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25-6785 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP alternative-theories circuit-split criminal-jury-trial evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence legal-standard Whether evidence can satisfy Rule 401's relevance standard in criminal jury trials even if the evidence would not tend to disprove every alternative t…
25-959 CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response Waived advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that…
25-6789 Richard Brundige v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
25-936 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t…
25-932 Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment Whether the negligence standard that applies to Title VII workplace harassment by coworkers also applies to workplace harassment by customers
25-6747 Brad McLennan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categorical approach by dismissing an elemental mismatch as a mere variation in terminology?
25-925 Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. New York 2026-02-06 Pending arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process Is manifest disregard of the law a ground to vacate an arbitration award and if so, what does it mean?
25-923 Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sixth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political
25-6718 Otto Melvin Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP circuit-split deportable-alien individualized-finding sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho…
25-6701 Eskender Getachew v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-court-duty Whether a trial court has a duty to inquire into a defendant's absence before proceeding with a jury verdict when constitutional and procedural rules …
25A866 Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC Ninth Circuit 2026-02-02 Application circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether the False Claims Act's public disclosure bar requires courts to assess the 'substantially the same' standard for qui tam suits based on whethe…
25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review Whether a court may deem a standard of review argument waived despite circuit split, substitute its own determination in an administrative review, int…
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…
25-6669 Ezequiel Rivera v. Nestle USA, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending IFP circuit-split eeoc-charge hostile-environment pro-se-pleading retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether federal courts violate Haines v. Kerner and create a de facto circuit split by narrowly construing pro se EEOC charges to include only checked…
25-6655 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-23 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in conflict with Seventh Circuit and Supreme Court precedent
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal Whether the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of 'fraud on the court' under Rule 60(d)(3) creates an untenable circuit split and contravenes…
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 Whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding protective order issued b…
25-6641 Ervin Thornton, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation In a pre-Apprendi case, how does a district court decide a person's statute of conviction and thus determine § 404 eligibility under the First Step Ac…
25A825 Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-20 Application administrative-services-agreement circuit-split disclosure-requirement erisa plan-fiduciary third-party-administrator Whether an administrative services agreement (ASA) constitutes a 'governing instrument' under ERISA that must be disclosed to plan beneficiaries upon …
25A824 Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Application circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 Whether a federal court can review a collateral challenge to a restitution order under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 when the defendant is no longer in custody
25-863 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response Waived assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in…
25-851 Ashley Grayson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law Whether Section 2515's exclusionary rule contains an unwritten clean-hands exception
25A801 Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application cat's-paw circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Whether the 'Cat's Paw' doctrine establishes causation in employment discrimination cases involving disability discrimination and retaliation claims
25-821 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim…
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…
25-818 Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (1) circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits Whether 'time credits' under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release
25A799 Eva Migliore, By Her Next Friend Joseph Migliore v. Sunlight Financial LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Application circuit-split consumer-authorization credit-report fair-credit-reporting-act fraud privacy-rights Whether the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires consumer authorization for credit transactions not initiated by the consumer, and whether a credit repo…
25-809 Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Amici (1) allocable-amount circuit-split multiemployer-plan pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether 29 U.S.C. §1386(b)(1) requires a multiemployer plan to calculate withdrawal liability by reducing the amount in a subsequent plan year or appl…
25-808 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding 'bad faith' and whether they can issue s…
25-6499 Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t…
25-6490 Gary Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felony-regulation firearms-possession historical-tradition second-amendment Whether Congress may constitutionally bar all felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) consistent with the Second Amendment
25-770 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response Waived actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment Whether a defendant's systematic omission of qualifying language from a plaintiff's statement constitutes proof of actual malice under New York Times …
25-759 Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board First Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy Whether a court can rely on a probable alternative explanation at the 12(b)(6) stage to dismiss a claim, and whether a parent's fundamental constituti…
25-6439 Marquis Melton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's statement asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error renders that error…
25-754 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright Whether copyrightability is a pure question of law or includes considerations of background facts, given a Circuit split on the issue
25-6432 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Under the ACCA's categorical approach, if a state statute expressly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definitions of 'serious drug offense' or …
25A745 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 Whether the Fourth Amendment permits dismissal of a §1983 false arrest claim at the pleading stage when new exculpatory evidence potentially undermine…
25A743 Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation Whether the Freedom of Information Act's Exemption 7 requires a law enforcement purpose for withholding agency records or applies categorically to all…
25-6418 Joshua David Havins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split firearm-possession second-amendment section-922g supreme-court-review Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of the potential grant…
25-6416 Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a district court can impose a special condition of supervised release without explanation and when such failure to justify the condition is co…
25-736 World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether lower courts must avoid a factor-by-factor analysis that balances competing evidence and the weight to be given likely confusion factors in La…
25-728 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending circuit-split false-claims-act fraudulent-billing government-claims qui-tam rule-9b Whether a qui tam complaint satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) when it alleges detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme…
25A725 PG Publishing Co., Inc. dba Pittsburgh Post-Gazette v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-19 Application circuit-split collective-bargaining consequential-damages labor-relations nlrb thryv-doctrine Whether the National Labor Relations Board may award consequential damages and find bad faith in collective bargaining based solely on the substance o…
25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
25-712 Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School District, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending adverse-action circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment governmental-action retaliation Whether a referral by a governmental official to another official for potential criminal investigation constitutes adverse action under First Amendmen…
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's refusal to apply Kemp v. United States creates an irreconcilable Circuit Split regarding judicial error under Rule 60(b…
25-699 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (1) arbitral-award circuit-split foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver international-arbitration new-york-convention When a foreign sovereign that is a party to the New York Convention agrees to arbitrate a dispute governed by the Convention, does it impliedly waive …
25A702 Mark Alan Deakins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation Whether the two-strikes provision of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) requires a uniform definition of 'sexual exploitation of children' across federal circuit cou…
25A708 CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Application circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising lanham-act trademark-law willful-misrepresentation Whether a federal appellate court can reject a presumption of consumer deception in a Lanham Act false advertising case when a campaign is demonstrabl…
25-6389 Kingsley Ita v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing-procedure Does a general appeal waiver in a plea agreement bar a criminal defendant from challenging a sentence on due process grounds when the sentencing court…
25-697 Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation Whether an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA joint operating agreement needs additional Attorney General written consent to be lawful or en…
25A700 Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-16 Application circuit-split federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice legislative-fact statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may take judicial notice of a location's special territorial jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 7 as a legislative fact
25-6390 Busch Sereal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non…
25-6355 Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge bruen-test circuit-split felony-restriction firearm-possession second-amendment Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment and whether the statute's lifetime ban on fire…
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech Whether public employee speech made as a private citizen and about a controversial subject loses First Amendment protection unless the speech is inten…
25-6310 Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Whether the Fifth Circuit has misapplied Leon by adopting an all-or-nothing approach to the bare-bones analysis
25-654 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error Did the 3rd Circuit Court err by accepting District Court's interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order not signed by a Judge, violatin…
25-638 Zhongxiao Michael Chen v. Michigan State University Sixth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure electronic-filing in-forma-pauperis prima-facie rule-12b6 Whether a civil action is 'commenced' under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 3 when a complaint is electronically delivered and date-stamped by the cou…
25A653 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-04 Application actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not actually commit three qualifying predicate offenses can assert an actual innocence exception to procedural bars on h…
25-625 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Amici (2) circuit-split class-certification damages representative-evidence rico rule-23 Whether a federal court may certify a class action with uninjured members and rely on representative evidence to prove individualized reliance
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…
25-627 Macy's Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Amici (2) administrative-law circuit-split labor-board nlra pecuniary-damages unfair-labor-practice Whether the National Labor Relations Board has statutory or constitutional authority to order employers to pay pecuniary harms resulting from an alleg…
25A644 Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act Whether open-ended ends-of-justice continuances under the Speedy Trial Act are permissible when district courts find them reasonable
25-613 Marquise Miller v. Legacy Bank Tenth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-discouragement equal-credit-opportunity-act loan-application prospective-applicants Whether the Equal Credit Opportunity Act authorizes a cause of action for individuals who are prospective applicants or inquirers subject to discrimin…
25-6250 Richard Ruston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-26 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(1) means 'and' or 'or' as interpreted by the Tenth Circuit
25-6239 Elijah D. Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that …
25-6212 Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in applying the death enhancement under USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based on but-for causation for migrant deaths in a crash…
25-6198 Steven Perez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights firearms-acquisition meaningful-constraint second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does the Second Amendment presumptively protect an individual's right to acquire firearms? Is the 'meaningful constraint' standard applied by the Seco…
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 …
25-6169 Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether the presumption of mens rea applies to 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(ii) requiring the government to prove a defendant knew of a firearm's automati…
25A591 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-19 Application appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement waiver Whether a defendant who enters an unconditional guilty plea waives the right to challenge on appeal that the admitted facts do not constitute the char…
25A585 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on interfering with federal officers requires intentional violence or can include inadvertent contact
25A592 William Dahl v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation Whether the judicially-created 'Dost factors' used to determine the 'lascivious exhibition' of minors in child pornography cases are constitutionally …
25-6138 Michael Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a sentence significantly longer than a defendant's life expectancy fails to comply with the parsimony principle under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
25-6141 Mark Abercrombie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion …
25-6119 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Speedy Trial Act's 'ends of justice' provision permits open-ended continuances without a definite termination date
25-6124 Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spending…
25A564 Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether a federal court retains jurisdiction to review a case when an agency unilaterally ceases allegedly unlawful conduct to evade judicial review
25A565 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence rule-702 Whether federal district courts must apply the full rigor of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 at the class certification stage, or may conduct a more limi…
25-575 Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-law professional-speech speech-conduct Whether a burden on speech imposed by an occupational licensing law must satisfy intermediate scrutiny if it is deemed incidental
25-6086 Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may categorically foreclose appellate review of a defendant's disparity claim under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) by requiring 'id…
25A552 Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-12 Application appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether a criminal defendant can knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's sentencing errors as part of a plea agreement,…
25-6092 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor…
25A541 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-10 Application circuit-split false-claims-act medical-billing medicare-fraud pleading-standard rule-9b Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires False Claims Act plaintiffs to identify specific false claim submissions when pleading a fraudul…
25-559 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. v. Andrew Harrington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-07 Pending Amici (1) circuit-split collective-action fair-labor-standards-act joinder notice-authorization similarly-situated Whether a district court may authorize notice inviting joinder to an FLSA collective action before a plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evidenc…
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…
25A526 Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split federal-sentencing preservation-of-error sentencing-error Whether a defendant must raise an objection after sentencing to preserve a nonfrivolous sentencing argument based on 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors that …
25-6038 Daniel Stewart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Pending IFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Pursuant to Kisor, are courts obligated first to determine whether a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before affording deference to the Sentencing Co…
25A509 Matthew Cline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-04 Application circuit-split co-conspirator criminal-proceeds forfeiture honeycutt-standard wire-fraud Whether a defendant can be ordered to forfeit criminal proceeds that were briefly under his control but immediately transferred to a co-conspirator
25-6016 Todd White v. ACell, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Fourth Circuit violated due process by denying a motion to amend an informal opening brief and erred in affirming summary judgment on a Fa…
25-524 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-30 Pending circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's subs…
25-5991 Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's subs…
25-526 Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made 'honest belief' doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when circumstantial evidence of …
25-5986 Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-29 Pending IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that a U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement was properly applied to a defendant because a shotgun was found in the…
25-519 Efrain Lora v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-concession preponderance-of-evidence sentencing Whether a sentencing court must find a fact conceded by the government to be untrue by more than a preponderance of the evidence
25-5974 Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d…
25A484 Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-28 Application circuit-split federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Whether the use of internet-based interstate communication instrumentalities alone is sufficient to satisfy the 'in or affecting interstate commerce' …
25-515 Michael Kail v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instructions kickback-scheme statutory-interpretation Whether honest-services fraud jury instructions must distinguish criminal kickbacks from lawful self-dealing or may permit conviction for receiving 'a…
25-5965 Samson Kanla Orusa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-27 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split controlled-substance-prescription health-care-fraud jury-instruction medical-purpose subjective-knowledge Whether the district court's erroneous jury instructions regarding criminal liability under 21 U.S.C. section 841 requires reversal of the defendant's…
25A469 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-24 Application appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-vagueness plea-agreement section-924(c) Whether a defendant's general appeal waiver in a plea agreement can preclude challenges to a conviction based on an unconstitutionally vague statutory…
25-504 Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management LLC Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-act circuit-split federal-arbitration judicial-review manifest-disregard vacatur Whether the Federal Arbitration Act allows a court to vacate an arbitration decision on the ground that the decision was based on a manifest disregard…
25-5947 Darrell Wickware v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categorical approach by dismissing an elemental mismatch as a mere variation in terminology?
25A466 Vincenzo Oppedisano v. Lynda Zur Second Circuit 2025-10-23 Application circuit-split federal-law loss-sharing oral-partnership partnership-elements partnership-formation Whether an oral partnership requires a formal loss-sharing agreement as an essential element of formation under federal law
25-499 Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response Waived causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for summary judgment analysis and whether 'but for' or motivating factor causation applies in…
25A453 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-21 Application certiorari circuit-split federal-law pro-se standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the Supreme Court should establish a uniform standard of appellate review for district court decisions allowing defendants to proceed pro se a…
25A456 Marquis Melton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Application appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Eighth Circuit's harmless error analysis in sentencing guidelines calculations improperly prevents meaningful appellate review and conflic…
25-5913 Rashun Rafael Suncar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-judgment circuit-split controlled-substances drug-statute federal-interpretation state-law-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may disregard an unpublished but considered judgment of Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court interpreting its own st…
25-5908 Jean-Claude Okongo Landji v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances extraterritorial-prosecution sixth-amendment May the offense of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute controlled substances while on a United States aircraft, pursuant to …
25-464 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process land-use section-1983 takings-claims Whether the accrual rule for takings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies to procedural due process claims asserted in land-use disputes
25-466 Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2025-10-16 Granted Amici (3) circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm
25-5902 Ramon Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split credibility-determination evidentiary-hearing section-2255 sixth-amendment Whether a district court may deny a § 2255 hearing by making a dispositive credibility determination against a petitioner based on an ambiguous and co…
25-5895 Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether an 11-person federal criminal jury verdict can be considered harmless error under the Sixth Amendment, contrary to historical jury practice
25-5899 Michael Keith Marechale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver Whether a defendant invariably waives appellate review by acquiescing to an incorrect jury instruction
25-441 Guardian Flight, L.L.C., et al. v. Health Care Service Corporation Fifth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split contract-breach erisa-standing injury-in-fact no-surprises-act statutory-interpretation Whether a breach of ERISA plan terms alone constitutes an injury in fact for plan beneficiaries
25-5848 Cedric Milburn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process government-cooperation rule-35b sentencing-reduction Whether Rule 35(b) gives criminal defendants the right to notice and opportunity to be heard before a district court resolves a motion for sentencing …
25-5853 Clarence Santiago v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct?
25-425 Steven Duarte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (5) circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1)'s categorical ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional as applied to a defendant with non-violent …
25A409 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to resolve a circuit split regarding the proper interpretation of a federal statute or constitutiona…
25A400 Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Presumed Complete circuit-split equitable-remedy erisa fiduciary-breach section-1132 surcharge Whether a plaintiff can seek equitable surcharge as a remedy under ERISA Section 1132(a)(3) when federal circuit courts are split on the availability …
25A395 Travis Schlotterbeck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete bruen-test circuit-split firearm-possession historical-tradition non-violent-felony second-amendment Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with non-violent felony convictions violates the Second Amendment under the hi…
25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the 'severe or pervasive' standard for hostile work environment claims under Title VII to ensure uniform nati…
25-5796 Daniel Matthew Matlock v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-statute federal-question mens-rea sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'knowingly' in 18 U.S.C. § 2242(1) applies only to 'causing another person to engage in a sexual act' or whether it extends also to '…
25-400 PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection Does the 'generic name' requirement of the trademark statute apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color trademarks?
25A391 Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete 8-usc-1326 aggravated-felony circuit-split deportation expedited-removal illegal-reentry Whether a defendant convicted of illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 can challenge their prior deportation based on an incorrect aggravated felony d…
25-390 Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-02 GVR circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346 allows conviction for honest services fraud based on breach of private code of conduct without proving fiduciary duty has for…
25-391 Citigroup Inc. v. Otto Candies, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-litigation pslra racketeer-influenced rico securities-fraud Whether the PSLRA bars a civil RICO claim based on conduct actionable as securities fraud by another potential plaintiff even if the particular RICO p…
25-5781 Michael Cobbs v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid despite the Supreme Court's decisio…
25A376 Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara Fifth Circuit 2025-10-02 Application child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a circuit split regarding the interpretation of the Hague Convention's provisions on child custody and inte…
25A379 Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete circuit-split guilty-plea plain-error plea-colloquy rule-11 substantial-rights Whether courts may consider a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11 plea colloquy error when determining if that error affected the defendant's s…
25-5758 Jerry Otis Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comply with the text and historical tradition of the Second Amendment in permanently disarming all felons, regardless of of…
25A368 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard Whether 'new evidence' under the Schlup actual innocence standard requires newly discovered evidence unavailable at trial or encompasses all evidence …
25-366 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-law contracts-clause lease-licensing property-rights section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a cause of action for a Contracts Clause claim
25A351 James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete categorical-approach certiorari-petition circuit-split founding-era-practice historical-interpretation legal-doctrine Whether a circuit split exists regarding the proper categorical approach to interpreting a specific legal doctrine based on Founding-era historical pr…
25-359 Rambod Sotoodeh, et al. v. City of South El-Monte, California, a Municipal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure local-rules merits-consideration motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 Whether Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 83(a)(1) require a district court to consider the merits of an unopposed Rule 12(b)(6) motion to…
25-5731 David Alexander Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment and whether the statute's lifetime ban on fire…
25-347 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (1) billing-records circuit-split false-claims-act qui-tam rule-9b whistleblower Whether Rule 9(b) requires False Claims Act relators who plead detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme to identify specific false …
25-350 Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen Eighth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split grievance-process inmate-lawsuit mandatory-exhaustion prison-litigation-reform-act unexhausted-claims When a formerly incarcerated person amends a complaint filed while he was in prison and adds unexhausted claims, does the PLRA require dismissal of th…
25-5707 Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso…
25-5708 Jason Ketzner v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP bruen-test circuit-split felony-disarmament nonviolent-offenders rahimi-precedent second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Jason Ketzner, due to prior felony convictions, regardless…
25-326 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act Whether a business association that publishes an optional rule for its members can immunize the rule from being considered a conspiracy under Sherman …
25-5680 David Petersen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus aiding-and-abetting circuit-split constitutional-rights mens-rea specific-intent Whether the mens rea and actus reus requirements for aiding and abetting liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2 demand proof of specific intent and affirmative…
25-311 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Pending Amici (1)Response Requested arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption Does the Federal Arbitration Act permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to arbitration clauses, or…
25-303 Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara Seventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation Does the Americans with Disabilities Act allow an employer to be held liable for discrimination on the basis of disability where the employee has no p…
25-5631 Brian Goorahoo v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-appeal federal-sentencing preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing-procedure Whether a federal criminal defendant must object post-sentence to preserve a claim of sentencing procedural error
25-5626 Andrew Chafin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of any felony offense violates the Second …
25-5607 Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment and whether the statute's lifetime ban on fire…
25-263 Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split erie-doctrine federalism-interests judicial-discretion state-law-certification supplemental-jurisdiction When should federal courts certify state law issues to state supreme courts and what standards should guide their discretion?
25-264 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether a 'contributing factor' in Section 42121(b) is one that 'alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of …
25-5576 Nadege Auguste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud Whether employment and its employee benefits constitute 'money or property' under the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and whether concea…
25-5577 Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict 'the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area' …
25-259 January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-05 Pending Amici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (5) circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy When a plaintiff alleges that the application of a state policy infringed a fundamental right 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition,' …
25-5533 Stanton Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility propensity-evidence rule-404b witness-testimony Is there an 'inextricably intertwined' exception to Rule 404(b)?
25-240 Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-rules circuit-split class-arbitration delegation-doctrine gateway-question Whether the parties' generic incorporation of an arbitration association's rules in their arbitration agreement constitutes clear and unmistakable evi…
25-237 Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response Waived brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment Whether the State's failure to disclose a centerpiece witness's psychiatric hospital admission constitutes a Brady violation warranting relief under d…
25-5490 Travis Broeker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-review criminal-procedure drug-liability judicial-review Whether the Certificate of Appealability process, as currently implemented, provides meaningful judicial review under 28 U.S.C. §2253 and Miller El v.…
25-227 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference announced in Kisor and Loper Bright constrain the deference courts may accord the Sentencing Commission's inter…
25-228 Detrina Solomon v. Flipps Media, Inc., dba FITE, dba FITE TV Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied circuit-split personally-identifiable-information privacy-law reasonable-foreseeability statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act Whether information can be 'personally identifiable' under the Video Privacy Protection Act if it is 'reasonably foreseeably' identifiable or only if …
25-229 Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act Whether the Second Circuit applied the wrong legal standards for equitable tolling, disparate impact claims, and robust causality in Fair Housing Act …
25A218 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-25 Presumed Complete arbitration-provision circuit-split consideration equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act prima-paint Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state contract law rule that requires arbitration provisions to have separate, independent consideratio…
25-209 Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii Whether federal courts of appeal are divided on standards for sexual harassment, disability discrimination, and collective bargaining agreement interp…
25-211 Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain…
25-5409 Stanislav Arbit v. Schneider Electric SE Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split digital-age jurisdictional-standard personal-jurisdiction procedural-hearing website-targeting Whether an entity that purposefully and continuously operates a website serving residents of a forum thereby 'expressly aim' at the forum for purposes…
25-5410 Kyle Syphax v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi…
25-193 Gravity Funding, LLC and Gravity Capital, LLC v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split forfeiture-proceedings pleading-amendment property-interest statutory-interpretation technical-defect Whether Section 853(n) permits a third-party claimant to amend its petition to cure technical pleading defects after the expiration of the 30-day fili…
25-184 Deamonte Law v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment Does the Second Amendment allow for an 'as applied' challenge to the constitutionality of Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban?
25-187 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split evidentiary-presumption federal-rule-of-evidence mailbox-rule state-law-preemption Whether a sworn denial of receipt creates a triable question of fact that rebuts the presumption of receipt under the federal common law mailbox rule
25-188 JFXD TRX ACQ LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. trx.com, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Amici (1) anticybersquatting-consumer-protection-act bad-faith-registration circuit-split domain-name-registration intellectual-property-law trademark-protection Whether registration of a domain name for purposes of the ACPA includes re-registrations, or if it is instead limited to the initial registration
25-5374 Artez Hammonds v. Alabama Alabama 2025-08-15 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether, under Griffin v. California and Carter v. Kentucky, jury instructions omitting 'no adverse inference' language can cure a prosecutor's willfu…
25-5358 Deontay Tyre Compton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of any felony offense violates the Second …
25-5334 Billy Joe Russell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci…
25-167 Alvin Mansour, et al. v. Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Real Estate Division Nevada 2025-08-12 Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split commercial-real-estate facial-unconstitutionality licensing-restriction occupational-regulation Whether Article III standing to challenge a licensing restriction requires prior submission to the challenged restriction
25-159 Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-08-11 Pending CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation land-condemnation natural-gas-act state-law In private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act, should just compensation be determined by reference to state law?
25-162 Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-11 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause Whether the Supreme Court should vacate and remand the Sixth Circuit's decision as moot after HHS restored Tennessee's funding
25-153 Gator's Custom Guns, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington 2025-08-08 Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) ammunition-feeding-devices arms circuit-split constitutional-protection precedent second-amendment Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are 'Arms' presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under…
25A172 Jonathan Seay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Presumed Complete amendment-timing circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limits section-2255 Whether a federal habeas petitioner may file an amended 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition during the pendency of the original petition when circuits are divid…
25-151 Kim H. Peterson, Individually & as Trustee of the Peterson Family Trusts, et al. v. Krista Freitag, Receiver for ANI Development, LLC, American National Investments, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split equitable-receivership federal-court-authority non-consensual-release sec-enforcement third-party-claims Whether a federal court overseeing an equity receivership has equitable authority to dispose of claims that belong to a third-party against non receiv…
25A168 Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden Whether federal courts should apply a uniform standard for determining which party bears the burden of proving venue in a motion to dismiss under Rule…
25-143 Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice Whether the fundamental constitutional right of parents to control their children's education extends beyond school selection and continues within pub…
25-5258 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach under the Armed Career Criminal Act using the latest or historical judicial interpretation of a s…
25-5259 Antonio Marshall v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso…
25-106 Ronald DeWitt Vines v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied attempted-crime bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition statutory-interpretation Whether attempted armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) and the first paragraph of § 2113(a) involves the 'use, attempted use, or threatened us…
25-108 Donald Wayne Bush, et ux. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split judicial-authority non-dischargeable-debt statutory-interpretation tax-liabilities Whether 11 U.S.C. §505(a)(1) confers jurisdiction on the bankruptcy court to adjudicate the amount and legality of a debtor's tax liabilities and whet…
25-5207 Jessica Salazar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom What place, if any, does an individual's religious belief have in a criminal case?
25A116 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library Whether the First Amendment protects a right to receive information from a public library and how the government speech doctrine applies to library co…
25-86 Ashok Arora v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split declarant-testimony federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in accepting hearsay declarations under FRE 803(6) and 803(7) without producing underlying business records
25-85 Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver Whether a district court has discretionary authority to grant or withhold fundamental due process rights in criminal proceedings
25-78 Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick Assocs. Ltd. P'ship reg…
25-79 Ton Ton Aquino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Pending appellate-waiver circuit-split sentencing-conditions sex-offender-registration supervised-release unlawful-sentencing Whether it is unlawful for a court to impose sex offender registration as a condition of supervised release for a non-qualifying offense, and to enfor…
25-81 Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Pending circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective changes in sentencing law when deciding if 'extraordinar…
25A88 Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete ada-section-12112 americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination medical-inquiry Whether employees without actual or perceived disabilities can recover for 'discrimination' under the Americans with Disabilities Act's medical inquir…
25-61 Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the …
25-5144 Gregory Michael Hawes v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split regarding mandatory minimum imprisonment terms and the unconstitutional reallocation of burde…
25-56 Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements Does inadmissibility of F.R.E. 408 apply to severance agreements when no claims exist?
25-5095 Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant…
25-5087 Tashawn Burns v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
25-22 Ricky Koel v. Citizens Medical Center, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split emergency-treatment emtala hospital-liability medical-malpractice patient-rights Whether the emergency imperative of EMTALA displaces a State Law medical malpractice exception and requires proper emergency patient treatment
25-5054 Eural Black v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-08 Pending IFP circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction Whether a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective changes in sentencing law when deciding if 'extraordinar…
25A25 Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts must apply a broad, expansive definition of religious belief under Title VII that allows for the coexistence of secular and rel…
25A31 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation erlinger-standard harmless-error jury-trial-right supreme-court-review Whether the Supreme Court should establish a definitive standard for harmless-error review of constitutional violations in criminal cases, particularl…
25-18 Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement Whether the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in actions seeking monetary relief in the form of the infringer's profits
25-19 Laura Loomer, Individually and as a Candidate for United States Congress, et al. v. Mark Zuckerberg, Individually and as CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split ninth-circuit post-judgment-facts res-judicata rico-claims social-media-censorship Does the Ninth Circuit's application of res judicata conflict with Supreme Court precedent and create a circuit split regarding post-judgment facts in…
25-12 Arrin Farrar, et ux. v. Textron Aviation, Inc., et al. Kansas 2025-07-03 Denied airworthiness circuit-split due-process general-aviation-revitalization-act jury-trial statutory-interpretation Whether various State and Federal Courts have inconsistently applied the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 by denying litigants a jury trial…
25-5010 Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, and does the Fifth Circuit's opinion co…
25A5 Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix Whether Title IX provides an implied private right of action for employees to sue for sex discrimination in educational institutions
24-1329 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Second Amendment Foundation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-30 Pending Amici (1)Relisted (2) age-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-interpretation founding-era-law gun-rights second-amendment Do firearms laws imposing a minimum age of 21 violate the purported Second Amendment rights of 18-to20-year-olds?
24A1294 Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions, including non-violent offenses, violates the Se…
24-7520 Salvador Nolasco Romero v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-error Does the district court commit legal error in rejecting a guilty plea based on a legally inadequate defense, or can the district court reject it in an…
24-1311 Kevin T. Lavery v. Pursuant Health, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-interpretation patent-law patent-misuse royalty-agreement stare-decisis Whether the Court should overrule Brulotte and Kimble or at least clarify that an agreement containing a post-expiration royalty is not per se patent …
24-1309 East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor Third Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation Whether time spent on 'integral and indispensable' activities is measured based on reasonable duration or actual duration
24-1295 Brandon Phillips v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court should apply the plain meaning of 'expunged' when calculating a defendant's criminal history under the Sentencing Guideline…
24A1266 Kyle Syphax v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the rule of lenity requires courts to resolve inherent textual ambiguity when multiple circuits have reached conflicting interpretations of a …
24-1293 Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t…
24-7460 Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen…
24-1289 Nissan North America, Inc. v. Sherida Johnson, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action federal-court injury-in-fact rule-23 Whether a federal court may certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class when almost no one in the class has suffered an Article III injury, and whether a federal co…
24-7429 Randy Torres v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor Whether the district court's final jury instruction for the Special Sentencing Factor violated Apprendi v. New Jersey and constructively amended the i…
24-7425 Joshua Sutherland v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-statute second-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment? Does 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) comport with the Sixth Amendment?
24-1266 Jump Trading, LLC v. Nick Patterson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-12 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act gateway-arbitrability nonsignatory Where an arbitration agreement contains a provision delegating to the arbitrator gateway questions of arbitrability, must a court leave for the arbitr…
24-7396 Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the mandate rule precludes or permits a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on i…
24-7403 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation Whether multiple convictions and sentences under a single statutory provision of Title 8 U.S.C. 1324 for simultaneous conduct violate the Double Jeopa…
24-1253 Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations Whether the CMS Rule 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n) is constitutional according to conflicting Circuit Court interpretations
24-7363 Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman Whether a circuit split exists regarding Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application to void judgments and whether institutional manipulation violates due p…
24-7355 Curtis Dewayne Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bashara-factors circuit-split counsel-pressure guilty-plea judicial-discretion pre-sentencing-motion Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made after an initial trial that ended with a hung ju…
24-7349 Reymundo Arredondo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure essential-elements indictment statutory-interpretation When a criminal offense can be committed in a variety of ways, does a prosecutor constructively amend an indictment by altering the essential elements…
24-7335 Curtis Harris v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction Is the Seventh Circuit on the wrong side of a circuit split when it construes the term 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.2(b) of the Sentenci…
24-1207 Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal Eighth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai…
24-1192 Ovation Fund Management II, LLC v. Nossaman LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) bar-order circuit-split claim-extinguishment equity-receivership federal-court-power third-party-claims Whether a federal court overseeing an equity receivership has the power to enjoin and extinguish claims that belong to non-receivership entities again…
24-7262 Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim When a state court issues a reasoned merits decision on only one component of a multi-component claim, does AEDPA require federal habeas courts to def…
24-1183 Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law Whether a categorical mismatch occurs when the elements of a predicate state offense criminalize conduct outside the enumerated offense under the thre…
24-7239 Ian R. Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split first-amendment obstruction-offense stalking-statute statutory-construction true-threats Whether an intent to 'harass' or 'intimidate' under the federal stalking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, has an 'ordinary' broad meaning or is limited to …
24-1173 Evans Hotels, LLC, et al. v. Unite Here! Local 30, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split first-amendment labor-law noerr-pennington section-8b4 sham-petitioning Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the First Amendment and the Noerr-Pennington doctrine protect the unions' actions despite those actions viol…
24-1164 Jacqueline R. Everson v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-rights due-process equitable-tolling erisa-plan statutory-violation Whether the courts are precluded from violating statutory laws affecting the rights of ERISA plan participants nationwide and whether such violations …
24-7200 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo…
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 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…
24-7189 Hannah Hekel v. Hunter Warfield, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-standing circuit-split common-law-harm emotional-injury fdcpa-claims injury-in-fact Whether the Eighth Circuit's approach to Article III standing for emotional injuries is consistent with the case-by-case analysis in Spokeo and TransU…
24-1155 Melynda Vincent v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Tenth Circuit 2025-05-12 Pending Amici (2)Relisted (7) circuit-split constitutional-challenge firearm-disarmament historical-analysis nonviolent-felony second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm a person with a seventeen-year-old nonviolent felony conviction for t…
24-7181 Robert Carl Sharp v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the Cuyler v. Sullivan standard for conflict of interest apply uniformly across circuits when assessing Sixth Amendment violations in successive …
24-7167 Derek Rogers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a conviction under Colorado Revised Statute for a controlled substance offense can serve as a predicate for career offender designation under …
24-7161 Todd Sheffler v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation For what purposes may courts use facts or events that occurred after the offense to determine the 'reasonable likelihood' of a federal investigation a…
24-1143 Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are 'for,' as Brulotte and Kimble require
24-7149 Samuel James Weaver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts?
24-1131 Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking vic…
24-7114 Daniel Flint v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy Whether the writ of error coram nobis is procedurally barred if a petitioner is 'in custody' or could have-but did not-raise the same claim in a timel…
24-1122 Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals misapplied Federal precedent in admitting post-Miranda statements under Elstad despite Seibert, and whether the …
24-7093 Alfred Velazquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review presentence-report sentencing-error structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
24-7075 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment Whether convicted felons retain Second Amendment rights under the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in Heller, and whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1)…
24-7072 Du Truong Nguyen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation What is required to prove concealment money laundering?
24-7054 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether uncorroborated hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(E) without independent proof of conspiracy violates the Sixth Amendment's Conf…
24-7020 Rosalio Alejandro Gonzalez-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process interrogation miranda-custody two-step-test Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-7021 Moises Garcia v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-04-17 Denied IFP circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement presumptively-lawful reasonable-suspicion May the police conduct an investigative detention after observing a presumptively lawful act without additional information to suggest that criminal a…
24-1078 Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against servicemembers' tort claims is limited to injuries directly caused by military duties or should be narrowed/o…
24-6994 Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit split exists regarding the interpretation of the money laundering statute's knowledge requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i)
24-1066 Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation Whether a private individual may be convicted of honest-services fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1346 where the alleged scheme to defraud did not contemplate …
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…
24-6934 Frederick Pina v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-04-07 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights contract-clause default-judgment due-process judicial-fraud Whether the California Supreme Court's failure to enforce a fully executed contract violates the Contract Clause and Fourteenth Amendment's Due Proces…
24-1046 Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2025-04-03 Granted Amici (35) bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Hawaii may presumptively prohibit handgun carry by licensed concealed carry permit holders on private …
24-1035 Omni Healthcare, Inc. v. U.S. Oncology, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure qui-tam relator Is a qui tam relator barred by the 'public disclosure' of its own prior complaint, and does the public-disclosure bar apply to the unsealing of a firs…
24-1034 Ulysses Charles Sneed v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review sixth-amendment Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's application for a COA as to his constitutional habeas claims where (i) a circuit judge found that…
24-1020 Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law Whether federal courts can predict changes in state law under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
24-1025 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (6) circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-association legal-profession mandatory-bar Whether compelled membership in a bar association that engages in nongermane activities is necessarily unconstitutional and whether the Court should r…
24-1026 Oregon v. Committee to Recall Dan Holladay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) ballot-access circuit-split direct-democracy first-amendment procedural-requirement voter-rights When a neutral, procedural requirement burdens voters' advancement of direct-democracy measures to the ballot, does that requirement affect any intere…
24-1016 RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Pending CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114
24-6836 Christian Genao v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release Must sentencing courts orally pronounce nonmandatory conditions of supervised release to protect defendants' right to be present and to put them on no…
24-1011 Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act; Whether co…
24-6814 Jason Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing-law Did the appeal waiver in Petitioner's plea agreement foreclose an appeal claiming that his sentence was illegal on its face and could not lawfully be …
24-6818 Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, or whether such challenges …
24-996 Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. Third Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii Whether an employee's religious belief under Title VII is unprotected if a court determines it would create a 'blanket privilege' or is broadly protec…
24-994 National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar Second Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) article-iii-standing circuit-split consumer-rights personal-information third-party-disclosure video-privacy-protection-act Whether a consumer claiming harm from personal information disclosure must plead public revelation to establish Article III standing, or if disclosure…
24-6761 Eric Vaughn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release Whether a district court can delegate to a probation officer the determination of drug testing frequency during supervised release
24-975 Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination exigent-circumstances law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation Whether Title II of the ADA applies when law-enforcement officers face exigent circumstances during encounters with individuals with disabilities
24-6740 Royel Page v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied IFP buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review QP1: Whether evidence of repeat, distribution-sized drug transactions alone is sufficient to prove a drug conspiracy, as opposed to a mere buyer-selle…
24-965 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso…
24-953 Lerner and Rowe PC, an Arizona Corporation v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC, dba Accident Law Group, an Arizona Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied circuit-split consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion trademark-infringement Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of likelihood of consumer confusion factors in trademark infringement actions conflicts with other Circuit Courts…
24-6690 Arjune Ahmed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault What does it mean to be 'accused of sexual assault' for purposes of Federal Rule of Evidence 413, and when can such evidence be admitted in a criminal…
24-6692 Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody…
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…
24-940 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue Ninth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-law circuit-split congressional-power eleventh-amendment involuntary-bankruptcy sovereign-immunity Whether the Eleventh Amendment prevents Congress from authorizing citizens to collect damages against states that force citizens into bankruptcy with …
24-6679 Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability Whether agency principles apply when a severely mentally and physically disabled inmate relies on an incarcerated, non-lawyer advocate for legal assis…
24A837 Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 Third Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split ejectment-judgment fraud-exception property-rights rooker-feldman supreme-court-rules Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application in federal courts creates an impermissible barrier to reviewing state court judgments involving pote…
24-6666 Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso…
24-6634 Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay Whether time spent transporting a criminal defendant to a competency evaluation facility counts toward or is excluded from the 70-day Speedy Trial Act…
24-6635 Jory Leedy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus plea-voluntariness speedy-trial-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit's per se rule in Ramos v. Rogers violates Blackledge v. Allison's prohibition on foreclosing challenges to plea voluntarines…
24-905 Martha G. Bronitsky, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Jorden Marie Saldana Ninth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-code chapter-13 circuit-split debtor-contributions retirement-accounts unsecured-creditors Whether, under the Bankruptcy Code, debtors can voluntarily contribute to their own retirement accounts rather than pay back unsecured creditors—and i…
24-892 Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries?
