo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petitioner-rights procedural-fairness |
Whether a Court of Appeals Paying Lipservice in denying a COA violates the princples of Due-Process |
| 21-7654 |
Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. |
California |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review |
Whether the California Supreme Court erred when it denied petitioners' request for review on the summary denial of petitioners' writ of mandate and pr… |
| 21-7630 |
Mickey Roy Anderson, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-split criminal-law deliberation first-degree-murder mens-rea premeditation |
Whether a mere matter of seconds suffice as premeditation for first degree murder |
| 21-7552 |
Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability |
| 21-7482 |
Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception |
Whether the United States Supreme Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the exception to a criminal defendant's valid w… |
| 21-7493 |
Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing |
Does appellant prove exemption from certificate of appealability? |
| 21-7422 |
Edward Shane West-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access delegated-authority due-process government-authority in-forma-pauperis judicial-review standing tax |
Where does Charles P. Rettig and his employee's that are on his staff get the Delegated Authority to question the Plaintiff Edward Shane WestEl regard… |
| 21-7383 |
Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho… |
| 21-7360 |
Marc N. Greenberg v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fundamental-fairness notice-of-appeal supervised-release |
Whether the technical requirements of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c)(1)(B) trump an individual's due process rights |
| 21-7343 |
Harry Hueston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness |
Whether it was error for the Second Circuit to deny Huestion the right to file an appeal or COA when timeliness was the result of facts beyond his con… |
| 21-7347 |
Anthony Phillips v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Does the legal standard for equitable tolling apply to the one-year deadline for filing a notice of appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c) |
| 21-7240 |
Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Did the lower courts erroneously employ the wrong legal standard? |
| 21-7203 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael Schwab |
Oregon |
2022-02-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
adverse-judgment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default service-of-notice service-of-process standing |
Was it justified for the appellate commissioner to dismiss Petitioner's appeal |
| 21-7123 |
John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction record-keeping records standing |
Can the Supreme Court of Florida rule on whether to accept jurisdiction on a case which has no records? |
| 21-7110 |
Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-7102 |
Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-1115 |
In Re Wanda Bowling |
|
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review |
Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues a failure to execute duties or abuse of discretion? |
| 21-6975 |
David James Lola v. Rick Ramsay, Sheriff, Monroe County, Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration legal-resources prisoner-access |
Does an innocent citizen representing themselves against criminal allegations, also known as pro se, and incarcerated prior to trial have a due proces… |
| 21-6961 |
Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioner abandoned, through failure to brief, a separate claim that he is subject to an illeg… |
| 21-6958 |
Vorarut Vorasiangsuk v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit formatting-deficiency motion-to-exceed-page-limit motion-to-supplement prisoner-rights pro-se |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion and violated due-process, civil-procedure, pro-se |
| 21-1033 |
Edward Mandel v. White Nile Software, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-procedure discharge due-process judicial-review non-dischargeable-claims settlement-agreement |
Whether the court of appeals erred in declining to allow evidence, witness and expert testimony at trial on the Settlement Agreement |
| 21-6828 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure collateral-relief due-process equal-protection gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-procedure |
Does it tonsure (shear) due process & equal protection for the State (Florida) to summarily 'dismiss as unauthorized' a prison Petitioner's is State w… |
| 21-6791 |
Daryoush Javaheri v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition civil-procedure constitutional-rights crawford-vs-us due-process judicial-review res-judicata spencer-v-kemna spencer-vs-kemna standing |
Did the lower courts fail to apply the 'capable of repetition yet evading review' doctrine? |
| 21-6700 |
Tremaine Rashon Wray v. Dennis Bush, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review sixth-amendment |
whether Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to a fair trial |
| 21-920 |
Kalab D. Willman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete… |
| 21-6673 |
John Beatty v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel smith-v-murray strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Is the standards set forth in Smith v. Murray, 477 U.S. 527, 536 (1986) and Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 396 (1985) the more appropriate test for ap… |
| 21-6662 |
Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming the trial court where evidence is insufficient to rebut the affirmative defense of self-defense beyond a rea… |
| 21-6636 |
Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court |
Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality |
| 21-6637 |
Kenan Ivery v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure application-for-reopening due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions ohio-law procedural-dismissal state-court-of-appeals |
Is a petitioner denied due-process and equal-protection when the state-court-of-appeals procedurally-dismisses his application-for-reopening |
| 21-6579 |
Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-881 |
Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP |
California |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest court-jurisdiction due-process filing judicial-bias procedural-irregularity vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified |
| 21-6508 |
Daniel Jones v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-for-counsel pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the appeal pursuant to 25 U.S.C.§ 1915(e) based solely on the denial of the motion for… |
| 21-6550 |
Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the execution protocol used by the State of Oklahoma violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 21-6553 |
Chad L. Enderle v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process heemstra legal-retroactivity pending-appeals retroactive-application retroactive-availability statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
Do the federal Supreme Court cases require Iowa law to apply full retroactive availability to pending appeals? |
| 21-805 |
Douglas Norberg v. Nevada Center for Dermatology, et al. |
Nevada |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-rights common-law court-rules due-process judicial-precedent precedent stare-decisis unpublished-opinions |
Is Nevada Supreme Court Rule 36 allowing appellate decisions to be unpublished and unable to the cited as precedent a violation of the rule of stare d… |
| 21-816 |
Melvyn Gear v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether other subdivisions of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) require knowledge of collateral law |
| 21-6457 |
Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-6417 |
Mausean Carter v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law |
Whether the lower courts' decision conflicts with an important federal question |
| 21-6351 |
Holly Harvey v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing |
Whether the right to a direct appeal can be waived, diminished or abandoned due to a silent record? |
| 21-6329 |
Steven Blakeney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas… |
| 21-6252 |
Ryder Shane Altman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se |
Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f… |
| 21-6243 |
Richard Barnhart, Jr. v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial ohio-appellate-court search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Is a Petitioner denied his due process rights when the Ohio Appellate Court applies an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in reg… |
| 21-694 |
Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure business-interruption certification-motion civil-rights due-process federal-state-relations insurance-contract insurance-contract-law judicial-discretion standing state-court-certification supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Did the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion in denying certification of novel questions of state insurance law to the state's highest court? |
| 21-648 |
Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that Petitioner's post-judgment motion to intervene for the sole purpose of filing a petition for certior… |
| 21-6139 |
Yency Nuñez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation |
Whether proof of jurisdictional facts is an element of an MDLEA offense |
| 21-601 |
Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. Amy Berman Jackson, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-injunction-act appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irs judicial-review pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing |
Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen… |
| 21-578 |
John Raynor v. Dennis Walker, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection internal-affairs-doctrine nebraska-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Equal Protection Clause circumscribe the Nebraska Supreme Court's discretion to disregard a Color of Law adjudication? |
| 21-5999 |
Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the subs… |
| 21-5995 |
Christopher Emory Cramer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure conference-in-chambers due-process eighth-amendment federal-rule federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure-43 fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding record-completion record-on-appeal sixth-amendment |
whether-an-unrecorded-conference-is-a-hearing-or-trial-under-federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) |
| 21-5961 |
David K. Horsley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure |
Whether the holding in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26(B)(1) which requires a defendant to prove ineffective assistance … |
| 21-545 |
Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification recusal standing |
Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen… |
| 21-523 |
Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification |
Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the dis… |
| 21-510 |
PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and raised in the appellate briefing to such an e appellate-procedure appellate-review argument-abandonment civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court issue-preservation judicial-review legal-briefing merits-determination waiver |
Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised… |
| 21-5916 |
Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-5895 |
In Re David Angel Sifuentes |
|
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure banister-v-davis case-precedent constitutional-provisions judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition rule-21 rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion sixth-circuit-jurisdiction |
Is the Sixth Circuit required to docket Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus and apply Banister v. Davis to Petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion? |
| 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 |
| 21-5818 |
Cynthia Lozano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judgment judgment-amendment legal-rights notice-of-appeal time-to-file |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly split from the well-established rule of the Court and other Circuits |
| 21-5785 |
Gregory Albert Darst v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights coram-nobis due-process irs-records judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing |
Does a pattern and practice exist whereby appellate courts refuse to adjudicate every issue presented by the Class of unrepresented litigants appealin… |
| 21-5778 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review |
Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as its ow… |
| 21-5761 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael J. Buseman PC, et al. |
Oregon |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
adverse-parties appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal due-process jurisdiction pro-se-litigation service-of-process standing |
Was the Appellate Commissioner correct in determining that Petitioner needed to have served Respondents as 'adverse parties' to the appeal? |
| 21-5762 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. City of Eugene Police Department, et al. |
Oregon |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-standing oregon-supreme-court service-of-process standing |
Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing the appeal on jurisdictional grounds |
| 21-5764 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Roberto Rios, et al. |
Oregon |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-parties appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-review service-of-process standing |
Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in denying the application for appellate court filing fees? |
| 21-5750 |
Richard A. Waite v. Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility |
New Hampshire |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure bar-regulations civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ethical-rules judicial-standards lawyer-conduct legal-ethics professional-responsibility standing |
Whether the conflict of interest between a public defender's office and its appellate division violates a defendant's constitutional right to effectiv… |
| 21-422 |
Steven Hatton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective-assistance-o… |
| 21-5623 |
Felix Roberts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-rehearing procedural-timeline recusal rehearing time-limits |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its handling of the petitioner's appeal |
| 21-5580 |
Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-question judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions… |
| 21-5573 |
Richard M. Miller v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction standing writ-of-certiorari |
Did The Intermediate Appellate Court Of Special Appeals Of Maryland Err When Denying Petitioner His Absolute Constitutional Right To An Appeal Or Bela… |
| 21-5555 |
Ross Allen Hartwell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdictional-limits jury legal-interpretation sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court's decision in Washington v. Deleon, 568 U.S. 068 (2014) allow lower courts to violate an individual's right to a fair and impar… |
| 21-301 |
Mario Lamont Sims v. Bank of New York |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment first-impression judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-openness judicial-transparency judicial-tyranny |
Whether the conduct of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals was so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the anonymous three judge p… |
| 21-5468 |
Fredrick Mackie v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-appeal due-process in-forma-pauperis knowing-and-intelligent-waiver pro-se-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel |
