| 25-6673 |
James R. Caputo v. Richard S. Tubiolo, et al. |
New York |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship legal-malpractice negligence-standard pleading-amendment professional-medical-conduct summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 25A61 |
Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones |
Virginia |
2025-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari |
Whether an attorney's breach of professional duties and failure to file a writ of certiorari constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel warranting … |
| 24-6093 |
Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-relationship due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel |
Whether South Dakota's statutory appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protect… |
| 24-5959 |
Robert Ellis v. New York |
New York |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assigned-counsel attorney-client-relationship continuity-of-representation court-discretion indigent-defendant sixth-amendment |
When counsel has been assigned to represent an indigent defendant, has developed a close working relationship, and faces no obstacles to continuing th… |
| 23-815 |
Laurie Ann McRay, et al. v. Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath PLLC |
Texas |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees counterclaims due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics legal-malpractice prosecutorial-fees substitute-counsel summary-judgment trial-procedure |
When a law firm sues its own clients, are the clients' Due Process rights violated? |
| 22-6781 |
Samuel Adkins v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings sexual-abuse sixth-amendment trial |
Did the state court err in holding that the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was not violated? |
| 22-6180 |
Alvaro Noe Mendoza-Valencia v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-counsel |
Can a state trial court deny a criminal defendant's request for substitution counsel without any reasonable inquiry into trial counsel's performance, … |
| 22-5360 |
Wayne Chin v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accused-autonomy actual-innocence attorney-client-relationship autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unwelcome-defense |
Whether a defense counsel can override an accused's final and informed decision for an actual innocence defense and impose an unwelcome defense upon t… |
| 21-8174 |
Scott Svoboda v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship confiscation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
Whether a criminal defendant is denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-1233 |
Mark R. Joubert v. Todd Miley |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship collateral-estoppel due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty legal-restriction liberty-interest non-legal-business occupational-freedom standard-of-review state-court |
May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a long… |
| 21-7160 |
Edward R. Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-obligations civil-rights court-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-ethics professional-misconduct |
Why hasn't my lawyer answered any of my phone calls or come to see me? |
| 21-6849 |
Edwin Vaquiz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense due-process judicial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-counsel-strategy witness-testimony |
Whether a trial attorney can prohibit or forbid, by coercion (threat to withdraw representation from defendant's criminal case), the defendant to resi… |
| 21-6103 |
Moses D. Estrada v. California |
California |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship collaborative-discovery constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rights right-to-counsel victim-rights |
Does an accused have a right to effective assistance of counsel when the accused does not collaborate with counsel? |
| 20-1772 |
Branden Edward Shumate v. California |
California |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court |
whether-a-trial-court-deprives-a-defendant-of-his-right-to-counsel |
| 19-7898 |
Richard C. Murphy v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-ethics due-process judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation procedural-integrity representation standing |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abuse their discretion by allowing counsel to continue representation after counsel documented his unwillingnes… |
| 19-952 |
Michael David Goodwin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship change-of-plea criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance local-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether an attorney's presence as local counsel, for a criminal defendant's re-arraignment and change of plea, yet having no attorney-client relations… |
| 19-7065 |
Carrie A. Braspenick v. Johnson Law PLC |
Michigan |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure contract contract-law court-judgment judgment legal-ethics legal-representation order professional-ethics statute-of-limitations termination |
Can an attorney terminate the attorney-client relationship prior to the Circuit Court issuing a JUDGMENT/Order in the client's case? |
| 19-6589 |
Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions on the requirements … |
| 19-602 |
Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge … |
| 19-6024 |
Kenneth Allen Rogers v. California |
California |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-relationship civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fiduciary-duty legal-representation pre-trial-motion property-rights retainer-fee sixth-amendment |
Whether the State of California's denial of legal representation at a pre-trial motion deprived the petitioner of a fundamental right |
| 19-5921 |
Lisa M. Montgomery v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
attorney-client-relationship capital-case capital-trial due-process fifth-amendment in-chambers learned-counsel notice-requirement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment termination-of-counsel |
In a federal capital trial case, may a federal district court judge, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, terminate the appointment of lear… |
| 19-5163 |
Michael A. Kelley, Jr. v. Phillip W. Gerth |
Ohio |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations summary-judgment |
Whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpractice is dependent upon the filing of motion to withd… |
| 18-9541 |
Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7292 |
Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime |
Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence? |
| 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… |
| 18-640 |
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment |
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel |
| 18-6406 |
Daniel Tappen v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether a defense attorney renders ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-438 |
Carllene M. Placide v. Supreme Court of Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline bar-discipline constitutional-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,equal-protection,legal-pr equal-protection legal-ethics legal-practice legal-procedure procedural-fairness racial-discrimination |
Whether an attorney can be deprived of his/her constitutionally protected right to practice law |
| 18-344 |
Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP |
California |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-courts american-inns-of-court attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest court-of-appeal due-process judge-disclosure judicial-ethics recusal right-to-appeal social-relationship |
Does due process require reversal of dismissals due to judge's failure to recuse or disclose conflicts of interest |
| 18-5619 |
Ralph Raul Contreras v. Hunter Anglea, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees california-rules-of-professional-conduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights professional-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-created-rights |
Does a state-created right to require written consent from a client when others pay the attorney's fees constitute a denial of conflict-free counsel, … |
| 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… |