24-6584 Colton Bagola v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-law first-degree-murder force-clause statutory-interpretation Whether first-degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
24-879 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split evidentiary-standard federal-rule-evidence fifth-amendment state-of-mind-exception witness-testimony Whether the Eighth Circuit's interpretation of Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3) conflicts with other circuits' understanding and should be corrected by…
24-880 NexPoint Asset Management, L.P., fka Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split credibility-determination material-fact non-moving-party self-serving-testimony summary-judgment Whether, contrary to the decisions of multiple other circuits that properly preserve the province of the jury to decide genuinely disputed issues of m…
24-883 Molly Vogt, as Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Joshua Vogt, Deceased v. CO Robert Anderson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (3) adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure evidence-destruction spoliation summary-judgment Whether a jury should decide the weight of an adverse inference from the intentional destruction of evidence that could have contradicted the spoliato…
24-6562 Derek Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process factual-basis guilty-plea sentencing-guidelines Whether an unconditional guilty plea admits surplus factual allegations not essential to proving an offense element, and what standard of appellate re…
24-6545 Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order Whether a reviewing court may find ambiguity by going beyond the words used by the district court when pronouncing the relevant decision
24A773 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-rights Whether a criminal defendant's appeal waiver in a plea agreement can be invalidated by a sentencing judge's statement about the right to appeal or by …
24-6512 In Re John David Stahlman 2025-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split federal-statute judicial-conflict statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Appeals created a circuit conflict regarding the elements of a federal statute requiring proof or pleading of specific elements
24-848 Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard in Monasky v. Taglieri by disregarding a child'…
24-6505 Jerome Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-error statutory-right Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of his plea agreemen…
24-845 Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act fraud-allegation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation Whether the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act requires an express allegation of fraud
24-6495 Billy Joe Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a defendant who is erroneously denied his Counsel of Choice in Violation of the Sixth Amendment, which is structural error, waives his right t…
24-6452 Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
24-820 Daniel Rutherford v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-03 Granted Amici (7)Relisted (2) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective changes in sentencing law when deciding if 'extraordinar…
24-823 Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarmed …
24A750 Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality Whether an entity created by a state to perform essential public functions qualifies as an 'arm of the state' entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign…
24-808 Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(c)(1) imposes any time limit to set aside a void default judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction
24-6400 Tac Tran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment guest-rights home-entry search-and-seizure standing Whether a guest who has substantial connections to a home and its residents has Fourth Amendment standing to challenge a search of the home that occur…
24-6409 Eric Jamar Goodall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion medical-conditions sentencing-relief Did the lower courts err in not requiring or at minimum presuming consideration of 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' prior to denying Eric Jamar …
24-6410 Antoine Wiggins v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines refers only to substances controlled under federal law or also includes substance…
24-6395 Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-restoration criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication sell-standard Whether a district court must specifically address substantial evidence undermining the case for forcible medication of a criminal defendant to restor…
24-6397 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-standard judicial-consistency procedural-fairness rule-12b6 Does the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) require a consistent standard across circuits, or may courts apply varying criteria leading to unpre…
24-6372 Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-789 ECB USA, Inc., a Florida Corporation, et al. v. Chubb Insurance Company of New Jersey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-interpretation erie-doctrine federal-common-law judicial-precedent state-law Whether under Erie v. Tompkins a federal court can apply federal common law rules of contract construction instead of New Jersey state law principles
24-6370 Anthony Medina v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review state-court-adjudication Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of 'adjudication on the merits' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) conflicts with Supreme Court precedent in Johnson…
24-784 Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the SEC v. Chenery Corp. rule to Black Lung Benefits Act cases, contrary to other circuit court interpretati…
24A717 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey precludes a § 1983 plaintiff from seeking prospective injunctive relief challenging a law under which they were previously co…
24-765 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied circuit-split comity-principles constitutional-takings federal-abstention property-rights tax-foreclosure Whether federal courts must abstain from constitutional takings cases that seek to recover only the surplus value of a property that was taken pursuan…
24A709 Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion Whether a plea agreement entered in one federal district court is binding on federal prosecutors in other districts when resolving potential criminal …
24-6326 Mark Allen Hayden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Floyd v. State demonstrates that Petitioner's prior statute of conviction cannot be divided for the purposes of the categorical approach, and …
24-759 Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-16 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract causation-principles circuit-split commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-requirements Whether in a breach of contract case under the FSIA's third clause, courts must apply traditional causation principles or require an additional findin…
24-6310 Descart Austin Begay, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP circuit-split evidence-rule fabrication impeachment prior-consistent-statement witness-testimony Did the 2014 amendment to Rule 801(d)(1)(B) supplant this Court's decision in Tome to permit introduction of a declarant witness's prior consistent st…
24A691 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension Whether the Eleventh Circuit's ruling in a complex criminal case involving potential circuit splits warrants Supreme Court review
24-6294 Christopher Lloyd Burnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split counsel-substitution court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights sixth-amendment What standard governs a criminal defendant's motion to substitute retained with court-appointed counsel?
24-741 Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing Whether an accidental death insurance policy subject to ERISA should determine the existence of an 'accident' by common law presumption or a 'reasonab…
24-734 Strategic Technology Institute, Incorporated v. MGMTL, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split computer-program copyright-law fair-use menu-command potential-market Whether the scope of protectable matter in a computer program is a question for the Court or for a jury, and whether a computer program's menu command…
24-735 Raymond Liddy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied circuit-split federal-criminal-law internet-crime interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation Whether statutes containing 'in interstate or foreign commerce' language require proof of actual interstate transmission or merely internet use
24A680 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether a federal appellate court retains jurisdiction to review a habeas petition when the underlying state criminal conviction has been vacated and …
24-6286 Frank James v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-defect jurisdictional-error Whether a defect in an indictment is categorically a non-jurisdictional error, even if the indictment alleges conduct beyond the charging statute's sc…
24-6288 Jose Estrada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split citizenship-status double-jeopardy identity-fraud passport-application perjury Whether the government improperly sought to relitigate ultimate facts previously determined by a jury in a prosecution involving identity and citizens…
24-724 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-10 Granted Amici (10)Relisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred by d…
24-728 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce states a claim under Pike v. Bruce Church, and whether lower fe…
24-6233 Dearick Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie applies to the United States Sentencing Guidelines and whether a sentencing court errs in defer…
24A665 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete age-discrimination circuit-split constitutional-rights disparate-impact employment-act jury-trial Whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act permits disparate impact claims beyond the traditional protected class of employees aged 40 and over,…
24-711 Joe Morford v. Maurizio Cattelan Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied access-proof artwork-copying circuit-split copyright-law striking-similarity substantial-likeness Can portions of artwork establish striking similarity and prove copying without direct evidence of access?
24-6218 Anthony McCarary v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness Does advocating for a particular sentence preserve the procedural reasonableness claim that a court failed to adequately explain the sentence when it …
24-689 Randal Jerome Dalavai, as Successor in Interest to Decedent Geetha Dalavai and son of Geetha Dalavai v. The Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split emergency-medicine emtala hospital-liability medical-standard-of-care patient-rights Whether a hospital's obligation under EMTALA ends when the patient is admitted or requires full stabilization before release
24-6213 Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit improperly applied precedent and misinterpreted statutory immunity defenses in a manner conflict…
24-6202 Kayne Russell Donath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied IFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement ussg-guideline Whether a statute that does not require the affirmative use of force has, as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force
24A622 Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2024-12-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedy investor-protection sec-enforcement securities-law Whether a federal court has authority to award disgorgement under securities law when the alleged victims suffered no pecuniary harm
24-6182 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied IFP capital-defendant certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review Whether a circuit split in procedures for reviewing certificates of appealability constitutes a due process violation and warrants Supreme Court inter…
24-672 Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in six …
24-673 Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied arrest-basis circuit-split first-amendment interference-statute qualified-immunity speech-protection Whether the First Amendment protects a husband's advice to his wife that leads to his arrest, and whether the Court should review the Fifth Circuit's …
24A616 Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari circuit-split federal-defender legal-complexity post-conviction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's ruling in a complex criminal case warrants Supreme Court review due to potential circuit splits and significant legal i…
24A609 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process fair-labor-standards-act judicial-procedure res-judicata rule-41 Whether a federal appellate court can dismiss a plaintiff's claims by mischaracterizing their legal arguments and failing to address substantive due p…
24-6170 Robert E. Carter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commercial-contract federal-statute fraud-inducement property-deprivation wire-fraud Whether fraudulent inducement of a commercial contract violates federal wire fraud statutes when no property loss occurs and whether property deprivat…
24A597 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in a complex criminal case involving potential circuit splits warrants Supreme Court review
24A582 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete aedpa cause-and-prejudice circuit-split death-penalty juror-misconduct procedural-default Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) applies to procedural default analysis in reviewing claims of juror misconduct that …
24-6128 Jonathan High v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2251 for a video showing a minor engaging in innocuous conduct without editing the video to cre…
24-643 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-6126 Joel S. Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split discretionary-sentence extraordinary-compelling-reasons federal-criminal-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a combination of 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) can include reasons also alleged as grounds for vacatu…
24-6107 Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 GVR IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) after Bruen and Rahimi, and if so, whether th…
24-6112 Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines Whether a career offender sentence should be determined based on predicate crimes at the time of sentencing or time of conviction given the current Ci…
24-628 BNP Paribas SA, a French Corporation, et al. v. Entesar Osman Kashef, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied circuit-split class-certification district-court interlocutory-appeal manifest-error rule-23f Whether the courts of appeals have discretion under Rule 23(f) to grant interlocutory review solely because a district court's class-certification ord…
24-629 Petrobras America, Incorporated v. Samsung Heavy Industries Company, Limited Fifth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-action direct-relation injury-standard proximate-cause rico-act What is the appropriate standard for assessing a direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged under RICO, and can pro…
24-630 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-6077 Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Whether a sentencing court should consult Chapter 109A offenses when determining a Chapter 110 sentencing enhancement for prior sexual abuse convictio…
24-610 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer Eighth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-597 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied circuit-split heck-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 three-strikes-rule Whether dismissals under Heck v. Humphrey categorically constitute strikes under the Prison Litigation Reform Act's three-strikes rule
24-6060 Albert Trampis Dogskin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split false-information judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-error Whether there is an exception to an appeal waiver in a plea agreement where the district court relied on false or unreliable information in sentencing
24-590 Brian Kelsey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split error-preservation judicial-procedure plea-agreement preservation-standard What must one say to preserve an error for appellate review and does Holguin-Hernandez apply beyond sentencing reasonableness?
24-585 Kevin J. Patten, et al. v. Travis S. Sweigart Third Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-review catastrophic-injuries circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure third-circuit trial-bifurcation Whether the Third Circuit's imposition of a categorical rule against bifurcation of trials involving catastrophic injuries violates the letter and spi…
24-6048 Cheryl Christin Kissentaner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split diaz-precedent evidentiary-standard federal-evidence-rule judicial-review legal-interpretation Should this Court clarify its prior decision in Diaz v. United States to resolve the ongoing circuit split concerning the interpretation of Federal Ev…
24-6035 Jamel Muldrew v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court's Kisor v. Wilkie holding supports treating Sentencing Guidelines as agency rules requiring traditional statutory interpreta…
24-6036 Antonio Medina v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. California 2024-11-26 Denied IFP circuit-split court-sealed-documents first-amendment immunity publication-rights section-230 Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding immunity under Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code and First Amendm…
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?
24A518 Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure electronic-data forfeiture-law property-rights Whether electronic data files stored on forfeitable devices constitute distinct 'property' under 18 U.S.C. § 2253(a) that can be separately returned w…
24A509 Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-25 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional in light of recent Supreme Court decisions interpreting criminal statutes and Second Amendment rights
24A510 Sprout Foods, Inc. v. Gillian Davidson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-25 Presumed Complete circuit-split fdca-preemption food-labeling nlea private-enforcement sherman-law Whether a state law claim that incorporates federal food labeling regulations by reference creates a private right of action that circumvents the Food…
24-576 Nutramax Laboratories, Inc., et al. v. Justin Lytle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split class-certification daubert-standard expert-testimony predominance-requirement rule-23 When a plaintiff seeking to certify a class relies on an expert to establish that classwide issues predominate, must the expert testimony satisfy the …
24-6028 Jawan Fortia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-enterprise interstate-commerce rico-act vicar-act What proof is required to satisfy RICO and VICAR's interstate-commerce elements, and must prosecutors prove that an enterprise's activities in fact af…
24-6020 Justin Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a sex trafficking conviction based on a sentencing guidelines interpretation that conflicts with the Nin…
24-563 Karl W. Nichols v. Lance Wiersma Seventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response Waived bad-faith-standard circuit-split constitutional-law due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence Whether the Seventh Circuit's McCarthy framework for evaluating exculpatory evidence preservation is incompatible with Supreme Court precedent and oth…
24-5997 Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 GVR IFP as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether after Bruen and Rahimi, a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and if so, whether th…
24-6006 Michael Tyrone Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation controlled-substances felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with nonviolent felony convictions for distributing controlled…
24-5995 Manuel Espinoza-Camacho v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
24-6000 Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition minor-protection statutory-interpretation Does secretly photographing a nude minor in ordinary bathroom activities constitute 'sexually explicit conduct' under federal child pornography statut…
24-556 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-18 Granted Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis…
24-550 Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation Whether the term 'offense' in the double jeopardy provision of extradition treaties refers to underlying conduct or elements of crimes
24-545 Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation Whether the two-factor Holland v. Florida equitable tolling test applies universally across federal cases and how circuits should interpret diligence …
24-5953 Ellva Slaughter v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied IFP circuit-split cross-section-representation discriminatory-intent jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion Whether Duren's 'systematic exclusion' prong can be satisfied by proof of consistent underrepresentation or requires evidence of specific discriminato…
24-5957 Jeramy Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Do district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence in the absence of a showing that the defendant committed an offense …
24-5938 John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for forfeiture of property contents and whether a criminal defendant can recover non-contraband items from fo…
24-517 Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) appellate-review circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-claim Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's application to appeal the denial of his Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claims?
24-520 James G. Connell, III v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2024-11-06 Denied agency-disclosure circuit-split evidence-standard foia glomar-response judicial-review Whether a court may weigh all relevant evidence or only agency-acknowledged evidence when assessing the legality of a Glomar response under the Freedo…
24-5893 Mahlon Prater, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy-charges constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Whether courts should assess the degree of difference or overlap between charged conspiracies to determine a double jeopardy violation
24-5905 Huosheng Xian v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing Whether a sentencing judge can make safety-valve findings when a defendant's statements are inconsistent with the jury's verdict
24-5907 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-discretion preclusion-principles procedural-defect rule-60b Whether a federal court can apply preclusion principles to bar new claims when prior proceedings were not fully litigated
24-494 American Warrior, Incorporated, et al. v. Foundation Energy Fund IV-A, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay circuit-split statutory-injunction void-vs-voidable Should the Court resolve the circuit split over whether actions taken in violation of the bankruptcy automatic stay are void or merely voidable?
24-5890 Ushery Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of a residence based solely on a person's status as a known drug dealer and whether Leon's g…
24-493 Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation Whether an employer's honest but mistaken belief about an employee's FMLA-protected leave precludes liability under the Family and Medical Leave Act
24-495 Lebene Konan v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split equal-protection federal-employees intracorporate-conspiracy ku-klux-klan-act section-1985-3 Whether federal employees can be liable under Section 1985(3) and whether the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine applies to such claims
24-5880 Eric Schmidt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the presumption of mens rea applies to elements that increase statutory minimum and maximum penalties or only to elements that criminalize oth…
24-5883 Charles Victor Flint v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-offense recidivism-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state sexual offense that criminalizes conduct more broadly than federal offenses triggers a mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 22…
24-476 Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, et al. v. Pairprep, Inc., dba OpticsML Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration circuit-split federal-question jurisdiction preclusive-effect res-judicata Whether a court or arbitrator should determine the preclusive effect of a prior judgment in an arbitration proceeding
24-481 Irma Leibas v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split employment-discrimination essential-job-functions medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly deferred to a doctor's medical restrictions in determining ADA 'qualified individual' status, or whether a more …
24-482 Holsey Ellingburg, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-restitution ex-post-facto mandatory-victim-restitution-act penal-statute Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause
24-5869 Shawn Eric Durrah, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-distribution firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines Whether mere presence of a firearm and nexus to narcotic activity is sufficient to apply the dangerous weapon enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1)…
24A420 Randal Jerome Dalavai, as Successor in Interest to Decedent Geetha Dalavai and son of Geetha Dalavai v. The Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete administrative-deference circuit-split emtala hospital-liability medical-treatment patient-stabilization Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) continues beyond initial patient admission and requires o…
24A423 Sean J. Trahan v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state child pornography statute that is broader than the federal statute can categorically qualify as an offense 'relating to' child pornogr…
24-473 Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr…
24-470 Michelle R. Gilbank v. Wood County Department of Human Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Amici (3) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-claims rooker-feldman-doctrine state-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the Rooker-Feldman doctrine extend to bar federal claims for damages where the state judgment neither awarded nor denied damages, meaning the f…
24-5838 Joseph Boswell, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split count-of-conviction evidentiary-standard spillover-prejudice trial-strategy When an appellate court vacates some, but not all, counts of conviction on appeal, what standard or test should the appellate court apply to determine…
24A410 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1446b circuit-split federal-question removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether a federal court can review an untimely notice of removal under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b) when there is a circuit split on the issue of reviewability
24-5794 Juan Daniel Sierra-Jimenez v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-agreement circuit-split plain-error-rule plea-agreement prejudice-prong sentencing-review Whether a Circuit Split exists related to how lower courts examine Defendants' compliance with the third prong of the plain error rule in cases involv…
24-440 Harold R. Berk v. Wilson C. Choy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) affidavit-of-merit circuit-split expert-testimony federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction state-procedural-rules Whether a state law providing that a complaint must be dismissed unless it is accompanied by an expert affidavit may be applied in federal court
24-5781 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-law summary-judgment tenth-amendment Whether a violation of a collective bargaining agreement constitutes an adverse employment action and whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals er…
24-433 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-17 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split facial-challenge federal-enforcement horseracing-integrity separation-of-powers Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act are facially unconstitutional under the doctrine of separation of power…
24-5774 Dwayne Barrett v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-17 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), and whether Hobbs Act robbery quali…
24-5776 Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions Whether federal courts should consult the most recent state court decisions or pre-conviction state court decisions when determining the elements of a…
24-426 Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split on the proper approach to determining Article III standing in class action lawsuits
24A356 Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete capable-of-repetition certiorari circuit-split election-law judicial-review mootness Whether the 'capable of repetition, yet evading review' standard should be uniformly interpreted in election law cases to allow more flexible mootness…
24-418 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Mary N. Insall, as Executrix of the Estate of John N. Insall Seventh Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-enforcement patent-rights patent-royalties patent-term public-policy Whether an agreement for a royalty exchanged for patent rights that extends to sales of products as marketed or branded is enforceable under Brulotte …
24-5757 Damian Cortez v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant Whether a circuit split exists regarding the standard for presenting an offer of proof under Franks v. Delaware and the Fourth Amendment requirements …
24-5758 Eriston Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split conspiracy-charge evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent-determination rule-404b Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that a plea of not guilty to a conspiracy charge automatically renders similar, extrinsic acts admissible as relevant to…
24-5759 Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal Whether a bankruptcy court's denial of a debtor's motion to voluntarily dismiss a Chapter 7 case is a final appealable order under 28 U.S.C. § 158
24A353 Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession Whether the 'in relation to' element of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires more than a mere potential to facilitate a crime of violence when a firearm is car…
24-392 Argent Trust Company v. Ramon DeJesus Cedeno, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response Waived arbitration-provision circuit-split erisa-claims federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation Whether an ERISA plan participant can bring individual claims and be compelled to individual arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act
24-397 Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-courts maritime-law navigational-capacity-test negligence-liability Does the navigational capacity test used by the Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on Mar…
24-5719 Guy Christopher Mannino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-discretion modified-approach statutory-interpretation When determining whether an offense qualifies as a crime of violence, may a lower court use an approach that does not include the Supreme Court's cate…
24-5723 Terrell Trammell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard circuit-split double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms-possession second-amendment Whether § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under Bruen and violates the Second and Fifth Amendments' protections against double jeopardy
24-384 Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. v. DZ Reserve, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split class-certification fraud-class-action predominance rule-23 Whether the Ninth Circuit's 'common course of conduct' test improperly dilutes Rule 23(b)(3)'s predominance requirement by ignoring differences among …
24-377 South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another
24-366 Austin Kyle Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement Whether Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors or sentencing errors and whether Almendarez-Torres should be overruled
24A304 Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review circuit-split criminal-proceeds forfeiture health-care-payor honeycutt-precedent Whether federal courts can impose criminal forfeiture against private health care payors following the Supreme Court's decision in Honeycutt v. United…
24-5650 Roberto Yepez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the compassionate-release statute in 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1) permits reducing supervised release across different circuit court interpretations
24-345 FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-26 Granted CVSGAmici (20)Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act creates an implied private right of action
24-334 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-24 Dismissed agency-jurisdiction circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction merits-defense state-law-claim When state law vests a state agency with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim, should a federal court decide for itself at the outset whether to dismis…
24A291 Charles Garo Avetian v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-24 Presumed Complete circuit-split electronic-filing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant Whether a notice of appeal filed outside the 60-day deadline due to an electronic filing system malfunction should be deemed timely under federal appe…
24-327 Pulse8, LLC, et al. v. Family Health Physical Medicine, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split commercial-advertising fax-transmission statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement Does the TCPA prohibit sending faxes that do not advertise the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services if plaintiffs al…
24-5615 Merl Simpson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations Whether the one-year limitations period in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) runs from the date of the original or amended criminal judgment when restitution obliga…
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
24-5583 Carlos Sanchez v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP §2254-petition circuit-split conflict-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus speedy-trial Whether conflict counsel's motion for continuance violates a criminal defendant's right to a speedy trial and whether the Eleventh Circuit's standard …
24-5571 Bakari Abdul Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure felony-conviction ineffective-assistance stipulation Whether a circuit split exists regarding the ineffective assistance of counsel standard for stipulating to a defendant's prior felony conviction
24-5557 Michael Avenatti v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the 'key role' standard adopted by the Second Circuit conflicts with the Supreme Court's 'crux' nexus test for criminal liability under the ag…
24-295 Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that a criminal defendant can waive counsel without being fully informed of the charges, potential defense…
24-5553 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split constitutional-trial-error giglio-napue-claims habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a habeas court must apply Brecht harmless-error analysis to Giglio/Napue claims intertwined in a proceeding marred by a pattern of egregious p…
24A263 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction legal-standards supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal court of appeals improperly deviated from established legal standards in a manner that could create a circuit split warranting Supre…
24-287 Jennifer Root Bannon, as the Special Personal Representative of the Estate of Juston Root v. David Godin, Boston Police Officer, et al. First Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split credibility-assessment deadly-force evidence-weighing factual-determination summary-judgment Did the appeals court improperly create new summary judgment standards and establish a circuit split regarding the use of deadly force?
24-5529 Jose Muyet v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 circuit-split collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine direct-review federal-criminal-conviction Does the concurrent sentence doctrine permit a federal court to decline review of a collateral challenge to a federal criminal conviction, even one ca…
24-5535 Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a VICAR assault can qualify as a 'crime of violence' if the underlying assault does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s definition
24-5532 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion When a § 2255 petitioner demonstrates through a retroactive constitutional rule that he is innocent, must an otherwise valid collateral-attack waiver …
24-279 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-11 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation Whether, in an as-applied First Amendment challenge to a licensing law, the standard for determining whether the law regulates speech or regulates con…
24-5519 Matthew Peddicord v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence rule-404b Whether evidence of prior bad acts is admissible under Rule 404(b) where its relevance to a proper purpose depends on propensity reasoning
24-267 John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split dismissal-without-prejudice fee-shifting judicial-discretion prevailing-party statutory-interpretation Does a dismissal without prejudice that reestablishes the pre-suit status quo make a defendant the 'prevailing party' under fee-shifting statutes?
24-264 Jay A. Liestman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state offense involving child pornography can serve as a predicate for federal sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) when the …
24-5484 Irvin Abreu v. United States First Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation Whether a federal court may reject state appellate authority in determining a state statute's divisibility under the categorical approach and whether …
24-249 A. J. T., By and Through Her Parents, A. T. & G. T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-rights educational-discrimination reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the ADA and Rehabilitation Act require children with disabilities to satisfy a uniquely stringent 'bad faith or gross misjudgment' standard wh…
24-5446 Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) can be based on a definitional term 'lascivious' without depicting actual sexual conduct
24-5456 Robert Paul Durrell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-04 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether a district court may rely on 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when revoking supervised release despite their omission from 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e…
24-5438 Michael Bowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-03 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether 28 U.S.C. § …
24-5427 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation circuit-split constitutional-violation double-jeopardy indictment-defect sentencing-enhancement Whether the district court violated constitutional rights by denying relief on indictment charges, charging the same crime across multiple indictments…
24-5433 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu…
24-224 Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-29 Dismissed Relisted (2) circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding the misleading nature of risk factor disclosures in SEC filings when a warned ris…
24-5416 Christopher Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Ninth and Fourth Circuits apply different standards in evaluating qualified immunity for law enforcement officers' use of force claims
24-5409 Maxsony Coissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the categorical approach, the elements of a prior state conviction are determined by judicial interpretations in effect at the time of …
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 …
24A211 Richard Stanton Whitman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver Whether a state waives its procedural-default defense in federal habeas proceedings by arguing the merits of a claim in district court while raising t…
24A214 Emmanuel G. Louis, Jr., et al. v. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing circuit-split contract-void military-lending-act predatory-lending service-members Whether a plaintiff has Article III standing to challenge a void contract under the Military Lending Act based solely on having made payments under th…
24-5392 Stephon James Whitney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split en-banc-review firearm-possession prohibited-person second-amendment section-922g Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of Rahimi?
24-181 Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split commercial-gain copyright-infringement direct-infringement secondary-liability vicarious-liability Whether the profit requirement of vicarious copyright infringement permits liability where the defendant expects commercial gain from the enterprise i…
24-5344 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied IFP circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors Whether reviewing courts must consider the cumulative effect of counsel's errors in determining Strickland prejudice and weigh Van Arsdall factors for…
24A181 Eghbal Saffarinia v. United States District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law document-review obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether the interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519 improperly expands the statute's scope beyond its intended purpose of preventing document destruction i…
24-170 Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether the terms 'visual depiction' and 'lascivious exhibition' in 18 U.S.C. Chapter 110 refer to the same or different things in the context of chil…
24-172 Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide identi…
24-5324 Marnell Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-procedure due-process joint-possession Does the 3rd Circuit's interpretation of constructive possession doctrine, especially in joint constructive possession cases, violate the 5th Amendmen…
24-5335 Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Darosa conflicts with other Circuit Courts' precedents regarding the admissibility of finger…
24-5327 Daniel Lopez, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules revocation-hearing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Whether Rule 32.1 or Rule 32 governs the procedural timing of sentencing following supervised release revocation
24-5329 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old qualifies as 'abusive sexual conduct in…
24-5322 Richard Tipton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-14 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense Can a reviewing court substitute a finding of VICAR's purpose clause for the categorical analysis of whether the elements of its predicate state or fe…
24-5314 Martin L. Hunt and Xavier Greene v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence mandatory-consecutive physical-force sentencing Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
24A165 Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules pioneer-factors summary-judgment Whether a district court must comprehensively analyze all four Pioneer factors when determining excusable neglect under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur…
24-130 Desiree Martinez v. Channon High Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica…
24-5235 Nohmaan Malik v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity anders anders-procedure appellate-review circuit-split due-process guideline-commentary kisor kisor-standard Whether the appellate court should have dismissed under Anders and allowed Petitioner to challenge the Guideline commentary as violating due process a…
24-5237 Warren Alexander v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release criminal-sentencing
24-5243 Ryan Taybron, Eric Nixon, and Geovanni Douglas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c3a bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-statute delligatti-v-united-states omission omission-crime physical-force use-of-force Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
24A135 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split eleventh-circuit federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in Eric Robert Rudolph's case involves a significant legal issue warranting Supreme Court review due to potent…
24-5249 Farid Fata v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies berkovitz-gaubert-test circuit-split discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement sovereign-immunity Question not identified.
24-5231 Dean Terry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether prior drug convictions eligible for the career offender sentencing enhancement in 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) must involve a 'controlled substance' as …
24-5233 Jose Carlos Belmont v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-gateway newly-discovered-evidence standing state-vacatur successive-writ takings Question not identified
24A122 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-02 Presumed Complete charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-error mandate-rule Whether the failure to allege conduct within a charging statute's scope constitutes a jurisdictional defect that renders a criminal indictment invalid
24A123 James H. Roane v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Presumed Complete borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense Whether a federal court can 'look through' a VICAR offense to assess the underlying statute's mens rea requirement consistent with the Supreme Court's…
24-5204 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-Motion-for-Pretrial-Release
24-102 Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government 'effected [a] prohibition' of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of …
24-108 John Paul Salvador v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Amici (6) bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge discharge-ability honest-and-reasonable-attempt income-tax-return late-filed-returns late-filing tax-debt tax-debts Whether a late but otherwise correctly filed Form 1040 is a 'return' for purposes of §523(a) of the Bankruptcy Code
24-5164 Joel Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
24-88 John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pseudonym retaliation standing summary-judgment title-ix Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits a p…
24A104 Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. v. Joann Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-immunity healthcare-litigation medical-center public-health-service statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should apply a uniform national standard for interpreting the scope of immunity protections for federally funded health centers…
24-5166 Nicholas Joseph v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire Whether a trial judge must voir dire on implicit or unconscious bias
24-86 Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-machine fax-machine-definition rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether there is an implied 'administrative feasibility' prerequisite for class certification
24-5142 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex…
24-77 GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine
24-5132 Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits on the admission of evidence for a non-hearsay purpose when its non-hearsay pro…
24A85 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit Whether the phrase 'physical restraint' in the United States Sentencing Guidelines requires actual physical confinement or can include psychological c…
24-61 Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan Fifth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights de-novo-review deference deferential-standard due-process erisa plan-administrator procedural-violation procedural-violations standard-of-review Whether significant procedural violations of ERISA require de novo review, strict adherence, or some other heightened standard that does not defer to …
24-64 Nicholas Piazza, et al. v. Gramercy Distressed Opportunity Fund II L.P., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Dismissed Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-stay circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-order motion-to-compel motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-pending-arbitration Whether, under 9 U.S.C. § 16, a circuit court has appellate jurisdiction over an interlocutory order denying a motion for a stay pending arbitration o…
24-5105 Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that…
24-5106 Stoney Prior v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard-of-review circuit-split criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt recognized-defenses third-party-culpability Is a criminal defendant entitled to a jury instruction on any recognized defense supported by the evidence?
24-5108 Karen E. Tucker v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split civil-disability collateral-consequences coram-nobis standing writ-of-error Whether a petitioner must show 'civil disability' to obtain a writ of error coram nobis,
24-5109 Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) 'image specific'?
24-5088 In Re Gavin B. Davis 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-motion-for-pretrial-release
24A46 Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access circuit-split federal-statute mail-ballot materiality-provision voting-rights Whether the Materiality Provision of federal voting rights law prohibits excluding mail ballots due to immaterial paperwork errors beyond voter regist…
24A31 Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence firearm-enhancement gang-related-crime sentencing-enhancement vicar-statute Whether convictions under the VICAR statute for assault with a dangerous weapon qualify as 'crimes of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
24-5042 Carlos Emanuel Kinard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 assault-definition circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law mens-rea racketeering-enterprise vicar-statute If the state or federal crime incorporated into an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(3) conviction categorially does not meet the 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) definition of a…
24-9 Michael Angelo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act government-consent government-veto post-filing-release post-filing-settlement qui-tam relator settlement-agreement Whether a private release agreement between a relator and a qui tam defendant, executed after the filing of the qui tam action, is enforceable when th…
24-5014 Aweis Haji-Mohamed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
24-5016 Michael Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant initially sentenced prior to the FSA's enactment; whose sentence was…
24-5008 Glynzo Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic 'burglary' under 18 U.S.C. §…
24A1 Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A) requires proof of sexual desire or intent when determining if an im…
23-1361 William Edward Powell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split disclosure-refusal freedom-of-information-act internal-revenue-code judicial-review tax-returns taxpayer-disclosure Is § 6103 a specific statute displacing FOIA, so that the remedy for taxpayers to compel disclosure of their returns and return information is a suit …
23-1352 Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-27 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action
23-7809 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-26 Judgment Issued Amici (2)IFP article-iii-standing circuit-split declaratory-judgment due-process federal-courts redressability reed-v-goertz state-official Does Article III standing require a particularized determination of whether a specific state official will redress the plaintiff's injury by following…
23-1345 Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-06-26 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedRelisted (4) 28-usc-2244(b)(2) appellate-review circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petition seven-factor-test Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to second-in-time habeas filings
23A1154 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete age-of-consent child-pornography circuit-split recidivist-provision sentencing-enhancement statutory-rape Whether a non-generic statutory rape offense that sets the age of consent at 18 can trigger a federal child pornography sentencing enhancement under 1…
23-7804 Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
23A1131 Michael Craine v. AFSCME Council 36, Local 119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-waiver dues-deduction first-amendment janus-precedent public-sector-unions Whether the Janus v. AFSCME decision establishing affirmative consent requirements for public sector union dues has prospective effect beyond existing…
23A1140 Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus state-postconviction wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas court must strictly limit its review to the specific reasons provided by a state postconviction court under AEDPA or may cons…
23-1327 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights-standing common-law-tort due-process intangible-harm judicial-interpretation standing-article-iii-harm-intangible-tort-common-l transu nion-precedent transunion-v-ramirez Whether under TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, a plaintiff alleging an intangible harm need only allege one that is similar in kind, and not degree, to a ha…
23-7754 Alejandro Carrasco v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation Does an external consultant qualify as a government agent under 18-usc-666
23A1122 Anthony Pandrella v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element Whether a potential or de minimis effect on interstate commerce is sufficient to satisfy the jurisdictional element of the Hobbs Act
23A1114 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Whether the Due Process Clause requires a deliberate indifference or professional judgment standard for medical care claims brought by civilly committ…
23-7714 Derek Gerrish v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure Does a bail condition that allows searches by law enforcement officers without probable cause or reasonable suspicion qualify as punishment for purpos…
23-7683 Keon Lamont Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences?
23-7688 Chaves Hodges v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)?
23-1293 United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct To act 'willfully' within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law?
23-1286 Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Amici (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split equal-access-to-justice-act expert-evidence federal-agency judicial-review litigation-standards substantial-justification Whether the government's decision to take a case to trial is 'substantially justified' under the Equal-Access-to-Justice-Act when the government's cas…
23-7676 Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a '…
23-7679 Thaddeus Rhodes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instructions property-rights realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor Is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a crime of violence?
