certiorari-review

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A300 Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete bruen-methodology certiorari-review felony-possession firearm-restriction second-amendment text-and-history Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with a prior felony conviction under the text-and-historical-t…
25-5053 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari-review habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation transfer-order The question presented is whether a circuit court errs in finding that a transfer order is not appealable, dismisses a petitioner's appeal of the dist…
24A1242 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-06-16 Presumed Complete abuse-of-process administrative-agencies certiorari-review constitutional-due-process fraud state-court-proceedings Whether state courts and administrative agencies have systematically violated constitutional due process rights through abuse of process and fraudulen…
24-946 Olympic Collection, Inc., et al. v. Aklilu Yohannes Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response Waived certiorari-review constitutional-claim due-process garnishment-writ interlocutory-order state-action Whether an interlocutory order and failure to meet Rule 10 considerations warrant certiorari review
24-5076 Chi Meng Yang v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-666 bribery certiorari-review federal-state-cooperation harmless-error joint-operations public-authority-defense statutory-interpretation United-States-v.-Snyder Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless error holding was based on an interpretation of 18-U.S.C.-666 that was subsequently narrowed by the Supreme Court…
23A955 Joseph Anoruo v. Department of Veteran Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-04-24 Presumed Complete administrative-review certiorari-review federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether a federal whistleblower who alleges retaliation and wrongful termination can challenge an agency's credibility determination and seek correcti…
22-7655 Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time, §2255 motion was 'second [or] successive?'
21-1392 Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court Whether the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of the crime of criminal sexual conduct
21-7067 Kimmie Dwayne Baker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-surveillance evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct government-response judicial-procedure new-trial new-trial-motion surveillance Whether the government was obligated to respond and contest the merits of the July 3, 2022 motion, rather than moving to dismiss on the basis of untim…
21-350 Infineum USA L.P. v. Chevron Oronite Company LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-07 GVR administrative-review appointments-clause certiorari-review federal-circuit federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-41 final-written-decision judicial-mandate mandate patent-proceedings united-states-v-arthrex Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., and remand so that the United St…
20-6073 Desmond Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from using a person's prior convictions for a crime of violence as a basis to enhance the senten…
19-8633 Weylin O. Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-review due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus miller-el-standard precedent remand section-2255 supreme-court-precedent title-28-U.S.C-2255 Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision not to remand for an evidentiary hearing was contrary to precedent requiring such a hearing under 28-U.S.C-225…
19-1004 Robert James Jaffe v. Brad Sherman, United States Congressman Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) certiorari-review checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-oversight due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct summary-dismissal supervisory-power supreme-court-discretion void-judgment Whether US Supreme Court justices may refuse to enforce FRCP rules and precedent
19-806 Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2019-12-26 Denied Response Waived certiorari-review civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-precedent procedural-due-process standing supreme-court-review takings tax truck-council Whether to revisit or distinguish National Private Truck Council, Inc. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission, 515 U.S. 582 (1995) and General Motors Corp. v. Cit…
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
19-5104 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.…
18-9018 Jupiter Dennell Wilson, Sr. v. City of Chesapeake, Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP age-discrimination age-retaliation certiorari-review circuit-court-conflict civil-rights fraud fraud-allegations fraud-on-the-record judicial-discretion race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation Whether the United States Supreme Court can affirm the Fourth Circuit's certification of the consolidated case
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
18-6765 Bernard J. Bagdis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certiorari-review circuit-split due-process federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rehearing statute-of-limitations timeliness When does a criminal conviction become 'final' under 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) if a petition for rehearing is filed after the petition for certiorari has …
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