Whether a court must ascertain that a defendant-appellant's decision to abandon a criminal appeal is knowing and intelligent |
| 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 … |
| 21-229 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York |
Indiana |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-review takings |
Whether the Indiana courts violated Newman's due process rights by awarding $167,437.50 in appellate attorney fees against him without affording him C… |
| 21-5378 |
Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Is a capital sentence invalid when the prosecutor leads the jury to believe the judge has already decided the defendant should be sentenced to death? |
| 21-5343 |
Jimmie Washington, aka Jim Washington v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure cheney-standard cheney-test civil-procedure immediate-relief injunction injunctive-relief judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition stay writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a court of appeals failure to grant a first and second amended petition for writ of mandamus conflicts with this court and other court of appe… |
| 21-5337 |
Garrett McElveen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics |
Whether the Sixth District Appellate Court of Illinois erred in finding that the defendant's original public defender became the victim's attorney, th… |
| 21-158 |
Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment |
Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 and elucidate the constitutional and statutory boundar… |
| 21-5292 |
Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. |
California |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-bias recusal summary-adjudication writ-proceeding |
Did the California Court of Appeal justices' failure to recuse themselves from deciding the appeal of the final judgment violate the Due Process Claus… |
| 21-5243 |
Charles Givens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review unelaborated-opinion |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in issuing an unelaborated opinion denying a certificate of appealability after denial of a COA by… |
| 21-5214 |
Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36, which allows a m… |
| 21-5188 |
Malik Nasir v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation ninth-circuit standing third-circuit |
Should the Ashrict court's denial of the defendant's motion for payment of attorney's fees be reversed by the Third Circuit? |
| 21-5157 |
Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is a lesser-included-offense of an unconstitutional-statute authorized by federal-statute |
| 21-5074 |
Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief? |
| 21-5061 |
Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide a criminal defendant with a meaningful opp… |
| 20-1823 |
K. S. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-timeframe due-process good-cause notice-of-appeal procedural-fairness state-supreme-court |
Whether a due process violation under the 14th Amendment exists when a State Supreme Court refuses to permit the docketing of a late notice of appeal |
| 20-8477 |
Stephen Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release |
Whether the Second Circuit wrongly dismissed petitioner's appeal prematurely as moot before allowing him the opportunity to show that his appeal meets… |
| 20-1792 |
Patricia Earnest, et al. v. Joann Ellison, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process due-process-clause issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court |
Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter… |
| 20-1793 |
Aura Moody, on Behalf of Her Minor Child, J. M. v. National Football League |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-amend procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the court had authority to dismiss the appeal without giving the petitioner opportunity to present evidence and be heard on the merits |
| 20-8343 |
Joseph Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing |
Questions Presented |
| 20-1754 |
Lawrence Joey Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-argument prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt |
Is it objectionable for a prosecutor to argue to the jury that a lack of evidence does not give rise to a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-8319 |
John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-counsel direct-appeal due-process florida-bar-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation plea-bargaining torture |
Can same criminal counsel misrepresenting defendant in the same L.T. case, and other cases in the trial court documenting instances of 'torture' to in… |
| 20-8281 |
Dominic Franza v. James Stinson, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure discretion judicial-procedure legal-precedent mandate-recall recall-of-mandate second-circuit |
Was it an abuse of discretion for the Second Circuit to deny Petitioner's Recall of the Mandate motion |
| 20-1710 |
Zafar Bakhramovich Yadigarov v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-writ appellate-procedure coram-nobis delay due-process judicial-discretion legal-diligence legal-standards procedural-standard sound-reasons writ-of-error |
What constitutes a legally sufficient standard of diligence for pursuing coram-nobis-relief |
| 20-8196 |
William Severs v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error right-to-counsel supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court |
Whether the Decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the District of New Jersey were contrary to the United States S… |
| 20-8161 |
Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion for release on own recognizance pending appeal |
| 20-1658 |
Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor |
First Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion appellate-procedure civil-procedure department-of-labor federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure non-waiver-mandate sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the First Circuit lack subject-matter-jurisdiction to rule while an earlier-filed Sarbanes-Oxley matter with identical causes of action is not yet… |
| 20-8123 |
Verlan Perez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal precedential-ruling |
Can an appeals court deny a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who has shown that the district court ignored precedential rulings from this … |
| 20-8131 |
Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements |
CERTIORARI IS APPROPRIATE WHERE THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE QUESTIONS… |
| 20-8108 |
Roy Lee Dykes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal? |
| 20-8012 |
Jack Vo v. California |
California |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law judicial-review public-interest standing supreme-court-discretion supreme-court-review voting-rights |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review a case of public importance that was denied consideration by the lower courts |
| 20-7968 |
Charles Ahumada v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-defendants direct-appeal en-banc-review panel-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-provisions |
Should the constitutional right to counsel exist for petitions for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in a Circuit Court, after an adverse opinion … |
| 20-1553 |
Reiyn Keohane v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process gender-dysphoria mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing vacatur |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated where the FDC, after pre… |
| 20-7954 |
David Armando Butler v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process florida-district-court standing trial-court written-order |
Whether the Florida District Court of Appeal denied the petitioner due process in failing to grant him a direct appeal on the merits by virtue of the … |
| 20-7932 |
Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers |
Does Wilson v. Sellers permit federal habeas court to assign 'implicit' factual findings to state court order when applying 2254(d)'s limitations on r… |
| 20-7933 |
Erika Jacobs v. 35 West Apartments |
Oklahoma |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-court judgment-reconsideration judicial-review post-trial-motion standing state-court supreme-court-jurisdiction trial-court-decision |
Whether the Supreme Court erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal |
| 20-7871 |
Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record |
Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction |
| 20-7877 |
Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington |
Whether the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability |
| 20-1477 |
Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-21 |
Denied |
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appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing |
Did the district court lack jurisdiction due to fraud upon the court? |
| 20-7795 |
Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri |
| 20-1456 |
Walter Osborne v. Douglas E. Kellogg, et al. |
Florida |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure change-of-venue civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-bias legal-review procedural-fairness recusal standing venue |
Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a change of venue due to bias and impartiality |
| 20-7733 |
In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer |
|
2021-04-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mandamus unlawful-detention |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the court of appeals refused to adjudicate his case without reasons |
| 20-7753 |
In Re Derrick Adrian Johnson |
|
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing |
Whether the appellate court erred in disregarding the noted issue on standing appeal, can the appellants request a writ of mandamus of the Supreme Cou… |
| 20-7734 |
Imeh U. Affiah v. Texas Southmost College, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process fabricated-evidence judicial-review legal-review procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts erred in relying solely on a summary judgment report without addressing all documents and concerns raised by the plaintiff |
| 20-1417 |
Miguel Estivill, et ux. v. Philip Von Kahle |
Florida |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing fraud-allegations judicial-conduct judicial-duty judicial-review motion-for-rehearing standing |
Where the 3DCA neglected their prime duty to Rule by affirming the Trial Court's order which was in clear violation of R. Jud. Admin. '2.215(f) and Fl… |
| 20-7688 |
Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court |
Can a state's procedural default rule preclude a federal court from reviewing a defendant's federal constitutional claims? |
| 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 … |
| 20-1389 |
Kaboni Savage v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-barriers record-on-appeal record-reconstruction statement-of-proceedings supplemental-record third-circuit transcript |
Whether the Third Circuit properly held—in conflict with decades of federal practice endorsing flexible procedures to assemble a complete record on ap… |
| 20-7618 |
Krystal Alexander-Jasmin v. Santa Monica Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-witness governmental-immunity judicial-review separation-of-powers standing |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in its dissent from well-established Constitutional and case law? |
| 20-7602 |
Bienvenido Rodriguez, Jr. v. Ulli Klemm, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-representation judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process settlement-agreement standing |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in summarily affirming the district court's order, dismissing plaintiff Rodriguez's a… |
| 20-7597 |
In Re Gary Peel |
|
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue |
| 20-7570 |
David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment |
When a court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat… |
| 20-7541 |
Billian Jo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mee Jin-Jo v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure clerk-authority due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion judicial-oversight summary-order |
Whether the Second Circuit Clerk's authority regarding Summary Orders is appropriate under FRAP |
| 20-7480 |
Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard |
Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte raise a habeas defense that a state abandons on appeal |
| 20-7376 |
Howard E. Martin, III v. Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis legal-access standing systemic-racism |
Where are the Justices, Honorable Seer, who is sentencing Petitioner denied an opportunity to present Petitioner's defense, failed to avail the Petiti… |
| 20-7306 |
Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedural unreasonableness |
| 20-7308 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance post-conviction-motion right-to-appeal sentencing-judge-advisement |
Are New York's criminal appellate procedures deficient or prejudicial to due process? |
| 20-7310 |
Derrick Arnold Johnson v. Raybon C. Johnson, Jr., Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA) articulated by this Court in cases such |
| 20-7320 |
Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
Washington |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the appellate court must apply de novo review where the trial judge failed to make specific findings on the prosecution's justifications for o… |
| 20-1207 |
Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive |
Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a 'second or successive' petition under the Antite… |
| 20-7294 |
James Peter Sabatino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's appeal as moot |
| 20-7296 |
Dane Schrank v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum oral-argument reasoned-decision sentencing-guidelines standing |
Must Circuit Courts provide reasoned decisions to deny parties oral argument under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2)? |
| 20-7288 |
Nazari Vasilich Cam v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment halbert-v-michigan indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sua-sponte-appointment swenson-v-bosler |
Whether a state appellate court must appoint counsel sua sponte for an indigent criminal defendant who represents himself at trial, files a notice of … |
| 20-7269 |
Antonio U. Akel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion standing |
Whether the district court erred in denying a Rule 60(b) motion to reopen a final judgment denying habeas corpus relief, where the denial of the Rule … |
| 20-1188 |
Marilynn Thomason v. Beneficial Financial I Inc. |
Idaho |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1956 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure constitutional-authority court-records due-process equal-protection idaho-appellate-rule-28 judicial-discretion |
Whether any State Supreme Court, state appellate court, state district court and/or any clerk of such court has the constitutional and statutory autho… |
| 20-7196 |
Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services |
Virginia |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process |
| 20-7180 |
William Hugh Wilson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial sixth-circuit wilson-case |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Wilson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Granting Relief |
| 20-7182 |
Anton Tuomi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest faretta-rights faretta-v-california guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel waiver-of-rights |
Whether the petitioner was denied his right to counsel |
| 20-7184 |
Mitchell Wagner v. Archie D. Scarborough, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis legal-complexity legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing |
Whether the failure of an appellate court to recognize an already approved and accepted in forma pauperis status violates the petitioner's constitutio… |
| 20-1117 |
Philip Jay Fetner v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-matters chapter-conversion conflicts-among-federal-courts constitutional-mandate constitutional-mandates equitable-mootness jurisdictional-deadline national-legal-standard supervisory-role timing-of-conversion-order |
Should the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' invocation of equitable-mootness foreclosing Petitioner's appeal of the Bankruptcy Court's denial of an ex… |
| 20-7132 |
Roy Lee Dykes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal? |
| 20-1090 |
Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection |
Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judicial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Circui… |
| 20-7100 |
Ryan Detrell Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-variance |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Imposition of an 'Alternate Variance Sentence' Which Was Designed To Insulate The … |
| 20-7013 |
In Re William M. Windsor |
|
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdiction remand removal removal-and-remand standing texas-courts |
Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand? |
| 20-7012 |
Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith |
Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of… |
| 20-1024 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. |
Kentucky |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigation rule-11-sanctions rule-12-dismissal sanctions standing |
whether-trial-court-construed-complaint-favorably |
| 20-6967 |
Justin Loper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the appeal where the conviction and sentence were unconstitutional because Hobbs Act robbery is not a… |
| 20-6981 |
Phillip Jay Walter, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-appeal pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment venue |
Is an Appellate Court duty bound to ensure that an Appellant - whether Represented or Pro Se - is afforded a full, fair, and meaningful appeal |
| 20-6917 |
Frank McAfee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons |
Did the Fifth Circuit fail to follow its own law and that of other circuits when it dismissed Mr. McAfee's appeal alleging ineffective assistance beca… |
| 20-6932 |
Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6945 |
Robert White v. Kubotek Corporation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) timeliness timely-filing |
Does the act of mailing a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion for reconsideration in time for normal US Mail Second Day delivery to the US Di… |
| 20-6950 |
In Re John Poullard |
|
2021-01-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Can the United States District Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Clerk of Court refuse to file my FRCP(60)(B)(4) motion for relief from the 2-1 decision ju… |
| 20-6877 |
In Re William M. Windsor |
|
2021-01-14 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-law jurisdiction remand removal texas-courts |
Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand? |
| 20-6883 |
Christopher Brent Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury? |
| 20-6833 |
Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the appellate court has a constitutional duty to state its reasons for denying a petition for a writ of certiorari? |
| 20-6812 |
Keith McCoy v. Michael Atherton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inter-prison-transfer involuntary-treatment liberty-interest mental-health prison-transfer pro-se-representation state-law stigma |
Did the Appeals Court err in its decision regarding McCoy's transfer to a mental health facility? |
| 20-6755 |
Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6765 |
Kevin Wayne Dickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-sufficiency standard-of-review state-court-review |
Whether the Fifth Court of Appeal committed error in concluding that the appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim could not be reviewed on … |
| 20-6721 |
Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated? |
| 20-6696 |
La Verne Koenig v. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-precedent due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit pro-se-litigation state-rights |
Does the Federal Rule [Fed. R. Civ. Pro. Rule 4] significantly affect the result of a litigation for a Federal Court to disregard a law of a State tha… |
| 20-6707 |
Cary Lee Peterson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judgment procedural-irregularity standing transcripts |
Whether the court erred in issuing an unpublished opinion without including the 'Bill of Costs' or 'Attorney's Fees' or 'Costs of Appellate Procedure'… |
| 20-847 |
Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority |
Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs |
| 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… |
| 20-6588 |
Kenneth Scott Gordon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-adversarial-testing prosecutions-case sixth-amendment |
Should a certificate of appealability issue due to ineffective assistance of appellate counsel? |
| 20-6469 |
Hector Valentine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in not addressing conduct rendered non-criminal by an intervening Supreme Court decision |
| 20-6457 |
Phillip Watkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hybrid-representation pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing supplemental-brief |
Whether the appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion to dismiss court-appointed counsel and allow him to submit pro se supplemental bri… |
| 20-6403 |
Casey Mattingly v. Duval County Jail, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial summary-judgment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in dismissing the Plaintiff's appeal, demonstrating a violation of the Plaintiff's constitutional rights unde… |
| 20-6404 |
Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to the alleged misconduct of the court and prosecution during his criminal trial |
| 20-692 |
Rosemary Webster, et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., aka Fresenius Medical Care North America |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure bias civil-procedure due-process fundamental-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias prejudice standard-of-review tribunal-neutrality |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment that violated the Petitioner's fundamental rights by supporting an opinion that (I) rep… |
| 20-6354 |
Richard A. Poplawski v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fee-provisions fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act standing |
Can courts strategically exempt litigants from the law to thwart test cases? |
| 20-619 |
R. S., et al., Individually and on Behalf of Their Son, A. S. v. Board of Education Shenendehowa Central School District, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure autism civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limitations |
Whether an appellate court may sua sponte dismiss an appeal |
| 20-6252 |
David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28-USC-2244(d)(1)(A) when Ohio-Rules-of-Appellate-Procedure prohibit the only remedy rais… |
| 20-611 |
Robert J. Doyle v. Jacqueline M. Vigilante |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
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access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process judicial-procedure procedural-due-process right-to-sue |
Whether the right to sue, right of access to courts, and procedural due process require a court of appeals to address and resolve every issue raised o… |
| 20-6234 |
Karen Moynihan v. West Chester Area School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process endrew-f-v-douglas-cty-sch-dist individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review special-education standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit third-circuit-court |
Did the United States District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disregard this Honorable Court's Opinion on the Individuals with Disabilities Ed… |
| 20-562 |
John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal |
Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad… |
| 20-6144 |
David Allen Kuntz v. California |
California |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure coercion confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights personal-autonomy psychological-evaluation trial-counsel |
Whether appellant's waiver of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments was not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary |
| 20-545 |
Barbara D. Terrell v. John Lewis Renner, II |
West Virginia |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-assets notice privileges-immunities property |
Whether the domestic-relations-exception applies to property rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-6052 |
Donald R. Conway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law-conflict circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-default |
Did the Court of Appeals err or abuse its discretion |
| 20-479 |
David C. Shinn v. Ryan Robert Baker |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure case-transformation civil-procedure gvr judicial-restraint ninth-circuit party-presentation sineneng-smith summary-reversal |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violated the principle of party presentation |
| 20-5934 |
Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error |
Whether a United States Court of Appeal's has decided an important question of federal law that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court |
| 20-5919 |
Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-upon-court judicial-conduct standing void-judgment |
Is non-judicial conduct/actions by judges subject to due-process protection? |
| 20-431 |
John L. Corrigan, Sr. v. Grant County, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte summary-judgment |
Was Corrigan's U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process violated? |
| 20-5916 |
Veronica Delph v. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law due-process issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court |
Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter… |
| 20-409 |
Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation |
Whether debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation |
| 20-5832 |
Damon Graham v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused its discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5826 |
Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the principle of party presentation by raising and deciding an issue sua sponte in petitioner's habeas appeal |
| 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? |
| 20-311 |
Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction |
Whether the Appellants' 14th Amendment rights were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees |
| 20-312 |
Texas Brine Company, LLC, et al. v. Rodd Naquin, Clerk, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit |
Louisiana |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process geographical-bias judicial-discretion judicial-procedure panel-assignment random-selection state-law |
Whether due process requires judges to be assigned to panels randomly from the pool of all the judges available to hear a particular case |
| 20-5625 |
Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals employed the correct legal standard in determining that the Petitioner was not entitled to the issuance of a certificate … |
| 20-278 |
Marguerite Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
11th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction mandate-issuance standing |
Does the 11th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due… |
| 20-5509 |
Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in disposing of the constitutional question presented by habeas petitioner by denying his application for Certifica… |
| 20-5502 |
Kareem K. Kirk, Sr. v. Janet Richardson, et al. |
Florida |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-duties motion-for-rehearing unelaborated-decision |
MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN IT, AND PERFORM JUDICIAL DUTIES WITHOUT BIAS, OR PREJUDICE |
| 20-5524 |
Ranau D. Johnson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-appellate-rule sixth-amendment unit-of-prosecution |
Can the State Court deprive the Appellant the fundamental right to effective assistance of Appellate Counsel? |
| 20-5467 |
Carlos Michael Lopez v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process garza-v-idaho inherent-powers sua-sponte-dismissal waiver |
Does due process require courts to treat at least some claims as unwaiveable on appeal? |
| 20-5431 |
Walter Ackerman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-of-the-case waiver warrantless-search |
Did the Tenth Circuit err under the law-of-the-case doctrine when it permitted the government to raise in a second appeal a claim the government waive… |
| 20-5388 |
Michael J. Buck v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process inherent-powers sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal waiver |
Whether due process requires courts to treat certain claims as unwaivable on appeal, whether due process guarantees a limited right to appeal, and whe… |
| 20-5389 |
Milkiyas Bayisa v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct rebuttal religious-references |
Whether the prosecutor's repeated references to God during rebuttal closing argument constituted highly prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct resulting… |
| 20-5353 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-court-erred-in-dismissing-the-petitioner's-claims-on-the-basis-of-lack-of-standing |
| 20-5316 |
Tyrone Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim discretionary-review due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the Federal District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims contrary to Supreme Court precedent |
| 20-5201 |
Travaris Crawford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability cross-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jennings-v-stephens judicial-procedure |
Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas … |
| 20-81 |
Diana Berber v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process employment en-banc-petition judicial-administration judicial-review rehearing-denial rehearing-en-banc supervisory-jurisdiction wells-fargo |
Did the Eleventh Circuit, by denying Ms. Berber's petitions for rehearing en banc, so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial admini… |
| 20-67 |
Delaney E. Smith, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contradictory-rulings due-process en-banc-panel federal-removal notice-of-appeal racial-discrimination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals forfeited subject matter jurisdiction |
| 20-5149 |
Marcel Malachowski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-claim objective-standard standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-5107 |
Vernon Montgomery v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review court-review due-process judicial-duty legal-argument perjury probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Does a State's appellate court have to address the contentions of its appellant in its opinion? |
| 20-5073 |
Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless |
| 19-8881 |
George A. Foote, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment anders-procedure appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal davis-hatton-procedure direct-appeal due-process state-procedure |
Did the Indiana appellate court overstep its authority in supporting counsel depriving a direct appeal as of right, without following Anders or equal … |
| 19-1446 |
Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'right for the wrong reason' doctrine allow federal appellate courts to violate due process? |
| 19-8852 |
Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera |
California |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights document-access due-process judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing transcript transcript-denial |
Whether dismissal of appeal for refusal of the lower courts to provide designated records and transcripts for appeal constitutes deprivation of civil-… |
| 19-8859 |
Brian A. Maus v. Scott Eckstein, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal client-rights counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance no-merit-brief |
Can appellant counsel withdraw off of the petitioners case, because the petitioner wouldn't agree to allow appellate counsel to file a no-merit brief? |
| 19-1426 |
Paul Pecina v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-proceeding judicial-review standard-of-review supervisory-powers third-circuit third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-v-sierra-pacific-industries |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the lower Western District Court of Pennsylvania depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc… |
| 19-8827 |
David Fowler v. Indymac Bank, FSB, et al. |
New York |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review leave-to-amend motion-for-leave state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal without detailed reasoning |
| 19-8840 |
Darnell Cooper v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion partial-filing-fee prison-litigation-reform-act standing |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by being required to pay a partial filing fee to appeal his civil rights case, when… |
| 19-1419 |
Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer |
Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c… |
| 19-1422 |
Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing |
Is it considered 'misrepresentation' when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entity, b… |
| 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 |
| 19-8784 |
Chester Brown v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lower-court motion-denial standard-of-review |
Did the lower court err when it denied petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability? |
| 19-8758 |
Li Qin, et al. v. 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC, et al. |
California |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice |
Question not identified |
| 19-8724 |
Michael Garry v. Trane Company |
Wisconsin |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure court-procedure evidence-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-procedures mandate-rules mootness newly-discovered-evidence procedural-error structural-error |
whether-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-contravened-appellate-procedure |
| 19-8726 |
Terrance D. Goodman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process eleventh-circuit holmes-v-united-states judicial-discretion standing |
Was the Eleventh Circuit overruled its own precedent of Holmes v. United States, 657 F.2d 1545 (11th Cir. 1981) by assuming an order that conflicts wi… |
| 19-8734 |
In Re Ren Y. Deng |
|
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court genuine-issue jurisdictional-review material-fact material-facts procedural-rule procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Did the district court deviation from procedural rule while there was overwhelming genuine issue of material fact disputed in the record granting the … |
| 19-1359 |
Michelle Dawn Murphy v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
|
an abuse of discretion because it violates the pa and wrong factually about the issue it reached ou which was based on an issue not presented on appe abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process party-presentation sineneng-smith standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit united-states-v-sineneng-smith |
Is the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee City of Tulsa an abuse of discretion? |
| 19-8638 |
Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit review and discredit a previously entered Certified Copy of Order of Remand |
| 19-8639 |
Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit |
Whether a plaintiff-African American male has been denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Caucasian … |
| 19-8585 |
Van Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal prisoner has a right to present an argument based on a change in procedural law on his first motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 19-8563 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes |
Whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question warranting full appellate review rather than summary disposition when a petitioner wi… |
| 19-8560 |
Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-order criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-appeal motion-correction self-representation sentencing transcript transcript-error |
did-court-err-and-abuse-discretion-by-erroneously-quashing-as-untimely-petitioner's-pro-se-appeal |
| 19-8476 |
Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction oklahoma-court post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in their original 3-3-2020, and subsequent 3-4-2020 request for rehearing, decision to refuse jur… |
| 19-8465 |
Earl T. Moore v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness third-circuit timeliness writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that His Petition for a Writ of Hab… |
| 19-1288 |
Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation |
Arizona |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver |
Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter jurisdiction to grant attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review; al… |
| 19-8424 |
José Yeyille v. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure coppedge-v-united-states disputed-facts district-court-review due-process in-forma-pauperis legal-conclusions standing summary-disposition |
Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement ex… |
| 19-8394 |
Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether federal courts have duty to hear 42-usc-1983 action challenging state-court rule |
| 19-8383 |
Luis A. Soro v. Pedro Lopez |
Florida |
2020-05-01 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review material-facts notice notice-requirement property standing summary-judgment trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred in granting summary judgment without providing the appellant the required 10-day notice |
| 19-8365 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
2020-04-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the state court's denial of his peti… |
| 19-8366 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does a district court have subject-matter jurisdiction to decide 41(g) motions for recovery of property that is unrelated to a criminal judgment on ap… |
| 19-8315 |
Todd Michael Vincent v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Is issuance of a certificate of appealability a prerequisite to appealing the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion? |
| 19-8297 |
Leif O'Connell v. Dushan Zatecky |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance insanity-defense plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the Indiana courts erred in affirming the post-conviction court's decision despite the State's procedural default |
| 19-8289 |
Jose Yeyille v. Cecilia M. Altonaga, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-review due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis jury-trial seventh-amendment standing |
Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement ex… |
| 19-8290 |
Robert Taylor v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure procedural-due-process standing |
Did The Circuit Court Abuse Its Discretion? |
| 19-8293 |
Timothy Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot… |
| 19-8161 |
In Re Curtis Smith |
|
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation |
Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation of the gatekeeper standard? |
| 19-8162 |
In Re Curtis Smith |
|
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court-discretion due-process judicial-precedent mandate mandate-recall post-judgment-relief recall seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the Supreme Court of the United States binding precedent case law… |
| 19-8176 |
Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error |
Whether the State of Alabama may impose a state procedural bar rule to preclude a structural error claim |
| 19-8136 |
In Re Lawrence Crawford |
|
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-courts jurisdictional-claims mandamus parties standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Did the petitioner sufficiently establish the right to have the writ of mandamus granted? |
| 19-8144 |
Franco Nicholas Padgett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure concurrent-sentence-doctrine convictions courts-of-appeals federal-postconviction-motions federal-sentences federal-sentencing judicial-review postconviction-motion sentence-challenge sentences |
Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine applies to challenges to federal sentences when there is no challenge to a conviction |
| 19-8108 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea |
Whether the State of New Hampshire's discretionary appellate process is unlawful or unconstitutional, and whether the State has unlawfully infringed u… |
| 19-8109 |
Antonio Bogan v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling threshold-inquiry |
Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) can be denied without an overview of the habeas claims and issues in the request and a general assessment… |
| 19-1156 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Judgment Issued |
|
administrative-adjudication administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review credibility credibility-determination due-process immigration-law judicial-review standard-of-review withholding-of-removal |
Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume an applicant's testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the Board of Immigr… |
| 19-8037 |
Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York |
Connecticut |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-litigation fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-allegations jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the court of Connecticut has acted unreasonably and in clear abuse of its discretion when it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to due process … |
| 19-1129 |
Charles T. Fote v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-opinion judicial-reasoning judicial-review legal-reasoning rehearing supervisory-authority written-opinion |
Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in … |
| 19-7935 |
Dennis Andrew Ball v. City of Marion, Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure beneficiary civil-procedure due-process judicial-review quiet-title real-estate standing supreme-court-jurisdiction trust trust-assets writ-of-certiorari |
Appellant's Standing To Protect Inherited Property |
| 19-7967 |
Kenneth Durant v. Frank Lawrence, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights filing-deadlines habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy procedural-due-process right-to-counsel tolling |
Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of trial counsel and appellate counsel, and whether the petitioner was denied access to the cou… |
| 19-7922 |
Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing |
Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl… |
| 19-7924 |
Shanel Stacz v. ESA Management, LLC, et al. |
California |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-amendments court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction timeliness transfer-petition writ-of-mandate |
Whether the Supreme Court of California erred by not granting and transferring the Appellant's Writ of Mandate of original jurisdiction back to the Co… |
| 19-7926 |
Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. |
California |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure fraud misconduct oral-argument standing appeal appellate-procedure attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct oral-argument standing Where rules of the court provides that oral argume |
Whether refusal of California Court of Appeal to vacate a judgment procured by fraud upon the court violated the right to due-process, civil-procedure… |
| 19-7928 |
Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief |
Whether a state-created delay of uninformed notification that a second amended (corrected sentencing) judgment of conviction had become final and ripe… |
| 19-7930 |
Roderick Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari should be granted to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First Step Act o… |
| 19-7940 |
Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 19-7941 |
Jane Doe v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process pro-se pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodation standing |
Whether the Second Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing the appeal without ruling on the reasonable accommodation reques… |
| 19-7895 |
David Dwayne Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-court-rights appellate-court-orders civil-procedure due-process pro-se-petitions state-appellate-courts access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-petitions state-courts |
Whether the constitutional right of access to court is violated when a state appellate court does not issue a show cause order before holding pro se p… |
| 19-7885 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments… |
| 19-7872 |
Samuel A. Wilder v. William F. Krebs |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit informal-brief motion-to-extend pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-ripeness standing waiver-doctrine |
Whether the court should have assisted this pro se litigant with time to respond to the Defendant's motion to extend time and Defendant's response to … |
| 19-7845 |
Omar Weise v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing |
Did the Circuit apply an improper, too demanding, and unduly burdensome COA standard? Should a COA be granted in this case? |
| 19-7796 |
Kevin T. Hawkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit vindictive-prosecution |
Does the Ninth Circuit circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particular when it results in depriving an individual due pr… |
| 19-7772 |
John Lee Barron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review life-sentence |
Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied due process |
| 19-7668 |
Darlene Kay Herran v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 6th-amendment-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process home-detention indigent-client indigent-rights pro-bono-counsel sixth-amendment standing transcript-costs |
Did the Indiana Court of Appeals err by ruling that when a trial court states that pro-bono counsel may be charged for costs of a transcript for an in… |
| 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… |
| 19-7627 |
Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure brady-claim brady-evidence brady-violation capital-case gonzalez-v-crosby ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias kyles-v-whitley ninth-circuit |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's law of implied judicial bias |
| 19-7621 |
Allanah Benton v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Did the state and federal courts violate Ms. Benton's right to effective assistance of trial and appellate counsels in violation of U.S. Constitutiona… |
| 19-993 |
Irma Rosas v. Austin Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-procedure dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-interpretation motion-to-reopen |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims when it denied her motion to reopen her appeal, contrary to Federal Rule of Appellate … |
| 19-7556 |
Erika Jacobs v. Maricopa Integrated Health Care System |
Arizona |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure arizona-judiciary citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power judicial-process judicial-review judicial-system regulatory-standards standing state-government state-government-bias |