23A1094 Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness Seventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement probable-cause summary-judgment Whether law enforcement officers must consider exculpatory evidence when determining probable cause for an arrest, resolving a potential circuit split…
23-1279 NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-split labor-law labor-relations nlra nlrb-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence taft-hartley-act Whether the application of the 'substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole' standard of review for Board determinations, 29 U.S.C. §160(…
23-1283 Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation Whether 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a)(1) prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee who has exercised her rights under the FMLA
23-1275 Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (9) circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right Whether the Medicaid Act's provision unambiguously confers a private right upon a Medicaid beneficiary to choose a specific provider
23-1276 Young Israel of Tampa, Inc. v. Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Amici (5) circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-forum public-forum religious-speech rosenberger-precedent viewpoint-discrimination Whether a public transit agency's ban on advertisements that 'primarily promote a religious faith or religious organization' violates the First Amendm…
23-1269 Suzy Martin v. Susan Haling, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split debarment due-process government-contractor government-work liberty-interest stigma-plus-test Whether debarment from government work implicates a government contractor's liberty interest for purposes of the stigma-plus test
23-1261 Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been im…
23-7628 Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment Whether the Faragher and Ellerth 'supervisor' liability rule applies to harassment by those whom the employer vests with authority to direct and overs…
23-1257 Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to shoot a fleeing suspect who might be holding a gun but exhibits no other signs of dangerousness
23-1250 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing a categorical rule requiring the admission of expert testimony on the allegedly coercive circumstances…
23-1239 Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-24 Judgment Issued Amici (36)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor moment-of-threat-doctrine police-use-of-force totality-of-the-circumstances Whether courts should apply the moment of the threat doctrine when evaluating an excessive-force claim under the Fourth-Amendment
23-7554 Rawtavious Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)?
23A1040 Al Dorsey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause facilitation-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines Whether a Tennessee facilitation offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the federal sentencing guidelines' elements clause when the facilita…
23-1232 Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory app…
23-1228 Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt Eighth Circuit 2024-05-21 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution Whether the Nieves probable-cause exception allows courts to consider allegations that no one else has been arrested for the same crime
23-7522 Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23A1034 John Paul Salvador v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split late-filed-return nondischargeable-debt tax-debt Whether a late-filed tax return that is accepted by the IRS can be considered a 'return' for purposes of discharging tax debt in bankruptcy under 11 U…
23-7513 Russell Foreman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's comment…
23-1218 Alfredo Navarro Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing harmless-error ineffective-assistance kotteakos-v-united-states preserved-nonconstitutional-errors sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Fifth Circuit's harmless-error standard conflict with this Court's harmless-error standard?
23-7483 Edgardo Esteras v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-15 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether district courts may rely on the section 3553(a)(2)(A) factors when revoking supervised release
23-7464 Michael Grady v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split conflict-of-interest constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice disqualification-of-counsel eighth-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to uphold the disqualification of Petitioner's counsel of choice deprived him of his constitutional right to rep…
23A1008 Darryl Watts v. New York New York 2024-05-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process incompetency liberty-interest registration-hearing sora Whether a Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) hearing violates due process when conducted with uncontroverted evidence that the registrant is incompe…
23-1209 M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund District of Columbia 2024-05-13 Granted CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability 'as of the end of the plan year' requires the plan to base the computation on the…
23-7416 Christopher J. Pratt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), when …
23A996 Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly altered the summary judgment burden of proof in qualified immunity cases and created an unconstitutional circuit …
23A993 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's denial of a pretrial release motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3164 is immediately appealable as an interlocutory order when circuit…
23-7398 Jamaal Parker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation Whether a new criminal trial requires trial error that would have been reversible on appeal
23-7386 Jose Caban v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl…
23-7388 Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) is limited to substances defined and regulated…
23A982 Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services, a South Carolina Corporation v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-services statutory-interpretation tcpa Whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) requires an 'administrative feasibility' requirement for class certification and whether the TCPA…
23-1174 Peter Kleidman v. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied circuit-split evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-704(a) federal-rules judicial-interpretation legal-duties ninth-circuit petition-for-writ-of-certiorari Does Federal Rule of Evidence 704(a) allow an expert to opine on a person's compliance with legal duties?
23-1178 First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment against a party without allowing that party to conduct discovery
23-7357 Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety-valve-relief
23-7360 Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination Whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recusal of a judge prior to a final determination on the merits
23-7338 Damon Sean Bellis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Did Kisor abrogate Stinson's holding?
23-7345 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the elements of a prior conviction can be determined using current judicial interpretations
23A966 Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-29 Presumed Complete arbitral-exception circuit-split due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act requires satisfaction of the minimum-contacts test for personal jurisdiction over a foreign state
23-1164 Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied burden-of-proof circuit-split civil-forfeiture ownership-interest ownership-standing property-claim standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Where a claimant asserts an ownership interest, does the claimant's standing at summary judgment require only some evidence of ownership, or also an e…
23A958 Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-25 Presumed Complete blank-form-rule circuit-split copyright-law copyrightability creative-works feist-standard Whether the Copyright Act and Supreme Court precedent permit copyright protection for functional forms and documents with minimal creative elements, r…
23A952 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing circuit-split concreteness-test fair-debt-collection-practices-act statutory-harm transunion-standard Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split regarding the proper standard for determining Article III standing in statutory violation cas…
23-1150 Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-23 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that…
23-1143 Nelda Kellom, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terrance Kellom, Deceased, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights claims-processing due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims-act standing statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Petitioners' FTCA claim should have been allowed to proceed against the United States
23-7268 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether Mr. Mentor established cause to overcome procedural default of his 'ordinary-case' vagueness challenge
23A941 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver Whether a failure to raise a Rule 12(b)(8) issue in the district court results in waiver or forfeiture, and thus whether the issue is unreviewable or …
23-1131 Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity Whether fabrication of evidence for misdemeanor charges violates due process
23-1127 Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Todd Heath Seventh Circuit 2024-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-agency administrative-corporation circuit-conflict circuit-split e-rate-program false-claims-act government-funding telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-of-1996 Whether reimbursement requests submitted to the E-rate program are 'claims' under the False Claims Act
23-7226 Michael Lee Villamonte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's request to recognize a miscarriage of justice exception to the appellate waiver doctrine conflict …
23-7212 Keith P. Sequeira, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law federal-question jurisdiction jurisdictional-grant remand removal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the courts below may decide an important question of federal law not settled by this Court by expanding 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)'s jurisdictiona…
23-7205 Luke Joselin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including 'Intended Loss,' Should Be Given Deference Aft…
23-1095 Patrick D. Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2) circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014 prohibits making a misleading statement that is not false
23-1097 J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm or instead must prov…
23-1099 Innovation Ventures, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Wholesale Outlet & Distribution, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-injury circuit-split consumer-behavior price-discrimination robinson-patman-act secondary-line-discrimination volvo-standard volvo-trucks-v-reeder-simco Whether a secondary-line plaintiff must prove competition with allegedly favored firm
23-7163 Kyle Melkonian v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's conflation of 18 U.S.C. § 641's two distinct offenses runs afoul of the plain text of the statute, its application by e…
23-7145 Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release Proper-standard-of-review-for-supervised-release-revocation-sentences
23-7122 James Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C…
23-1072 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-02 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation Does §455(b)(3) require recusal when a federal judge is assigned to a case involving the same parties, same facts, and same issues as a case in which …
23-1067 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (4) circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C…
23-1061 Hawkeye Gold, LLC v. China National Materials Industry Import and Export Corporation, dba Sinoma Eighth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-set-aside personal-jurisdiction rule-12b waiver Whether a party waives the defense of lack of personal jurisdiction if available but omitted from its first court filing in a motion to set aside a de…
23-7096 Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow Ruan v. United States by holding that a registered medical practitioner or pharmacist can be convicted for …
23-1050 Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation Whether a timely-filed 21 U.S.C. § 853(n) petition may be amended to cure a pleading deficiency after the 30-day filing period has run
23-7035 Anderson Garcia v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi…
23-1034 Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights due-process penological-needs prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings procedural-due-process superintendent-v-hill wolff-v-mcdonnell Whether courts should determine the procedural due process protections that apply in prison disciplinary proceedings by balancing ordinary due process…
23-1022 Nancy Martin v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (1) appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining Whether a plea agreement's appeal waiver can bar a defendant from pursuing a claim that the plea rested on an inadequate factual basis
23-1024 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a primary defendant' under CAFA's ho…
23-1007 Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-13 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci…
23-6976 Juan Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
23-1002 Tony R. Hewitt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-12 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s…
23A831 Bentley Streett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine under the Fourth Amendment permits suppression of evidence to be excused based on a hypothetical warrant tha…
23-6950 Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Can the sentencing guideline be applied to the defendant's conduct, which occurred before any justice was being administered and before any investigat…
23-6939 Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-28-usc-b-2-b-ii-actual-innocence-standard
23-962 Oxnard Manor, LP, dba Oxnard Manor Healthcare Center, et al. v. Anna Sigala, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights complete-preemption covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-remedies preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-968 Steven Dakota Knezovich, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-split circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence sovereign-immunity tort-liability wildland-fire wildland-fire-response Is the United States liable for the negligence of wildland fire managers?
23-975 Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (38)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which …
23-980 Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Amalgamated Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) circuit-split disclosure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure loss-causation materiality pleading-standard risk-disclosure securities-fraud What public companies must disclose in the 'risk factors' section of their 10-K filings
23-6892 Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split rodriguez-v-united-states sentencing-regime serious-drug-offense state-law-interpretation state-sentencing-regime statutory-maximum Does the 'maximum term of imprisonment... prescribed by law' for a prior state offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' de…
23-6885 Joseph Rendon v. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealibility circuit-split due-process expert-testimony fair-trial law-enforcement police-expert pro-se pro-se-petitioner Whether the Sixth Circuit or the Eighth Circuit made the correct ruling regarding denial of due process and fair trial concerning the use of a police …
23-959 Colin Montague v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-04 GVR Amici (4) circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation Whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848 is invalid if it fails to set forth facts and circumstances that establish the elements …
23-953 Brandon Michael Council v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-death-penalty judicial-discretion mental-competence trial-competency Whether a trial court may deem a defendant competent based solely on the unexplained, unsupported opinion of a defense expert or defense counsel
23-954 Precision Drilling Corp., et al. v. Rodney Tyger, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split detrimental-effects donning-and-doffing employment-compensation fair-labor-standards-act job-specific-hazards labor-law preliminary-or-postliminary-activities protective-clothing wage-and-hour Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to compensate employees for donning and doffing generic protective clothing
23-6869 Corey Jarren Forbito v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment certiorari-petition circuit-split civil-rights constitutional constitutional-challenge due-process firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
23A803 Khan Mohammed v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement Whether the Due Process Clause requires a heightened standard of proof for sentencing enhancements that substantially increase a defendant's sentence …
23-6854 Danny Lee Hampton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of…
23-6842 Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-27 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to the defendant
23-925 Michael Shane McCormick, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied circuit-split consultation-duty criminal-appeal criminal-conviction defendant-consultation defense-counsel flores-ortega lower-court-confusion reasonable-effort sixth-amendment Whether, to adequately 'consult' regarding an appeal when the defendant says he will decide after sentencing or is obviously dissatisfied with his sen…
23-928 Yun Zheng, aka Wendy Zheng, and Yan Qiu Wu, aka Jason Wu v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied circuit-split harboring-aliens harmless-error immigration-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea neder-v-united-states Whether a jury instruction under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) requires the Government to prove that a defendant intended to help that alien evade dete…
23-933 Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of the Interior Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure court-fees fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion litigation-access statutory-interpretation Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) grant district courts authority to set a partial filing fee for in forma pauperis litigants, as the Ninth Circuit below an…
23-6841 Ronald D. Houston v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker whether-the-circuits-may-forego-appellate-review-of-significant-procedural-error-under-gall
23A786 Robert Espinoza v. Union of American Physicians and Dentists, AFSCME Local 206, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-dues Whether the First Amendment requires affirmative consent for union dues deductions from public employees' paychecks under the Janus precedent, particu…
23A791 Mark Habelt v. iRhythm Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete appellate-standing circuit-split lead-plaintiff non-party-appeal pslra securities-class-action Whether a named plaintiff in a securities class action retains appellate standing when an institutional lead plaintiff declines to appeal after a dist…
23A777 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether Title VII permits courts to impose a heightened evidentiary burden on majority-group plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination by requirin…
23A770 Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence firearms-charge predicate-offense statutory-interpretation vicar-statute Whether a VICAR statute violation requires analyzing both the enumerated offense category and the underlying state-law predicate offenses to determine…
23-6808 Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the Government should bear the burden of proving that a defendant is 'non-indigent' under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a) before the district court impose…
23-6809 Warren Lee Mackey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony Whether this Court should adopt a test that vacates a conviction where there is a 'reasonable probability' that improper bolstering or vouching testim…
23-894 Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit is employing a new and incorrect standard for remand fees under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)
23-890 In Re Batia Zareh 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection 23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements (52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) are unconstitutional
23-6784 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-split constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus rigid-approach statute-of-limitations totality-of-circumstances Equitable Tolling under AEDPA
23-6790 James Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Was counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by …
23-884 Marco Antonio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Does 18 USC § 3147 authorize a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum for the underlying offense?
23-872 Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez Sixth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use?
23-876 KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-14 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law chevron-deference circuit-split federal-mine-safety-and-health-act federal-regulation mine-safety mining statutory-interpretation transportation Whether a truck or a truck repair shop that is not located at nor is adjacent to an extraction or processing site or an appurtenant road is a 'coal or…
23-879 Caleb Barnett, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms firearms-ban gun-rights second-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Illinois' sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment
23-6749 Craig Alan Morrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having 'physically restrained' a victim, where the conduct at issu…
23-6733 Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based on si…
23-871 Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fair-warning flavored-products food-and-drug-administration marketing-applications Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious
23-867 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-12 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-commingling burden-of-proof circuit-split commercial-nexus expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law pleading-stage pleading-standard Whether historical commingling of assets suffices to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States under t…
23-6724 Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution Does a defendant's guilty plea to an indictment charging multiple violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), unlawful firearm possession, waive his Double Jeop…
23-859 Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response Waived attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step Does speech alone constitute the 'substantial step' for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor?
23-6702 Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses Whether RICO incorporates state-law elements or only generic offense categories
23-840 HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability-determination arbitration arbitration-delegation circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory nonsignatory-liability standing Whether the court must leave the question of arbitrability to the arbitrator, or whether the court may decide the question of arbitrability for itself
23-846 City of Sparks, Nevada, et al. v. Rosa Ester Brizuela, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Rolando Antonio Brizuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split clearly-established-law community-areas community-owned-areas curtilage multi-family-dwelling multifamily-dwelling ninth-circuit precedent Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage?
23A726 Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete aiding-and-abetting appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence robbery sentencing-enhancement Whether 'aiding and abetting a robbery' qualifies as a crime of violence under federal criminal statutes
23-6661 Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied-bias
23-832 Moshe Porat v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Relisted (5) 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i…
23-825 Salvatore Delligatti v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
23A704 Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Ruan v. United States requires a different standard of review for criminal convictions involving controlled s…
23-6600 Richard Daniel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split covered-offense discretionary-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion sentencing-package-doctrine sentencing-reduction Whether a district court can impose a reduced sentence for both covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act
23-6602 Sylvester Cunningham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-29 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied
23-803 Shannon Donoho v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Relisted (4) child-pornography circuit-split due-process federal-criminal-statute lascivious-exhibition minor-protection secret-recording sexually-explicit-conduct visual-depiction Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in 'lascivious exhibition,' and thus 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), b…
23-795 Gregory Abelar, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements employment-law gilmer-v-interstate-johnson-lane substantive-rights whether-an-arbitration-agreement-can-bar-an-employee-from-pursuing-an-adea-claim
23-799 Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems ends-products fda-regulation marketing-authorization reliance-interests youth-access Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious
23-6545 Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing Did the Fifth Circuit flout SCOTUS precedent in Buck v. Davis?
23-6552 In Re Vincent Pisciotta 2024-01-24 Denied IFP arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation Can a conviction for 'using fire to commit a federal felony' be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a 'conspiracy to commit arson
23-6546 Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether an indictment that affirmatively alleges a course of conduct outside the scope of the charged offense can be the basis for a conviction
23-6523 Mark David Galloway v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur…
23-788 Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the…
23-764 Facebook, Inc. v. Rosemarie Vargas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction Iqbal judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-precedent plausibility plausibility-standard standing Twombly Does the Twombly-Iqbal plausibility standard apply to a plaintiff's allegations of Article III standing?
23-767 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary Whether federal courts may exercise jurisdiction to interpret and modify a state-court-issued divorce decree, or whether the domestic-relations-except…
23-776 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied ada-retaliation americans-with-disabilities-act anti-retaliation-provision circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-law jury-trial standing Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act provides for damages (and therefore a trial by jury) in cases alleging that an employer has violated the A…
23-6489 Robert E. Harrison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether prior gun possession convictions are admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date
23-6494 Lewis Dean Armstrong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-standard competency-to-assist-counsel due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure new-trial-motion pioneer-factors pioneer-investment-services-co-v-brunswick-associa rule-33 Whether the district court may find excusable neglect based solely on the length of time elapsed between judgment and filing, when most circuits requi…
23-6499 Pete Manning v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction Whether the term 'controlled substance' is defined by the drug schedules that existed at the time of the prior predicate conviction, or the drug sched…
23-6503 David Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech fundamental-rights pretrial-claims prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-vindictiveness standing When a defendant presents strong circumstantial evidence of possible vindictiveness beyond mere correlation, can a presumption of vindictiveness arise…
23-6480 Joseph D. Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense entrapment-defense entrapment-doctrine exceptional-national-importance first-amendment government-manufacturing government-manufacturing-criminals predisposition Whether this Court's review of the entrapment doctrine is necessary
23-754 Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully?
23-752 Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant may be held liable for contributory trademark infringement only if it knows or has reason …
23-6461 Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Under Rita v. United States, can a district court ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser sentence
23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review Are a district court's findings on habeas abandonment subject to clear error review?
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials Whether state officials are subject to liability as employers in their individual capacity for violations of the FLSA
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
23A634 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 Whether a retaliation claim based on objecting to a discriminatory event can be brought under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment …
23-734 Jody Rose, Administratrix of the Estate of Kyree Devon Holman, Deceased v. PSA Airlines, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-remedies erisa fiduciary-duty monetary-remedies statutory-interpretation Are non-tracing monetary remedies (e.g., surcharge) available under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(8) to ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries asserting brea…
23-6421 Remberto Rivera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary …
23-6424 Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 18-usc-1594 circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy mandatory-minimum sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation When two Sex Trafficking statutes combine into a single Count, does the penalty for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 1594(c) which h…
23-6413 Donald Bill Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-conspiracy mens-rea official-proceeding witness-tampering Whether the witness tampering resulting in death statute, 18 U.S.C. §§1512(a)(1)(A) and (k), requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doub…
23-720 Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-04 Denied Amici (1) appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation Whether a plea agreement that includes a general appellate waiver bars a direct appeal when a defendant has pled guilty to conduct that was not crimin…
23A608 J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-standard excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor school-officials Whether the Fourth Amendment governs excessive force claims by students against school officials, resolving a circuit split on the appropriate constit…
23-6397 Jaime Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation Whether a crime of physical inaction ever 'has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert…
23-6382 Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli…
23-6361 Victor Grant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-drug-schedules serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug schedules t…
23A591 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-ii circuit-split constitutional-error guilty-plea maritime-drug-law subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) establishes a jurisdictional limitation that cannot be waived by an unconditional guilty plea an…
23A592 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception requires plaintiffs to trace property exchanged for expropriated assets to esta…
23-6347 Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 189 S.Ct. 2400 (2019)
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
23-6336 Javier Garibay Mendoza, aka Javier Garibay Mendoza-Romero, aka Jose Mendoza-Romero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-obligations procedural-requirements sentencing-guidelines upward-variance When a court varies upward from the Guidelines, can the court fulfill its procedural obligations without explaining its disagreements with the Guideli…
23-677 Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-question jurisdiction post-removal-amendment removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction Whether a post-removal amendment of the complaint defeats federal-question subject-matter jurisdiction
23-6305 Brendan Hunt v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat Whether the appellate standard of review of a jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a 'true threat' should be deferential or d…
23-658 Medical Transportation Management, Inc. v. Isaac Harris, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification commonality federal-rules-of-civil-procedure policy-uniformity rule-23 significant-proof uniform-policy Where class certification is based on allegations that a defendant's policy or practice has injured class members, what constitutes 'significant proof…
23-661 Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers Fourth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine delegation-of-arbitrability gateway-questions nonsignatories nonsignatory third-party-beneficiary Whether a court may interpret a nonsignatory's contractual rights despite a delegation of questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator
23A561 Anne Davis, on Behalf of Braeden Davis v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete circuit-split disabilities-education idea individualized-education-program placement stay-put Whether a school district has an affirmative obligation under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's stay-put provision to implement a stud…
23A550 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination post-employment-benefits title-i Whether Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against former employees with respect to post-employment benefits earn…
23-6244 Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single special assessment o…
23-635 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure Has a claim been 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never con…
23-638 Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Amici (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations Whether the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that a non-overt-act conspiracy existed within the limitations period
23-639 Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas Whether a court may disregard a valid IQ test with a range under 70 simply because not all tests show such a range, or must proceed to evaluate adapti…
23A538 Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States Third Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete circuit-split economic-harm mail-fraud property-fraud spending-decision wire-fraud Whether deceit that merely influences a victim's spending decision, without contemplating tangible economic injury, constitutes property fraud under t…
23-625 Tel James Boam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1) child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in 'lascivious exhibition,' and thus 'sexually explicit conduct,…
23-6203 Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establishes the gateway claim of actual innocence under Schlup v Delo and M…
23-6210 Andrew Pierson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exclusionary-rule foreign-searches fourth-amendment joint-venture judicial-conscience national-importance shocks-the-judicial-conscience Whether exceptions exist for the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule for foreign searches and seizures
23-622 Dale Thrush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supported by manifest necessity
23-615 John Felix Castleman, Sr., et ux. v. Dennis Lee Burman, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-conversion chapter-13 chapter-7 circuit-split debtor-rights homestead homestead-exemption property-rights valuation Whether the post-petition, pre-conversion increase in value of a debtor's homestead belongs to the debtor or the Chapter 7 estate
23-6177 Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact Does Rule 704(b) permit a government expert witness to testify about certain roles in criminal activity, that people in those roles are knowing partic…
23-591 Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts' adherence to issue preclusion doctrin…
23-596 Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-59 rule-59-motion spoliation-of-evidence Whether the Lower Courts violated Supreme Court precedents governing pro se pleading
23A509 Melynda Vincent v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete bruen-test circuit-split constitutional-history firearm-possession non-violent-felony second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment permits the federal government to permanently prohibit possession of firearms by individuals convicted of non-violent fel…
23A510 Larry Coates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete auer-deference circuit-split kisor-deference sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity stinson-precedent Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie modifies the deference standard for Sentencing Guidelines commentary previously established in…
23-6157 Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states Whether the circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the de…
23-6151 Urbano Torres-Giles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split clearly-erroneous-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding reliability reliability-standard sentencing-context sentencing-guidelines Whether the test for a clearly erroneous fact in the sentencing context should consider the reliability of the challenged fact
23A496 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-review state-court-decision Whether a state court's decision can be considered an 'adjudication on the merits' under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when the defendant was denied a full and …
23-583 Amina Bouarfa v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-30 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review nondiscretionary-criteria revocation visa-petition Whether a visa petitioner may obtain judicial review when an approved petition is revoked on the basis of nondiscretionary criteria
23-577 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Denied administrative-law circuit-split court-of-appeals deference hobbs-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-question kisor-v-wilkie legal-background procedural-background statutory-provisions surface-transportation-board Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a Surface Transportation Board ruling
23-578 Christopher Kinzy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range
23-579 Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65?
23A483 Salvador Magluta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement Whether a federal court may consider non-medical factors, such as prolonged solitary confinement and its psychological effects, when evaluating a moti…
23A474 Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete administrative-deference circuit-split economic-espionage intended-loss sentencing-guidelines trade-secrets Whether a sentencing court may defer to the Sentencing Commission's interpretation of 'loss' to include intended but unrealized economic harm under Ki…
23A476 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights Whether state legislative privilege is an absolute bar to discovery in civil rights litigation involving potential voting rights violations or whether…
23A478 Rufus E. Dennis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor Whether a circuit split exists regarding the proper interpretation of the elements of criminal attempt that conflicts with the Supreme Court's holding…
23-568 Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Muhammad Baasiri, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1603 circuit-split complaint-filing-time dole-food-precedent dole-food-v-patrickson foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination standing Whether a defendant's status as an instrumentality of a foreign state under 28 U.S.C. § 1603(b)(2) 'is determined at the time of the filing of the com…
23-570 Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding — in conflict with the Second and Seventh Circuits — that violations of the claims procedure regulations, 2…
23-572 Dustin Williams, et al. v. Randall McElhaney Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied circuit-split civil-rights extracurricular-activities first-amendment free-speech parent-speech-rights qualified-immunity school-rules Whether a school employee violates a parent's First Amendment rights by suspending the parent from attending games for one week for violation of team …
23-6118 T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review Is the definition of 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or state law?
23-565 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under Section 505 of the Copyright Act?
23-552 Ambassador Animal Hospital, Ltd. v. Elanco Animal Health Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fax fcc-regulation hobbs-act junk-fax-prevention-act marketing telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement Whether the TCPA's definition of 'unsolicited advertisement' permits consideration only of the content on the face of a junk fax or also permits consi…
23-555 Louis A. Wilson v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-22 Denied 18-usc-3582 circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons habeas habeas-corpus non-retroactive-law sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction u-s-sentencing-commission Can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' authorizing a district court to reduce a prisoner's sentence …
23-6092 Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of 'maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr…
23-6099 Carlos Noe Gallegos v. Texas Texas 2023-11-22 Denied IFP circuit-split citizenship-denaturalization denaturalization guilty-plea habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel naturalized-citizenship padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky prejudice-standard Whether Padilla v. Kentucky applies to denaturalization consequences of a guilty plea
23-6082 Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps
23-6087 Ronell Whitehead v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied IFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation How is the quantity of controlled substances 'involved' determined for purposes of sentencing for conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. § 846, when the offense o…
23-537 Faisal Ashraf, aka Sal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Amici (1) appeal-waiver circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement Whether the federal courts of appeals can refuse to consider a challenge to the sufficiency of the factual basis for a guilty plea when the plea agree…
23-6063 Kieffer Michael Simmons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment judicial-immunity subpoena witness witness-subpoena Whether Simmons should have been entitled to judicial immunity for his subpoenaed witness
23-6065 Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § 2255…
23-6048 Elvis Redzepagic v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations Whether the correct offense level should be used in sentencing violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B(a)(1), (d)
23-517 Jeffrey Pratt v. Tony Helms, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Camden County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct johnson-v-city-of-shelby meritorious-claims pleadings-doctrine Whether the Eighth Circuit impermissibly reestablished the long-abolished pleadings doctrine
23-521 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly placing a person at unjustifiably high risk of harm
23-515 Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Utrecht-America Holdings, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-rights rule-12(b)(6) rule-56 summary-judgment Is the Seventh Circuit correct that a district court may 'effectively grant summary judgment' under Rule 56 without providing plaintiffs their procedu…
23A421 Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration Second Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split evidentiary-standards fair-notice fda-regulation Whether the FDA's marketing denial order for electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products was arbitrary and capricious by changing evidentiary …
23A435 Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete alter-ego circuit-split criminal-defendant nominee-interest property-forfeiture state-law-implications Whether a third-party nominee of a criminal defendant can challenge property forfeiture based on the defendant's criminal conduct when the third party…
23-506 Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited Second Circuit 2023-11-14 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality
23-509 John Doe v. Rollins College Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split doe-v-purdue procedural-deficiencies sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix Whether the proper test for sex discrimination under Title IX should be the test stated in Doe v. Purdue
23-6005 Ehab Sadeek v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the petitioner's sentence based on a pattern-of-activity enhancement and a cross-reference enhancement
23-495 Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Amici (1) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act Does the TCPA's definition of an ATDS require a number generator to generate the numbers themselves?
23-479 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers Does the FAA's residual clause exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but primarily performs…
23-5967 Andrew Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-7 circuit-split civil-procedure due-process exemption-law settlement-valuation standing trustee trustee-conflict Does the U.S. Trustee Program create conflicts of interest?
23-476 Centinela Skilled Nursing & Wellness Centre West, LLC, et al. v. Shalimah Abdullah, as Legal Representative and Successor-in-Interest of Eric Holloway, Deceased, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-5962 Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate …
23A404 Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 Whether absolute prosecutorial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 extends to a prosecutor's knowing destruction of exculpatory evidence and defiance of a…
23-463 Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy Whether a New York law requiring speakers to obtain a license before offering talk therapy pertaining to 'disabilit[ies], problem[s], or disorder[s] o…
23-5939 Brett Northington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation Should the definition of 'aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?' be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea…
23-5946 Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence Whether the physical restraint enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone
23A393 Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 Whether a judge's unconstitutional detention and contempt order can still be shielded by judicial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the actions are…
23A394 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court Whether the preclusive scope of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) permits federal courts to consider ineffective assistance of counsel claims that were not adjudica…
23A391 Bernard Gadson v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' commentary defining 'loss' as intended loss, rather than actual loss, impermissibly conflicts with the plain text o…
23-5913 Julio Rolon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability
23-5893 Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement?
23A379 Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers Fourth Circuit 2023-10-26 Presumed Complete arbitrability arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act non-signatory Whether a court or an arbitrator must initially decide whether a non-signatory can enforce an arbitration agreement containing a delegation clause
23-5875 Andres Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied IFP agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-split federal-criminal-sentencing judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C…
23-5869 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid 'irreconcilable and mutually exclusive' standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St…
23A367 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T.B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment prison-officials race-discrimination Whether a Bivens remedy is available for an inmate's Fifth Amendment claims alleging race-based discrimination and procedural due process violations b…
23-424 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f…
23-5858 Anthony Schneider v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor Whether a guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver bars jurisdictional challenges on appeal
23-5846 Jong Whan Kim v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts indictment mens-rea plea-hearing rule-11 Is it error for a district court to rely on a defendant's pre-hearing review of the indictment to inform him of the nature of the offense?
23-5852 Kareem Davis v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation Is murder in aid of racketeering (VICAR murder) an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis based on the generic federal definition of mur…
23-414 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence Whether district courts have discretion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 to order a new trial based on the weight of the evidence, even in …
23-417 Ron Rutledge v. Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence honest-belief-defense mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test pretext-analysis summary-judgment Does the honest belief defense violate the axiomatic law of summary judgment requiring the evidence and inferences to be viewed in favor of the non-mo…
23A356 Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-19 Presumed Complete burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly conflates the prima facie stage of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework with the employer's legitimat…
23-5815 Emily Claire Hari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic Whether the 'jurisdictional element' contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu…
23-5790 Brock Brian Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru…
23-5793 Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention
23-390 Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India Seventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effects-clause foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation u.s.-jurisdictional-requirements Whether a 'direct effect in the United States' under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2) requires a 'legally significant act' in the U.S. or 'legally significant' U.…
23-392 Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause prohibit schools from maintaining separate bathrooms on the basis of students' biological sex
23-5786 Mark Andre Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines
23-5779 Donovan Romo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,…
23A318 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary Whether the domestic relations exception to federal question jurisdiction bars federal courts from adjudicating breach of contract claims arising from…
23A319 Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States District of Columbia 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete appellate-waiver circuit-split material-support-for-terrorism military-commission-review military-commissions-act plea-agreement Whether a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement is knowing and voluntary when the underlying offense to which the defendant pled …
23-5755 Dewayne Joseph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP circuit-split discretion discretionary-relief fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts have an obligation to calculate revised guidelines to reflect the retroactive effect of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 as a b…
23-5761 Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle …
23-365 Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn Second Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to 'business or property by reason of' the defendant's acts for purposes of civil…
23-367 Starbucks Corporation v. M. Kathleen McKinney, Regional Director of Region 15 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on Behalf of the National Labor Relations Board Sixth Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split federal-district-courts national-labor-relations-act national-labor-relations-board preliminary-injunction unfair-labor-practices whether-courts-must-evaluate-the-nlrb's-requests-for-section-10(j)-injunctions-under-the-traditional-stringent-four-factor-test-for-preliminary-injunc…
23-5713 Delvarez Long v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states Does a sentencing court violate the Sentencing Reform Act when it relies on rehabilitation as a reason to impose prison time?
23-5706 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution can-the-courts-prosecute-indigent-companies-without-legal-representation
23-5691 Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit…
23-5698 Roy Christopher West v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion equal-protection extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-disparity Whether the Sixth Circuit's threshold for extraordinary and compelling reasons under the First Step Act of 2018 Compassionate Release is erroneous and…
23-337 Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law circuit-split competition-analysis judicial-review less-restrictive-alternative procompetitive-justification restraint-of-trade rule-of-reason sherman-act Must a less-restrictive alternative be free from additional costs to the defendant?
23-5672 Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li…
23-324 Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks Fourth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate or not involvin…
23-322 Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the 'reasonable impression' of bias …
23-305 Larry Rice v. Interfood, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) 12(b)(6) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-breach dismissal federal-jurisdiction merits missouri-law redressability standing summary-judgment Whether a federal court can rule on the merits of a complaint or counterclaim without first ruling on standing
23-306 The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-loss avoided-costs circuit-split damages defend-trade-secrets-act federal-statute misappropriation trade-secrets unjust-enrichment Whether a plaintiff may seek avoided costs as a measure of unjust-enrichment damages if and only if the plaintiff has suffered a 'compensable harm bey…
23-308 Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States is permissible
23A265 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-09-26 Presumed Complete arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce' applies to rideshare driver…
23-281 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo?
23-286 Windsor Oakridge Healthcare Center, LP, et al. v. Valerie Turner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-287 Vernon Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Debra Ann Blackmon, By and Through Her Guardian ad Litem, Latasha Bracks Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-288 Novato Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Angelina Martinez Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-291 Edward Little, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Andre' Doguet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts presumptively-innocent pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harris requires federal courts to abstain from adjudicating constitutional challenges to pretrial detention
23-292 Riverside Healthcare and Wellness Centre, LLC, et al. v. Latifa Khan, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to Nafiu Khan, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-294 San Pablo Healthcare & Wellness Center, LLC v. Lynetta Westbrook Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-removal preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-295 San Marino Gardens Wellness Center, LP, dba Pasadena Park Healthcare and Wellness Center v. Susan Olmes, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to the Estate of Michael Olmes Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state-law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-5619 Jordan Winczuk v. United States First Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation What is the proper definition of 'relating to the sexual exploitation of children' in 18 U.S.C. §2251(e)?
23-267 Marilyn Williams v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure final-decision interlocutory-ruling rule-41 rule-41(a) voluntary-dismissal Does an interlocutory ruling that dismisses some (but not all) of a plaintiff's claims with prejudice become an appealable 'final decision' if the pla…
23-268 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether an FHAA disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reasonably known of the disab…
23-259 Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate-indifference must prove the defendant actually-knew of a significant-risk-of-harm, or instead must pro…
23-5601 In Re Michael Kenny Carter 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation whether criminal-conduct-beyond-scope-of-charging-statute-is-jurisdictional-defect-or-plain-error
23-5602 Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation Whether an 'attempted transfer' of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an 'attempted distribution' of drugs…
23-5603 Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation Whether the law of the case doctrine precludes a successor judge's reconsideration of prior interlocutory orders absent some altered circumstance, and…
23-5566 Scott A. Anthony v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction What defines sexually explicit conduct under 18 USC § 2251(a)?
23-5572 Joseph W. Fischer v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) (Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering'), which prohibits obstruction of congressional in…
23-240 David L. Smith v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-relief disgorgement due-process judicial-review rule-60b4 sec-enforcement standing takings void-judgment Is Petitioner entitled to collateral relief from an extra-legal 'disgorgement' order, which the SEC had no power to obtain, and the district court had…
23-227 Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights whether-words-on-clothing-are-protected-speech
23-236 Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Judgment Issued administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-deference article-iii-standing circuit-split fda-drug-approval judicial-review national-scope preliminary-injunction Whether an association can demonstrate Article III standing to enjoin a government action
23A235 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete 17-usc-505 attorney-fees circuit-split copyright-infringement fee-shifting intellectual-property Whether courts should apply a presumption in favor of awarding attorney's fees to prevailing parties in copyright infringement cases under 17 U.S.C. §…
23-5556 William L. Gladney v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined…
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing whether-the-united-states-of-appeals-has-entered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-the-decision-of-another-united-states-court-of-appeals-on-the-same-justic…
23-5546 Richard Sansbury v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the term 'abducted' conflict with the ordinary meaning of the term and with the Guidelines' definition's re…
23-217 E.M.D. Sales, Inc., et al. v. Faustino Sanchez Carrera, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-08 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) burden-of-proof circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence employment-law fair-labor-standards-act flsa-exemptions overtime-pay preponderance-of-evidence wage-exemption Whether the burden of proof that employers must satisfy to demonstrate the applicability of an FLSA exemption is a mere preponderance of the evidence …
23-219 Sherman Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state offense relates to the 'sexual exploitation of children' under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)
23-213 Brian O'Grady v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence subject-matter-jurisdiction wildland-fire wildland-fire-response Is the United States liable for the negligence of its wildland fire managers?
23-5539 Trezjuan Thompson v. United States First Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifies a…
23-5535 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the circuit courts have decided an important question of federal law that should be definitively settled by this court?
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
23-196 Jade Mound, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied budgetary-considerations circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability latent-danger public-safety warning-duty Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act shields the federal government from liability when it fails to warn the pu…
23-5490 Franklin Paul Eller, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search-warrant severance-doctrine warrant-overbreadth Is severance of any overbroad warrant a permissible exception to the exclusionary rule
23-5462 Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package Does Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to post-Act resentencing hearings?
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Is there an exception to the Heck v. Humphrey rule for plaintiffs who are no longer in custody?
23A182 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus jurisdiction extends to allow federal courts to adjudicate an inmate's claims challenging the constitutionality…
23-5439 Steven Huffman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony Whether knowing conduct not intentionally designed to harm a targeted person satisfies the force clause definition of violent felony in 924(e)(2)(B)(1…
23-175 City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-08-25 Judgment Issued Amici (109)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-citations constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness public-camping Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment' prohibited by the Ei…
23-5437 Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process
23A165 Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India Seventh Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effect foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activity exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), requires a foreign state to have performed a leg…
23-5397 Emanuel Beach v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the federal offense or the prior state offense should be used to define a 'serious drug of…
23-5389 Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it?
23-156 Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (9) bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration Do bias-response teams objectively chill students' free speech?
23-147 Leander Mann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied aedpa-statute circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus habeas-petition statute-of-limitations Whether equitable tolling stops the clock on the AEDPA statute of limitations during periods of extraordinary circumstances
23-5369 Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation Whether a false statement in a firearm purchase was material
23A133 Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks Fourth Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search Whether a Bivens action is available to remedy Fourth Amendment violations occurring outside the context of a warrantless home search or against offic…
23A122 The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete avoided-costs circuit-split Defend-Trade-Secrets-Act remedial-damages trade-secret-misappropriation unjust-enrichment Whether the Defend Trade Secrets Act permits a plaintiff to recover damages for unjust enrichment, including avoided costs, independent of and in addi…
23A123 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation service-animal Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability when the emplo…
23-5338 Keith A. Penn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied IFP attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States broadly encompasses preliminary steps and attempts to engage in the identified conduct?
23-5345 Henry Robledo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation Whether an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors is sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim
23-131 Falkbuilt Ltd., et al. v. DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived alternative-forum circuit-split civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens gulf-oil-corp-v-gilbert international-comity international-litigation jurisdictional-dismissal multi-defendant-case piper-aircraft-co-v-reyno Whether, in a multi-defendant case, district courts are legally prohibited from dismissing any defendant under the doctrine of forum non conveniens un…
23-5331 Al Douglas Wordly v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
23-5332 Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)?
23A110 Taylor J. Matson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete attempted-child-enticement circuit-split evidentiary-standards expert-testimony jury-trial law-enforcement-agents Whether the scope of permissible expert testimony by law enforcement agents regarding the interpretation of evidence and communications is limited by …
23A113 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split deed-restrictions disability fair-housing-amendments-act property-owners-association reasonable-accommodation Whether the Fair Housing Amendments Act requires a housing provider to have knowledge of a disability at the time of an initial denial of a reasonable…
23-120 United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint Whether allegations that members of an association agreed to adhere to the association's rules, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of c…
23-122 Wilmington Trust, N.A., et al. v. Marlow Henry, on Behalf of the BSC Ventures Holding, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan Third Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure effective-vindication erisa federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA prohibits individual arbitration of claims
23-111 United States, ex rel. Howard Beck v. St. Joseph Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions rule-59 timely-appeal Whether a court-created exception barring successive post-judgment motions can deprive a court of appeals of jurisdiction over an appeal that is timel…
23-108 James E. Snyder v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (9) 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities
23-109 Janis Wolf v. Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen, LLP Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies credit-transaction debt-collection deferred-payment fair-credit-reporting-act homeowners-association Whether a typical HOA assessment qualifies as an FCRA 'credit transaction'
23-5276 German Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
23-5266 Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to pr…
23-88 Jerry L. Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence resentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
23-5236 Marvas Aurelien v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses Whether the 'controlled substance' definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at th…
23-5228 Patrick Frederick Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split first-step-act procedural-reasonableness section-404 sentencing-reduction substantive-reasonableness Whether appellate review for 'abuse of discretion' of a district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act req…
23-80 Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation Whether courts may consider factors other than the statute's focus to decide if a claim involves a domestic application
23A71 Direct Energy, LP v. Matthew Dickson Sixth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury-in-fact ringless-voicemail telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-communications Whether receipt of a single unsolicited ringless voicemail or text message constitutes a concrete injury in fact sufficient to establish Article III s…
23-5188 Mark Anthony Roy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct
23-67 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment
23-68 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law whether-the-case-met-the-standard-to-dismiss-on-summary-judgment
23-63 San Diego County Credit Union v. Citizens Equity First Credit Union Ninth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied 15-usc-1119 cardinal-chemical circuit-split invalidity jurisdiction non-infringement patent-and-trademark-office summary-judgment trademark-cancellation trademark-disputes trademark-law Whether a finding of non-infringement moots a claim for trademark invalidity
23-5172 Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights Does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights under plain error review?
23-5174 Dionte Houff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul…
23A57 Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eighth-amendment-sentencing federal-standards jerome-presumption sentencing-guidelines Whether the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) should be interpreted according to federal standards or permits applic…
23-50 Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 Whether Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claims are governed by the charge-specific rule or the any-crime rule
23-51 Neal Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (14) circuit-split employment-contract employment-contracts federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce railroad-employees seamen statutory-interpretation transportation-industry Whether a class of workers actively engaged in interstate transportation must also be employed by a company in the transportation industry to be exemp…
23-5148 Bernard Edmond v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-factors first-step-act resentencing retroactive-application sentencing-disparity Whether sentencing-disparities-can-serve-as-basis-for-compassionate-release
23-5149 Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant is ineligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence if his criminal history runs afoul of any one of the disqualifying crit…
23-5130 Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation Must district courts comply with 18-usc-3553(c)
23-5139 Jacinto Alvarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation Does the 'attempted use of force' clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an 'intent' to use force against another?
23-5114 Leroy C. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul…
23-5105 Russell Garvis Griffith, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP child-abuse circuit-split evidence-rule-803(4) hearsay hearsay-exception household-abuse medical-diagnosis medical-treatment rule-803(4) witness-testimony Whether a party seeking to admit an out-of-court statement pursuant to Rule 803(4) must show that the speaker subjectively knew that the identity of t…
23-5109 Carl Lindsey v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus key-witness overwhelming-evidence post-judgment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-immunity witness-credibility Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the proper materiality standard under Brady v. Maryland
23-5099 Dustin Jolly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should the Supreme Court use its supervisory authority to resolve the conflict between the Sixth Circuit and other circuits on applying the Supreme Co…
23-5072 Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of…
23A29 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice Whether the standard for assessing Strickland prejudice in capital cases involving counsel's deficient advice to waive a defendant's statutory right t…
23-30 Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison Tenth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA-claims can be compelled to individual-arbitration
23-5076 David Linehan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force Whether 'attempted use' in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f…
23-27 Michael Harper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the 'elements' of a defendant's offense…
23-15 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the trademark-infringement issue was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and the leg…
23-5012 Matthew Nix v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate resu…
23-5020 Christopher Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is 'inextricab…
22-7890 Christopher Ochoa v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in the ca…
22-7894 Frankie Shearry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of…
22-7904 Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of decontrolled substances can be used for federal sentencing enhancements
22-1249 Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit is correct to relieve an incontestable trademark-holder of its burden to prove that its mark is strong and likely to be c…
22-1240 Nicolas Tashman v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment employment-discrimination respondeat-superior statutory-interpretation supreme-court tortious-acts Whether general common law principles of respondeat superior apply to hold an employer liable for an employee's tortious acts under 42 U.S.C. § 1981
22-7872 Carmelita Barela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition hobbs-act mens-rea stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction can be sustained where the only claimed use of 'violent force' is coughing and claiming to have 'Covid' while s…
22-7862 Lazaro Veliz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-1231 Laird J. Heal v. Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee for WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Services 2006-PR2 Trust, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-estoppel motions-to-strike standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the motions to strike under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c)(2) were decided correctly
22-7839 Christian Ruben Tirado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question gang-paraphernalia supervised-release vagueness-doctrine Is a special condition of supervised release that prohibits a supervisee from possessing any of a laundry list of items 'known to represent associatio…
22-7818 Marshall M. Cohen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2256 child-pornography circuit-split creator's-intent federal-criminal-law four-corners-of-image intent-context lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation Whether lasciviousness under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) may be determined by examining the context or creator's intent, or must be determined solely fr…
22-7802 James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release Whether the district court erred in revoking Petitioner's supervised release based solely on his admission to accessing the internet without permissio…
22-7806 Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the two-level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) requires the government to establish the defendant's knowledge that the methamphetamine…
22-1216 Dwayne Ferguson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider legal errors in prior proceedings as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' …
22-1218 Wendy Smith, et al. v. Keith Spizzirri, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-conflict circuit-split dismiss district-court-procedure federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion section-3 statutory-interpretation stay Whether Section 3 of the FAA requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss whe…
22-7792 Diante Turman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing 22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance offenses' under Section 4B1.2(b) to include convictions under laws encompassing substances…
22-7783 Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit's limitation on First Step Act relief contravenes Terry's element-based determination of eligibility and Concepcion's hol…
22-1210 Colgate-Palmolive Company, et al. v. Rebecca McCutcheon, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied actuarial-assumptions benefit-determination circuit-split deference erisa erisa-plan-administrator-discretion extrinsic-evidence judicial-interpretation plan-administrator statutory-and-regulatory Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that it must disregard all objective extrinsic evidence of the reasonableness of an ERISA plan administrat…
22-1192 Headstream Technologies, LLC v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived airline-deregulation-act circuit-split contract-formation intentional-fraud package-delivery preemption service-preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims summary-judgment Whether the Airline Deregulation Act preempts state-law tort claims alleging intentional fraud by an air carrier
22-1200 Lee Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture independent-obligation judicial-discretion legal-argumentation legal-forfeiture young-v-united-states Do the courts of appeals have an independent obligation to craft and consider forfeited legal arguments in criminal cases?
22-7755 Jerome Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st…
22-7756 Andre Zeno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether the 'and' in § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or'
22-7747 Samuel Wilson, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness Whether a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert can testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or code in conversations to w…
22-1190 Lavelle Hatley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony Whether a prior conviction for Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
22-1178 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre Ninth Circuit 2023-06-06 Judgment Issued Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing Whether respondent's claims challenging placement on the No-Fly-List are moot
22-7716 Minnela Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe…
22-7717 Christopher A. Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied IFP appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the substantive reasonableness…
22-7709 Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355…
22-7682 Tyrin Gayle v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief?
22-7690 Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder…
22-7692 Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony Whether an assault offense that requires a reckless mens rea and is used to prosecute drunk drivers qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Ca…
22-1165 Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation, et al. v. Moab Partners, L.P., et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-01 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Response Waived circuit-split item-303 item-303-disclosure material-fact private-right-of-action sec-regulation-s-k sec-rule-10b-5 section-10b securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding—in conflict with the Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits— that a failure to make a disclosure required und…
22-7650 Nolan Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1)
22-7635 Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach?
22-7627 Denis Grushko v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant circuit-split eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause Whether the 'reason to believe' standard in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) requires a showing of probable cause that a suspect is within the …
22-7628 Robert Earl Gorham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a state court adjudication of the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is 'contrary to' Strickland v. Washington
22-7629 Jose Luis Nunez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether police may enter and perform a 'protective sweep' of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sugges…
22-7584 Kahliq Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement policy-concerns sentencing-errors Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-1111 Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Third Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Relisted (3) agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable
22-7528 Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution sixth-amendment sovereign-delay speedy-trial state-prosecution Under what circumstances is waiting for another sovereign to complete their proceedings against a defendant a justifiable reason for delay under the S…
22-7517 Phillip Daniel Love v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split district-court-explanation holguin-hernandez-v-united-states mitigating-arguments mitigation-arguments preservation-of-error rita-v-united-states sentencing-arguments sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether a party is required to specifically object to the district court's failure to explain its rejection of nonfrivolous sentencing arguments after…
22-7518 John William Iron Road v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award?
22-1085 GCIU-Employer Retirement Fund, et al. v. MNG Enterprises, Inc., dba Digital First Media Ninth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived asset-sale circuit-split civil-procedure contribution-history employee-retirement-fund pension-fund successor-liability withdrawal-liability Whether a predecessor's contribution history is properly included in the withdrawal lability assessments of its successor
22-7471 Renzo Alegre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment internet-access sex-offenders supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina apply to offenders on supervised release?
22-7458 Roger Wayne Battle v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether murder by omission qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
22-7464 Montez Hall v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force statutory-interpretation whether-murder-by-omission-qualifies-as-a-crime-of-violence
22-7439 Julio Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation whether-the-5th-circuit-erred-in-applying-a-6-point-enhancement-for-crimes-against-government-to-crimes-against-civilians
22-7436 Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)(1) means 'and' consistent with the ordinary meaning of the word, so that the person remains eligible unless th…
22-7435 Alex Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require a trial court to instruct, or refuse to instruct, the Jury on the fundamental meaning of 'B…
22-1055 Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud Whether the wire-fraud statute applies extraterritorially or is limited to domestic applications
22-1043 Joshua Louis Rupp v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split due-process government-inducement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines Whether the government's advocacy for higher sentencing guidelines at sentencing than estimated during plea negotiations renders the plea unknowing an…
22-7376 Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the actual-innocence gateway applies only where a petitioner can prove that she is 'morall[ly]' or 'completely' innocent of any crime, or whet…
22-7361 Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for miscarriage-of-justice
22-1025 Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened
22-1015 Leon A. Brown, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-courts burns-v-wilson circuit-split exculpatory-evidence military-habeas-corpus military-justice-act military-justice-act-of-1983 uniform-code-of-military-justice Whether the Court should overrule Burns v. Wilson
22-1016 Cardone Capital, LLC, et al. v. Luis Pino Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bespeaks-caution-doctrine circuit-split forward-looking-statements risk-disclosures securities-act seller-liability Whether the bespeaks-caution doctrine imposes a categorical requirement that cautionary language be made after or at the same time as the challenged m…
22-7308 Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof What standard of proof must the government meet to prove a preserved Guidelines error is harmless?
22-1006 Prime Insurance Company v. Darnell Wright Seventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-preemption financial-responsibility interstate-transportation intrastate-journey motor-carriers statutory-interpretation transportation Whether a trip of an empty truck between two locations in the same state qualifies as 'transportation of property ... between a place in a State and .…
22-1008 Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Eighth Circuit 2023-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (15) administrative-procedure-act adverse-effect adversely-affected agency-action agency-rule circuit-split legal-wrong standing statute-of-limitations When do APA claims first accrue under 28 U.S.C. §2401(a)
22-1010 Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory and p…
22-1011 Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause violate Illinois v. Gates?
22-7289 Terrick Bishoff v. United States First Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone who…
22-999 Janice C. Amara, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cigna Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-review case-by-case-balancing circuit-split final-judgment interlocutory-orders merger-rules post-judgment-proceedings postjudgment-proceedings pragmatic-finality May litigants wait until the end of postjudgment proceedings to appeal, with the scope of appeal including all related postjudgment decisions, or is t…
22-7263 Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'controlled substance offenses' under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances listed …
22-7237 Eric Grzywinski v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether a statutory rape offense requires a 16-year-old age of consent to be an 'offense relating to .. sexual abuse, aggravated sexual abuse, or abus…
22-7241 Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah Utah 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Salerno's 'no set of circumstances' test, the Hoffman/Grayned 'more stringent vagueness test,' or some other test, should govern judicial revi…
22-7194 Monquel Dejuan-Lee Paulk v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split duenas-alvarez generic-crime realistic-probability sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-taylor Whether the reasoning of United States v. Taylor applies to determining if an overbroad state crime qualifies as an Armed Career Criminal Act predicat…
22-7210 David McCall, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason sentence-reduction sentencing-law whether-district-court-may-consider-sentencing-disparity
22-7169 Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review Whether the standard of review for actual innocence claims should be resolved by this Court to address a circuit split
22-946 Martin Jay Manley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering (VICAR) statute is divisible
22-7095 Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende…
22-935 Transervice Logistics, Inc., et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-termination evergreen-clause labor-agreement labor-law notice-requirement notice-requirements Whether a notice of termination for a collective bargaining agreement must contain a clear statement of an intent to terminate the agreement
22-7069 Sandy Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conditions-of-release due-process federal-supervised-release liberty-deprivation sex-offenders Whether an absolute lifetime ban on communication with minors, with no exception for supervised contact or preapproval, involves a greater than necess…
22-926 U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Amici (1) article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers Does the lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require i…
22-7061 Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory term 'lascivious exhibition' refers to the defendant's act of exhibiting a minor's genitals on film, or to a particular type of …
22-7053 Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is …
22-7059 Aaron M. Haynes v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or'
22-912 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-…
22-914 Stanley Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction hypothetical-jurisdiction judicial-domain standing state-law-claims steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-env't subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may assume 'hypothetical' subject matter jurisdiction to reach a decision on issues of state law against the party challenging…
22-906 Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-malice appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure defamation first-amendment new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure public-figures should-the-actual-malice-standard-be-revisited
22-7014 Michael Hucks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guid…
22-886 Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a military purpose, through a contract with a U.S. company, commercial-activity
22-6990 Scott Ray Bishop v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process presumption-against-waiver right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Von Moltke advisements remain prerequisites for a knowing and intelligent waiver of the right to counsel and whether this Court continues …
22-875 Michael Meyers v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-rationale strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When evaluating a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, may a court retroactively construct a strategic justification for a decision that the a…
22-6982 Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard Whether mandamus review on issue of first impression should have been applied to claim that was created by way of intervening change of First Step Act…
22-6936 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's holding in Bryant that the policy statement in USSG §1B1.13 applies to all motions under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) confl…
22-6945 Derrick Owens v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines Did the district court err in finding Mr. Owens a Career Offender under the Sentencing Guidelines
22-828 Roger E. Pace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for safety-valve relief from mandatory-minimum sentences
22-817 Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below conflicts with Staub v. Proctor Hospital
22-809 Texas State LULAC, et al. v. Lupe C. Torres, in Her Official Capacity as the Medina County Elections Administrator, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation circuit-split first-amendment government-act injury mens-rea self-censorship standing Whether a plaintiff must show that a challenged government act is the sole cause of its injury to have standing
22-6866 Antonio Rosello v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-6844 Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-6847 Philip M. Close v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct Whether brief glimpses of children's genital areas in videos constitute 'sexually-explicit-conduct' under 18-USC-2251-and-2252A
22-6834 Michael Laury v. United States Third Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 Whether the Government is required to show that drug activity constitutes the primary or principal purpose of the property, or only that drug distribu…
22-6836 Robert Speed v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation Whether RICO is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
22-793 Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner
22-795 Jay C. Richmond v. Life Insurance Company of North America Eighth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion circuit-split contra-proferentem employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-benefits firestone-deference full-and-fair-review judicial-review plan-interpretation Whether the court of appeals applied the wrong standard of judicial review under Firestone-Tire-and-Rubber-Co-v-Bruch
22-785 Theryn Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment immunity self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness witness-immunity when-the-due-process-clause-requires-vacatur-of-a-criminal-conviction-based-on-the-government's-refusal-to-seek-immunity-for-a-defense-witness
22-6798 Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression Whether a defendant must show inability to discover favorable evidence through due diligence to establish 'suppression' under Brady v. Maryland
22-6784 Jerry Don South v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation Must District Courts comply with 18-U.S.C-3553(c)
22-6777 Fharis Denane Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Question Presented
22-6739 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal violates …
22-747 Tracy Renee Pennington v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-09 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) arrest-warrant circuit-split fourth-amendment fourth-circuit home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause When the police have an arrest warrant for a person, can they enter a home without probable cause that the person resides there and is present within?
22-751 Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split disgorgement equity-practice joint-and-several-liability mandate-rule net-profits procedural-requirement profits-based-remedy third-party-funds Whether the decision of the Ninth Circuit requiring petitioners to disgorge funds they raised and disbursed to unrelated third parties, but never pers…
22-744 Joseph C. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split debtor-property in-rem-jurisdiction international-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction property-estate Whether the United States Bankruptcy Code's grant of world-wide jurisdiction over a debtor's property permits a federal court to exercise in rem juris…
22-6717 Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States Third Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether prior convictions for inchoate offenses involving 'delivery' of controlled substances, where the state statute includes 'attempted transfer' a…
22-6719 Michael Anthony Conage v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
22-738 Robert A. Mangine v. Shannon D. Withers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) 18-usc-3582 career-offender circuit-split habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice savings-clause sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-errors statutory-rights Whether and under what circumstances relief is available under § 2255(e) for federal prisoners challenging errors in their sentences
22-6680 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP aiding-and-abetting alien-smuggling circuit-split defective-indictment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-rights sixth-amendment Was the indictment defective?
22-6683 Terrell Javon Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
22-714 Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-remand remand removal-restrictions standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether SEC v. Chenery Corp. and its progeny required the Sixth Circuit to remand the case to the agency after determining that the agency had applied…
22-716 Alexander Dockery v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody-requirement federal-habeas habeas-corpus no-fault-of-petitioner prior-conviction sentence-enhancement Is the federal habeas custody requirement met where a petitioner makes a constitutional challenge to a previously unchallenged conviction that was use…
22-720 Dakota Finance LLC, dba Arabella Farm, et al. v. Naturaland Trust, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (4) administrative-penalty circuit-split citizen-suits clean-water-act diligent-prosecution-bar enforcement-regime statutory-interpretation What is the proper test for determining whether the 'diligent prosecution bar' under 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g)(6)(A)(i) precludes citizen suits brought unde…
22-710 James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations whether-the-sixth-circuit's-ruling-merits-summary-reversal
22-713 Shannon Gladden v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived bostock bostock-interpretation but-for but-for-causation circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination evidence-evaluation motivating-factor pretext pretext-analysis Does the but-for reasoning referenced in Bostock apply to McDonnell Douglas pretext analysis?
22-6656 Randy Lee Stapleton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice motion-to-withdraw Whether an appellate court should review on the merits the denial of a motion to withdraw a guilty plea notwithstanding a purported waiver of appeal
22-707 Barry J. Cadden v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point 'vulnerable victim' enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, absent …
22-6653 Jayson Montgomery v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied IFP anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent Does the government need to prove subjective intent for anti-kickback statute violations?
22-6628 Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences?
22-6634 Rafael Espino v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness Whether 'knowing' federal criminal liability based on 'willful blindness' requires a defendant to 'subjectively' believe there is a 'high probability'…
22-6640 Eugene Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-26 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules …
22-693 Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju…
22-6591 Alecia Trapps v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether federal law or state law governs what constitutes a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a)
22-6600 Eric Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether the prosecution must show the facts required under 40 U.S.C. §3112(b) to establish territorial jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. §7(3)
22-6587 Vernon White v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of 'special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t…
22-6581 John Krasley v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant's-other-bad-acts evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence propensity-evidence rule-404(b) third-party-acts Whether Rule 404(b) applies to all 'person[s],' as the Rule explicitly provides, or instead only to a defendant's other bad acts or crimes, and not th…
22-6564 Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Does the aggravating role enhancement for 'leader[s]' or 'organizer[s]' of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten…
22-653 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states Whether the failure to follow the commentary's abduction definition engendered a broad circuit split — and if so, do it show that the victims were 'ab…
22-6543 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
22-652 Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted
22-6531 Timothy Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights comprehension-disability constitutional-rights due-process garza-ruling post-conviction-relief ptsd retroactivity statute-of-limitations Whether the ruling in GARZA V. IDAHO 139 S. CT 739 (2019) applies to Plaintiff's Constitutional guarantee?
22-6536 Antoine D. Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the word 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive or conjunctive
22-6540 Brandon Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al…
22-644 Anthony Lomax v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines Whether courts must determine if a sentencing guideline is ambiguous before deferring to the Sentencing Commission's commentary
22-647 Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas Texas 2023-01-11 Denied circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination Whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrim…
22-6520 Tiffany Franklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-position-of-trust circuit-split criminal-sentencing fiduciary-duty position-of-trust sentencing-enhancement ussg-3b1.3 ussg-guideline vault-teller Whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault teller whose job duties do not rise to t…
22-6521 William Randall Brannan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge circuit-split civil-procedure preservation-of-issues rule-29 venue Whether a general motion under Rule 29 preserves a challenge to venue
22-631 Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases Whether Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code constrains the power of a court when confirming a plan of reorganization
22-6466 Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con…
22-615 Estate of Eric Jack Logan v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied circuit-split civil-rights credibility credibility-challenge due-process legal-procedure police-shooting summary-judgment witness witness-testimony Whether a party may successfully oppose summary judgment by challenging the credibility of the movant, especially when the movant is the only living w…
22-609 Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid multi-pronged test for determining government action in relation to electronic communication service providers compo…
22-6446 James Thomas Burke v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure justice-stevens standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent time-barred Whether Hardin v. Straub is relevant to the Supreme Court's holdings
22-6432 Edward Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault categorical-approach circuit-split federal-sentencing generic-offense model-penal-code taylor-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Circuit's exclusive reliance on the MPC misapplies the categorical approach announced by this Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 …
22-6402 Jesse Johnson, III v. California California 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a defendant's uncontradicted sworn statement that he would have accepted a plea offer but for his counsel's deficient performance is sufficien…
22-589 Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity Whether the Court should address ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly suggestive identification procedure violated the Due Process Clause
22-583 Evan Greebel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as 'earnings' subject to the CCPA's…
22-6379 Leetavious Gaines v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d…
22-573 BRFHH Shreveport LLC, dba University Health Shreveport v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, dba Willis-Knighton Health System Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-law circuit-split motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-12(b)(6) section-1 sherman-act twombly May a Section 1 claim be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), consistent with Twombly, based on evidence suggesting an alternative, non-con…
22-564 Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina Fifth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force Whether a suspect's dangerous past flight, without more, authorizes officers to doubt the sincerity of a subsequent surrender
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action 'alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact' when the complaint contains no such allegati…
22-556 N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
22-559 Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's 'intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]' of CMI…
22-552 Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucidate…
22-6318 Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a…
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room of a non-registered guest
22-542 Tavaris Betts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
22-6306 Marion Joseph Hare v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement?
22-6281 Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a 'Notice to Appear' that fails to include the date and time of th…
22-6264 Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Kisor constrains the deference courts may accord to the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines
22-531 Alan Wofsy, et al. v. Vincent Sicre de Fontbrune, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement creativity fair-use first-fair-use-factor originality-standard reproduction-rights scholarly-work third-fair-use-factor Whether a scholarly book offered for sale is a non-commercial work under the first fair use factor
22-512 Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim can show that the remedy by §…
22-502 Spring Valley Produce, Inc., et al. v. Nathan Aaron Forrest, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split civil-procedure debtor-liability discharge fiduciary-capacity fiduciary-duty paca perishable-agricultural-commodities-act statutory-trust Whether a debtor in bankruptcy may discharge liability for unlawfully violating a nonsegregated statutory trust
22-509 J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook Eighth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for…
22-6130 Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal …
22-480 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a…
22-6117 Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe…
22-6128 Christopher Erwin v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Did the Circuit Court err in denying Petitioner's motion for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel without a hearing?
22-471 Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws relating to the subject matters expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state law…
22-6106 David Shane Paquette v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit
22-6107 Jarmal Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny instruct courts to consider repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor as suggestive of pretext when…
22-6109 Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014 requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single additional special assessment of $5,000 or $5,000 for every qualifying conv…
22-6059 Maurice Oparaji v. Municipal Credit Union Second Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process electronic-fund-transfer-act rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-judgment supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing Oparaji's complaint
22-6062 Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of 'organize' within the context of the…
22-6076 Joseph Rauber v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation Whether 'and' means 'and' for the purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1)
22-456 Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver Whether a complaint that states a claim may be dismissed on the grounds that a plaintiff waived an argument against dismissal by failing to make the a…
22-435 Renetrice R. Pierre v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied Amici (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split emotional-distress fair-debt-collection-practices-act intangible-injuries intangible-injury psychological-harm statutory-right Whether a plaintiff who suffers emotional or psychological distress and confusion from a debt collector's unlawful attempt to collect a debt has Artic…
22-6001 Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts Whether a State can forfeit the affirmative defense of procedural default
22-419 Cedric Chanu v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any 'implied misrepresentation' that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, even w…
22-402 James Vorley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether a 'scheme or artifice to defraud' under the wire fraud statute encompasses an 'implied misrepresentation'
22-5930 Davon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the Reed rule applies to a Rehaif v. United States claim
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
22-5902 Monica Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est…
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…
22-383 CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-24 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a 'domestic' injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t…
22-5895 Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits Where a state sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the presumptive range the 'maximum term…
22-5897 Unises Chapotin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to Johnson v…
22-374 Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 GVR Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have 'knowingly' violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f…
22-5877 Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-5878 William D. King v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reason judicial-decisions judicial-discretion legal-developments sentence-modification statutory-interpretation When district courts may consider intervening judicial decisions and legal developments in determining 'extraordinary and compelling' reasons for sent…
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's 'necessarily imply' standard bar a § 1983 suit only if success would 'necessarily require' plaintiff to negate the underlying conviction, …
22-5859 Marcal Fraction v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Whether non-retroactive changes in sentencing law can constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582…
22-354 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement from searching places where a parolee has standing but are not unambiguousl…
22-346 Robert Anderson, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Infinity Business Group, Inc. v. Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-544 bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee circuit-split creditor-recovery creditors in-pari-delicto section-544a state-law state-law-preemption trustee Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking recovery on behalf of creditors under 11 U.S.C. 544(a) is subject to the debtor's knowledge
22-340 Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-12 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (3) circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the 'and' in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) means 'and' or 'or' for determining eligibility for the federal sentencing 'safety valve
22-331 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero Ninth Circuit 2022-10-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is 'an offense relating to obstruction of justice,' 8 U.S.C. 1101…
22-5788 Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff…
22-324 Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (3) blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a…
22-317 Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law?
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
22-309 City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship Ninth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance What must a RLUIPA plaintiff show in a facial 'equal terms' challenge?
22-293 Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Amici (5) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case h…
22-5691 Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissibility of prior bad acts and use of pro…
22-285 B-21 Wines, Inc., et al. v. Hank Bauer, Chair, North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split commerce-clause interstate-commerce nondiscrimination-principle public-health-and-safety retail-distribution retail-wine-distribution twenty-first-amendment wine-shipping Does the nondiscrimination principle of the Commerce Clause apply to and invalidate North Carolina's law allowing only in-state retailers to ship wine…
22-5677 Michael Louis McCarron v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that 'purely hypothetical' emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen…
22-268 City of Chicago, Illinois v. Marcella M. Mance Seventh Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-avoidance circuit-split due-process impoundment judicial-lien ordinance-enforcement statutory-lien vehicle-impoundment Whether a lien that arises automatically by operation of an ordinance when a vehicle is impounded is a statutory lien, and not a judicial lien avoidab…
22-5637 Dwayne Stone v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation Whether crimes of physical inaction have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of …
22-5625 Orville Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Did Congress delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to define extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons for sentence-reduction
22-252 Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law Whether federal or state law governs the validity of forum-selection clauses
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain-error-review under Fed.-R.-Crim.-P.-52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
22-242 Cyrano R. Irons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul…
22-5569 Dylan Darelle Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-227 Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin First Circuit 2022-09-12 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes
22-5549 Emmanuel Maxime v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica…
22-220 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Fifth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Amici (2) antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives Whether union 'representatives' under 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third means all union officers (as the court below held), only those union officers serving as c…
22-209 Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'an event or occurrence' in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—'a single happening'—as the Ninth Circuit holds,…
22-210 Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger Fourth Circuit 2022-09-08 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-orders legal-issue post-trial-motion preservation-of-claims summary-judgment Whether to preserve the issue for appellate review a party must reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment
22-5532 Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation Whether 'generic robbery' is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition?
22-5535 Eric Kamahele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-09-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions united-states-v-taylor Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
22-5538 Kepa Maumau v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery categorically qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
22-205 Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a federal court must apply the 'rule of equipoise' and grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when evidence of guilt and innocence is evenly…
22-5455 Tyrone Woolaston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense
22-195 Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli Seventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation whether a plaintiff bringing a claim for FMLA-interference must prove that he was denied any rights granted by the FMLA
22-193 Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-31 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer …
22-5477 Tracey L. Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Ninth Circuit's decision be vacated due to vacated case law?
22-185 Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Proced…
22-186 Troy Mansfield v. Williamson County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Amici (6) brady-violation brady-vs-maryland circuit-split criminal-justice due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the due process right recognized in Brady requires the disclosure of exculpatory evidence (or at the very least, evidence of factual innocence…
22-187 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims Must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on 'loss of life' damages in survival claims pursued via 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
22-178 Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act Whether state legislators are immune from complying with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
22-5460 Bradley Lane Croft v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 GVR Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether an accused commits aggravated-identity-theft by merely uttering-someone's-name
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly
22-175 Steven M. Recht, et al. v. Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of West Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split commercial-speech disclaimer-requirements due-process first-amendment legal-advertising misleading-advertising professional-regulation speech-restrictions Whether a State may redefine a well-established term and then ban its use as misleading
22-5429 Omar Shariff Cash v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland circuit-split due-process harmless-error impeachment-evidence materiality standards-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility Should this Court resolve the division among the Courts of Appeals and determine the appropriate standard for a court to apply in determining whether …
22-5437 Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati…
22-5440 Joseph Griego v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
22-167 Daniel J. Van Linn v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-08-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split evidence-admissibility exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source objective-inquiry reasonable-officer subjective-inquiry Whether a court seeking to determine if a source of evidence is 'genuinely independent' for purposes of the 'independent source' exception to the excl…
22-5418 Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad…
22-5399 John Afriyie v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation Whether Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act limits restitution for 'necessary ... other expenses' to out-of-pocket expenses simila…
22-5404 Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied IFP abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A)
22-135 Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu…
22-5346 Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 GVR IFP 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness Whether the District Court erred by instructing the jury
22-121 ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use…
22-123 University of Toledo v. Jaycee Wamer Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process educational-law liability notice school-liability sexual-harassment title-ix Can schools be liable under Title IX for sexual harassment that ceased before they were notified?
22-124 Brett C. Kimberlin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-disability civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review standing writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a 'civil disability' before a court can grant a writ of error coram nobis
22-5303 George Daniel McGavitt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is 'sadistic or masochistic' under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A)
22-111 United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-05 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it 'kno…
22-5289 Phillip A. Brown, II v. Cindi Curtin, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction calderon-v-thompson circuit-split collins-v-miller federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-54(b) final-judgment habeas-claims habeas-corpus jury-bias remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Circuit Court must recall the mandate in extraordinary cases where it lacked subject-matter-jurisdiction
22-5290 In Re Phillip A. Brown, II 2022-08-04 Denied IFP circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-the-circuit-court-must-recall-the-mandate
22-5293 Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States First Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability where petitioner sought review of the Distr…
22-105 Coinbase, Inc. v. Abraham Bielski Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-appeal circuit-split civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel Does a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration oust a district court's jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending ap…
22-5270 Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) savings clause for habeas corpus relief?