Whether the Arizona judicial system is biased against the state government |
| 19-7527 |
Marcus Rashawn Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure binding-precedent due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review meaningful-review precedent-rule second-or-successive-2255 second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing |
Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi… |
| 19-7493 |
Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied appeal notice for lack of jurisdiction |
| 19-7483 |
Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing |
Whether the District of California's rules satisfy the First Amendment's right to access the courts |
| 19-7405 |
Francienna B. Grant v. Marshall L. Williams |
New Jersey |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights damages-denial due-process evidence ex-parte-evidence judicial-fairness legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether a Pro Se litigant can prevail in a Legal malpractice case on liability after having suffered damages and be denied damages incurred |
| 19-936 |
Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner |
Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no 'certificate of appeal… |
| 19-904 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy collateral-order collateral-orders constitutional-protection criminal-complaints defamation malpractice pa-constitution us-constitution |
questions-presented |
| 19-905 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order constitutional-protection defamation due-process malpractice standing |
Whether claims of malpractice, civil-conspiracy, or defamation would be irreparably lost if this appeal is not heard |
| 19-7385 |
Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel |
When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con… |
| 19-7276 |
Ketut Pujayasa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness |
Did the district court and appellate court err in concluding that the petitioner's Rule 4(a)(6) motion, which was sent on February 20, 2019, and recei… |
| 19-7266 |
Mickie Stone v. Centene Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11-usc-1915-e-2-b appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-complaint eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis standing statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether the Court in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying my motion for leave to proceed on appeal in forma pa… |
| 19-7229 |
Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. |
Tennessee |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process |
Does the Petitioner have a property interest in Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the Right to relief secured by the 14… |
| 19-7163 |
Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether federal courts have an affirmative duty to exercise jurisdiction over a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging a state court rule |
| 19-7170 |
Dante Taylor v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin… |
| 19-7150 |
Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching |
Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to reveal indisputably false testimony and coaching to the 4-year-old child who gave the false testimony |
| 19-7117 |
Vance Edward Ingram, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-power plea-agreement plea-bargaining waiver |
Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement? |
| 19-7135 |
Hye-Young Park v. Charles Secolsky, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure campus-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation sexual-violence standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's treatment of pro se litigants was correct |
| 19-7136 |
Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Ms. McClaflin's motion to dismiss the indictment on the b… |
| 19-7090 |
Warren Evans, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure attorneys-fees copyright-law copyright-registration effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure flores-ortega
19-708" ineffective-assistance-of-counsel infringement notice-of-appeal publication-status registration-accuracy right-to-counsel roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment Whether a court can invalidate a copyright registr |
Whether application of the deadline for filing a Notice of Appeal under the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure violates the appellant's right to cou… |
| 19-7073 |
Anthony Thomas v. Kenmark Ventures, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure bankruptcy-law civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-fraud mandate mandate-recall supreme-court-precedent void-judgment |
Did the Ninth Circuit commit error by failing to recall the mandate based upon this Court's intervening decision in Lamar, Archer & Cotrin. LLP v. App… |
| 19-7033 |
Ali Darwich v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 district-court district-court-discretion due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) sixth-circuit-appeal standing |
Whether the panel erred in construing Darwich's motion as a motion for reconsideration under local rule 7.1(h)(1) and remanding the case back to the d… |
| 19-6985 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits |
Whether RLUIPA's 'appropriate relief' clause encompasses the requested relief of a trial on the merits |
| 19-6994 |
Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) |
| 19-6955 |
Shondell J. Paul v. New York |
New York |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede… |
| 19-749 |
William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents |
Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 1) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that … |
| 19-6903 |
Alvin R. Barney, II v. Escambia County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure failure-to-prosecute final-judgment judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal premature-appeal sanction sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit had the authority or subject matter jurisdiction to dismiss a premature notice of appeal as a sanction for failure to pro… |
| 19-6874 |
In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard |
|
2019-12-06 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1915 abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-power pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes three-strikes-provision |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in refusing to file the petitioner's motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal |
| 19-6827 |
Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit denied Dorcelus' motion for issuance of a certificate of appealability |
| 19-6780 |
Darius Kinney v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-box-rule ohio-appellate-rules sixth-amendment time-limitation time-limits |
Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated? |
| 19-6790 |
Mark Gerth v. Warden, Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reopened-appeal right-to-counsel |
Whether Petitioner had a constitutional right to counsel |
| 19-6756 |
Rene Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellant-notification appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-notification dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure legal-procedure notice rule-42(b) rule-42b standing |
Does the plain language of Rule 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure require counsel, when retained, to notify Appellant of dismissal? |
| 19-6759 |
James A. Lackey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability |
| 19-6734 |
Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing |
Whether a petitioner who is indigent and unable to afford private counsel is entitled to a court-appointed attorney for a civil proceeding under the D… |
| 19-6712 |
Adam Scott Caward v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline… |
| 19-6696 |
Barbara Myers-McNeil v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-defense language-access right-to-counsel transcript |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint a language translator or interpreter for an indigent … |
| 19-6670 |
Michael Bridge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-639 |
Linda Shao v. Tsan-Kuen Wang |
California |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-procedure california conflicts-of-interest court-disclosure due-process fraudulent-referencing incomplete-records judgment judicial-conflict judiciary-corruption oral-argument-waiver procedural-irregularity record-completeness sixth-district-court-of-appeal |
Does due process require reversal of California Sixth District Court of Appeal's Judgment of June 4, 2019 when the named Justice writing the Judgment … |
| 19-6592 |
Monir George v. Dana Metzger, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial based on the defense counsel's failure to disclose exculpatory evidenc… |
| 19-6540 |
Howard Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure civil-procedure clay-v-united-states criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances final-judgment-rule forgery habeas-corpus indictment standing |
Is a 28 USC SEC. 2255 MOTION premature if filed less than 90 days after the appellate court enters its judgment in accordance with the holdings in Cla… |
| 19-591 |
Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-transparency patent reasoned-opinions rule-of-law summary-affirmation summary-affirmations |
Can a court ever choose to write reasoned opinions for one class of losing appellants and not another under the Due Process and Equal Protection Claus… |
| 19-6534 |
Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict |
Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at trial |
| 19-581 |
Paul Dovin, et ux. v. Kenneth L. Sweitzer, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
|
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders collateral-orders-doctrine due-process judicial-review pennsylvania-supreme-court procedural-doctrine right-to-appeal standing |
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Erred in Denying Petitioners Right to Appeal Under the Collateral Orders Doctrine? |
| 19-6488 |
Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven… |
| 19-6451 |
Lori Zarlenga v. Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals |
Rhode Island |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression mootness mootness-doctrine public-interest public-interest-exception |
Whether the Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by dismissing Petitioner's appeal on the grounds of mootness |
| 19-6430 |
Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing |
Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that… |
| 19-6374 |
Kim Moss v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeal-of-right appellate-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-to-appeal constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-delay right-to-appeal state-court-procedures state-procedures trial-court-error |
Was Petitioner Moss' constitutional right to appeal violated where the trial court failed to reinstate his appeal of right? |
| 19-6401 |
Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 gives the court of appeals error correction power to set aside or reverse a lower court's decision that is clearly inco… |
| 19-6289 |
Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. United S… |
| 19-6259 |
Keino S. Chrichlow v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment-of-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing |
whether-an-indigent-defendant-is-entitled-to-equitable-toll-where-he-was-denied-the-right-to-challenge-his-sentence-and-convictions-by-way-of-direct-a… |
| 19-6221 |
George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing |
When a defendant meets the requirements for issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA), is he then entitled to issuance of the certificate? |
| 19-6204 |
James Michael Biela v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and impa… |
| 19-6208 |
Darrell Alan Lussier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court due-process established-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-appeal judicial-precedent precedent right-to-appeal section-2255 |
When a District Court's denial of a §2255 motion is contrary to established precedent, is the Court of Appeals required to grant a certificate of appe… |
| 19-459 |
Texas Brine Company, LLC v. Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC |
Louisiana |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias political-sensitivity random-assignment recusal |
When a litigant presents a colorable claim of judicial-bias, does due-process entitle that litigant to an evidentiary-hearing |
| 19-451 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Jeff McCord, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-of-appellate-procedure-due-p court-clerk-duties default-judgment due-process electronic-filing pro-se-litigation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit incorrectly dismissed the civil action in conflict with existing rules of appellate p… |
| 19-6150 |
Chad M. Cutler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-statements prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review supreme-court-conflict |
Whether the Illinois Appellate Court and Illinois Supreme Court erred in their rulings on the admissibility of hearsay statements, the proper standard… |
| 19-6126 |
Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention |
Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger-Abstention conflicts with the Supreme-Court's-decision-in-SP… |
| 19-6098 |
Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in staying the appeal and requiring the appellant to seek relief from the automatic stay in the Title… |
| 19-6113 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines… |
| 19-6087 |
Atif Babar Malik v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton |
Do courts lack subject matter jurisdiction when alleged conduct falls outside the scope of the charged statute? |
| 19-412 |
Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. |
Maine |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law |
Whether the Constitution requires remand when an appellate court overturns its own precedent |
| 19-6015 |
Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5990 |
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… |
| 19-5930 |
Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing |
Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that… |
| 19-335 |
Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal |
Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the rehearing phase without n… |
| 19-320 |
Harold Wade, et ux. v. Kreisler Law, P.C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure functional-equivalence jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules mandatory-claim-processing-rules notice-of-appeal petition-for-appeal petition-for-permission-to-appeal |
whether the 'functional equivalence' doctrine applies to nonjurisdictional mandatory claim processing rules requiring a petition for permission to app… |
| 19-5885 |
Olufemi S. Collins v. Mark Gonzalez, et al. |
California |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure california-appellate-law california-law california-rule-of-court civil-procedure court-rule due-process motion-to-recall parties procedural-dictate remittitur standing |
Whether the Appellant's motion to recall remittitur and reinstate appeal should be denied contrary to California Rule of Court 8.54 |
| 19-5869 |
Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5875 |
Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5846 |
Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure |
whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution |
| 19-5809 |
Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich |
Whether the petitioner was denied his remedy by due course of law due to disparate conclusions by Kansas courts on the retroactive application of Stat… |
| 19-5814 |
Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion deferred to the state court's finding that counsel was not ineffective under Strickland, despite counsel's failure… |