22-5278 Jordan Jenkins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati…
22-103 Gavin Clarkson v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied §1983-claim administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process sovereign-immunity summary-judgment Should an appeals court supplement the record when the government materially misleads the lower Court, either intentionally or unintentionally, regard…
22-5253 Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether the District Court erred in denying relief to Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based on the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3553(a)(2…
22-99 Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings Whether the Government's uncompensated appropriation of private companies' earnings and net worth through the Net Worth Sweep effects a taking under t…
22-93 Michigan State University, et al. v. Sophia Balow, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) athletic-opportunities circuit-split education-amendments-1972 educational-discrimination equal-athletic-opportunity federal-financial-assistance gender-equity proportionality-test sex-discrimination substantial-proportionality title-ix Whether, in determining compliance with Title IX and the substantial proportionality rule, the athletic participation gap between male and female stud…
22-96 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. First Circuit 2022-08-01 Judgment Issued Amici (11) abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Does 48 U.S.C. § 2126(a)'s general grant of jurisdiction to the federal courts over claims against the Board and claims otherwise arising under PROMES…
22-5226 Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether a wire transfer merely distributing funds amongst alleged accomplices is 'for the purpose of executing' a fraudulent scheme, as contemplated b…
22-5217 Ramell Markus v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective Is a determination of 'serious bodily injury' based on 'extreme physical pain' a subjective test based on the victim's level of pain tolerance or an o…
22-78 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law
22-80 Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application Whether the investigating officers are entitled to qualified immunity
22-69 Ampersand Chowchilla Biomass, LLC, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split compliance-threshold energy-facility environmental-compliance federal-law placed-in-service renewable-energy tax-benefits tax-incentives Whether an energy facility is 'placed in service' within the meaning of federal law whenever it can produce and sell some electricity without regard f…
22-76 Keith L. Carnes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Amici (2) 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user Whether the government must show the defendant's regular or habitual drug use to establish that the defendant is an 'unlawful user' of a controlled su…
22-5150 Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal Whether a district court errs when it permits the government to introduce highly inflammatory, and otherwise inadmissible, evidence to preemptively re…
22-56 101 Houseco, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-forfeiture due-process parklane-hosiery property-rights standing third-party-claimant Whether a third-party claimant holding title to property that has been ordered forfeited as part of a criminal defendant's punishment must be permitte…
22-49 Efrain Lora v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) applies to sentences imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 924(j)
22-5109 Teddy Brian Sanchez v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied IFP attorney-error brain-dysfunction capital-sentencing capital-trial circuit-split cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit penalty-phase prejudice-standard Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that the petitioner's 'organic' brain dysfunction was not enough of a 'red flag' to trigger a duty for tria…
22-5111 Robert Doyle Harper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
22-5113 Jerald Francis Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review bail bail-reform-act bail-review circuit-split detention-standard liberty-interest standard-of-review What standard of review should courts of appeals apply when reviewing district court bail decisions?
22-5107 Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines Should standards other than the knowing and voluntary waiver standard of Brady v. United States govern the enforcement of appeal waivers in plea agree…
22-36 Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitute RICO economic damages?
22-5050 Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell Seventh Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility brady-materiality brady-v-maryland circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality suppressed-evidence Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision creates conflict with other Circuits regarding the admissibility and materiality requirements under Brady v. Ma…
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether federal courts must apply forum state or federal choice-of-law rules in bankruptcy cases
22-10 David Fox Dubin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (4) circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a person commits aggravated identity theft by merely mentioning or reciting someone else's name while committing a predicate offense
21-8260 Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search Whether the 11th Circuit erred in declining to entertain a 4th Amendment violation issue
21-8268 Roger Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error Whether a federal prosecution is structural error when a grand jury indicts a defendant for conduct that is not a federal offense?
21-8277 Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors?
21-1606 Chase Yarbrough v. Santa Fe Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process nonstate-actor state-created-danger Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split on the 'state-created danger' theory of a constitutional duty to protect citizens from a nonstate ac…
21-1608 McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix Second Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c…
21-1598 City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death Whether state law prohibitions on hedonic damages apply to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival claims
21-8247 Johnathan Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a person is 'abducted' within the meaning of § 2B1.3(b)(4)(A) if he is moved or ordered to move only a short distance within the same building…
21-8236 Edward Toliver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application…
21-8229 Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Does a district court's finding that the defendant should be punished under Subsection (b)(2) bind future decision-makers on the question of whether h…
21-1589 Henry McInnis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims first-amendment fraud hospice-fraud medical-certification regulatory-liability social-security-act Did the lower court err in finding pervasive fraud as to 'false' hospice
21-8223 Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction Should a 28 USC 2241 HC be filed in State of incarceration or State of conviction for a State prisoner serving sentence in another State under Inter-s…
21-8224 Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of …
21-8191 Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten…
21-1576 Timothy J. Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense
21-8182 Reuben Conway v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether an indictment's failure to charge the essential mens rea element renders federal courts without jurisdiction
21-8127 Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
21-8129 Radu Miclaus v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that 'trafficking' a means of identification does not also constitute 'transferring' such identification under Se…
21-8118 Myron Dejuan Orr v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) 18-U.S.C.-3582(c) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582c abuse-of-discretion circuit-split extraordinary-and-or-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-disparity Whether the lower courts' rulings amount to an abuse of discretion when failing to consider that a disparity in sentencing amounts to an abuse of disc…
21-1552 Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large Eighth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops Whether courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his authority before proceeding to the qualified-immunity anal…
21-8099 Darnell McConnell, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede…
21-8103 Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation Whether the federal definition of a firearm silencer requires a showing of subjective purpose or intent to use a device as a silencer
21-8082 Arthur Houze v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Whether non-retroactive changes in sentencing law can constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582…
21-8069 Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas made a decision in this instant case that is in direct conflict with this Court's decision and gu…
21-1521 New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response Waived arm's-length-transaction circuit-split erisa erisa-compliance fair-market-value multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation successor-liability withdrawal-liability Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that 29 U.S.C. § 1392(c) requires fraudulent conduct
21-8033 Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions When a defendant raises a derivative theory on appeal that was not raised in a timely suppression motion in district court
21-8034 Robert Lawrence v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is…
21-8022 William Dew v. S. Columbia Terrace, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process factual-deficiencies motion-to-dismiss neitzke-v-williams pleadings pro-se sua-sponte Whether the district court may dismiss a non-prisoner pro se complaint sua sponte basis of factual deficiencies in complaint or must wait until defend…
21-8001 Charles James v. Thomson Sailors Homes, L.L.C., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied IFP architectural-works circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-scope fee-shifting legal-standard qualitatively-significant-similarity thin-copyright-protection thin-protection Scope of copyright protection for architectural works
21-7988 Donald Tarnawa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description
21-7994 Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation Does Borden v. United States, 141 8. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t…
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?
21-7942 P'erre Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a circuit split should be resolved regarding whether a condition of supervised release requiring submission to polygraph testing violates a De…
21-7928 Timothy Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion Did the district court have jurisdiction to consider Mr. Lindsey's authorized motion?
21-7876 Matthew Alexander, III v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs…
21-7861 Omar S. Folk v. Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abeyance case-holding certiorari circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act legal-abeyance procedural-review standing supreme-court Whether the Pending Supreme Court Case Egbert v. Boule, Case No. 21-147(Cert. Granted Nov. 5, 2021) Should be Held In Abeyance until outcome
21-1436 Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Judgment Issued Amici (3) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited
21-1431 Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-11 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation Whether Spending Clause statutes give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983
21-7841 Danny Jewell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability Whether the Fifth Circuit's strict liability approach to the importation enhancement under the United States Sentencing Guidelines is correct
21-7828 Kimberly Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-quantity drug-quantity-determination intervening-arrest narcotics-guidelines personal-use sentencing-guidelines Who bears the burden of proving or disproving 'personal use' quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guideli…
21-7812 Delton Eugene Warren v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-signature original-public-meaning search-warrant starr-v-united-states warrant-clause Whether search warrants must be signed by the issuing judicial officer
21-1428 Donald L. Blankenship v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Amici (1) brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help Whether a defendant must show inability to obtain suppressed, exculpatory evidence through independent efforts to establish a Brady violation
21-1405 Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Amici (8) accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying RLUIPA when it held that Georgia need not grant a religious accommodation offered in 39 other prison sy…
21-1426 Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Dismissed ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
21-7783 Reynaldo Aviles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge Whether a certificate of appealability may be issued where there is a circuit split
21-7769 Lonnell Tucker v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-04 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in…
21-1397 In Re Grand Jury Ninth Circuit 2022-05-02 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split civil-procedure communication-protection confidentiality federal-rules-of-evidence legal-advice non-legal-advice professional-communication significant-purpose Whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege
21-7748 Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), triggers the sentencing guideline policy statement U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 whe…
21-7753 Levi Miller v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant Whether the proper remedy for a Franks v. Delaware violation is to purge misleading statements or supplement the affidavit with omitted information
21-7697 Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni…
21-7711 Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court …
21-7673 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-853 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-law money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation substitute-assets Can a district court order forfeiture of substitute assets far in excess of the personal money judgment balance owed?
21-1366 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-discipline attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-procedure notice-requirements rule-11 show-cause-order Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 requires the specific offending statements to be listed in the show cause order
21-7657 Kirk L. Floyd v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split georgia-burglary-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states shepard-documents violent-felony Whether the Georgia burglary statute is divisible for ACCA purposes
21-7624 Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require proof of a specific predicate offense?
21-1352 Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond …
21-1347 Kevas L. Ballance v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination…
21-1342 Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Dismissed administrative-law circuit-split drug-exclusivity fda fda-regulation lambert-eaton-myasthenic-syndrome orphan-drug-act rare-disease statutory-interpretation Does the Orphan Drug Act unambiguously foreclose FDA's interpretation that the scope of orphan-drug exclusivity is tied to a drug's approved use?
21-7530 Paul M. Weadick v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering Whether the 'reasonable likelihood' standard applies even when the witness may not have made any communication to any officials at all
21-7524 Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition Should petitioner's due-process right to meaningful-review of 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence claims be foreclosed by 8th-circuit's local-rule-47a(a) sum…
21-1313 Martin Gottesfeld v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a different judge can make the requisite 'ends of justice' findings to support a continuance under the Speedy Trial Act
21-7509 Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau…
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…
21-7477 Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of this Court when it held in Unit…
21-1297 Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act imposes a burden on the government to demonstrate that it has actually considered and rejected the effic…
21-1291 Rodney Muschette v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response Waived 404(b)-evidence 5th-amendment circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment fundamentally-unfair-trial hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment Was Mr. Muschette denied his 5th Amendment right to due process?
21-7458 Derek Williamson v. Jason Clendenion, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process jury-trial-rights lenient-standard self-defense summary-remand Does the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradict, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regarding a…
21-7420 Isiah Pierce v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States apply where the ineffective assistance of counsel claim was first litigated and decided in a consider…
21-7443 Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui…
21-7428 Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does the actual innocence exception apply to a noncapital sentence?
21-7434 Darryl Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether the residual clause in the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines is unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, resulting in unequal…
21-1270 MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) and even when a remedy could be fashioned that do such that it is not subject to waiver appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-363(m) circuit-split jurisdictional-limitation lease-assignment remedy sale-order statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate courts' jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed 'integral' to a sale order, such …
21-1264 Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-03-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law Did the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the 'appreciable number of consumers' standard to the 'likel…
21-1266 Erica Talasek v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employee-benefits erisa estoppel misrepresentation summary-judgment Whether the beneficiary of an employee benefits plan can bring an equitable estoppel claim under ERISA based on misrepresentations at variance with th…
21-7413 Brian Folks v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence issue-preservation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility whether-prosecutor-can-ask-defendant-to-opine-on-witness-credibility
21-7387 Henry E. Wood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest has c…
21-7391 Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 'controlled substance[s]' in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede…
21-1251 Eric Ibarguen v. New York New York 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-invasion home-privacy law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure social-guests unreasonable-search Whether social guests are entitled to Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches of the home they are visiting
21-1255 Acres Bonusing, Inc., et al. v. Lester John Marston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied absolute-immunity administrative-conduct circuit-split conspiratorial-conduct court-employees functional-approach judicial-immunity ministerial-conduct Should this Court's 'functional' approach to absolute immunity be discarded to allow absolute judicial immunity to bar claims against court employees …
21-1258 Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, in His Official Capacity v. Texas Entertainment Association, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split jurisdictional-statute public-revenue regulatory-fee revenue-measure sovereign-prerogative sovereign-prerogatives tax-injunction-act uniform-application Whether a state revenue measure is a tax under the Tax Injunction Act if it raises public revenue, notwithstanding a regulatory purpose
21-1241 Michael L. Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-15 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split due-process economic-decision fraud mail-fraud property-fraud property-rights right-to-control wire-fraud Whether the Second Circuit's 'right to control' theory of fraud is a valid basis for a conviction under the federal mail and wire fraud statutes
21-7345 David Wayne Aring v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether lifetime supervised release is appropriate for a first-time, non-violent offender convicted of receiving and watching child pornography
21-7331 Darregus T. Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Can Permonee Ber Get Relief When USSG§1B1.13 Doesn't Align Rigarer Ged Compassionate Release Motions Because The Policy Maneres The FRG BCE?
21-7332 Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co…
21-7328 Glen S. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants about their right to testify?
21-1218 Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a district court possess subject-matter-jurisdiction to allow class-members to intervene-of-right in an MDL-proceeding?
21-7294 Daniel Gerard Lacey v. Brian M. Gootkin, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split foreshadowing ineffective-assistance judicial-review jurisdiction legal-doctrine timeliness writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court should grant certiorari to address and resolve a circuit split on the doctrine of foreshadowing and its application to ineffective …
21-7270 Karo Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal developments when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) o…
21-1208 Eric Andrews v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-1211 Constance George v. House of Hope Recovery, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant service-of-process service-requirement standing Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 permits a court of appeals to dismiss an appeal because the appellant did not serve the notice of appeal
21-7268 Ross Anthony Farca v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in 'damage to or loss or destruction of property' of…
21-7259 Keith Prescott Gace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation Should a jury or court consider the Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a minor constitutes a 'lascivious exhibition' for purp…
21-1196 Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. v. Peermusic Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement extrinsic-intrinsic-test musical-works ordinary-observer-test substantial-similarity Whether the courts should apply the ordinary observer test or the two-part extrinsic/intrinsic test when deciding substantial similarity in a copyrigh…
21-1192 Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc. v. John Waters, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-civil-procedure personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(1)(a) service-of-summons standing Whether out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to opt into an FLSA collective action pending in federal court must demonstrate that the forum state's courts …
21-7233 William Sardinas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states procedural-default united-states-v-taylor Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence
21-7236 Joseph Crocco v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti…
21-1185 Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies when a second (new) sentencer imposes a harsher sentence following a successful coll…
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver Whether objections to an untimely dispositive motion are waived if not presented orally prior to the response deadline
21-1169 Alain Kaloyeros v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-24 GVR Relisted (3) circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Is the deprivation of accurate information regarding a transaction, without more, 'property' under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as the S…
21-1170 Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-24 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud Whether the Second Circuit's 'right to control' theory of fraud states a valid basis for liability under the federal wire fraud statute
21-1164 Larry Steven Wilkins, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing-rule easement-dispute federal-land jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement property-rights quiet-title statute-of-limitations Whether the Quiet Title Act's Statute of Limitations is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule?
21-7186 Jon Hall v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-duty brady-material brady-v-maryland circuit-split constitutional-obligation evidence-disclosure governmental-entity prosecutorial-duty In circumstances where the favorable evidence lies in the hands of a governmental entity other than law enforcement or the prosecution, what is the pr…
21-7164 Charles Pyne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination Whether a certificate of appealability should issue
21-7157 Richard Lucas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation Whether a state statute's definition of 'cocaine' differs from the federal definition based on the plain, unambiguous language of the statutes
21-7158 Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach?
21-7163 Nathaniel Ruth v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act?
21-1149 Phoenix Light SF DAC, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis lexmark lexmark-doctrine merits merits-issues prudential-standing standing Whether federal courts can evaluate prudential standing before addressing Article III jurisdiction
21-1145 Molina Healthcare of Illinois, Inc., et al. v. Thomas Prose Seventh Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act implied-certification implied-false-certification material-noncompliance materiality pleading-requirements pleading-standard rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-compliance Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases to plead details of the alleged false claims
21-7151 Quentin Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force What constitutes a threat of physical force under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
21-7134 Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors Must a district court specifically address a defendant's non-frivolous § 3553(a) arguments based on intervening developments when denying compassionat…
21-7136 Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d…
21-1131 Trudy Mighty, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David M. Alexis, Deceased v. Miguel Carballosa, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curative-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling expert-testimony Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied the doctrine of 'curative admissibility' to affirm the district court's admission of inadmissible spe…
21-1132 Scott Asner, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Dismissed arbitration-agreement choice-of-law circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act federal-rights Can a federal court refuse to enforce the delegation clause of an arbitration agreement on the ground that a choice-of-law provision applicable to the…
21-1141 Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether qualified-immunity-doctrine-demands-identical-fact-pattern
21-7097 Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases Does the application of a stricter standard of review in assessing the substantive reasonableness of terrorism sentences contravene Gall and 18 U.S.C.…
21-7078 Jawan Fortia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process interstate-commerce judicial-fact-finding racketeering rico-act taylor-v-united-states Whether the government can obtain a RICO conviction without proving the targeted enterprise's activities affected interstate commerce, if members enga…
21-7079 Reginald Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 What is the mens rea of generic 'aggravated assault' — ordinary recklessness, extreme indifference recklessness, knowledge, or something else?
21-7070 Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states Should courts defer to Sentencing-Guidelines-commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying-text?
21-7061 John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel Under Schriro v. Landrigan, does a capital defendant forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for failing to adequately investigate…
21-7053 Iramm Wright v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether a movant's procedural default may be excused due to a constitutional vagueness challenge not reasonably available prior to Johnson v. United S…
21-7044 Marc Fishman v. Office of Court Administration New York State Courts, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-function americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split court-access disability-discrimination judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Whether a judicial court attorney is shielded from a claim that she violated a litigant's rights under the ADA by refusing to provide a reasonable acc…
21-7035 Seville Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-7039 Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S.C.…
21-1066 Washington Bankers Association, et al. v. Washington, et al. Washington 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split corporate-taxation discriminatory-proxy discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce out-of-state-entities precedents proxy-discrimination state-taxation Does a law that is triggered by a proxy for participating in interstate commerce and that burdens out-of-state entities almost exclusively violate the…
21-6972 Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 binds district courts in considering defendant-filed motions for sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)
21-6952 Sunrise Lee v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pract…
21-6956 Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court is limited to the 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' given in application note 1 of the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13
21-6946 Gregory Lozado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing Does Colorado felony menacing qualify as a crime of violence under the Guidelines force clause after Borden v. United States?
21-6933 Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split concerning the standard of review for a constitutional speedy-trial-claim
21-6934 Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' in the federal child pornography statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2256, is limited by the term it is defining an…
21-6929 Rozelle Summerise v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
21-1025 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach
21-1028 International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review Whether prejudice is part of the test for litigation conduct waiver in the context of an arbitration clause
21-1019 The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split employee-benefits ERISA-preemption healthcare-expenditures ninth-circuit play-or-pay play-or-pay-laws state-and-local-laws state-local-regulation Whether state and local play-or-pay laws that require employers to make minimum monthly healthcare expenditures for their covered employees relate to …
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that United States v. Powell precludes consideration of the jury's other verdicts when conducting harmless …
21-6898 Jasper Stevens, et al. v. Robert S. Whitmore Ninth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11-u.s.c.-521 11-u.s.c.-554 asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-abandonment circuit-split debtor-financial-affairs fresh-start statutory-interpretation trustee-administration Whether an asset can be abandoned to a debtor where (1) the asset is not administered prior to the closing of the bankruptcy case; and (2) the asset i…
21-6825 Diana Bustamante v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate 'controlled substance offenses' for applicability of the career offender …
21-6826 Todd Stands Alone v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation Whether common-law simple assault is an essential element of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b)
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-6785 Jarvis Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr…
21-6786 Semaji Warren v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-6787 Rondale Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the motive was a but-for cause of the violen…
21-979 Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether receiving benefits pursuant to a state-court judgment is an independent claim or an injury caused by a state-court judgment
21-970 Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot Tenth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether 'new' evidence, as referred to in Schlup v. Delo and McQuiggin v. Perkins, means evidence that was not available at the time of trial or, unde…
21-6752 Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied IFP AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a proce…
21-6758 Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede…
21-6748 Jose Luis Wong v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence
21-6750 Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o…
21-941 Aldo Daniel Gastelum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied circuit-split consensual-search fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-supreme-court-rulings voluntary-consent whether-search-is-consensual
21-924 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain…
21-908 Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation Whether an individual can be subject to liability for another's fraud barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) by imputation…
21-6692 Alex D. Ramos v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-6671 Valente Arias-Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-factors standard-of-review Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
21-6681 Eric Michael Crapser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court should resolve the clear circuit split on whether Strickland-v-Washington prohibits a criminal defendant from obtaining relief due t…
21-905 Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-898 Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv…
21-6658 Donald Ray Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary?
21-6639 Jacqueline Giebell v. Heartland Dublin Nursing Facility Sixth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights federal-law nhra nursing-facility nursing-home obstruction-of-justice retaliation trespassing Was trespassing Ms. Giebell from the Heartland of Dublin Nursing Facility a violation of Federal Law, and the NHRA. Was it Retaliation?
21-6643 Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o…
21-6625 Derrick Harrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence
21-885 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Meredith Callahan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut…
21-877 Ross Thacker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-6600 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
21-6605 Jermaine Jackson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a)
21-6578 Gregory Leri v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-history downward-adjustment drug-trafficking first-step-act safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum Whether the safety valve criteria under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) are conjunctive or disjunctive
21-6585 Freddy Crespo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule on certificates of appealability conflicts with Supreme Court precedent
21-6557 Tekoa Glover v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that Mr. Glover waived his Sixth Amendment claims by entering a guilty ple…
21-6575 Nathaniel Fields v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-10 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal developments when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) o…
21-861 First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation Whether a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity from a co-fiduciary under ERISA
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
21-843 Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii Where an employer must respond to complaints of sexual harassment
21-6555 Malik Saunders v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-offenses culpable-omission culpable-omissions injury-or-death intentional-causation physical-force sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-guidelines Whether all criminal offenses that require proof of an intentional causation of injury or death, including those which may be committed by way of culp…
21-6539 In Re Kenny Blanc 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 …
21-6540 Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A), triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendants file…
21-832 Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with Shady Grove?
21-6491 Lucas Montagne v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed?
21-820 Louisiana v. Christopher Alexander Louisiana 2021-12-02 Denied circuit-split coerced-confession due-process fifth-amendment fruits-doctrine miranda-violation Whether a later voluntary statement must be suppressed as the fruits of statement taken in violation of Miranda?
21-6466 Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence Whether a district court violates Pepper v. United States when it refuses to allow a defendant to proffer evidence of post-sentencing rehabilitation a…
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner Whether the district court and the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Supreme Court's decision of Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1…
21-6461 Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose Whether a defendant commits 'aggravated identity theft' under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1) when she 'uses' a client's identifying information in submitting…
21-6418 Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o…
21-6427 Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation of methamphetamine requires some level of intent or knowledge
21-6376 Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must calculate a defendant's sentencing range under current law when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentence under the …
21-6383 Harinder Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to 'conceal or disguise…
21-6396 Tamara Jeune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Dismissed IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)?
21-6397 Viengxay Chantharath, aka OG v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law Can a nonretroactive change in the sentencing law satisfy the 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' standard for a reduction in sentence under 18 U.S…
21-767 Clinton Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-761 OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC v. Sandra M. Peters Fourth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty party-in-interest prohibited-transaction service-provider tenth-circuit-rule Whether a service provider must have a preexisting relationship with a plan to qualify as a 'party in interest' under ERISA § 406(a)
21-6310 Carlos Santos v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split extraneous-information habeas-corpus jury-deliberations prejudice remmer-hearing Whether the state is still required to bear the burden at a Remmer hearing when the issue is litigated in the context of a habeas corpus petition, whe…
21-6332 Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony issue-being-raised
21-6276 Terrell B. Sullivan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie united-states-v-havis united-states-v-winstead Whether the Eighth Circuit Erred in Holding that Petitioner's Issue on 'Certificate of Appealability' Was Not Debatable Among Jurists of Reason
21-6291 Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia…
21-6300 Ricky Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report?
21-725 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Whether district court proceedings must be stayed pending appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration
21-728 Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality Whether the three ways to identify nationless vessels enumerated in 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1) are exhaustive
21-6282 Tannous Fazah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-reclassification prior-conviction prior-convictions retroactive-reclassification sentence-enhancement Whether the sentence enhancements for prior felony drug convictions apply to state felony convictions that have been recalled and resentenced as misde…
21-6283 Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of assault with a dangerous weapon too narrowly and against its plain language by requiring viole…
21-6259 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-provisions discretionary-power due-process internet-research judicial-discretion juror-misconduct prejudicial-error remmer statutory-provisions verdict-integrity Whether a lower court can rule that a verdict was not affected by juror misconduct when the exact websites and content viewed by the juror are unknown…
21-700 Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition Does a claim for wrongful pre-trial detention accrue upon favorable termination or release on bail?
21-701 Oakley Grain, Inc., et al. v. M. Randy Rice, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-court circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunction interpleader standing state-court-lawsuit Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's Order affirming the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the State Court lawsuit did not …
21-6225 Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding Whether the First Circuit misapplied RICO-conspiracy, RICO-predicate-offenses, general-understanding, specific-understanding, equipoise, accessory-aft…
21-6227 Misael Cordero v. Jonathan Gramp, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a due process violation occurs when the government knowingly uses false testimony even if the defense knows of the false testimony
21-682 Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl…
21-683 John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation Whether the local defendant's alleged conduct can satisfy the 'significant basis' requirement of CAFA's local controversy exception where it is the sa…
21-684 Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims What constitutes a 'reasonable opportunity to cure' under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act?
21-6178 Henry Baird v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment Whether the court should resolve the circuit split on recognizing sentencing entrapment and sentencing manipulation doctrines as viable defenses at se…
21-6212 Anthony De La Torriente v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied IFP circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation Can evidence that a victim was intoxicated suffice to prove the 'physically incapable' element of sexual abuse, or does a conviction require evidence …
21-6197 Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court may find that 'reasonable jurists would not disagree' about the denial of relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 where other courts hav…
21-6191 Julio Hernandez-Pacheco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-precedent circuit-split constitutional-violation davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule hudson-v-michigan identity-evidence illegal-search search-and-seizure vehicle-stop may-identity-related-evidence-be-suppressed-under-exclusionary-rule
21-6166 Ángel De la Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states Whether pre-First Step Act Safety Valve covers Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act offenses since those offenses' punishment elements are defined by 21 …
21-6171 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be exc…
21-6136 Marcio Santos-Portillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-exclusion federal-law-enforcement judicial-discretion procedural-remedy separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation Whether a federal court has the discretion to exclude evidence obtained by federal law enforcement agents in violation of a federal statute
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitio…
21-6123 Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error Whether the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflicts with the Six…
21-6111 Jonas Ross, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence Whether the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that Mr. Ross distributed the controlled substance that resulted in the death of K.P. is in conflict with Burr…
21-626 Boyd & Associates v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act first-to-file-bar jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal medicaid-fraud sebelius-v-auburn-regional-medical-center Whether the First-to-File Bar of the False Claims Act is jurisdictional
21-627 Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation Whether the Airline Deregulation Act preempts neutral state laws that have a significant impact on carrier prices, routes, or services, even if that i…
21-6118 Kevin Folse v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime Does New Mexico's aggravated battery statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines?
21-6120 Javier Perez v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms heller-interpretation immigration second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants Whether undocumented-immigrants have 2nd-amendment-rights
21-6080 Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition Whether AEDPA's restrictions on second or successive habeas petitions apply retroactively to petitioners who filed pre-AEDPA federal habeas litigation
21-6099 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2…
21-6106 Ahmed Osman Farah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-record circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement Does a district court violate a defendant's right to due process by enhancing a sentence based on unreliable arrest history, as the Third and Seventh …
21-617 Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status?
21-605 David Lynn Roberson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution
21-6077 Torri McCray v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for unc…
21-594 Alphabet Inc., et al. v. Rhode Island, Office of the Rhode Island Treasurer on Behalf of the Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island Ninth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) annual-filing circuit-split disclosure-requirements forward-looking past-information quarterly-report risk-factors sec-regulations securities-disclosure securities-regulation Whether 'risk factors' disclosed in securities filings must disclose only future risks or must also disclose past risks
21-6054 Benjamin Koziol v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Should certiorari be granted to resolve the circuit split on criminalizing baseless threats to sue as Hobbs Act extortion?
21-6062 Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission's comments take precedent over the plain, statutorily construed language of the United States Sentencing Guidelines
21-6010 Robert D. Sutton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Can a district court consider a defendant's disproportionately long sentence under the earlier version of § 924(c) to find 'extraordinary and compelli…
21-6020 Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.4 requires a…
21-6034 Clifton James Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act Whether an indictment defect can strip federal courts of jurisdiction
21-5998 In Re Anthony Terry 2021-10-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Borden's substantive interpretation of statute should be extended to Terry in light of the fact that Eleventh Circuit precedent prevents him f…
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…
21-6004 Olufolajimi Abegunde v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment indictment-allegations rule-8-joinder venue venue-impropriety Should the propriety of joinder under Rule 8 be judged strictly by the allegations on the indictment or should factors beyond the indictment be consid…
21-6009 Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-19 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) when deciding whether to impose a reduced sentenc…
21-6015 Robert Lee Walden v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida legal-precedent reasonable-diligence unsettled-circuit-law Whether equitable tolling is available when a habeas petitioner relies on unsettled circuit law that is later upended by legal developments
21-567 Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings Whether a plaintiff must show a 'constant threat' of being closed again to obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic and s…
21-569 Gregory V. Tucker v. City of Shreveport, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force fair-warning qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity when there is no prior caselaw declaring their actions unconstitutional in an identical fac…
21-5989 Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review Whether the harmless error standard should apply to a failure to instruct the jury on a contested element of the offense
21-5978 Derek Levert Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure indigent-defendant pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel waiver Whether an indigent criminal defendant's waiver of trial counsel requires a clear and unequivocal request to proceed pro se
21-5984 Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of the A…
21-552 Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., et al. v. Edward Anderson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Amici (1) chadbourne-v-troice circuit-split covered-securities in-connection-with merrill-lynch-v-dabit securities-exchange-act securities-litigation slusa statutory-interpretation uniform-standards-act Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that Troice narrowed Dabit's interpretation of SLUSA's 'in connection with' prong to require that the al…
21-559 Todd W. Hutton, et al. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure counsel-illness excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure illness-of-counsel rule-60b summary-judgment texas-law Is illness of counsel which results in failure to comply with the local rules, a basis for relief as inadvertence or excusable neglect under Federal R…
21-551 John J. Watford v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-5972 Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course
21-5976 Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the police were required to obtain a search warrant before submitting trash items to a forensic lab to extract DNA and create a DNA profile fo…
21-511 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III Sixth Circuit 2021-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (3) all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation Whether federal courts may use the All Writs Act to evade the limitations on state prisoner transportation in 28 U.S.C. §2241(c)
21-471 John Doe 1, et al. v. Express Scripts, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) benefit-pricing circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duties pegram-v-herdrich plan-management price-control pricing third-party-administrator Does an administrator hired by an ERISA plan act as a fiduciary when it controls prices paid by the plan or its participants?
21-5883 Davon Nelson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-proceeding direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement remand sixth-amendment Whether a defendant on direct appeal should receive a remand for an evidentiary hearing upon showing a colorable Sixth Amendment ineffective-assistanc…
21-5843 Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming a jury instruction that allowed conviction for sex trafficking under 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1) without proof…
21-5805 Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction Whether the obstruction-of-justice enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines can apply when a defendant testifies at trial and repeats the fals…
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
21-5801 Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a 'miscarriage of justice' allowing appellate review even if th…
21-5804 Kenneth Randale Door v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201…
21-5806 Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram-nobis-relief should remain unresolved
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-error-can-be-plain
21-462 Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal…
21-5795 Ethan Guillen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o…
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…
21-5771 Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Whether officers' search of a defendant's house without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment
21-5748 Kyle Evan Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule knowledge-element plea-bargaining plea-colloquy post-hoc-warrant united-states-v-x-citement-video Whether the district judge must explain the knowledge element in a child pornography plea colloquy
21-5731 Sheridan Sisk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act?
21-428 Rocket Mortgage, LLC, fka Quicken Loans Inc., et al. v. Phillip Alig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-21 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights class-action damages due-process financial-injury injury mortgage-lending standing standing-doctrine Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized
21-434 Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56
21-417 Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham…
21-414 First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa…
21-5670 Elijah Vines v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent Whether a third-party possesses authority to consent to the seizure of another's cell phone when that phone is password-protected, the owner has denie…
21-388 John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc., et al. v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split equal-access first-amendment forum-analysis government-exclusion press-access press-clause public-forum speech-clause viewpoint-neutrality Whether the government's selective exclusion of members of the press implicates the equal treatment guarantee of the First Amendment's Press Clause, a…
21-391 Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, it inte…
21-392 Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause governmental-authority highway-tolling interstate-commerce market-participant-exception state-action state-discrimination Whether state conduct constitutes proprietary 'market participation' exempt from the dormant Commerce Clause
21-5633 Roland J. McLain v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) includes substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act
21-5641 Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause
21-386 Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-09 GVR Relisted (2) 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act qualifies as a 'crime of violence'
21-5631 Elton Vallare v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Dismissed IFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution What is the unit of prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B)?
21-5604 Daniel Chase Harris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3261 18-usc-7 circuit-split civilian-jurisdiction due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-law military-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether U.S. military or civilian courts have exclusive jurisdiction of service members for their overseas conduct on foreign U.S. military installati…
21-5620 Raymond L. Crum v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split plain-error prison-term rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states Whether a district court commits plain error by relying to any extent on a defendant's rehabilitative needs in imposing a prison term
21-5584 Guerly Alexis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess…
21-5577 Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Does the cumulative error doctrine apply to ineffective assistance of counsel claims?
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review Whether the 'inextricably intertwined' standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b)
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Which appeals court has the duty to issue supervisory writs of mandamus under the All Writs Act during a combined antitrust and patent infringement la…
21-307 Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. v. John J. Shufeldt Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion circuit-split federal-common-law inconsistent-position judicial-estoppel preliminary-motion standard-of-review Whether a prior court's denial of a preliminary motion based on a litigant's prior inconsistent position constitutes judicial acceptance of that posit…
21-309 Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are …
21-316 Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation What type of change in the law allows a person to file a § 2241 petition?
21-5511 Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Should this Court grant certiorari to resolve this significant circuit split and the Ninth Circuit's failure to follow binding precedent from this Cou…
21-5501 Michael David McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
21-273 Buck Gene Brune v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing When does jeopardy attach after a guilty plea?
21-5480 Charles Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2021-08-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a judge may impose a new sentence 'as if' only the change to the crack thresholds applies, ignoring other legal changes that have altered the …
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Whether a pretrial detainee must show subjective awareness of medical needs or only objective unreasonableness
21-5453 Charles J. Senke v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel Whether a district court's failure to inquire into an indigent defendant's colorable motion for substitution of counsel is cognizable on direct appeal…
21-5460 Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, is a habeas court's review limited to the state court's reasons or can it consider other reasons?
21-5434 Demontrae Wilson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence Proper authentication for social-media evidence
21-242 Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure common-source-defendant copyright copyright-infringement joint-and-several-liability joint-liability secondary-liability statutory-damages Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(1) limits a copyright holder to a single statutory damages award against multiple infring…
21-5413 Antoine L. Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law?
21-224 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure common-law-agency employee-classification erisa-employee-definition final-judgment standard-of-review Does a court of appeals have jurisdiction to reconsider its prior decision?
21-211 Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel…
21-212 Dires, LLC, dba Personal Touch Beds and Personal Comfort Beds, et al. v. Select Comfort Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion initial-interest-confusion internet-trademark-law likelihood-of-confusion online-advertising search-engine-results search-engines trademark-infringement Whether courts can impose liability for a likelihood of consumer confusion in a trademark infringement action based on a consumer's initial interest i…
21-5352 Vernon D. Nelson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied IFP border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion …
21-5332 Efrain Hidalgo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-08-11 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
21-5345 Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation Whether an administrative regulation may establish a federal right enforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
21-184 Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) abbasi-standard bivens bivens-action circuit-split civil-rights federal-officer-liability federal-officials fourth-amendment judicial-remedy Under Abbasi, may line-level federal officers be sued for violating the Fourth Amendment?
21-187 Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker Eighth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth…
21-5319 John Louis Devencenzi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking circuit-split crime-of-violence intimidation mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force residual-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of federal carjacking too narrowly by requiring the threat of violent physical force as an elemen…
21-168 Dennis De Jesus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response Waived alternative-holding appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure dicta judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-error merits merits-denial Whether a cursory statement that a court would deny relief on the merits if it had jurisdiction qualifies as an alternative holding or is merely dicta
21-171 Joel Zupnik v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the verbs in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require the defendant to transform the minor's will or merely attempt to cause unlawful sexual activity
21-5305 Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion Whether a defendant's ability to pay a fine is a relevant consideration when determining if a fine is excessive under the Eighth Amendment
21-5307 Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '…
21-143 Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that…
21-5272 Gary Todd Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme, s…
21-133 Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-records circuit-split consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-memoranda judicial-circuit-split statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by adopting the consultant corollary and holding that 'intra-agency memorandums or letters' in FOIA's Exemption 5 enco…
21-5256 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2021-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady brady-disclosure circuit-split due-process impeachment-evidence newly-discovered-evidence newly-presented-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct whether-the-prosecutor's-obligation-under-brady-to-turn-over-evidence-stands-independent-of-the-defendant's-knowledge
21-5230 Maurice Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error-review protective-sweep rehaif-v-united-states Whether a circuit court of appeals errs in relying on a petitioner's stipulation of prior felony conviction to infer the petitioner had knowledge of h…
21-5219 Bryan James Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction
21-104 Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether there can be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the pr…
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…
21-5173 Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note attempt-offense auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 is an improper exercise of Auer deference by adding 'attempt' offenses to § 4…
21-5186 Mihran Melkonyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Auer deference applies to the Sentencing Guidelines
21-5153 Brian K. Rogers v. United States First Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-examination self-incrimination sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Are admissions made during a polygraph examination required by sex offender treatment compelled for purposes of the Fifth Amendment when failing the e…
21-5154 Dakota Stewart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided …
21-84 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. First Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix Whether a movant who seeks to intervene as of right on the same side as a governmental litigant must overcome a presumption of adequate representation
21-73 Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28-U.S.C.-§-2254-proceeding
21-5144 Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does a post-conviction motion asserting a claim that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States because it was dictated by the res…
21-5146 Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision sanctioning a preponderance of the evidence standard to find criminal acts that nearly doubled the advisory sente…
21-5128 Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the…
21-5097 Johann Brito v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation Is the attempted commission of an offense, like Hobbs Act robbery, automatically and categorically a crime of violence, whether or not the substantial…
21-5112 David Starks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Is the attempted commission of an offense, like Hobbs Act robbery, automatically and categorically a crime of violence, whether or not the substantial…
21-58 Sassine Razzouk v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response Waived categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an 'offense against property' under the MVRA?
21-5091 Brian Dunkley v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with decisions of another United States court of Appeals on the same imp…
21-51 Central Payment Co., LLC v. Custom Hair Designs by Sandy, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification contract-interpretation contractual-rights-and-obligations federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-defenses rule-23 rules-enabling-act Whether a class may be certified under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the class claims turn on materially different contractual …
21-5057 Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent
21-5060 Kevin Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes Whether a defendant must know his prior conviction qualified as a 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9)
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued
21-5044 Ncholeion Kashana Hollie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction abduction-definition change-in-location circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing robbery robbery-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b3.1 Whether the Robbery guideline 'abduction' enhancement under USSG § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) requires moving a person to a place separate from the site of the ro…
21-10 Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving
21-5031 Luis Pitt v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradshaw-v-stumpf circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review kercheval-v-united-states plea-acceptance plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated
20-8465 Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-cfr-1003.14 8-usc-1229 administrative-procedure circuit-split immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation Should the Court resolve the circuit split on whether a notice to appear in immigration proceedings must comply with the statutory definition of a not…
20-8448 Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does the saving clause under 28 U.S.C. 2255(e) permit a federal prisoner to proceed in a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2241 when the remedy under 28…
20-1817 Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (3) alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent Whether trade dress is 'functional' if it is 'essential to the use or purpose of the article' or 'affects the cost or quality of the article,' as this…
20-1808 Adam E. Billings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process
20-8414 Cynthia Stiger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-jurors bias circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process health-care-fraud judicial-discretion juror-bias jury-selection restitution-liability supervised-release Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to strike a juror during trial based on perceive…
20-8401 Tyler Landon Thornton v. Florida Florida 2021-06-23 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession non-state-actor plea-bargaining plea-involuntariness Whether coercion from a non-state actor can render a plea involuntary and therefore invalidate it under the Fifth Amendment?
20-8404 Andre Brown and Anthony Wilson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split coded-language drug-jargon expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness rule-701 Whether government agents can testify solely as lay witnesses under Rule 701 of the Federal Rules of Evidence
20-1765 Donald S. Harden v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli…
20-1771 Charles Simonson v. Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process independent-investigation probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-statement Whether the court of appeals erred when it did not require independent corroboration of an estranged-divorcing wife's allegations that her husband att…
20-8352 David Alexandre v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie…
20-8372 Martez Howard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Is the attempted commission of an offense, like Hobbs Act robbery, automatically and categorically a crime of violence, whether or not the substantial…
20-8306 Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent Whether the 'government inducement' element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent
20-8310 Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific fin…
20-8322 Fabian Perpall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split contested-issue criminal-evidence criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence not-guilty-plea plea-of-not-guilty prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b state-of-mind Whether a defendant's plea of not guilty alone makes his prior convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to show 'state of mind'
20-1732 Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an 'applicable' policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def…
20-8290 Anthony Leon Waits v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-court federal-rule forfeiture forfeiture-judgment indictment indictment-notice statutory-basis Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(a) prohibit a district court from entering a forfeiture judgment when the indictment does not give notice…
20-8275 Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of Hobbs Act robbery too narrowly and against its plain language by requiring violent physical fo…
20-1699 E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a 'bright line' rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures
20-8231 Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illegal d…
20-8201 Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation Does a 'found in' violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, or when the alien is 'found in' the United States by immigrat…
20-8213 James Atwood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law?
20-8215 Aaron Walton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a 'controll…
20-8197 Samuel Earl Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit split
20-8202 Otis Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 Whether inchoate offenses are included in the definition of a 'crime of violence' or 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2
20-8204 Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement whether-the-second-circuit-failed-to-follow-supreme-court-precedent
20-1673 Ashley Nettles v. Midland Funding LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury fair-debt-collection-practices-act procedural-rights separation-of-powers spokeo-v-robins Whether a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is sufficient for Article III standing, or if additional injury must be alleged
20-1653 Lazelle Maxwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St…
20-8162 Bralen Lamar Jordan v. C. Rivers, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP admissibility circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-malpractice medical-records pharmacy-records procedural-challenge What is the legal issue being raised?
20-8143 Merwin Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) Whether federal prosecutors can introduce evidence of a person's prior conviction for unlawful gun possession in a prosecution based on police testimo…
20-1648 James H. Fischer v. Sandra F. Forrest, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split copyright copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act licensing plain-text-interpretation Whether the name of the author or copyright owner of a copyrighted work is copyright-management-information
20-1650 Carlos Concepcion v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-26 Judgment Issued Amici (10) circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St…
20-1651 Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thus not barred from review …
20-1639 George K. Young, Jr. v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights concealed-carry due-process home-defense right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the Second Amendment does not apply outside the home
20-8103 Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions is a waiver or forfeiture
20-8116 Carlos Bayon v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion Is Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) a rule of inclusion or exclusion?
20-8127 Guillermo Martinez-Torres v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment admissibility-of-evidence burden-of-proof circuit-split evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search suppression-of-evidence Does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the 'but for' cause of the subsequent discovery of contraband or is it the prosecution's…
20-8136 Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter, an…
20-8082 Eric Deshan Adams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
20-8071 Delson Marc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's conviction under 18 U.S.C. §922(g) may be affirmed even though the indictment did not charge, and the government did not prove, …
20-8077 Kavoris Clayton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na…
20-1607 Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen Michigan 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop Should this Court resolve a split on whether Heien v. North Carolina applies to situations where the law is clear but the circumstances make applying …
20-1611 Healthcare Distribution Alliance, et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-courts fees-vs-taxes opioid-stewardship-act public-benefit regulatory-fee state-law state-tax tax-injunction-act Whether the New York Opioid Stewardship Act's surcharge is a 'tax' within the meaning of the Tax Injunction Act
20-1614 John D. Leontaritis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof Whether jury findings impact sentencing
20-1616 ComicMix, LLC, et al. v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split copyright-act copyright-law de-novo-review exclusive-rights fair-use market-effect Whether fair use is a right of authors, thus placing the burden on plaintiffs to prove that fair use does not apply on defendants who assert that they…
20-1592 Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing Whether a plaintiff satisfies the 'clearly established law' prong of qualified-immunity
20-1596 Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm P.L.L.C. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (1) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split client-identity confidential-communication irs-audit irs-summons john-doe-summons legal-counsel tax-planning Whether the attorney-client privilege protects the identity of a client when the government is aware of the client's confidential communication with l…
20-8020 Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)?
20-8021 Jason Scott Pedro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence?
20-7972 Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Does the term 'covered offense' in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in…
20-7973 Zavion Nunley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose sentences much more frequently than their peers in other district are r…
20-7984 Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony Whether Texas simple robbery remains a violent felony
20-1562 Faye Strain, as Guardian of Thomas Benjamin Pratt v. Vic Regalado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Amici (5) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jail jail-official medical-care pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees subjective-knowledge Whether a pretrial detainee can prevail against a jail official who disregarded an obvious risk of serious harm or whether the pretrial detainee must …
20-1566 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive…
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 …
20-7957 Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether courts should employ the 'stop clock' method or require a showing of diligence throughout the entire tolling period for equitable tolling of A…
20-1552 Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. Federal Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing Whether respondent has standing to cancel petitioner's trademark registration under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 despite prior agreement to allow registration
20-7936 Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession Whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) when the gun is not used nor present in the …
20-7944 Peter Bobal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment internet-access sex-offender supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina apply to offenders on supervised release?
20-7859 Denver Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights Whether, when applying plain-error review based on the Court's intervening decision in Rehaif, a circuit court of appeals errs in relying on a petitio…
20-7879 Vincent Gino Chavez v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case capital-cases circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses noncapital-cases Does the Due Process Clause require giving lesser included instructions if warranted by the evidence in a noncapital criminal case?
20-1488 Sherwin A. Brook v. J. Lawrence McCormley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-magistrates-act judicial-procedure motion-consideration standing state-law-certification Does 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) allow a district judge to refuse to consider a motion to certify an issue of state law that was presented to the magistr…
20-1474 Joseph Colone v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure discovery-rules evidentiary-privilege judicial-subpoena judicial-truth-seeking non-governmental-litigant stored-communications-act subpoena truth-seeking Whether federal statutes must contain express privilege language before courts may decide that Congress intended the statute to create an evidentiary …
20-7773 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Distric…
20-7778 Gerald Scott v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the 'use of physical force against…
20-7737 Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the First, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits have erred in their interpretation of the 'covered offense' provision of the First Step Act of 2018, inv…
20-1429 Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration Whether trademark counterfeiting requires a likelihood of confusion
20-1430 AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Marcin Wanat Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response Waived calder-effects-test circuit-split civil-procedure due-process express-aiming federal-civil-procedure foreign-defendant geotargeted-advertising personal-jurisdiction tort Whether a foreign defendant has engaged in 'express aiming' at the United States for purposes of a U.S. court asserting personal jurisdiction
20-7701 Samuel Alex Gann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass Whether a burglary statute that omits the element of specific intent qualifies as generic 'burglary' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act
20-7708 Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Rita v. United States and Gall v. United States by elevating the presumption of reasonableness over a reliance on…
20-7694 Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act
20-1414 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit Whether application of the FLSA's 'economic reality' factors to undisputed facts is a question of fact that can preclude summary judgment
20-1391 Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods Does the scope of a service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark?
20-1392 Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. First Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners?
20-7655 Lisa Bershan v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances Should a sentencing judge be required to rule on downward departure requests before considering variances?
20-7612 Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop May a court uphold a Terry frisk where the frisking officer did not actually suspect that the detainee was armed and dangerous?
20-1373 Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education Fourth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,' or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl…
20-1368 Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative claims process is juris…
20-7610 Jose Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-30 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical 'crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)
20-7599 Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera…
20-7572 Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the use of a Brecon ment / wmnte wukecwautt Seven s\\k ¢ QQ violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
20-1349 Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h Whether a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding 'reasonable attorney's fees' under Rule 23(h)
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
20-7491 Esmervi Carone Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith circuit-court circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-spoliation jury-instructions legal-force pattern-instructions spoliation-of-evidence whether-pattern-jury-instructions-have-independent-legal-force
20-7492 Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence
20-7497 Kevin Reid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act qualifies as a 'crime of violence'
20-1296 Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent Does precedent in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allow defendants to circumvent FRCP 15 and FRCP 16 requirements for amendin…
20-1283 Margaret Temponeras v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-liability medical-boards medical-practice pain-management pharmaceutical-companies prosecutorial-discretion vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04 are unconstitutionally vague whereas the term 'legitimate medical purpose' does not provide fair notic…
20-7474 Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court imposing a reduced sentence under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act is prohibited from correcting an erroneous Sentencing …
20-7444 Toddrey Bruce v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop Whether the 'absence of additional suspicious conduct' can dispel reasonable suspicion of unlawful gun use
20-7446 Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) Sentencing-enhancement-for-firearm-possession
20-1267 Ronald E. Byers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived certiorari certiorari-writ circuit-split decision-finality finality fraud-exception fraud-on-the-court jurisdictional-statute post-decision-motions post-decision-relief tax-court Is U.S.C. § 7481(a)(2)(B) jurisdictional?
20-7408 Trystan Keun Napper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden…
20-7431 Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or herself pro se, should no issues concer…
20-7378 Israel Ernesto Palacios v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP case-law-interpretation circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreshadowing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington To what extent must a claim be 'sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law' for counsel's failure to raise that claim to constitute deficient perf…
20-7388 Alejandro De La Torre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decision of this Court, as well as other Circuits, on …
20-7394 Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon without being advised that one element is knowledge of his s…
20-7359 Karen Gagarin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court Does 'another person' in the aggravated identity theft statute include someone who consented to the felonious use of her identifying information?
20-7333 Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc. unconstitutionally foreclosed Petitioner'…
20-7348 Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony Does a criminal offense without mens rea qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
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
20-1207 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…
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing Whether the availability of equitable tolling requires consideration of the totality of the circumstances
20-1205 Gazelle Craig v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation When a licensed physician writes a prescription for a controlled substance that is not medically necessary, does that conduct constitute 'dispensing,'…
20-7280 Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-01 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a federal court is bound by a state supreme court's interpretation of a statute of conviction for Armed Career Criminal Act purposes
20-7231 Troy Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP background-evidence circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility investigative-context jury-instructions out-of-court-statements prejudice Should the Court Grant the Petition to Resolve a Conflict Among the Circuit Courts Over the Propriety of Admitting Out-of-Court Statements That a Defe…
20-7235 Michael Alvarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) can serve as a predicate offense for the substantial sentencing enhancements under § 924(c)(1)
20-7213 Nathan Ray Dent v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction resting on more than one possible predicate offense is unconstitutional where at least one predicate does not…
20-7215 Sunni Askari Newell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit has misconstrued U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), contrary to every other circuit, resulting in defendants convicted of firearms …
20-7217 Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not actual…
20-7208 Bruce Harold Hendler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split detention exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming the denial of a motion to suppress a detention and seizure …
20-1141 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appellate …
20-1143 Denise A. Badgerow v. Greg Walters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) arbitration-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act federal-question-jurisdiction look-through-approach quezada-v-bechtel subject-matter-jurisdiction vaden-v-discover-bank Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the FAA where the only ba…
20-1149 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., et al. v. Clare E. Connors, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review sprint-communications standing state-enforcement younger-abstention Whether a federal court must consider the specific characteristics of an underlying state-court civil proceeding to determine whether it is sufficient…
20-1134 John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. …
20-1139 Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, must the retrospective elaboration be of a decisionmaker with auth…
20-1128 Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix Does the mere presence of a circuit split necessarily foreclose a finding that the law is 'clearly established' for qualified immunity purposes?
20-1118 Robert Grundstein v. Lamoille Superior Docket Entries/Orders, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman standing state-court-review void-ab-initio Should the Circuit Splits with respect to the Rooker-Feldman Fraud Exception be reconciled in favor of the exception?
20-7146 Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits
20-7115 Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and wa…
20-7126 Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a jur…
20-1092 Brandon Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied circuit-split civil-rights document-fraud due-process federal-criminal-law fraud free-speech government-securities legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 514(a) prohibits the use of fake versions of actual, existing types of documents and instruments
20-1093 Just Energy Marketing Corp., et al. v. Davina Hurt, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (1) christopher-v-smithkline-beecham circuit-split employment-law fair-labor-standards-act outside-salesman regulatory-approval sales sales-exemption Whether Petitioners' door-to-door solicitors are exempt 'outside salesmen' under the FLSA
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence
20-1106 Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied administrative-record circuit-split de-novo-review erisa-benefits evidence material-dispute standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether, on de novo consideration of an ERISA benefits claim, summary judgment must be denied if there is a genuine dispute of material fact
20-1107 Roddie Melvin v. Federal Express Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split eleventh-circuit employment-discrimination evidence-standard preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence seventh-circuit standard-of-proof summary-judgment What standard of proof must courts apply in evaluating summary judgment motions in employment-discrimination cases?
20-7098 Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether the police officer must actively be pursuing a lawful means of obtaining evidence prior to the occurrence of the illegal misconduct under the …
20-7101 Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a conviction for sale of cocaine a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) without proof of defendant's knowledge of the illicit n…
20-7102 Toheed Ahmed v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence
20-7073 Donovan Muskett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-consequences due-process fair-warning precedent retroactive-application Can a single decision from another circuit afford fair warning that the federal circuit in which an individual resides may overrule settled precedent …
20-1076 SE Property Holdings, LLC, as Successor by Merger to Vision Bank v. Jerry D. Gaddy Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) 11-usc-523-a-2-a actual-fraud asset-transfer bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law circuit-split creditor-rights debtor-protection fraudulent-transfers husky-international-electronics-inc-v-ritz Does a creditor sufficiently state a claim under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) to except from discharge a debt for money, property, services, or an extensi…
20-1077 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka First Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli…
20-1083 Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving Title IX discrimination in college and university disciplinary decisions present important fede…
20-1066 Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (8) case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity shields public-university officials from liability
20-7024 Randy Macario Ancheta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing due-process hobbs-act mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7036 Emmanuel Ravell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error Whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a) that was entered before Rehaif v. United State…
20-1061 Dantzler, Inc., et al. v. S2 Services Puerto Rico, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied article-iii-standing causation circuit-split federal-court federal-jurisdiction injury judicial-standing standing third-party third-party-action Does the causal connection required for standing exist when it is substantially likely that a third party will respond to the defendant's conduct in a…
20-1017 Lawrence Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether innocent transitory possession is an affirmative defense to illegal possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)
20-1028 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Credit Suisse Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization chapter-11 circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process exculpation-clause non-debtor-release subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a nonconsensual exculpation clause in a bankruptcy reorganization plan purporting to release non-debtor third parties from claims by other non…
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review Whether United States courts should review de novo an arbitrator's conclusions on issues of law or mixed questions of law and fact bearing on the ulti…
20-6957 Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order?
20-6963 F. Allan Midyett v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eighth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-criminal federal-employment indian-employment statutory-compliance veterans-affairs Whether the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs can refuse to comply with provisions of 25 U.S.C. Ch. 36 to take adverse acts causing harm…
20-6971 Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the court of appeals erred in reviewing the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness
20-6972 Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given …
20-6974 Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae Should the Court grant certiorari to make clear that Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) now controls the use of other acts evidence, and that there is no…
20-6931 Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court may require a defendant to present his own evidence refuting a presentence investigation report's factual claims leading to a…
20-6943 Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support…
20-6946 Barry Cashin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se…
20-6953 Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
20-1002 Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson Tenth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the 'impropriety…
20-996 Raymond Marling v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment circuit-split closed-container fourth-amendment incriminating-evidence inventory-search officer-discretion standardized-criteria warrantless-search Does a police department's policy sufficiently limit officer discretion during an inventory search if it enables an officer to choose to open a closed…
20-985 Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act Where a federal employee failed to exhaust administrative remedies for all protected activities
20-6863 Tommy Findley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court-review first-amendment fourth-amendment internet-access probable-cause state-law-application supervised-release warrant-application warrant-probable-cause Whether a federal court is required to apply controlling state law in determining whether facts omitted from a warrant application vitiate probable ca…
20-6841 Steven Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied IFP apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties Whether the statutory penalties in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modify the entire phrase — 'a violation of a Federal criminal statute' — or whether …
20-6817 Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the plain error doctrine to bar review of the defendant's claim that the prosecution wrongly relied on a hearsay …
20-6792 Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit's test for determining whether two conspiracy prosecutions involve the same conspiracy renders the Double Jeopardy Clause in…
20-6813 Manuel Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba…
20-913 Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a federal court is bound only by the decisions of the Supreme Court in determining whether a state court has unreasonably applied clearly esta…
20-896 Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-07 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement whether-the-community-caretaking-exception-extends-to-the-home
20-900 Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island First Circuit 2021-01-05 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order
20-902 Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (4) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca…
20-903 First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity First Amendment challenge to Ohio statute restricting medical practitioner-patient communications
20-6773 Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony Is Texas aggravated robbery a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-6781 Bernard Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights Whether the courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if the defendant's substantial rights wer…
20-6783 Jaelon David Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction administration-of-justice circuit-split federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines location-definition room-or-area sentencing-guidelines victim-movement Whether the forced movement of victims from one room or area to another room or area within the same building constitutes an abduction for purposes of…
20-6753 Andre Martel Winn v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery-exception
20-880 Michael H. Holland, as Trustee for the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund and United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. Westmoreland Coal Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax tax-assessment Is the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act available to debtors who want to avoid paying a tax for reasons unrelated to the t…
20-886 Thelma G. McCoy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Amici (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code brunner-test circuit-split student-loan-debt student-loans totality-of-circumstances totality-test undue-hardship Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in applying the Brunner test instead of the totality test to determine whether a debtor would suffer an 'undue hardshi…
20-875 Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified-immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine-issue-…
20-6739 Larun E. Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge outrageous-government-conduct sixth-circuit-conflict standing statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in their refusal/failure to address the conflict amongst the courts, while not acknowledging a persuasive split amongs…
20-6743 Neil Dussard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of …
20-6745 Demetrius Elishakim Jefferson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3742 404b-evidence attempt-offenses auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuits and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.8.G. § 4B1.2, which purports…
20-861 Arlene Fry v. Rand Construction Corporation Fourth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bostock-v-clayton-county burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation-standard circuit-split employment-action fmla-claim fmla-retaliation legal-interpretation motivating-factor negative-factor Whether the lower court erred in adopting a 'sole cause' standard for FMLA retaliation claims, in direct conflict with this Court's holdings in Burrag…
20-865 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-12-30 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255
20-868 Foxfield Villa Associates, LLC, et al. v. Paul Robben, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split general-partnership howey-test investment-contract investment-contracts limited-liability-company limited-partnership promoter-control securities-law Are limited liability company interests, like limited and general partnership interests, 'investment contracts' under the Securities Exchange Act of 1…
20-869 David E. Henry v. Castle Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foman-standard foman-v-davis judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-amendment rules-59-and-60 standards-for-amendment Whether a district court must consider and decide on the merits a post-judgment motion for leave to amend the complaint
20-857 Dale L. Miesen v. John D. Munding, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied circuit-split corporate-governance demand-letter derivative-action derivative-actions diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-requirements rule-23.1 standard-of-review Whether the plaintiff in a derivative action must plead and prove the adequacy of its derivative demand letter
20-6713 Danielle Devona Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation Whether Section 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses - 'carry or use' and 'possession in furtherance of' - and whether both elements must be expl…
20-6688 Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant's stipulation at trial was plain error warranting relief on the sufficiency of the evidence
20-6668 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied IFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove…
20-6671 Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d…
20-829 WasteCare Corporation v. Harmony Enterprises, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-rules carve-out circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation delegation-doctrine exempt-claims Whether an arbitration agreement that expressly carves out specific claims to be exempt from the provision clearly and unmistakably delegates arbitrab…
20-6660 Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circuit s…
20-807 Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Seventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations
20-6605 Demondray D. Mayo v. Perry Russell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition reasonable state-court state-court-reasoning statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal court incorrectly applies 28-U.S.C-2254(d)
20-794 Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-12-11 Granted Amici (13)Relisted (2) circuit-split district-court-discretion evidence-gathering foreign-tribunal international-arbitration international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation tribunal-definition Whether the discretion granted to district courts in 28 U.S.C. §1782(a) encompasses private commercial arbitral tribunals
20-6594 Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) is violated where prostitutes arranged and paid for their own transportation across state lines
20-6599 Randy Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP appeal circuit-split criminal-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis retained-counsel Whether a criminal defendant represented by retained counsel in the district court must show that his appeal is taken in good faith to proceed in form…
20-6585 Bernard Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-09 Dismissed IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights Whether courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if the defendant's substantial rights were af…
20-6586 Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement Must police independently corroborate the reliability of a secondhand anonymous tip before relying on it to stop a person under an exception to the wa…
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 Whether Escobar overruled or modified the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard for Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss in False Claims Act cases
20-6552 Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
20-781 United States, ex rel. Concilio de Salud Integral de Loíza, Inc., et al. v. J.C. Remodeling, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2) benefit-of-bargain benefit-of-the-bargain circuit-split damages damages-calculation false-claims-act intangible-benefits prejudice tainted-claim-theory treble-damages Whether courts should allow gross trebling or net trebling of damages under the False Claims Act
20-6541 Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
20-6517 Elvis Basic v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a federal district court must use the 'err on the side of caution' principle when approximating the drug quantity?
20-6539 Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-04 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con…
20-6529 Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Guidelines section 2D1.1(b)(5) 'offense that involved the importation' of methamphetamine should be interpreted to include cert…
20-6508 Jesse Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from unlawfully…
20-755 Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1831 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing to a…
20-6485 Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding in a case where the prosecution's theory was based on …
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Whether federal circuit courts should review the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of dis…
20-743 DISH Network L.L.C. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-30 Dismissed circuit-split common-law-agency contract-interpretation contractual-performance-standards federal-communications-commission performance-standards telemarketing telemarketing-law vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability must be assessed in light of the four bedrock theories of common law agency, or whether a contractual term imposing perfor…
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-6437 Tommy Pena v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance Whether the Tenth Circuit's toothless standard for reviewing the reasonableness of an upward variance is contrary to this Court's case law, United Sta…
20-6442 Jonair Tyreece Moore v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a circuit-split crack-cocaine discretionary-reduction district-court first-step-act racial-disparity sentencing-factors Whether a district court must consider the sentencing factors of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack…
20-6448 Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden Third Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement Whether courts have jurisdiction to consider habeas claims when the remedy under Section 2255 is inadequate
20-724 Donovan Middleton, et al. v. Complete Nutrition Franchising, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-motion rule-12b6 rule-59e standard-of-review Should the standard of review in a Rule 59(e) post-judgment motion to amend following a dismissal with prejudice under Rule 12(b)(6) be clarified
20-733 Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the 'individualized suspicion' required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots?
20-6412 Robert St. Hilaire v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit properly construed the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B)
20-6414 Daniel Ray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they 'work at a United States prison' contravenes the requirements necessary to …
20-6406 Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness what-is-required-to-preserve-procedural-reasonableness-claim
20-6407 Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p…
20-699 Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal Whether a plaintiff has an absolute right to voluntary dismissal under FRCP Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i)
20-706 Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied circuit-court-precedent circuit-split disgorgement disgorgement-of-profits intellectual-property intentional-misconduct judicial-precedent mishawaka-rubber trademark-infringement unjust-enrichment willfulness Does the Ninth Circuit's refusal to disgorge profits in this case of intentional infringement involving the identical mark on identical products confl…
20-6388 Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States, 1…
20-690 Michael Sang Han v. United States District of Columbia 2020-11-18 Denied circuit-split income income-classification intent intent-analysis internal-revenue-code james-v-united-states loan loan-proceeds tax-law May a court consider factors other than the parties' intent in determining whether a transfer of funds constitutes a non-taxable loan under the Intern…
20-6362 Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict…
20-680 Lee Wendell Loder v. Icemakers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure debt-dischargeability federal-courts judicial-authority money-judgment nondischargeable-debt Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdictional authority to render a liquidated money judgment at the same time that it determines a debt to be non…
20-670 Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson diverged from its previous holdings in Whalen v. Roe and…
20-6299 Brayan Jassiel Leyva-Peraza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split discretionary-review due-process judicial-discretion knowing-and-voluntary plea-agreement supervisory-powers unconscionability Whether the plea agreement was unconscionable and the plea was knowing and voluntary
20-6313 Kevin Merritt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness whether-holguin-hernandez-v-united-states-is-relevant-to-preserving-claims-of-procedural-unreasonableness
20-6316 Mickey Pubien v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl…
20-656 Robert Kinghorn, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-11-13 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction intervention intervention-standard judicial-discretion motion-to-intervene procedural-motion standard-of-review What is the correct legal standard of review for determining a Motion to Intervene as of right as well as a Motion to Permissively Intervene when the …
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to leg…
20-661 Christian Charles v. Jerry Seinfeld, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived authorship authorship-claim circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-ownership ownership-dispute statute-of-limitations work-for-hire Does a repudiation of copyright ownership in a work by one who is not an author of the work and has obtained no authorship interest in the work cause …
20-6272 Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-636 Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle him …
20-602 Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-law shady-grove Does the Texas Citizens' Participation Act apply in federal court diversity jurisdiction cases under Erie R.R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938)?
20-6212 Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's conviction for felon-in-possession can be affirmed despite failure to prove knowledge of prohibited status
20-6221 Miguel Nunez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely…
20-6225 Michael David Lister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony Is Texas aggravated assault a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-588 Lyneal Wainwright, Warden v. Jason S. Sexton Sixth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied aedpa circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas state-proceedings Can federal courts award habeas relief based on errors in state proceedings?
20-564 Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend…
20-575 Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus…
20-559 Jane Doe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled?
20-6165 James Edward Sandford, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies to …
20-551 Jack Witt Voris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111
20-6145 Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-28 Dismissed IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding federal law
20-6155 Jordan Sandoval v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness Does the substantial deference afforded to within-Guidelines sentences permit appellate courts to permit a flawed Guideline to anchor the sentencing a…
20-555 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether the 'for the purpose of' element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w…
20-544 Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-26 Judgment Issued Amici (3) agency-practice alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporations cares-act circuit-split federal-benefits indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition Whether ANCs are 'Indian tribes' under ISDEAA and therefore are eligible for emergency-relief funds under Title V of the CARES Act
20-549 John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a detainee's first appearance in court a 'critical stage' of the proceedings?
20-6122 Jerome Capelton v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing Whether the First Circuit's application of the 'realistic probability' standard conflicts with other circuits
20-535 Drew Samuel Bates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…
20-6053 Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a 'determination of the facts' tha…
20-499 Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell First Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law Whether a debtor may keep a state-law homestead exemption inside bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the proceeds would be subject to attachment and exec…
20-490 Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for filing a habeas petition begins when the new judgment entered following resentencing becomes final
20-495 Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship Whether the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement applies to federal statutory claims
20-6022 Anthony Marvin Bruten v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review due-process fair-notice sentencing-enhancement Whether, on collateral review, the government may maintain a sentencing enhancement under the ACCA by substituting a different ACCA predicate prior co…
20-478 CBX Resources, L.L.C. v. ACE American Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice finality finality-trap judgment-finality Whether the Supreme Court should abolish the Fifth Circuit's judicially created 'finality trap' and resolve the conflict among the courts of appeals r…
20-471 Y. W. v. Patricia Aufiero, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied appeal appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-procedure microsoft-baker-precedent microsoft-corp-v-baker without-prejudice without-prejudice-dismissal Whether the mere using of the word 'dismissed' is enough to make an order final within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1291
20-5975 Nathaniel Ruth v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA?
20-5959 Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether error under Rehaif v. United States constitutes plain error
20-457 MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Whether the 'willful and malicious injury' exception applies only where a debtor has a subjective intent to injure or may also be satisfied by conduct…
20-5936 Mark Phillip Carter, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split factual-objections judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure undue-influence Whether the undue influence enhancement in USSG § 2G1.3(b)(2)(B) should be expanded
20-5927 Gene Michael Diulio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due-process, vagueness, mandatory-sent…
20-5928 Rick Lee Archer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to …
20-5904 Tarahrick Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (9)IFP 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a 'covered offense' under Section 404 of the First Step Act
20-430 Justin Marques Henning v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the…
20-418 Melanie Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split human-intervention predictive-dialer random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the TCPA's definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' encompasses predictive dialers that automatically dial telephone numbers stor…
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of appellate jurisdiction
20-5852 Robert Louis Brandon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty plea?
20-5841 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-400 James Avery, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state burglary statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act
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
20-401 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine prejudice from a constructive amendment under Rule 52(b)?
20-402 Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District Eighth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys'-fees-actions under 20-U.S.C.-§-1415(i)(3)(B)(i)(I)?
20-5825 Larry Lamar Nance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review Whether a sentencing court must address all material, non-frivolous arguments in mitigation
20-5818 Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err in denying a certificate of appeal (COA)
20-396 Sheri Speer v. Michael Tieger, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied abstention abstention-doctrine abuse-of-process bankruptcy-code circuit-split civil-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy legal-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Second Circuit's decision in conflict with In re: Matthew N. Murray (Wilk Auslender LLP v Murray), Popular Auto, Inc. v. Reyes-Colon (In re Rey…
20-378 North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that 'two other courts' upheld the administrator's int…
20-5772 Michael Portanova v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 'categorical approach' may be disregarded or 'loosened' in child-pornography cases
20-5783 Chia Jean Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit should apply the Chapman beyond a reasonable doubt standard rather than the substantial evidence standard to consider the ha…
20-5785 Michael Hunter Cook v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure consideration contract contract-law due-process judicial-review standing Whether, consistent with due process, an appellate court may enforce an appellate waiver unsupported by consideration
20-5790 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-371 Care Alternatives v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split clinical-judgment false-claims-act hospice-care life-expectancy medical-certification medicare medicare-claims physician-opinion Whether a physician's honestly held clinical judgment regarding hospice certification can be 'false' under the False-Claims-Act based solely on a reas…
20-5733 Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied IFP almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another 'by any means,' including omissions, is categorically …
20-5739 David Rothenberg v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from…
20-358 Randy Henry v. J. Bret Johnson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-employer government-employment public-concern public-employee retaliation When may a government employee be punished for speaking on a matter of public concern?
20-360 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied attorneys-fees circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights fee-enhancement judicial-discretion lodestar-method prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation statutory-interpretation Whether the PLRA leaves any room for a district court to enhance a fee award in prisoner cases beyond what it statutorily prescribes
20-362 Cochlear Corporation, et al. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-284 apportionment book-of-wisdom circuit-split damages damages-calculation hypothetical-negotiation patent-infringement reasonable-royalty sinclair-refining Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the 'book of wisdom' set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co.
20-363 Frederick R. Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) circuit-split federal-law habeas habeas-corpus holbrook-v-flynn ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice shackling strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state court unreasonably apply federal law when, in determining whether a person suffered prejudice as a result of ineffective assistance of co…
20-5706 Mark Berg v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party or rev…
20-5715 Martin Rogelio Longoria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP at sentencing may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-procedure government-discretion motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether the government, at sentencing, may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1(b) on the…
20-343 Estate of David Maurice, et al. v. Life Insurance Company of North America Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split erisa-preemption health-plans insurance-policy-interpretation ninth-circuit proximate-cause saving-clause Whether the court below erred by refusing to apply Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller
20-347 Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can …
20-348 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause Whether a Circuit Split has arisen over the interpretation of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(1) regarding simultaneous crimes
20-334 City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review Whether district courts lack discretion to deny or reduce appellate costs deemed taxable under Fed. R. App. P. 39(e)
20-5668 Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Should this Court resolve the conflicting approaches to equitable-tolling?
20-5670 Henry Horace Givins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled-substance-…
20-5640 Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in treating the limiting language 'against the person of another' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as mere surplusage
20-5648 Damien Guidry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed …
20-5652 Daniel L. Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States
20-315 Jose Santos Sanchez, et ux. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-10 Judgment Issued Amici (12) 8-usc-1254a 8-usc-1255 administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law legal-status noncitizen-rights statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether, under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of Temporary Protected Status authorizes eligible noncitizens to obtain status under 8 US.C. § 1255
20-319 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid busin…
20-320 Jane Doe, et vir, Individually and as the Natural Parents and Next of Kin of Minor Doe v. Jackson Local School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference deshaney-exception due-process state-created-danger supreme-court-review Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test?
20-5639 TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal-Rule-of-Criminal-Procedure-12(b)(8), is his claim …
20-5601 Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does the conflict of the particularity required for computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth Circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights?