| 19-280 |
Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion for summary judgment dismissing the right to a jury trial? |
| 19-5784 |
Michael Villecco v. Daniel W. Stark, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process interlocutory-appeal standing |
Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying the appointment of counsel in civil cases |
| 19-5708 |
Relonzo Phillips v. DeKalb County Assistant Public Defenders, et al. |
Georgia |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-question-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner property-rights standing takings |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim under the Takings Clause of the Fifth… |
| 19-5695 |
Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Does the denial of an 'application' alone constitute a decision 'on the merits' that warrants AEDPA deference? |
| 19-5683 |
Isaiah Jermale Legall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-deadline appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion standing time-limit |
Whether equitable tolling applies to the time limit to appeal set forth in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)(1)(A) |
| 19-5648 |
Desmond Justin Murray v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review |
Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w… |
| 19-5552 |
Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether Section 5 actually violates the First Amendment? |
| 19-5579 |
Sebastian Eccleston v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether § 2244(b)(3)(D)'s 30-day deadline for deciding motions for authorization is binding or merely advisory |
| 19-175 |
Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction |
Does the Eighth Circuit's judgement and PER CURIAM AFFIRMANCE using Local Rule 47B AFFIRMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT OPINION of Case No. 18-2447 satis… |
| 19-5501 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel |
Whether the court should vacate the opinion of the 4th Circuit and remand for further proceedings in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 19-5473 |
Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) |
| 19-5434 |
Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs… |
| 19-5439 |
MacKendy Strachan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-sanctions due-process federal-review judicial-review legal-mail legal-procedure prison standing |
Whether the Court should review the question of a Departure from the usual rules of judicial proceedings on an order of denial of a motion for reconsi… |
| 19-5429 |
Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances |
Whether an appellate court should review de novo or for clear error a district court's finding that a defendant did not voluntarily consent to a searc… |
| 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 |
| 19-5358 |
Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-104 |
Flavio Tamez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack constitutional-effectiveness criminal-defendant-waiver due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jae-lee-v-united-states sentencing-consequences waiver-of-rights |
Whether a criminal defendant's generic waiver of right to appeal or collateral attack can waive ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 19-5269 |
Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5206 |
Christine Sawicky v. AMC Networks Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights copyright-law due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant |
How can a plaintiff win a copyright lawsuit when circuit splits exist throughout the 13 appellate courts? Additionally, how can a circuit split exist … |
| 19-5253 |
Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles |
West Virginia |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order |
Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a Stay … |
| 19-5229 |
Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
Can the hintk Cireuid Courd of App esle dismissed My Lake US Frivelsus With 647. having given Ine opperrutedy 6 presentis documentary evidenze to demo… |
| 19-96 |
Lincoln Rymer v. Robert Lemaster, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing void-judgments |
Whether lower court conduct and inadequate appellate review warrant a GVR with instructions |
| 19-5210 |
Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. |
Georgia |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation |
Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants? |
| 19-86 |
Maria Jordan v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication appellate-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act, as applied to Petitioner by the Fifth Circuit, is unconstitutional |
| 19-5186 |
Mauricio Warner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-court appellate-procedure application certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-ruling procedural-error standing |
Did the Appeal Court err in making a merits ruling on Warner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability and for failure to even consider the app… |
| 19-5142 |
Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err on an important federal question by entering its decision/judgment, which is in conf… |
| 19-5104 |
Maurice Samuel Arrington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights court-records due-process evidence-assessment factual-findings federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-standards legal-review standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Court of Appeals deny prisoners Due Process by Ignoring vital Facts necessary to determining their Pre-COA issues and Merely quoting Black v.… |
| 19-5097 |
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… |
| 19-5079 |
Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred when it held that the trial court admitted Petitioner's sexual acts in Ohio as prior difficulties evidence … |
| 19-5082 |
Julisa Tolentino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review pending-case published-opinion reconsideration remand standing united-states-v-leal vacate |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and the remand for reconsideration in the event that the defendant in the forth… |
| 18-9804 |
Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for \'plain unreasonableness\'? |
| 18-9844 |
Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel |
Whether the trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 14-30 days after… |
| 18-9797 |
Mark Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review procedural-due-process right-of-appeal standing |
Was the petitioner improperly denied his right of appeal? |
| 18-9669 |
Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association |
California |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing |
Whether the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 justices should have recused themselves from the appeal of a judgment against the peti… |
| 18-9623 |
Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-relief asset-freezing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence indigent-defendant |
Whether the courts have abridged the defendant's 14th Amendment due-process, equal-protection rights by disregarding evidence and barring appellate re… |
| 18-1507 |
Augustin Zambrano v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review |
Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a… |
| 18-9510 |
Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction |
| 18A1227 |
Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen |
Missouri |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-review missouri-court supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a state corrections official may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari after a state appellate court's final judgm… |
| 18-9408 |
Freddie J. Hennington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments |
| 18-9384 |
In Re Freya Pearson |
|
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district court dismissed her hab… |
| 18-9392 |
Brent Edward Lovett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-rights debatable due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-counsel jurists-of-reason slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether courts should be required to state reasons and indicate evidence relied upon to protect against arbitrary enforcement |
| 18-9361 |
Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono |
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ… |
| 18-9362 |
Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal |
| 18-1436 |
Ulric Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure disbarment due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervisory-power |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights by disbar… |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness? |
| 18-9249 |
Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit-rules answering-brief appellate-procedure brief-filing civil-procedure deadlines judicial-sanctions motion-for-sanctions notification pro-se-litigation procedural-deadlines sanctions |
Whether the 9th Circuit erred in denying Plaintiff-Appellant's motion for sanctions against Defendant-Appellee for failure to file an answering brief … |
| 18-9264 |
Robert Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-precedent buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisprudence |
DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT WRONGLY APPLY THIS COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE IN BUCK BY FAILING TO GRANT A COA IN THIS MATTER |
| 18-9208 |
Robert Tringham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights core-judicial-functions court-of-appeals due-process habeas judicial-delegation judicial-functions non-judicial-officer procedural-authority remand rule-12.1' 'Does the Court hold that pursuant to rule-22b2 rule-60b6 rule-60b6' 'Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court standing |
Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access to justice |
| 18-1406 |
Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing … |
| 18-9190 |
Parnell Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-denial unlawful-imprisonment |
Whether review should be granted because state court's summary denial of petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking belated direct appeal or reinstat… |
| 18-1402 |
Harold R. Stanley, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-procedure,filing-fees,refunds Can Circuits impose a burden to prove circumstance Can litigants present their case to appellate cour court-administration court-discretion due-process due-process,mandamus,judicial-misconduct,irs,recor irs judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-relief pacer,appellate-procedure,records-on-appeal procedural-due-process record-falsification rule-59-motion supervisory-powers |
When a judge refuses to adjudicate a Rule 59(e) motion alleging misconduct, can mandamus relief be conditioned on proving the refusal itself is 'egreg… |
| 18-9188 |
Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle |
Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente… |
| 18-9150 |
Peter Victor Ayika v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial |
whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal |
| 18-1390 |
Rochell Talley v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process foreclosure notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limits |
Whether the appeal was wrongfully dismissed after the pro se litigant took measurable acts to protect the merits of his appeal after it was erroneousl… |
| 18-9108 |
Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance |
Whether the lower courts erred in failing to order the respondent to show cause and provide indictments, trial transcripts, habeas corpus, and all pro… |
| 18-9119 |
Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Full Faith & Credit Clause, Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the State of Texas from re-prosecuting & re-imprisoning petitioner for an exp… |
| 18-9125 |
Luzetha Wardrick v. Brooks Benton, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court-decision civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-court legal-dispute patent procedural-irregularities standing supreme-court-review takings |
Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this case? |
| 18-9129 |
Delroy T. Booth v. Trevonza Bobbitt, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-fees dismissal docketing-fees due-process eleventh-circuit fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal by stating 'Failed to Pay the Docketing & Filing Fee… |
| 18-1374 |
Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law and different from other circuits by implementing a heightened pleading standard? |
| 18-1380 |
Thomas P. Gannon v. Riverwatch Condominium Owners' Assn., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1927 appeal-procedure appellate-procedure attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal due-process judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-technicality standing |
Whether an attorney's notice of appeal that identifies the judgment being appealed but does not specify the attorney as the party taking the appeal sh… |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit failed to properly apply Title 18 U.S.C. Section 922(e) |
| 18-9049 |
Jackie Madore v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Supreme Court should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law |
| 18-9007 |
Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights |
Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e) not considered a… |
| 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 |
| 18-8917 |
Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Aguilar's certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. Sections 2107, 2253(c)(2) despite cou… |
| 18-8919 |
In Re Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review mandamus procedural-due-process standing |
Does any Court have a legal right to issue a dispositive Order without a detailed explanation about why this decision was reached? |
| 18-8901 |
Daniel H. Jones v. James F. Goodwin, Judge, Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the petitioner's absolute right in filing as well as to appeal his civil action in forma pa… |
| 18-8852 |
Xavier Huron Sanders v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review motion-for-review standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-8863 |
Neville Turnbull v. Glen Johnson, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-process |
Whether a State's highest court errs, and abuses discretion by refusing to remedy a prisoner's miscarriage of justice claim, critical to all parties i… |
| 18-8820 |
Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Did Mr. Deck present grounds for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, thu… |
| 18-8805 |
In Re Andre Rene Scott |
|
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment |
Whether the ruling in Marbury v. Madison still stands |
| 18-8769 |
Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review |
Whether the Supreme Court should review and reverse the First Circuit's holding that an appellant is without recourse under the plain error standard o… |
| 18-8790 |
In Re Steven Michael Backstrom |
|
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access judicial-power mandamus mandate recall-mandate |
Is mandamus the appropriate remedy to compel a circuit court clerk to accept, file, and submit a motion to recall the court's prior mandate? |
| 18-8729 |
Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter |
Whether the ambiguousness of the term 'material' within Title 18 USC 2252A(a)(2)(B) gives unintended breadth to District Courts to accept pleas of gui… |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8622 |
In Re Mark Garrett |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus-petition opinions-below patent reason-for-granting-the-petition rules-involved standing takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles |
| 18-1251 |
Sandy Annabi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing |
Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of … |
| 18-8545 |
Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mailbox rule should apply to bankruptcy filings |
| 18-8589 |
Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California |
| 18-8551 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness |
Whether or not the Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, correctly viewed Appellant's Motion To Dismiss this Appeal, submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules… |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8428 |
Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review |
Should the United States District Court of Colorado have granted the Petitioner Counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing Complaint agains… |
| 18-8363 |
Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal dismissal federal-rules greenlaw-v-united-states gvr in-forma-pauperis neitzke-v-williams party-presentation-rule sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the Second Circuit may dismiss a criminal appeal sua sponte under Neitzke v. Williams and 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) without briefing by any party a… |
| 18-8365 |
Derrick Scott v. Allen Stark, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-filing due-process imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights standing three-strikes |
Whether the middle district Court and Fifth Circuit court of appeals erred in refusing to allow the petitioner to proceed IFP as an indigent prose pri… |
| 18-8358 |
Joel S. Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure brief-denial certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits standing |
Did the Circuit Court err when it denied in part the appellants Combined Opening Brief and Application for Certificate of Appealability on the merits? |
| 18-8331 |
Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error |
Whether a conflict exists between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after deliberations ha… |
| 18-8336 |
London Ettione Dunbar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis |
Should this court grant this petition to determine whether the lower court's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability is at conflict with this … |
| 18-1142 |
Casimir M. Toczylowski v. Samantha Giuliano, et vir |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-procedures appellate-review civil-appeal civil-appeals civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review merits-review property-rights state-appeals state-courts |
Denial of due process in state appellate procedures for civil litigants seeking to vindicate property rights |
| 18-8271 |
Tony Hernandez v. Darlene S. Sims, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-clerk due-process mailing-rule motion-for-stay petition-rejection pro-se pro-se-guideline standing workman's-compensation |
Did a Wisconsin Supreme Court clerk ignore the plus 3-day mailing self-represented rule given to pro-se mailing filer Petitioner Tony Hernandez when h… |
| 18-8144 |
Sami Albra v. Selene Finance, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure injunctive-relief judicial-discretion standing |
Does the 9th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due … |
| 18-8062 |
Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review discretionary-review dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-deference judicial-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence |
Whether memorandum and opinion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, is not in accordance to the law and an abused of discretion |
| 18-8075 |
Godwin Oriakhi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington |
Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi… |
| 18-8097 |
Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review |
Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Mr. Benton's appeal and the Texas Court of Appeals stated that his counsel's actions were below a reaso… |
| 18-8099 |
In Re Henry Lee Bryant |
|
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1654 appellate-procedure collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 1654 by refusing to allow Mr. Bryant to represent himself in the appeal of the collateral proceeding? |
| 18-8029 |
Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Amici (6)IFP |
28-usc-2244(b) amendment anti-gay-animus appellate-procedure appellate-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury juror-bias second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-or-successive-petitions standing |
Could reasonable jurists debate whether a court may permit an amendment to an initial habeas corpus petition, without applying 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)'s l… |
| 18-8081 |
Jared King v. Karen Creed, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights coppedge-v-united-states due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis notice-of-hearing standing summary-judgment |
Whether the panel violated plaintiff's right to due process |
| 18-8032 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pre-trial-investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-7952 |
Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague |
Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without … |
| 18-7921 |
James Howard Looman, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app… |
| 18-7929 |
Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court |
Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by denning a Certificate of Appealab… |
| 18-7805 |
Michael Bohannan v. Wesley Griffin |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-rights court-discretion deputy-clerk discretion-abuse due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure indigent-representation legal-access motion-classification reconsideration rule-26(b) standing time-extension |
Does a court of appeals deputy clerk abuse discretion by refusing to consider appellate procedure rules in a time extension motion decision |
| 18-7841 |
Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry |
Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.C 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two-compo… |
| 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 |
| 18-7741 |
Robert Sills v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability (COA) was improper" |
| 18-7657 |
Devi Smith v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel defense-witnesses direct-review effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial |
Was the petitioner deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial? |
| 18-7688 |
Vincent Johnson v. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-proceedings appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure coa-process due-process federal-appeals integrity-of-proceedings integrity-of-process judicial-review procedural-motion rule-60(b) rule-60b standing |
Whether a R. 60(b) motion can be first presented at the Federal Appeals level to attack a defect in the integrity of the COA process of the appeal pro… |
| 18-7664 |
John Felix Greer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review case-or-controversy civil-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-of-court jurisdictional-review legal-jurisdiction mandate mandate-recall procedural-error standing |
Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in deciding the merits of a motion to recall the mandate without first determining jurisdiction |
| 18-7667 |
Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure article-3 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-power due-process federal-courts judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the U.S. 5th Cir. Court of Appeals has so far departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding |
| 18-7674 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Can a state habeas corpus be removed from state court to federal court? |
| 18-7623 |
James Goolsby v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582-c-2 appellate-procedure dillion-v-united-states exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing misapplication-of-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice official-victim-enhancement recall-of-mandate retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in refusing to recall the mandate on the direct appeal to prevent a miscarriage of j… |
| 18-7597 |
Carlos E. Ponce v. D. Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-showing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the issuance of a certificate of appealability based on the decision that the petitioner d… |
| 18-7549 |
Bonnie Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments |
Kansas |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-fairness lower-court-rulings procedural-violations statutory-procedure |
Why should it be lawful for the lower court to ignore 'STATUTORY PROCEDURE' violations by the Respondents during a lower court hearing and then questi… |
| 18-965 |
Donald Sullivan v. Robert Wayne Pugh, et ux. |
North Carolina |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct jury-trial north-carolina oath-of-office summary-judgment |
Whether the lower court judges violated their oaths by denying the petitioner's demanded constitutional trial by jury |
| 18-7544 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-01-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-7546 |
Sherman Vickers v. Marina del Rey Marina, LLC |
California |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-dismissal appellate-procedure automatic-stay civil-procedure clerk-error court-dismissal designation-of-records due-process fair-hearing record-perfection right-to-fair-hearing right-to-fair-trial |
Whether there is an automatic stay for the Court of Appeals |
| 18-7517 |
Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights |
Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability? |
| 18-933 |
Shraddha Patel v. Kirit Patel, aka Kiritkumar Ambalal Patel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
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appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure deadline federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure grace-period notice notice-of-judgment rule-4(a)(5) rule-4(a)(6) time-to-appeal |
Whether a would-be appellant who missed Rule 4(a)(1)(A)'s deadline to appeal due to a lack of notice of the entry of judgment may seek relief under Ru… |
| 18-7469 |
David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability? |
| 18-7440 |
Christopher Whitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing |
Should the appeals court have appointed an attorney who did not have a conflict of interest? |
| 18-7462 |
William Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals-court-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-discretion due-process finality finality-principle fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-discretion legal-finality mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice recall-mandate statutory-provisions |
Whether the appeals court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to recall mandate |
| 18-7434 |
Christopher Adin Graham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony |
Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective-assistance-of-couns… |
| 18-7377 |
Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t… |
| 18-7335 |
Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t… |
| 18-893 |
West Virginia House of Delegates v. West Virginia, ex rel. Margaret L. Workman, et al. |
West Virginia |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-law federalism guarantee-clause house-of-delegates legislative-standing motion-to-intervene standing west-virginia west-virginia-supreme-court |
Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia's decision in this case violates the Guarantee Clause of the United States Constitution |
| 18-7310 |
Kadeem Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity |
Should the district court judge issue or deny a certificate of appealability |
| 18-7316 |
Alice Annette Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis leave-to-proceed motions pending-motions |
Whether the circuit court erred in denying Appellants' pending motions while granting leave to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 18-875 |
Albert G. Hill, III, et al. v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-courts circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-standards judicial-review procedural-uniformity remand standards-of-review summary-judgment uniform-standards |
Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the District Court for further proceedings, because the Court of Appeals… |
| 18-7274 |
Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals introduced and attacked a strawman argument as a basis to deny appellant a COA, and whether this violates d… |
| 18-7213 |
Akash Dixit v. Christopher Brasher, Judge, Superior Court of Georgia, Atlanta Judicial Circuit |
Georgia |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure attorney civil-rights divorce-proceeding due-process family fraud immigration immigration-status international-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct service-of-process standing unethical visa void-judgment |
Whether the Georgia appellate courts erred in not addressing questions about unethical conduct of a subordinate judge and a void lower court order des… |
| 18-829 |
John H. Davis v. Jeanne W. Anderson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-discipline attorney-removal civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-ethics presumptive-reasonableness seventh-circuit supervisory-power |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's removal of an attorney's name from the roll of attorneys is presumptively reasonable without due process, record support… |
| 18-7180 |
Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-789 |
Cecilia M. Hylton v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
26-usc-183 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process hobby horse-activity-taxation horse-related-activities per-curiam-decision section-183-hobby-loss tax tax-law taxation unpublished-opinion |
Is petitioner denied due process of law when the court of appeals failed to timely advise her whether oral argument (which each party requested) would… |
| 18-7131 |
Andreco Lott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing |
Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage? |
| 18-7059 |
John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's due process rights and access to the courts |
| 18-7031 |
Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis standing |
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying the petitioner's motion to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis |
| 18-6969 |
Brandon Bivins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review prior-panel-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal three-judge-panels |
Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its 'prior panel precedent rule' —effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right to… |
| 18-6938 |
Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 18-6943 |
Gregory Dean Banister v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4)IFP |
aedpa appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se rule-59(e) successive-petition |
Whether Gonzalez v. Crosby extends to Rule 59(e) motions |
| 18-6840 |
John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause |
Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects the petitioner's property rights against the government's actions that result in a complete… |
| 18-6796 |
Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. |
First Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing |
Did the second panel err in denying Muckle's motion to remand or recuse itself due to appearance of impropriety and Canon 8C |
| 18-6838 |
Alvin Leon Roundtree v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se section-2255 sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the district court's failure to construe Mr. Roundtree's pro se motion for specific performance as a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §2255 co… |
| 18-6813 |
Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process final-determination judicial-review legal-argument relitigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Was petitioner deprived of due process of law when the appellate court based its decision on an argument that had never been raised in the trial court… |
| 18-6716 |
Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in vacating the Petitioner's conviction and sentence pursuant to Count One of his Superseding Indictment |
| 18-633 |
Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial |
Should a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and c… |
| 18-6687 |
Hilda T. Kennedy v. Frederic A. Pollock |
New Jersey |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fee-waiver indigent-rights pauperis standing transcript transcript-fees trial-transcript |
Is a waiver of the fee for transcribing a trial court on appeal a constitutional entitlement? |
| 18-6678 |
Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's Certificate of Appealability under the law |
| 18-6622 |
Keeland Duralle Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review |
Whether a court of appeals is required to grant a habeas petitioner a COA when the question presented clearly is debatable by jurist of reason as demo… |
| 18-6582 |
Kareem Glass v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rights capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-rights |
where-capital-counsel-induced-petitioner-into-a-waiver |
| 18-6496 |
John Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-argument appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-location cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-tracking constitutional-rights conviction-affirmance conviction-affirmation fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which failed to address Thomas's appellate argument that his Fourth Amendment rights were… |
| 18-6487 |
Alice Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis motions standing |
Whether the circuit court erred in denying Appellants' motions while granting leave to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 18-504 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Roger W. Boren, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment Hobbs-Act Janus judicial-misconduct NIFLA professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant |
Issue being raised |
| 18-6381 |
William B. Crockett, III v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review threshold-inquiry |
Whether a court of appeals' unreasoned, one-page order summarily denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with relevant decisions of this Cour… |
| 18-501 |
Alim Adburahman, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction docket-management final-order frcp-15 judicial-authority jurisdiction multidistrict-litigation procedural-conflict |
Does a U.S. District Court have the power to dismiss cases previously transferred to a Multidistrict litigation, interfering with the adjudication of … |
| 18-6356 |
Earl Reyes v. Dale Artus |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-appeal court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-decision frap-rule-24 in-forma-pauperis indigent-appellant indigent-rights motion-to-vacate plain-error standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion Whether the court of appeals was correct to requir |
Whether it was plain error for a court of appeals to deny in forma pauperis relief to an indigent appellant |
| 18-6332 |
Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding? |
| 18-452 |
Jesse L. Wesley, III v. Town Square Media West Central Radio Broadcasting, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review motion-to-amend standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's decision on a motion to amend a summary judgment should be reviewed with the standard of abuse of discretion or de novo |
| 18-6276 |
Marcus Anthony Terrell v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing state-courts |
Whether the dismissal of petitioners' certificate of probable cause by the Supreme Court of Georgia violated their due process rights and resulted in … |
| 18-6249 |
Markos Pappas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the certificate of appealability (COA) requirement apply to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motions related to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings… |
| 18-6255 |
Christopher Earl Oden v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Is it necessary for a petitioner to show that his claim is not foreclosed by binding circuit precedent to obtain a certificate of appealability? |
| 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… |
| 18-6235 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review |
Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis, it is sufficient for obtaining a Certificate of Appealability under … |
| 18-6202 |
Amil Dinsio v. Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate discretion due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-review mandate mandate-recall motion-denial recall standing |
Did the Second Circuit Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion to recall the Court's mandate? |
| 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? |
| 18-6107 |
Jacob Logan Stone v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-bar procedural-bars reentry summary-affirmance supervised-release |
Does the 8th Circuit's practice of denying pro se litigants the opportunity to brief their appeal deny the basic requirements of Due Process, notice a… |
| 18-6090 |
Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation |
Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Common Pleas Court abuse their discretion by denying Williams an evidentiary hearing to review the merits of h… |
| 18-380 |
Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review |
Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court |
| 18-6031 |
Noah R. Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review direct-appeal due-process evidence-misstatement evidence-of-record evidence-tampering judicial-animosity judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-review supreme-court-vacated |
Whether former Circuit Court Chief Judge Richard A. Posner misstated the evidence of record in the Green remand opinion, as a means to the end of just… |
| 18-6005 |
Trayon L. Williams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure causation-element circuit-split claim-preservation criminal-procedure-waiver-forfeiture forfeiture preservation-of-issues preserved-claim standard-of-review sua-sponte-ruling violent-crime-definition violent-force-element waiver waiver-principles |
Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte hold a preserved claim forfeited and then dismiss it as waived when the government agrees the claim was prop… |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-303 |
Henryk Oleksy v. General Electric Company |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure counterclaim-dismissal court-precedent due-process federal-circuit finality finality-of-judgment judgment-finality patent patent-law precedent supervisory-power |
Whether district court judgment was final despite lack of express dismissal of invalidity counterclaim |
| 18-5889 |
James Ronald Welch, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review standing |
Whether the U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kevin C. Newson erred in denying Appellant's appeal |
| 18-5896 |
Beverly Allen Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the government committed a Kotteakos violation by using evidence of multiple conspiracies to support an indictment for a single conspiracy |
| 18-5845 |
David L. Pierce v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their 'ORDER' |
| 18-5855 |
Derrick Knight v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure brady-violation constitutional-rights effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial withholding-evidence |
Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of appellate counsel? |
| 18-5826 |
John C. Carter v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-criminal-trial-court state-law-limitations |
Whether the right to have assistance of counsel extends to the appeal stage of the trial proceedings, where the petitioner was allegedly denied such a… |
| 18-5785 |
In Re Clifford Winkles |
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2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing |
Whether Petitioner Clifford Winkles was improperly denied relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 due to procedural barriers, despite demonstrating actual innoc… |
| 18-5789 |
John Thompson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-5796 |
Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence |
Where must a court of appeals grant a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action where at least one judge votes in its favor? |
| 18-5797 |
Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a defendant must re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale to preserve the arguments for appeal |
| 18-5752 |
Randall B. Causey v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4(a)(5) appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure incapacitation judicial-discretion legal-tolling medical-condition medical-incapacity procedural-rules standing |
Whether Equitable Tolling applies to Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) when the Petitioner was incapacitated due to a medical condition? |
| 18-5718 |
James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review |
Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court? |
| 18-5675 |
David Pate v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach plea-bargaining right-to-appeal |
Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement? |
| 18-5672 |
Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts |
Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision that is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, all other Courts of Appeals, feder… |
| 18-213 |
H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order |
Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado… |
| 18-201 |
Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer |
California |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
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appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs |
Whether an indigent defendant in a criminal contempt proceeding has a right to appointed counsel and a free transcript on appeal |
| 18-5586 |
William Knight v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether trial court abused their authority by allowing the state attorney office to impose a sentence contrary to the requirements of the law on doubl… |
| 18-5605 |
Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability |
Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States |
| 18-5578 |
Antonio U. Akel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority |
Whether the undisputed and clear violation of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel on direct appeal results in an exceptio… |
| 18-5471 |
Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness |
Does the Appellate Court need to follow rules? Or are they allowed to circumvent established procedure? |
| 18-5451 |
Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sua sponte dismissing the plaintiff's appeal for non-payment of filing fees when the plaintiff lac… |
| 18-5459 |
Zachary David Warnell v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel |
Can a state deny a criminal defendant the constitutional right to appeal with the effective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-5410 |
Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in not permitting the petitioner to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis without further authorization |
| 18-5419 |
Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing |
Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis, appointment of counsel, and appeal dismissal? |
| 18-5374 |
Adrian Demond Hyman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure claim-processing-rule claim-processing-rules criminal-appeal equitable-exception equitable-exceptions federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline jurisdictional-deadlines non-jurisdictional-deadline non-jurisdictional-rule sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether an appellate court acts without authority when it enforces the non-jurisdictional deadline for a direct criminal appeal under Fed. R. App. P. … |
| 18-5333 |
Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel was violated when the appellate court sua sponte dismissed… |
| 18-5262 |
In Re Edward McLaughlin |
|
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau… |
| 18-5294 |
Herbert Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing |
Did the Circuit Court err in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication, giving an insufficient … |
| 18-5295 |
Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability application based on the conclusion that he failed to make a s… |
| 18-5258 |
Howell Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker |
whether-a-drastically-increased-sentence-violates-the-sixth-amendment |
| 18-79 |
Tiberiu Klein, et al. v. Daniel O'Brien, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process fraud incompetence judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-standards notice opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Seventh Circuit violates its own Standards and Rules and violate petitioners' due process rights in falsely accusing an attorney of pretense, … |
| 18-68 |
Marie Conforto v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-government judicial-discretion notice procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte |
Whether an appeals court deciding a case sua sponte without hearing or chance to respond violates due process |
| 18-5209 |
Michael Barrett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest constructive-denial-of-counsel impermissible-risk ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion professional-ethics professional-responsibility right-to-counsel standard-of-review |
Does it create a conflict of interest for a lawyer to have to argue on appeal that the trial court should have replaced him? Can this create an imperm… |
| 18-5156 |
D'Angelo Battis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ignoring the petitioner's pro se brief on appeal, affirming the petitioner's unconstitutional s… |
| 18-25 |
Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret |
Whether the bankruptcy court properly calculated trade-secret damages |
| 18-5117 |
Glendrict Frazier v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity |
Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987) (holding that on direct review a new constitu… |
| 18-5141 |
Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules |
Whether Mr. Frederiksen should continue to suffer prejudice and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction when the lower state cou… |
| 18-5044 |
Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability to review the district … |
| 18-5058 |
Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Deante Drake's petition for rehearing en banc as untimely under Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(3)(A… |
| 18-5010 |
Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews |
California |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence |
Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition… |
| 24A323 |
Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure certiorari-petition insurance-dispute judicial-hierarchy mandate-stay supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal appellate court's mandate can be stayed pending Supreme Court review of a certiorari petition in an insurance dispute involving pote… |
| 24A547 |
Frank Deville v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
District of Columbia |
|
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-procedure filing-fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a pro se petitioner's failure to strictly comply with Supreme Court filing procedures and fee requirements constitutes grounds for dismissal o… |