20-294 Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence pro…
20-286 United States, ex rel. Stacey L. Janssen, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Megen Corin Duffy v. Lawrence Memorial Hospital Tenth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act materiality medicare medicare-reimbursement patient-arrival-times quality-reporting reimbursement statutory statutory-quality-reporting Whether a Medicare provider's knowing falsifications of hospital patient arrival times, known by the hospital to be material to statutory quality repo…
20-291 Jamell Birt v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation Does the term 'covered offense' in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena…
20-281 Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement
20-5586 Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline…
20-5588 Joshua Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation Where a state statute explicitly defines 'burglary' in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec…
20-5576 Sarina Ann Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion carries a base offense level of 34 or 14
20-5554 Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter juris…
20-255 Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., a Minor, By and Through Her Father, Lawrence Levy and Her Mother, Betty Lou Levy Third Circuit 2020-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (36) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech school-discipline school-regulation student-rights student-speech Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District applies to off-campus student speech
20-256 Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether separate convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) require separate predicate crimes and separate acts of using, carrying, or possessing a firea…
20-224 Marion E. Pitch, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony S. Pitch, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-records exceptional-circumstances federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-6 grand-jury-materials grand-jury-proceedings historical-significance inherent-judicial-authority rule-6e-exceptions Whether the Federal District Court has the inherent authority under case law precedent or the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act to release…
20-5513 Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines Whether courts must give deference to the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining career offender status
20-5527 Mark Benton v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attorney-abandonment capital-cases circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus When this Court issued Holland v. Florida, 130 S.ct. 2549 (2010), decision, was the intent to apply it to Capital cases only for purposes of Attorney …
20-227 Cynthia Madej, et vir v. Jeff Maiden, Athens County Engineer Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived accommodation-request americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split corroboration disability-accommodation disability-claims fair-housing-amendments-act medical-history summary-judgment Is a disability claimant's self-reported medical history regarding the need for an accommodation presumptively unreliable?
20-220 VBS Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Nutrivita Laboratories, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived actual-injury article-three circuit-split civil-rights due-process false-advertising lanham-act standing uniform-application Whether a plaintiff in a false-advertising case must demonstrate 'actual injury' to state a claim under the Lanham Act
20-5453 Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t…
20-5466 John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel When a petitioner supplements his constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence, should a Court of Appeals exercise its…
20-209 Ali Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split consent database-telemarketing smartphone statutory-interpretation telemarketing telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) encompasses only systems t…
20-5433 Gregory Wind v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind?
20-5385 Judy Harmon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-violations direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-powers procedural-default sister-circuits Whether there appears to be a disparity within the Sister Circuits use of jurisdictional powers and discretion, ruling over Ineffective Assistance of …
20-5348 Chazdin Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines?
20-5355 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served?
20-5360 Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Should newly discovered Brady/Napue evidence be considered by federal courts or returned to state court?
20-163 Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal 'money or property' fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by…
20-143 Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts Should an appeal waiver that did not expressly waive a due process challenge be enforced where the sentencing court based its sentence on unreliable f…
20-5337 David Enrique Meza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure investigatory-proceeding marinello-v-united-states mens-rea miranda-rights miranda-waiver obstruction obstruction-of-justice Whether the nexus element for obstruction requires knowledge that the defendant's conduct will affect an existing or foreseeable proceeding
20-132 The Moodsters Company v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) audio-visual-characters circuit-split copyright-law literary-characters originality question-of-fact-vs-law Whether originality is the proper standard to determine character copyrightability
20-136 Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme Whether an offense is 'punishable by imprisonment for more than one year' when the maximum term permitted by the applicable statutory sentencing schem…
20-128 Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing a cause of action for a party seeking to avoid arbitration and in concluding that courts have remedial…
20-5267 Kolongi Richardson v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not legal…
20-5293 Stanley P. Bates v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-sentencing position-of-trust position-of-trust-enhancement procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When reviewing the interpretation of the 'position of trust' enhancement under Sentencing Guideline §3B1.3, does a court of appeals apply a de novo st…
20-5276 Stafon Edward Thompson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-court-division circuit-split federal-courts federal-habeas federal-law-violations habeas-corpus judicial-precedent remedial-authority state-court-remedies state-prisoners Whether the limited habeas authority of federal courts over state prisoners includes the authority to dictate how state courts must remedy federal law…
20-5224 Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations Must a habeas petitioner make a threshold showing of reliability before the reviewing court will consider the evidence in totality to determine whethe…
20-5202 Jerome Collins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines Whether the New York crime of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a 'crime of violence
20-89 Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived 2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation Whether the statute requires the district court to consider all evidence relevant to the applicant's guilt or innocence, even evidence unrelated to th…
20-5157 Denard Stokeling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether a guilty plea entered without knowledge of the knowledge-of-status element is reversible error per se
20-5120 Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation Whether the government must prove the defendant knew the witness testified at an 'official proceeding' under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1)
20-27 Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii Whether sexual harassment is unlawful under Title VII if a reasonable person would conclude the harassment created a hostile environment, or only if t…
20-5098 Mikhail Tsukerman v. Western Community Unit School District No. 12 Seventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-uniformity res-judicata standing uniformity-of-opinion Whether courts should protect plaintiffs from paying defendants' expenses from previously dismissed actions
20-5094 Anita Laux v. Mentor Worldwide, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cgmps circuit-split current-good-manufacturing-practices federal-requirements food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-device medical-device-preemption parallel-claims preemption state-law-claims twombly-iqbal Whether state-law claims against a medical device manufacturer are preempted
20-28 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of …
20-31 Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether a prison official is entitled to qualified immunity for an unprovoked assault on a prisoner even when not every Hudson factor favors the plain…
20-5075 Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
20-19 Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-07-14 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military?
20-5060 Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the Fifth Circuit's substantive law in considering a § 2241 petition claiming actual innocence
20-10 Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix Whether Davis's 'vulnerability' prong requires plaintiffs to prove additional, post-notice sexual harassment to state a claim for damages under Title …
20-4 Rosanne L. Woodroof v. Joseph F. Cunningham, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied arbitration-contract arbitrator-replacement arbitrator-resignation circuit-split contract-rewrite evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act section-5 Is it a violation of the Federal Arbitration Act for a state court to dismiss an arbitration due to the resignation of an arbitrator so that a pending…
20-5007 Anthony Ray Foley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release Is the 'reasonableness' standard or the 'plainly unreasonable' standard the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence imposed upon revocation…
19-8926 Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review Whether the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States applies to the search warrant for the defendant's home
19-8850 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar rule-60(b) successive-petition Whether a Rule 60(b) motion arguing that a procedural defect affected the district court's determination of the merits of the claims in a federal habe…
19-8900 Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied IFP appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute?
19-8893 Darryl Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-relief criminal-sentencing involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
19-1442 Willie Earl Carr, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit 2020-07-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law-judge appointments-clause circuit-split disability-benefits exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security social-security-act Whether claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must exhaust Appointments Clause challenges before the Administrative Law …
19-1443 S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States
19-1447 Yehudi Manzano v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731
19-8799 James Johnman, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied IFP appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act Whether the 'additional special assessment' in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses…
19-8816 Willie Edward Blackshire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split constitutional-validity due-process guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states structural-error Whether a guilty plea is structural error?
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Whether proximate causation under the MVRA must be analyzed by the use of the 'middle road approach' or the 'created circumstance approach'
19-1409 Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California California 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity Whether the court below erred in holding that 'extortion' was both the 'unlawful activity' and 'crime of violence' in Petitioner's conviction under 18…
19-1401 April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-23 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative…
19-8787 Wayne A. G. James v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver Whether an otherwise silent trial record showing only that an attorney declined to object to the admission of evidence establishes forfeiture or waive…
19-8770 Carl St. Preux v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations Whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e) bars a defendant from seeking re-sentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 after successfully challenging a prior state conviction …
19-8754 Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the distri…
19-1390 Martin Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the 'elements clause' of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness
19-8735 Michael A. Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging a sentence under the pre-2005 mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely when …
19-8719 Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity whether-the-eleventh-circuit-entered-a-decision-that-conflicts-with-this-court's-precedent
19-1380 Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c…
19-8698 Neal Scott Stone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit whether-the-sixth-circuit's-amended-order-conflicts-with-lozada-v-deeds
19-8710 William Frazier v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation whether-the-vicar-statute-is-subject-to-standard-rules-of-statutory-interpretation
19-1365 Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual serving a wrongfully enhanced sentence is barred from obtaining relief solely because the wrongfulness of the sentence was estab…
19-1362 Jason Laut v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights?
19-8669 William M. Tyson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251(a…
19-8680 Adrian Zitalpopoca-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split comparative-sentencing criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) requires federal judges to compare a defendant's sentence to the sentences of his codefendants, the sentences of defend…
19-8656 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated
19-8657 Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Can-the-District-Court-deny-a-28-U.S.C.-§-2255-motion-without-holding-an-evidentiary-hearing
19-1344 Lahkwinder Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing Whether the 'deprivation of livelihood' should be included in the proportionality analysis when determining whether a forfeiture meets the constitutio…
19-1333 Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing Ninth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review What is the standard for determining 'evident partiality' under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-1334 Signode Industrial Group LLC, et al. v. Harold Stone, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied circuit-split cnh-industrial collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law contract-termination employee-benefits labor-law lifetime-benefits m-and-g-polymers vested-benefits vested-rights Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions reached by at least two other federal courts of appeals and in spite of this …
19-8583 Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an offense that can be committed by omission rather than affirmative act necessarily entails the 'use' of force within the meaning of 18 U.S.C…
19-8586 Roy Ramirez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled-substance-offense'
19-8587 Reginald Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure medical-negligence preemption shady-grove state-law state-substantive-law summary-judgment Whether a state law 'affidavit of merit' requirement applies in a federal court medical-negligence case governed by state substantive law
19-8588 Robert Donelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between…
19-8564 David Ojeda v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokeling v. United States
19-8555 James Troiano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error Whether Rehaif error is structural and requires automatic reversal, or is subject to harmless error review
19-8548 Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing Whether a second or successive motion to vacate a federal sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2) must rely solely on a new and retroactive rule of cons…
19-8523 Christian James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of justice…
19-8528 Melvin Russell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied IFP circuit-split complainant complainant-testimony criminal-defendant evidence-proffering federal-rule-of-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence rape-shield-rule sexual-behavior substantive-evidence Whether a criminal defendant must proffer substantive evidence regarding a complainant's other sexual behavior under Federal Rule of Evidence 412
19-1312 Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's 'Unfettered Discretion' standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' 'Rational Basis Test' s…
19-1306 United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation Whether multiple shipments from different shippers may be aggregated to satisfy the 10,000-cigarette threshold
19-8483 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Does new evidence of actual innocence require that it was not available at trial or not presented to the jury?
19-8456 Thomas Hopes v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split essential-elements evidence-standard federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception rule-701 usurping-jury-role Whether the personal perception and helpfulness requirements of Rule 701 are satisfied where the government's law enforcement witnesses provide lay op…
19-1291 Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Amici (7) affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte Is qualified immunity an affirmative defense that state actors must assert, as nine circuits hold, or may federal appellate courts raise the defense s…
19-1280 Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2) advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the guidelines set by an advocacy organization constitute the constitutional minima for inmate medi…
19-8449 Gregory Harris, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-prosecution evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception usurping-jury-role Whether the personal perception and helpfulness requirements of Rule 701 are satisfied where the government's law enforcement witnesses provide lay op…
19-8399 Reshon Tolliver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation Whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956?
19-1267 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. v. George Bell, et al. California 2020-05-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure control judicial-interpretation legal-standing litigation-control non-party preclusion preclusion-doctrine rigid-test rigid-two-part-test totality-of-circumstances Whether 'control' is assessed based on the totality of the circumstances, as seven courts of appeals have held, or using a rigid two-part test, as fou…
19-1264 Doncey Frank Boykin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause minimal-contact physical-force robbery robbery-offense state-law violent-felony Whether a state law robbery offense that extends to mere snatchings—involving only minimal physical contact with the victim—lacks the requisite degree…
19-1260 Andrew Demma v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the child po…
19-1261 Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-30 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing Whether the unconstitutionality of government officials' conduct is clearly established even absent binding precedent directly on point
19-8380 Samory Azikiwe Monds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP admissibility circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule federal-rule prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed
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…
19-1221 Derrick Lucius Williams, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied border-search circuit-split customs digital-device forensic-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrant-exception Whether government agents need reasonable suspicion to conduct a warrantless forensic search of a digital device at the border
19-8261 Sean Ath v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti…
19-8263 Larry Wesley Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter…
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Does a state court's act lulling a petitioner into believing he has tolled limitations—and resulting in running out his federal limitations period—war…
19-8237 Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review?
19-8216 Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard Whether the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a precedent-setting error in interpreting the requirements for 'bad faith…
19-8221 Feuu Fagatele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence?
19-8187 Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen…
19-8171 Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that it lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate preclusion order disputes
19-1184 Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law Whether federal courts have authority to save a state or local law from unconstitutionality by positing a limiting construction that has no state-law …
19-1186 Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination that a…
19-1176 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap Is prior salary '[an]other factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act?
19-8104 Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify se…
19-8107 Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of 'aggravated felony' app…
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review Whether the parties entered into a sufficiently definite agreement to arbitrate despite multiple discrepancies between the arbitration agreements
19-1146 Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach Whether the Fifth Circuit's new mechanical test complies with the conceptual approach mandated by this Court in Kirby and Kossick
19-1138 DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether a claim for violation of a prisoner-patient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and…
19-1141 Atlantic Trading USA, LLC, et al. v. BP P.L.C., et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split commodity-exchange-act domestic-transaction extraterritorial-jurisdiction location-of-exchange morrison-test morrison-v-national-australia-bank securities-exchange-act stoyas-v-toshiba-corp territorial-application Whether passing Morrison's domestic-transaction test is sufficient or merely necessary
19-8038 Jermaine James v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b)
19-8004 Lamarcus Harvey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-924(c) attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause intimidation statutory-interpretation Whether bank robbery by intimidation qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s elements clause
19-7955 Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis Is the Sixth Circuit required to adhere to precedent under stare decisis when ruling on the same issue that has been ruled upon by the Sixth Circuit, …
19-7896 Nicholas Hughes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit shall be permitted to remain an outlying jurisdiction insofar as it interprets the phrase 'for the purpose of' to require…
19-7857 Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, must the reviewing court examine each proffered reason for the…
19-7865 Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct
19-1081 Arlene Rosenblatt v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-reach interstate-commerce legislative-intent nonresident-discrimination presumption-of-no-extraterritorial-intent Whether a local ordinance that discriminates against interstate commerce, and was enacted for a discriminatory purpose, must additionally discriminate…
19-1084 Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Whether communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable only if the defendant's interaction wi…
19-7856 Richard Kenneth Djerf v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Did the panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals contravene this Court's precedents and create a split with other circuits when it affirmed the dis…
19-7820 Marcus Derby v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier Does being a supplier to a drug trafficking organization categorically bar a defendant from receiving the 'minor participant' reduction under the Sent…
19-1071 Gerald Claude Carlson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure delay due-process inconvenience judicial-discretion motion-to-terminate right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review supervisory-powers Whether the Carlson Court's Memorandum Opinion conflicts with other Ninth Circuit opinions
19-7800 Donald Sheman Bush v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review Whether evidence falls within Rule 404(b)
19-7748 Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review Whether petitioner should be granted certiorari, where his claim not only affects him, but also hundreds of others
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion contradict this Court's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2…
19-7713 Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing Whether the burden of proof for factual findings in a Presentence Report should be on the government or the defendant
19-7723 James William Brammer v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure critical-stage motion-for-new-trial new-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Does the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel include appointment of counsel for prosecution of motion for a new trial?
19-7645 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6)
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense
19-7711 John Patrick Vescuso v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing Whether a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indictment requires reversal without regard to the trial evidence
19-1037 Sok Bun v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure detainers due-process interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers legal-interpretation motion motions standing trial trial-court trial-motion Whether a defendant is 'unable to stand trial' within the meaning of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, 18 U.S.C. App. 2, § 2, art. VI(a), when he…
19-1023 Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel Whether a federal court may excuse a procedural default of an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with 'some merit' under Martinez v. Ryan w…
19-7670 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden California 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid?
19-1007 Zaid Abdul-Aziz v. National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan Second Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefit actuarial-equivalent anti-cutback-rule breach-of-contract circuit-split civil-procedure denial-of-benefits erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits statute-of-limitations Whether the Second Circuit legally erred in its application of ERISA by holding that the statute of limitations on a player's ERISA denial-of-benefits…
19-7631 Regina Wolgamott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi…
19-7637 Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a 'crime of violence,' under which an offense must have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or thr…
19-7638 Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits Can a court count a defendant's constitutionally-protected-conduct against the defendant when determining whether the defendant qualifies for a 2-poin…
19-7589 Michael M. Monzel v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation What, if any, causal relationship or nexus between the defendant's conduct and the victim's harm or damages must the government or the victim establis…
19-7598 Ramon Valencia-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split closer-review judicial-review kimbrough-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement policy-statement sentencing-guidelines When conducting 'closer review' of a sentencing decision that was based on the district court's decision to vary from the United States Sentencing Gui…
19-990 Southern Illinois Storm Shelters v. 4SEMO.COM, Incorporated Seventh Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied business-impact circuit-conflict circuit-split common-law-trademark equitable-multi-factor-test equitable-test prior-precedent senior-user-rights trademark-ownership trademark-territory Did the Seventh Circuit panel's rejection of the equitable multi-factor test proposed by Professor McCarthy to determine common law trademark ownershi…
19-7549 Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-972 Christopher Edward McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split disability-rights education-law individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review non-IDEA-claims procedural-requirements relief-not-available-under-IDEA standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires administrative exhaustion for non-IDEA claims seeking relief not available und…
19-7512 Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decision of the D.C. Circuit on an important matte…
19-7520 Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-953 Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes…
19-7470 Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
19-7458 Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
19-939 Stephen Gustus v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense
19-934 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255
19-927 Wayne M. Klocke, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Klocke v. The University of Texas at Arlington Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split disciplinary-action educational-programming gender-discrimination title-ix university-discipline university-liability Whether the Fifth Circuit incorrectly implemented Title IX by imposing a burden on the plaintiff to prove the exclusion from educational programming w…
19-7388 Aaron Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif Whether a defendant must point to an actual state court prosecution to demonstrate a prior conviction is not a categorical match
19-7386 Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light …
19-920 Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour…
19-7360 Terry Simonton, Jr. v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-substance federal-constitutional-substance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Did a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in denying Mr. Simonton a Certificate of Appealability
19-7361 Edward Shevtsov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard Whether in a federal fraud prosecution involving a private victim, materiality turns on the misrepresentation's ability to influence the actual decisi…
19-7368 Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud Whether materiality in mail and wire fraud cases is based on the subjective standard in Gaudin and Escobar or the objective standard in Lindsey
19-7375 Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-law contemporary-assessment criminal-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreseeability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Strickland's test for ineffective assistance of counsel incorporates an unsettled/foreshadowed exception
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation?
19-898 Kimberly D. Collins v. Gwendolyn Thornton Fourth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure discretion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion service-of-process statute-of-limitations Whether a district court has discretion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m) to extend the time for service of process absent good cause
19-894 Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing specifi…
19-7320 Jurden Rogers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
19-878 Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission Third Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to 'obey the law' injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. …
19-870 Jeana K. Reinbold, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of 180 Equipment, LLC v. First Midwest Bank Seventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-court-split circuit-split federal-court-interpretation federal-interpretation notice-of-collateral secured-creditor security-interest state-law state-law-interpretation uniform-commercial-code Whether the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, that a secured creditor need not give any public notice of the collateral securing its s…
19-7283 Fairly W. Earls v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability standard
19-7247 Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner's challenge to his conviction or sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255 is 'inadequate or ineffective' - and thus the prisoner may …
19-867 Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal Whether Section 1997e(a) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act mandates dismissal of unexhausted claims or allows a prisoner to cure failure to exhaust …
19-860 Nikolai Bosyk v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search…
19-861 Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district…
19-855 Lenin Lugo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split expert-witness expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-opinion lay-witness lay-witness-testimony professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 Whether an opinion of a law enforcement officer that depends on the witness's professional experience is admissible as Rule 701 lay opinion or must me…
19-7201 Casey Lee Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter
19-7149 Guillermo Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence Whether expert testimony on eyewitness identification should be treated differently than other expert testimony
19-7165 Omar Macias-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con…
19-839 Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. Oregon 2020-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining Does the Clean Water Act regulate activities that simply move pre-existing material, such as rock, sand, and gravel, within a 'navigable water'?
19-7139 Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation Whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process clause
19-7126 Ronald Damon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the 'sentence imposed' precludes an appeal of the denial of …
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Whether non-capital habeas corpus petitioners in the Eleventh Circuit are being treated so fundamentally differently than similarly situated prisoners…
19-825 Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (6) circuit-split district-court enforcement-authority federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunction permanent-injunction restitution section-13(b) statutory-interpretation Whether Section 13(b) authorizes district courts to enter an injunction that orders the return of unlawfully obtained funds
19-7076 Cedrick Ponder v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7092 Laforest Carmichael, aka LaForrest Carmichael v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split mandatory-revocation sentencing-factors statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Whether a sentencing judge must consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors when imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation that r…
19-805 Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine
19-7056 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court?
19-800 Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's pr…
19-7034 Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim Does the vulnerable victim enhancement apply when the defendant did not exploit the victim's unusual vulnerability?
19-794 Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's qualified immunity decisions
19-6972 Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation Should this Court grant certiorari to correct a miscarriage of justice and provide needed clarification of the RICO law?
19-783 Nathan Van Buren v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (22)Relisted (2) circuit-split computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime data-protection improper-purpose intent standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus…
19-6967 Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation Whether PURPA provides comprehensive remedies that foreclose 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims
19-778 Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction?
19-763 Richard C. Angino, et ux. v. TransUnion LLC Third Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied accuracy accuracy-of-reports attorneys-fees circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-accuracy credit-reports credit-scores due-process fair-credit-reporting-act standing Whether the Supreme Court should accept and decide this case that affects hundreds of millions of individuals
19-767 National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of Political Practices for the State of Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights express-advocacy first-amendment free-speech political-committee political-committee-regulations Whether the First Amendment permits imposing burdensome political-committee regulations upon groups that do not engage in any express advocacy for or …
19-6940 Kevin James Petroske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism Whether mere video voyeurism can constitute intending a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction u…
19-6942 Savon Germain Carter v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution Whether the buyer-seller rule applies to all participants in a drug conspiracy, not just end-users
19-6918 Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel Whether courts must consider the record evidence in determining the reasonableness of trial counsel's actions, or can deem them strategic and reasonab…
19-6908 Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-6875 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Texas Texas 2019-12-06 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-expert-testimony false-testimony prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct texas-death-penalty Whether the use of false expert testimony to obtain a death sentence violates due process, regardless of the prosecution's knowledge of the falsity
19-6862 Dalton Betsinger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6824 Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SORNA …
19-6840 Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ…
19-706 Facebook, Inc. v. Nimesh Patel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification concrete-injury concrete-interest future-risk personal-information predominance real-world-injury risk-of-harm standing-article-iii statutory-violation Whether a court can find Article III standing based on its conclusion that a statute protects a concrete interest, without determining that the plaint…
19-709 Mako One Corporation, et al. v. Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-remedy remand reversal structural-error When a Circuit Court finds opposing counsel has an actual and serious conflict of interest in a civil case, should the Court view the conflict as a 's…
19-6819 Frankie Ovies v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the ev…
19-691 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Georgia Georgia 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived 404b-evidence circuit-court-split circuit-split d.c.-circuit-precedent due-process evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence georgia-supreme-court intrinsic-evidence intrinsic-evidence-rule prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts Were petitioner's due process rights violated by the Supreme Court of Georgia's overly broad application of the 'intrinsic evidence' rule?
19-6791 Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli…
19-683 Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule Whether a federal prisoner may proceed through § 2255(e)'s saving clause to seek collateral review under § 2241 when that prisoner has demonstrated a …
19-667 Michael Baker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory phrase 'obtain property' has the same meaning in the federal fraud statutes as it does in other federal criminal statutes
19-678 United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-26 Denied administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q…
19-682 Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan…
19-654 Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo Second Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing Whether the Gebser standard applies to the Rehabilitation Act
19-656 William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger Whether the burden of persuasion in qualified immunity cases should be on the plaintiff or the defendant
19-658 J. G., By and Through His Parents, Howard Greenberg, et ux. v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings burden-of-proof circuit-split florence-county-school-district-four-v-carter individuals-with-disabilities-education-act placement-change private-school-placement public-placement schaffer-v-weast special-education Whether the burden of proof shifts when the public agency seeks to change the educational placement of a child with a disability
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…
19-651 John P. DeRose v. Village of Orland Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-requirements rule-11 safe-harbor safe-harbor-provision sanctions service-of-motion May a party satisfy the safe-harbor provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11
19-6675 Michael Ray Bishop v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines?
19-6688 Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6674 Margarita Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter…
19-6677 Justin Scott Vasey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6678 Joseph Van Sach v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-6652 Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied IFP booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United States v. Booker, 543 …
19-616 W.A., Individually and on Behalf of W.E., et al. v. Hendrick Hudson Central School District Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied circuit-split deference-to-administrative-decisions due-process free-appropriate-public-education idea-fape-private-school-deference-administrative- individuals-with-disabilities-education-act private-placement school-district-obligations special-education-law standard-of-review When a school district defaults on its obligations to provide a student with a disability a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as guaranteed by …
19-6617 Melissa Morton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure-waiver due-process inter-circuit-conflict intra-circuit-conflict jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-procedure right-relinquishment right-to-appeal waiver Whether a defendant waives his right to challenge a jury instruction on appeal if he proposed the instruction below, even if the record contains no ev…
19-6633 Adrian Ausberry v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-14 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony Does an offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a crime of violence under the identical force clauses in U.S.S.G. § 4…
19-6641 Michael Anthony Clayton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Must an Officer Tell a Criminal Suspect in Custody That He Has the Right to Have an Attorney Present During the Interview, in Order to Use the Suspect…
19-612 Hassan Abpikar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS
19-6601 Kevin Battle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime Whether a defendant must point to an actual state-court prosecution to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sent…
19-6604 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP capital-case-appeal capital-punishment circuit-split diligence evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malice-murder new-evidence new-evidence-of-innocence Whether new evidence of innocence obtained by subsequent diligent counsel should be deemed new evidence, even if prior counsel provided deficient repr…
19-603 Mark Silguero, et al. v. CSL Plasma, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination place-of-public-accommodation plasma-donation-center public-accommodation title-iii Is a plasma donation center a 'place of public accommodation' subject to the requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
19-570 Greg Steven Elofson v. Stephanie Bivens, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split clayton-act judicial-economy nationwide-service nationwide-service-of-process process rico rico-statute rico-venue-process standard-oil standard-oil-co venue venue-process Does the RICO venue and process statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1965, provide for nationwide service of process?
19-560 Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation Whether the scénes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the…
19-6410 Donald W. Rager v. Paige Augustine, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-remedies circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies plra prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the statute of limitations should be tolled for the time spent exhausting administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA…
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question
19-6370 Troy Bennett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence is a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-6372 Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
19-6387 Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure default default-judgment pleading procedural-rules summary-judgment supervisory-power waiver-of-rights writ writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Whether a party who fails to plead or otherwise defend within the time allowed by Rule, waive their rights on all claims
19-6358 In Re Morris J. Warren 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation Does Daniel v. Fulwood, Case No. 12-5327/Citation 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. Cir. 2014), apply to my parole-eligible sentence, where which was given December …
19-6315 John David Stahlman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) Did the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violate the petitioner's Fif…
19-6334 Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be 'found' within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
19-6318 Damon Tracy Locke v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni…
19-508 AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (6) administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts Whether §13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution
19-511 Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the TCPA's prohibition on calls made using an ATDS is an unconstitutional restriction of speech, and if so whether the proper remedy is to bro…
19-505 William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP-12(b)(6)-motions,to-rule-upon-a-disputed-issue-of-fact-(the-sham-litigation-or-fraud-exception-to-claim…
19-507 Publishers Business Services, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 GVR Relisted (7) circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedies equity-powers ftc-act ftc-act-section-13b kokesh kokesh-v-sec monetary-relief separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles
19-6306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied IFP circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Hobbs Act requires an actual impact on interstate commerce or merely a potential/probable impact
19-6307 Andrew Oreckinto v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec…
19-6279 Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force
19-6280 Jose Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Should the government bear the burden of establishing the harmlessness of a properly preserved claim of prosecutorial misconduct in a federal criminal…
19-6295 Antonio Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure Does a broad appeal waiver preclude appellate review of a district court's findings if the judge created a constitutionally impermissible appearance o…
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered?
19-6277 Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its 'gatekeeping' role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v…
19-488 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held that under 26 CFR §301.7502-1(e) the common-law mailbox rule no longer is available to establish timely fil…
19-6236 Christina Marie Eichler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs to end users and …
19-6249 Michael Terrill Faircloth v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-922g1 affirmative-defense circuit-split criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession innocent-possession safe-streets-act transitory-possession Whether a felon may assert an affirmative defense of innocent, transitory possession when charged as a felon-in-possession of a firearm under § 922(g)…
19-6232 Jason James Neiheisel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co…
19-466 Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deviating from other circuit holdings and announcing that Scott v. Harris directs the lower courts to examine whet…
19-457 Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud cl…
19-462 A Top New Casting Incorporated v. Bodum USA, Incorporated Seventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied apple-v-samsung circuit-split cost-advantage design-simplicity functionality manufacturing-cost manufacturing-costs manufacturing-process materials product-design trade-dress Whether the Seventh Circuit departed from TrafFix in its trade dress functionality analysis
19-6210 Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the appropriate application of Rule 60(b)(6) requires a full case-by-case analysis of the factual circumstances, or whether a less stringent r…
19-6186 Latroy Leon Burris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-07 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning physical-force reckless-injury statutory-interpretation Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the 'use of physical force against' that person for purposes of the Armed …
19-6132 Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' two-step inquiry for determining the validity of an appeal waiver in a plea agreement should be expanded t…
19-429 Charles R. Hunter v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2410a asset-depletion circuit-split federal-statute federal-tax-lien governmental-abuse quiet-title sovereign-immunity tax-lien taxpayer-interest third-party-agreement Whether a quiet title action requires taxpayer legal interest in property
19-435 SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation Whether the Third Circuit erred in deferring to the IRS regulation under Chevron
19-438 Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-10-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5) ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act Does a trust beneficiary's allegations that a trustee used trust assets to buy and sell the trustee's own proprietary securities for the trustee's own…
19-428 Ryan Courtade v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court revi…
19-6114 Antwoyn Anderson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-01 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause mens-rea reckless serious-drug-offense violent-felony Whether possession with intent to sell cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13 is a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § …
19-423 Brian Kirk Malpasso, et al. v. William M. Pallozzi, in His Official Capacity as Maryland Secretary of State Police Fourth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit typical, law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self-defense
19-413 Robert W. Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived advertisement circuit-split commercial-communication commercial-fax fax-advertisement fcc-interpretation legislative-history statutory-interpretation tcpa telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act-tcpa Did the Third Circuit err by holding that a commercial fax cannot be an 'advertisement' as defined by the TCPA unless it promotes a direct sale of the…
19-415 Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived 8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether Temporary Protected Status constitutes an admission for purposes of adjustment of status under 8 U.S.C. § 1255(a)
19-417 EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Amici (3) abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law Whether compulsory display-and-describe ultrasound laws abridge physicians' freedom of speech in violation of the First Amendment
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?
19-6078 Terreall McDaniel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant when his appeal is still pending?
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a…
19-6053 Diosme Fernandez Hano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-rulings indictment judicial-precedent jury-instructions statute-of-limitations united-states-code witness-testimony Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the indictment was returned within the limitation period under 18 U.S.C. § 3297
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense Does a 'theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)' under §1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent?
19-6025 Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-6050 Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a 'crime of violence' under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A), unde…
19-373 James Walker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-19 Granted Amici (7)Relisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act…
19-351 Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-18 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings Whether the 'expropriation exception' of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides jurisdiction over claims that a foreign sovereign has violated …
19-5929 Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether scienter is required before the two-level increase under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines may be applied
19-5908 Howard Leon Combs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 GVR Relisted (4)IFP acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime Whether Texas aggravated assault involving reckless driving, virus transmission, or flashing strobe images constitutes 'the use, attempted use, or thr…
19-5884 Kevin Carson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness Whether the lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or having under his control any matter that is pornographic…
19-5891 Donte Island v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions
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…
19-323 Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with rulin…
19-310 Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement Whether the proper analytical framework for determining standing to pursue trademark infringement claims under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act
19-312 Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure exclusive-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fema flood-insurance national-flood-insurance-act private-insurers statutory-construction Whether Section 4072's provision of 'exclusive' federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers
19-5820 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition Whether a court of appeals can reach fact issues when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based on newly discove…
19-287 Jorge L. Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General District of Columbia 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights false-statement felony-conviction felony-firearm-dispossession firearm-dispossession lending-institution second-amendment second-amendment-rights Whether the Second Amendment secures Jorge Medina's right to possess arms, notwithstanding his conviction for making a false statement to a lending in…
19-292 Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a 'seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment?
19-293 TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Whether a debtor's conduct qualifies as causing a 'willful and malicious' injury under Section 523(a)(6)
19-5795 Jacob D. Lickers v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when an affidavit supporting a search warrant had been tainted by evidence obtained …
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Court should require de novo review (or at a minimum, review for clear error) of sentencing fact-findings based entirely on uncorroborated…
19-5763 Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-5741 Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi…
19-5722 Moses Shepard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment Whether a 'subsequent replacement indictment' restarts the Speedy Trial Act clock or if 'superseding' indictments are automatically excluded
19-248 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's finding that a worker is an employee under the common-law test should be reviewed for clear error, hybrid standard, or de…
19-255 Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (5) charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights
19-242 Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation Whether 'regular occupation' refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's 'actual job du…
19-233 Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of the Sergeant at Arms 820 F.2d 490 (D…
19-229 C. D., By and Through Her Parents, M. D. and P. D., et al. v. Natick Public School District, et al. First Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act least-restrictive-environment mainstreaming mainstreaming-mandate regular-classes special-education supplementary-aids-and-services supplementary-aids-services When does a school district's decision to educate a child with disabilities outside the regular classroom violate the IDEA's mainstreaming mandate?
19-232 New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al. v. Robert Shi, as Executor of the Will of Yueh-Lan Wang, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived burden-of-proof choice-of-forum choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure conflict-of-laws forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine standing venue Whether a forum resident bears a heightened burden to establish that a suit brought by a foreign plaintiff should be dismissed under the doctrine of f…
19-5652 Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-21 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines
19-5659 Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution Whether the government can use a joint task force and the same prosecution team to prosecute a citizen in state and federal court at the same time
19-5660 Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta…
19-214 Michael R. Presley, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process financial-privacy internal-revenue-code notice-requirements preemption right-to-financial-privacy standing summons-enforcement tax tax-investigation third-party-summons Whether the federal Right to Financial Privacy Act was fully preempted by the Internal Revenue Code, resulting in the production of financial informat…
19-200 Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived 6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged transf…
19-5570 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split dissent double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus issue-being-raised judicial-review Whether the Eighth Circuit has imposed an improper and unduly burdensome standard for granting a certificate of appealability in Mr. Barton's federal …
19-5553 Angela Roy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP admissibility character-evidence circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-exception limits standards Whether the widely criticized 'inextricably intertwined' or 'intrinsic evidence' family of exceptions to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) lack meaningf…
19-5554 Andres Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment Whether courts must give significant weight to whether an accused person reasonably feels free to leave a police encounter when determining if they ar…
19-5563 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver Whether an appellate court can review a defense, objection, or request that is not timely made under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 for plain e…
19-5574 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether scienter is required for the two-level increase under USSG §2D1.1(b)(5) for the importation or manufacture of methamphetamine from imported ch…
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
19-5582 Tuan Duc Lam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search Can a warrantless search of a person be 'incident to arrest' where, at the time of the search, no arrest has occurred, and the objective evidence fail…
19-5535 Julius Omar Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias during d…
19-176 R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response Waived aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and …
19-5451 Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Whether the Eleventh Circuit exceeded its statutory mandate under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) when it issued published rulings on the merits of open leg…
19-5472 Martin Avalos-Rico, aka Rolando Blanco-Garcia, aka Oscar Cruz-Tulum, aka Alejandro Tamayo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split deportable-offender due-process geographic-disparity immigration immigration-sentencing reentry-offense sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act supervised-release Whether a district court that imposes supervised release on a deportable offender must specifically tie it to a need for deterrence or protection
19-5478 Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'controlled substance of…
19-5447 Erbey Botello, aka Erbey Botello-Alanis, aka Javier Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-revocation reasonableness-of-sentence revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-review supervisory-powers Whether the constitutional right to due process on a plea at a revocation hearing is recognized
19-164 David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners
19-157 Eric Baggett v. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC Fifth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard Whether the sufficiency of a pleading should be held to a heightened pleading standard requiring facts of each element of the claim when the claim is …
19-5436 Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o…
19-153 Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. Wisconsin 2019-08-01 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of …
19-146 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac…
19-149 Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to incons…
19-138 First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson Third Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review
19-140 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation Whether the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the entire remand order or only the portion addressing particular issues
19-5377 Fairly W. Earls v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the Criminal Justice System allows Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in Habeas Corpus Cases
19-5384 David Rothenberg v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP causal-process child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution disaggregation paroline-v-united-states victim-losses When calculating restitution for a mere possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial abuse be disaggregated from the…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether the Seventh Circuit's application of the 'dark web' doctrine creates a circuit split
19-5401 Thomas Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) apply retroactively to defendant's raising motions to vacate their sentence…
19-137 Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 303(i) forbids non-debtors from obtaining relief from an improper bankruptcy filing
19-128 Charles Daniel Maye v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived access-restrictions authorized-access circuit-split civil-procedure computer-fraud-abuse-act computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime-law information-access information-use legal-scope standing statutory-interpretation Whether 'exceeds authorized access' in the Computer Fraud Abuse Act (CFAA) is limited to violations of restrictions on access to information, and not …
19-109 Giovanni Montijo-Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-findings jury-verdict mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof Whether a district court's findings of fact under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f) are constrained by the findings of fact implied by the jury's verdict
19-117 Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under the …
19-123 Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-25 Judgment Issued Amici (87)Relisted (7) circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions Whether free exercise plaintiffs can only succeed by proving a particular type of discrimination claim
19-5325 Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-5331 Michael Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its 'prior panel precedent rule?
19-5282 James Odell Baxter, II v. United States District of Columbia 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split civil-rights criminal-restitution due-process federal-tort-claims-act incarceration-damages medical-negligence mental-distress settlement-funds Did the D.C. Circuit err in affirming the order requiring payment of Federal Tort Claim settlement funds towards a criminal restitution order, when th…
19-5287 Robert Daley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli…
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 …
19-100 Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer is a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
19-97 Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether offensive collateral estoppel may be used to enter summary judgment on an alternative theory that was never presented to the trier of fact in …
19-5205 Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-18 Dismissed IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment Should a pro se prisoner be permitted to admit medical information from a reputable website as 'verifying medical evidence' to overcome a motion for s…
19-5241 Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me…
19-5216 Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais…
19-5219 Bobby G. Pullen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause of the mandatory guidelines, USSG §4B1.2(a)(2) (2004), is void for vagueness
19-5181 Lamar Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 GVR IFP arrest-procedure circuit-split custodial-arrest felon-in-possession fourth-amendment probable-cause rehaif-v-united-states search-incident-exception search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search may be upheld under the search-incident-to-arrest exception when the search precedes the arrest
19-5202 Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when…
19-77 Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims Does ERISA preempt state-law claims alleging that an insurer's misrepresentations about an ERISA plan's terms induced an employer to create the plan?
19-5183 Miguel Grado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
19-73 Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically contravene this Court's decision in Fogerty v. Fantasy Inc.?
19-5154 James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
19-5161 Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property Whether industry standards and customs should be considered as a factor during the analysis of perceived intent and duty of the implied contract parti…
19-5162 Frederick Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release?
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8?
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…
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-5128 Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is…
19-5141 William Wade v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the 10th Circuit's declaration that the 924(c) 'residual' clause is unconstitutional requires resentencing when the sentencing court failed to…
19-5105 Rudy Espudo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing…
19-5125 Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p…
19-49 Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity Whether the McDonnell Douglas framework applies to FMLA interference claims
19-5098 Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states Whether the government must prove that a defendant knew the specific characteristic of a firearm that subjected it to registration under the National …
19-52 Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to challenge an unlawful conviction or sentence foreclosed by binding …
19-41 Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions May the judge-made 'economic substance doctrine' be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from …
19-5078 Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-5083 Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline-a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
19-5087 Willie Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare 'the essence' of a prior state crime of conviction to the 'essential nature' of a specific…
19-30 Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Whether and under what circumstances prior salary may constitute 'any other factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act
19-33 Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the determination under § 1514A(a) as to whether an employee's belief was objectively reasonable be made by the trier of fact, so long as reaso…
19-20 William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den…
19-5050 John Asmodeo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine Attenuation-Factors circuit-split civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule Finucan-Factors Flagrant-Misconduct fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search Intervening-Circumstances Purpose-of-Condon's-Interview suppression-hearing Temporal-Proximity Whether the attenuation doctrine applies when law enforcement officials deliberately discuss illegally seized evidence with a third party in order to …
19-16 Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (5) 18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators?
19-5003 Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum
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\'?
18-9812 Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon What is the correct definition of 'dangerous weapon' under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3): (1) an object used in a manner likely to endanger life or inflict gr…
18-1593 Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for assault under a state statute that does not require physical force is categorically a crime of violence under 8 U.S.C. § 16(a…
18-9805 Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability Whether the statutory phrase 'can be used' contained in the definition of 'access device' at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove usab…
18-9781 Adam J. Winarske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the residual clause provided the basis for his …
18-9790 Alexander Monzoni v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou…
18-9796 Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'controlled substance offense' as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) i…
18-9762 Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the…
18-9764 Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel Should a defendant be found to have waived his right to counsel and proceed pro se even if he declines to answer the district court's questions?
18-1567 Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations Whether the discovery rule applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et seq…
18-1554 Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor
18-9730 Gerald S. Lepre, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split custody domestic-order federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-threat personal-liberty suspended-sentence Does a suspended sentence coupled with an active domestic order constitute custody for purposes of federal habeas corpus relief?
18A1336 Robert Rang v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation Whether the definition of 'sexual activity' in a criminal statute requires physical interpersonal contact or can include non-contact conduct
18-9657 Joseph Howard Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay?
18-9672 Jill Andras LeBlanc v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-procedure statutory-rights Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
18-9673 George Djura Jakubec v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-9653 Todd Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18A1302 Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud Whether a circuit split exists regarding the 'right to control' theory of wire fraud and loss calculation in cases involving government funding and un…
18-1539 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Amici (5) accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil…
18-1540 VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct Whether a defendant's volitional conduct is required to establish direct copyright infringement
18-9639 Dustin E. Ash v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18A1285 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1447d appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split federal-jurisdiction remand-order Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an entire remand order under 28 U.S.C. §1447(d) or only a specific portion of that order
18A1276 Karen Khan v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-06 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection fifth-amendment money-mandating sovereign-immunity Whether a civil rights statute that broadly defines 'person' to include government agencies creates a money-mandating cause of action that waives sove…
18A1277 Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-06 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea reckless-offense sentencing-guidelines Whether reckless offenses categorically qualify as 'crimes of violence' under the force clause of federal sentencing guidelines and criminal statutes
18A1262 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus plea-agreement writ-of-certiorari Whether federal courts can restrict second or successive habeas petitions under the AEDPA's savings clause when a prisoner claims factual innocence or…
18-9472 Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court
18-1503 Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes Whether non-class counsel is entitled to an award of counsel fees and costs for pre-appointment work, whether a class action settlement agreement prov…
18-1498 UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al. v. Louis J. Peterson, on Behalf of Patients E, I, K, L, N, P, Q, and R, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-31 Dismissed administrative-discretion circuit-split deferential-judicial-review erisa-plan-administration erisa-plan-interpretation firestone-deference firestone-standard firestone-standard-of-review judicial-review plan-construction plan-interpretation plan-silence remedial-actions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that under the deferential Firestone standard of review, an administrator's determination that the plan au…
18-9493 Jose Santillan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether factual findings in a Presentence Report must be proven by the government or disproven by the defendant
18-1487 Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that Jessica Roe has standing to seek an injunction against a school program to which she has no ongoing e…
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded that the respondent, who was no longer serving his state sentence of probation at the…
18-1476 Randy Lee Carney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and …
18-1468 United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, et al. v. Andre M. Toffel, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Walter Energy Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived 1992-plan-premiums anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-1114 circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-validity Whether the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applies only in this Court and, if not, whether it applies only to litigants …
18-9393 Tarell McIlwain v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav…
18-9398 Ali Cisse v. New York New York 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent Does knowledge of wiretapping establish 'consent' to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)?
18-9415 Michael Don Neely v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th…
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning When is it appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37?
18-1458 Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos New Mexico 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit…
18-9360 Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness
18-9343 Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to satisfy the requirements of § 22…
18-9330 Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether New York's Robbery Statute § 160.15 qualifies as a Crime of Violence under the Career Offender Guideline § 4B1.2
18-9299 Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether Apprendi error at sentencing is harmless based on the entire record or only whether the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum
18-9315 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-circuit 8th-circuit circuit-conflict circuit-split codefendant-testimony criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 Should a district court automatically exclude exculpatory testimony from a non-testifying codefendant as not newly discovered evidence or should that …
18-1424 Michael N. Thomas v. Raymond Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split government-inconvenience habeas-corpus importance-of-testimony inconvenience-to-government inmate-testimony judicial-discretion nonparty-inmate nonparty-witness seventh-circuit trial-procedure trial-testimony witness-testimony writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly held that a district court may deny a request for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to compel the appearan…
18-9265 Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 Whether the denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitutes a defect in the integrity of the federal habeas …
18-9277 Melvin Scott Morman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o…
18-1415 ASARCO LLC v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC Ninth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied arbitration-authority arbitrator-authority arbitrator-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process judicial-review labor-arbitration labor-law no-add-provision remedial-limits remedial-power scope-of-authority waiver Whether an arbitrator can reform a collective bargaining agreement by adding language despite a contractual provision prohibiting the arbitrator from …
18-1401 David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-07 Granted CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination Are the 'terms, conditions, or privileges of employment' covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
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?
18-1381 Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether an 'incidental fax advertisement' is exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's definition of a 'fax advertisement'
18-1382 American Eagle Express, Inc., dba AEX Group v. Ever Bedoya, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-classification federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act preemption presumption-against-preemption state-regulation transportation-of-property Whether the Third Circuit erred by holding that New Jersey's statutory test for determining employment classification is not preempted under the FA
18-1358 Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process Whether a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person seeking compensation through legislative means violates …
18-9019 Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied IFP aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the 'use' of another's identity without lawful authority
18-1346 Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation Seventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, or does it apply only to incumbent…
18-1344 LaMarcus Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, (2) only that information …
18-8985 Michael Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that 'extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances' conflicts with this Court's mandate 'that …
18-8965 Olusola Olla v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a failu…
18-8931 Tajie Coleman v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation Whether the New York State offense of robbery satisfies the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
18-1328 Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the obligati…
18-8892 Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current…
18-8881 Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion Whether the district court failed to provide findings of fact and conclusions of law as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a)(1) in denying petitioner's F…
18-1316 Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the…
18-1302 Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin Tenth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 and…
18-8826 Omar Christopher Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated
18-8829 Leonid Djuga, aka Leonid Dzhuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining statutory-rights Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
18-1294 Michael D. Lynch, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-testimony national-mortgage-settlements summary-judgment supervisory-power Does Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6) authorize hearsay testimony concerning the contents of business records which have not been admitted into evidenc…
18-1291 Linda Thurman, et al. v. Judicial Correction Services, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-courts judicial-review jurisdiction municipal-court private-probation probation-order rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment void-ab-initio Whether Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio
18-8752 Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated verbal …
18-8738 Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether an act of omission can constitute the 'use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A)
18-8759 Cuauhtemoc Juarez-Aquino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion majority-circuits ninth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion to weigh established factors at sentencing
18-8718 Anthony C. Barrett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex…
18-1279 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2019-04-08 Denied 29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under §1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches …
18-1272 Michael Gould, et al. v. Andrew Lipson, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Brookline Police Department, et al. First Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-restrictions good-reason intermediate-scrutiny right-to-bear-arms right-to-carry second-amendment self-defense standing takings Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense
18-8687 Melanie A. Ogle v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split credibility-of-witness due-process habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence schlup-gateway Has this Court amended its previous decision that the Schlup gateway standard does not require absolute certainty about the petitioner's guilt or inno…
18-8700 Dorian Givens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release?
18-8708 Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether the decision handed down in Mathis v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have st…
18-1269 Simon E. Rodriguez, as Chapter 7 Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of United Western Bancorp, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for United Western Bank Tenth Circuit 2019-04-03 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) affiliated-group affiliated-groups bob-richards-rule circuit-split corporate-taxation federal-common-law state-law tax-refund Whether courts should determine ownership of a tax refund paid to an affiliated group based on the federal common law 'Bob Richards rule,' as three Ci…
18-1270 Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency?
18-1271 Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal Sufficiency of pleading breach of ERISA fiduciary duties
18-1262 Corona Regional Medical Center, et al. v. Marlyn Sali, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed admissibility circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit precedent rule-23 standards-of-proof Whether the requirements for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 can be satisfied with inadmissible evidence
18-1265 September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations?
18-8677 Patrick Lloyd v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error plea-bargaining rule-11 standing united-states-v-dominguez-benitez Whether Dominguez Benitez's harmless error rule applies to Rule 11(b)(1)(G)'s requirement that before a guilty plea can be accepted the district court…
18-8600 Tony McLeod v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Cellebrite forensic data requires expert testimony
18-8601 Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge Whether the 7-level sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a weapon applies when the defendant never intended the weapon to discharge
18-1260 Jessica Cooke v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation Whether the common-law 'mailbox rule' applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a)
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
18-1248 Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc…
18-8540 Eric David Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the 'plainly unreasonable' standard or the…
18-1233 Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-03-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness Whether willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a violation of the Lanham Act
18-1230 Juan Zamudio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the …
18-1218 Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Dismissed bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes
18-8445 Tommy McAdoo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force Should this Court accept review to resolve the conflicting 'intimidation' interpretations the Circuits have given the federal bank robbery statute?
18-8465 Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor Are Bankruptcy Judges dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause?
18-8468 Alfredo Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing
18-8447 Javis Wilson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (4)IFP acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offense qualifies…
18-8395 Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states Whether § 3582(a) prohibits sentencing courts from taking rehabilitation into consideration at all in selecting a prison sentence, or whether it merel…
18-8429 Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Fe…
18-1193 Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Prosecutorial misconduct in post-conviction DNA testing
18-8413 Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by notifying the creditor in writing wi…
18-8416 Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit Whether claims by prisoners challenging their conditions of confinement are cognizable in habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2241
18-8417 Robert Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness Whether the mens rea element for a false claim prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 287 requires willfulness or mere knowledge
18-8391 Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8394 Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-1180 New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce a Medicare Administrative Law Judge's order
18-1173 I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Amici (7) child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a caseworker to obtain a warrant to strip-search a child
18-1165 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) amgen-v-harris circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty fifth-third-standard fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-information pleading-standard private-securities-litigation-reform-act prudence prudent-fiduciary securities-fraud securities-litigation Alleged-fraud-disclosure-harm
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process antitrust claims involving patent fraud lies in the regional circuits, not the Federal Circuit
18-1162 P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity Denial of qualified immunity to correctional officers for alleged deliberate indifference to prisoners' medical needs
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…
18-1154 Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-court circuit-split employment-law exertion fair-labor-standards-act portal-to-portal-act security-screening work work-definition Whether the Portal-to-Portal Act modified the FLSA's broad, pre-1947 definition of 'work'
18-1156 Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel Florida 2019-03-06 Denied appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2011…
18-1159 The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection Whether religious organizations' names like The Universal Church' and 'Universal Church' can be deemed generic as a matter of law regardless of eviden…
18-1145 Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Amici (3) burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process Dormant Commerce Clause challenge to Wisconsin butter grading law
18-8233 Calvin J. Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has misapplied the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis
18-8234 Jeremy Snider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-8281 Michael Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation Did the Court in Carter v. United States add an additional layer of proof to 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) such that the government must now prove beyond a reas…
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver Speedy-Trial-Act-violation
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler Whether a court must categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez v. Ryan
18-8238 Rafael Gomez Uranga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-delay government-negligence governmental-negligence gross-negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial united-states-v-doggett Whether a speedy trial delay caused exclusively by the gross negligence of the Government weighs heavily against the Government
18-8265 Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definition of a 'controlled substance offense' without Congressional app…
18-8177 Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether under the Fourth Amendment the reasonable articulable suspicion necessary to extend a traffic stop must be formed before the officer's deviati…
18-8202 Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when the …
18-1128 Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly thr…
18-1129 Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction once the sole plaintiff h…
18-8160 Paul Wagner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent mickens-v-taylor ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-interpretation united-states-v-hanoum Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision conflicts with other circuit courts and Supreme Court precedent on the issue of actual conflict between a defenda…
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent, its own stare decisis, and create a circuit split by failing to recall its ma…
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits?
18-1104 Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing Whether a non-disabled plaintiff must establish a separate injury causally related to, but separate and distinct from, a disabled person's injury
18-8076 Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define one or two crimes?
18-8110 In Re LaShawn Anderson 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement Whether the Eleventh Circuit has effectively suspended the writ of habeas corpus by narrowing the circumstances under which a federal prisoner can pro…
18-8051 Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether the exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection
18-8055 Kevin Ventura v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey?
18-8064 Fernando Luviano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove a 'reasonable likelihood' that the falsified reports were written in contemplation of a poss…
18-8068 Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-1086 Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata Whether federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated and resolved in any prior case betwee…
18-1094 Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, et al. v. Joe R. Whatley, Jr., WD Trustee Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied cargo-damage carmack-amendment circuit-split federal-preemption limitations-period limitations-periods notice-of-claim notice-requirements rail-carrier-liability uniform-bill-of-lading Whether a shipper's notice asserting a rail carrier's liability for damage to specifically identified cargo and demanding a determinable amount of mon…
18-8019 Bryan Austin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split coa congress constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the determination by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to Petitioner's COA application improperly deviated from the mandates of…
18-1078 James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Sixth Circuit misapplied Supreme Court precedent on Fourth Amendment curtilage, creating circuit split
18-1069 Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver Tax-court-jurisdiction,tax-liability,tax-year,tax-notice,tax-appeals,tax-procedure
18-7989 Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent
18-7996 Emory Watkins v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-conspiracy residual-clause statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause at 18 USC Sec. 924 (c) (3) (B) is void for vagueness
18-7977 James Mowery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release Whether the Fifth Circuit has failed to apply the Supreme Court's ruling in Packingham v. North Carolina to supervised release Internet restrictions, …
18-1054 Jason Allen Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution
18-1046 Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review Standard-of-review-for-hearsay-rulings
18-1048 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitrat…
18-1052 Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur
18-1044 PharMerica Corporation v. United States, ex rel. Marc Silver Third Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act fraud original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam qui-tam-action statutory-interpretation Whether a relator's admission that he derived his complaint from public disclosures triggers the public disclosure bar, whether the public disclosure …
18-7857 Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release Whether a district court commits reversible error by imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation for the purpose of retribution
18-7833 Jerome Hayes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (4)IFP begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'serious drug offense…
18-1036 Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied 60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment Whether a lawyer's gross neglect of a blameless client's case is grounds for relief under Rule 60(b)(6)
18-7779 Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a 'destructive device'
18-7800 Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments Can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing arguments?
18-1013 Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson Seventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck v.…
18-1010 Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law Whether the Court should resolve the current circuit split regarding a corporate issuer's duty to update under Securities and Exchange Commission Rule…
18-7735 Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE S$. C. CODE ANN 44-53-370 TS OVERLYBRO&D AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS?
18-7720 Howard Webber v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation Can consent be a defense to aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A?
18-7722 Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a merely reckless mens rea?
18-7723 Randy Dempsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18-7680 Hector Cirino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
18-7661 Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely Is diligence in discovering new evidence a condition to filing a postconviction motion or a condition to obtaining relief on that motion?
18-7681 In Re Erasmo Aguinaga 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization
18-991 Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute Whether oral disputes under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act must be treated with the same validity as written disputes
18-984 King Mountain Tobacco Company, Inc. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied circuit-split fair-and-equitable-tobacco-reform-act federal-tax federal-tax-exemption federal-tobacco-excise-tax indian-treaty indian-treaty-construction tax-exemption travel-rights yakama-treaty Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the Yakama Treaty must include 'express exemptive language' to create an exemption from a federal tax …
18-7639 Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim…
18-7642 Kirk Lassend v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony Whether a crime which does not require the actual use of violent force can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the ACCA
18-7613 David Ackell v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7570 Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails…
18-969 Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-25 Dismissed circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption of injury
18-957 NextEra Energy, Inc. v. Elliott Associates, L.P., et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Amici (1) 11-usc-363 11-usc-503 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-sale breakup-fee business-judgment-rule circuit-split debtor section-363 section-503 Whether a debtor's decision to agree to a negotiated breakup fee should be reviewed under the business judgment rule or a heightened standard
18-935 Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (3) child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review Whether a district court's determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention should be reviewed de novo, as seven circuits have held, und…
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1)
18-941 Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve an entrenched and acknowledged conflict among the courts of appeals over whether section 362(a) applies t…
18-944 Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) circuit-split conditional-use-permit discrimination equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-or-as-applied-violation free-exercise nonprofit-organization religious-land-use religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a rluipa standing tax-revenue zoning zoning-code What is the proper test for a RLUIPA equal-terms claim?
18-7506 Jonathan Glen Turner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct due-process manipulative-conduct obstreperous-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by dilatory, obstreperous, or manipulative conduct, as opposed to express statement
18-7507 In Re Dwight Carter 2019-01-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the 11th Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the gatekeeping standard contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C), wh…
18-918 John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a plaintiff need show that a law is vague in all of its applications to succeed in a facial vagueness challenge
18-920 Margaret Adeline Veltre v. Fifth Third Bank Third Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived antecedent-debt bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-547 bankruptcy-court chapter-7-bankruptcy circuit-split creditor-rights insolvency liquidation-value preferential-transfer property-transfer property-valuation sheriff-sale valuation Whether the Bankruptcy Code mandates a Bankruptcy Court determine the value of property transferred to a creditor within ninety days prior to a Bankru…
18-926 Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation Whether an ERISA plaintiff bears the burden of proving loss causation
18-7390 Martin R. Stancik v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du…
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…
18-7379 Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 Whether a § 2255 movant raising a Johnson claim can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his ACCA sentence 'may have' been based on the residual cla…
18-904 King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the proper procedure for handling situations in which jurisdictional and merits facts overlap?
18-890 David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario Second Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim
18-7331 Ishmael Douglas v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-09 GVR Relisted (2)IFP categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7340 Eric Dillon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) requires a minimum 10-year consecutive sentence
18-7296 Demetrio Cisneros v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute the 'deliberate actions' to avoid knowledge under the willful-blindness …
18-7311 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Paul Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection standing Whether the reasoning of the Court in Buck v. Davis (2017) 137 S.Ct. 759 also applies to the Court of Appeals
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…
18-862 Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense?
18-7233 Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di…
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims
18-830 Township of Millburn, New Jersey, et al. v. Michael J. Palardy, Jr. Third Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights connick-v-myers constitutional-rights first-amendment public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim union-association Whether the Connick framework applies to public employee retaliation claims based on union association
18-7201 Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund…
18-7219 Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness
18-824 Thomas Rogers, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split constitutional-carry firearm-rights heller-v-dc intermediate-scrutiny licensing second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense
18-7176 Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery can be a categorical 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) when pattern jury instructions extend it to causing …
18-7187 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-27 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
18-7149 Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Did the Sixth Circuit err by applying the pre-Wilson 'could-have-reasoned' approach—which blatantly disregarded Wilson and created a split with other …
18-7139 James Castleman Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sentence must be proven by the government in the face of objection
18-7140 Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied IFP chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its standard of review when a district court fails to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing
18-7132 James R. Bright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether Section 2255(f)(3) tolls the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson v. United States applies in a situation similar to that in J…
18-7150 Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later inco…
18-7159 Andrew Mark Lamar v. John O'Dell, Colorado Parole Board Member Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure circuit-split circuit-splits civil-rights discretionary-parole due-process liberty-interest parole parole-release-hearings wilkinson-v-dotson Whether reasonable tourists would find the district court's resolution of petitioner's due process claim debatable or wrong with respect to extending …
18-782 William C. Bond v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether a district court must provide a reason for denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint
18-795 William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) conflicts with the D.C. Circuit's standard
18-7096 Reinaldo Santos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony Is the 'touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States, permitting…
18-7105 Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Relisted (4)IFP acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'serious drug offense…
18-7129 Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States regarding cell phone records being Constitutional…
18-778 St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether a failure to disclose information mandated by federal law is a concrete injury in itself, or whether a plaintiff must show additional harm
18-7076 Evelyn Person v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco…
18-7087 Daniel Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement
18-7036 Frank Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-763 Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review Whether a district court must determine that there is no possibility that allegations of juror misconduct stem from the juror's view of the evidence t…
18-7022 Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder?
18-7000 Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence under the 's…
18-6972 Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a 'crime of violence'
18-6985 Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-11 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the Schlup v. Delo actual-innocence standard applies to a second habeas petition
18-6899 John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors Whether the implied bias doctrine constitutes clearly established federal law
18-6963 Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable…
18-728 Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's 'selection and arrangement' of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui…
18-729 Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer
18-6913 Lamar Sowell v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for …
18-6919 Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat…
18-6926 James Valentine v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals commit error in applying 21 U.S.C. §851 sentence enhancement?
18-721 Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a …
18-716 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. v. EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split conflict-among-circuits conflict-with-other-courts direct-effect foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-corporate-structure international-investment investment-fund investment-loss judicial-restructuring jurisdictional-challenge overseas-conduct sovereign-instrumentality subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that there is a 'direct effect' in the United States under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act when the plain…
18-6894 David Crosby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding conflicts with the Seventh Circuit's and this Court's precedent as it concerns improper vouching
18-710 Caner Demirayak v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) accessibility alternate-accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act americans-with-disabilities-act-title-ii circuit-split due-process effective-accommodations fact-finding meaningful-access preliminary-injunction public-entity rule-52(a) supervisory-power tennessee-v-lane title-ii Whether a public entity may avoid liability under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act by providing alternate accessible accommodations wit…
18-6875 Kendall Thrift v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh…
18-6870 James Frederick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force Whether causation of harm necessarily entails the use of 'violent force' under Curtis Johnson
18-699 Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather Sixth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter Whether the failure to plead facts relating to past government practices in an FCA action can weigh against a finding of materiality
18-696 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech Should the Ninth Circuit have applied the anti-SLAPP statutes?
18-6807 Larry M. Slusser v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th…
18-682 Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a 'means of identification of another person' under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A
18-6830 Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime Whether California terrorist threats convictions under California Penal Code Section 422 are crimes of violence
18-684 Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui…
18-6792 Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment Whether the district court and Seventh Circuit erred in granting summary judgment for Indiana Bell despite finding that both parties submitted 'sparse…
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b) requires that a debt be 'absolutely owed' for a setoff to occur, or whether a setoff can occur at an earlier ti…
18-6746 Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review
18-6763 Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity What standards should govern the enforcement of appeal waivers in plea agreements?
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 …
18-643 Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ…
18-645 Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Dismissed Response Waived 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) requir…
18-6715 Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
18-6738 Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing Whether Petitioner was entitled to a de novo resentencing hearing relative to his challenges to the restitution order following remand from the Sixth …
18-6719 Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice Did the Third Circuit err in rendering petitioner's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and 'THE END OF THE MATTER,' without the Pennsylvania…
18-626 Glen St. Andrew Living Community, LLC, et al. v. Marsha Wetzel Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Dismissed circuit-split discriminatory-intent duty-to-intervene fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability housing-providers hud-regulation statutory-interpretation tenant-harassment tenant-on-tenant-harassment third-party-liability Whether discriminatory intent is required under the Fair Housing Act Sections 3604(b) and 3617
18-6693 Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sentencing
18-615 Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design-trade-dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)?
18-6662 Eddie Lee Shular v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony Whether the determination of a serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determinat…
18-6675 In Re Ryan Lee Zater 2018-11-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in other circuits under divergent gatekeeping protocol…
18-610 TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether a party who has not agreed to be a consignee can nevertheless be liable for demurrage charges as a matter of law
18-6618 Jessie Jesus Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-burden constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-case evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-proof recorded-phone-call Are statements made during a recorded phone call, standing alone, sufficient to sustain the Government's constitutional burden of proof in a drug case…
18-601 John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Amici (3) agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand Whether an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicates a 'matter within' the agency's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C…
18-6600 Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness?
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs Whether the district court erred in denying plaintiff's claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs, its directors, the hospital staff, the stat…
18-6608 William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) correct?
18-6573 Malik Farrad v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment authentication circuit-split corpus-delicti due-process facebook hearsay police-action social-media Is the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' lower standard of authentication for social media postings in conflict with other circuits, violating due proce…
18-6588 Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe…
18-6591 Leslie Chin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i…
18-6569 Mark Lee Murray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)
18-6557 Casey O'Dell v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure plea-bargaining plea-colloquy structural-error united-states-v-gonzalez-lopez Whether the Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N) rule was violated by the inadequacy of the change of plea colloquy?
18-6547 Christopher Brooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act
18-572 Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation Fifth Circuit 2018-11-01 Dismissed abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver?
18-563 Darren Commander v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations that at best are mere negligence in conflict with th…
18-565 CITGO Asphalt Refining Company, et al. v. Frescati Shipping Company, Ltd., et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) circuit-split due-diligence guarantee guarantee-of-safety maritime-law safe-berth safe-berth-clause ship-safety voyage-charter Whether under federal maritime law a safe berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship's safety, as the Third Circuit below and …
18-560 Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien Whether a lien is a 'statutory lien' under the Bankruptcy Code
18-6495 Richard Anthony Trent v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is 'suggestive' and …
18-6511 In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy Whether the court should expand the framework in United States v. Hahn on appeal waivers
18-6467 Tyrone Pulley v. California California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP appellate-counsel circuit-split habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does the rule established in Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler apply to procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claims…
18-6481 Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary Does the sentencing court violate the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) when it delegates its restitution payments to the BOP?
18-6459 Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether a sentencing judge must provide some express treatment to a defendant's non-frivolous arguments
18-6461 Gerren K. Love v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio…
18-6415 Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory…
18-6404 Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi…
18-6427 Jesus Valle v. Rusty Rogers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied IFP administrative-segregation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process prisoner-assault prisoner-rights standing state-created-danger Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying relief represents a split in the Circuit Courts
18-540 Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit 2018-10-24 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (2) circuit-split drug-reimbursement eighth-circuit erisa-preemption health-care-law pbm-regulation pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation state-regulation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that Arkansas's statute regulating PBMs' drug-reimbursement rates, which is similar to laws enacted by a s…
18-533 Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the 'higher management' standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley…
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings Whether, and to what extent, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint and view the government's rational basis as a rebuttal presumption…
18-6398 Deon Pittman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute Whether the specific type of controlled substance is an element of the offense or one of many means to commit the offense under a state statute that p…
18-6399 Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy Whether the officer conducted a valid inventory search of a closed container without a written policy governing such searches
18-525 Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis Fifth Circuit 2018-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (7) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit
18-486 Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation Whether the Exchange Act applies without exception whenever a claim is based on a domestic transaction, or whether in certain circumstances the Exchan…
18-491 Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-10-17 Denied appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu…
18-6363 Calvin Bernhardt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering Should this Court now define corruptly persuade' and settle the matter for itself and the circuits?
18-6366 John A. Barbosa v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo carachuri-rosendo-v-holder charging-decision charging-document circuit-split judgment maximum-sentence plea-colloquy prosecutorial-discretion record-of-conviction rodriguez-precedent serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense Whether a prior Massachusetts state drug offense that carried a maximum term of imprisonment of two and a half years as charged can constitute a serio…
18-6369 Lashon Browning v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-17 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
18-6328 Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states Whether a defendant in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding may prove that his enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause of the…
18-6346 Mark A. Dubarry v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under the 'force clause' of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
18-482 Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC Eighth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. regarding the Fair Debt Collection Practic…
18-481 Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, dba Argus Leader Eighth Circuit 2018-10-15 Judgment Issued Amici (20) circuit-split commercial-information commercial-or-financial-information competitive-harm confidential-information financial-information foia-exemption foia-exemption-4 freedom-of-information-act-foia statutory-interpretation Does the statutory term 'confidential' in FOIA Exemption 4 bear its ordinary meaning, regardless of substantial competitive harm?
18-6292 Anthony Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for …
18-6319 William Shane Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)
18-6303 Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine?
18-467 Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent Whether collectively-bargained retiree healthcare benefits may be implied and do not require unequivocal contract language
18-459 Emulex Corporation, et al. v. Gary Varjabedian, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11) circuit-split misstatement-omission negligent-misstatement ninth-circuit private-right-of-action section-14(e) securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law tender-offer Whether Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 supports an inferred private right of action based on a negligent misstatement or omissio…
18-6266 Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
18-6267 Denise Robertson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure document-disclosure evidence-review in-camera-review jencks-act palermo-v-united-states reasonable-particularity threshold-showing united-states-v-palermo Whether a defendant must make a threshold showing with reasonable particularity that identified documents constitute 'statements' under the Jencks Act…
18-6271 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
18-6281 Terry E. Callins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness Whether Mr. Callins filed his § 2255 motion within one year of the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court
18-6232 Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?
18-6237 Jacob L. Smith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t…
18-436 Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, dba Liberty International Underwriters, et al. v. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Amici (2) admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split contract-services doiron-factors kirby-test maritime-commerce maritime-contract navigable-waters offshore-oil-and-gas offshore-oil-gas vessel-involvement Is a contract to provide services to oil wells located on fixed platforms in navigable waters within a State a maritime' contract when a vessel played…
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents 'compelling' new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-423 Christopher Barrella v. Village of Freeport, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure golden-rule-argument jury-instructions liability liability-determination new-trial standing Whether a lawyer's invitation to the jury to imagine themselves in the shoes of an interested party in determining either liability or damages is impr…
18-429 Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act Is there a bright-line rule that the pattern of racketeering activity must extend beyond twelve months to satisfy continuity' under RICO?
18-6208 Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants does not a…
18-6173 Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine…
18-6177 Tony Lipscomb v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-02 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illinois-robbery stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
18-6184 Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation Whether the word concurrently' in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing sen…
18-6146 Charles Neuman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause
18-6133 Bernardo Olivares-Cepeda v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-notice notice service-of-process supervisory-power Whether failure to serve a denial of a 2255 motion violates due process and invalidates the judgment
18-6119 Gary Long, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner?
18-6120 Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Whether the age of a prior sex offense conviction is a factor the court must consider when determining whether to impose sex offender treatment as a c…
18-6117 Josette Buendia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney Whether the Sixth Circuit departed from this Court's decision in Arthur Anderson and conflicted with the Second Circuit's decision in Rooney when it h…
18-389 Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui…
18-6097 Leonard G. Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is burglary' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i1) in a way that contravenes this Court…
18-377 Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees Whether states are barred by the First Amendment from imposing PAC-status and resulting entity-based burdens on groups lacking Buckley's 'major purpos…
18-373 Floyd Rose v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with…
18-374 Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act is eligible for relief from a mandatory minimum sentence und…
18-6067 Edward Lee Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the plainly unreasonable' standard or the …
18-6069 Joel Cadena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States
18-370 Marlon Haight v. United States District of Columbia 2018-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)
18-349 Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Whether an accommodation that merely lessens or has the potential to eliminate the conflict between work and religious practice is 'reasonable' per se…
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…
18-5987 Ajohntae Hammond v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search Whether a police officer's fear for safety justified a warrantless search
18-5995 Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision in Arevalo v. Hennessy, 882 F.3d 763 (9th Cir. 2018), which held that the Younger abstention doctrine does not ap…
18-5967 Matthew Wade Howard v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's …
18-328 Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations Whether the 'discovery rule' applies to toll the one-year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et s…
18-329 Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest Whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dismiss
18-319 E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al. v. Refugio Arreguin California 2018-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability circuit-court-split circuit-split class-arbitration federal-arbitration-act gateway-question gateway-question-of-arbitrability oxford-health-plans oxford-health-plans-v-sutter stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds supreme-court-precedent Whether a court, or an arbitrator, decides whether an arbitration agreement permits class arbitration
18-320 CEH Energy, LLC, et al. v. Kean Miller, LLP, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived appeal appeals appellate-deadline circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure motion-to-alter new-grounds rule-59(e) rule-59e successive-motions tolling tolling-provision Should the Supreme Court reverse this outlier Fifth Circuit case and provide clear guidance to practitioners on when successive Rule 59(e) motions are…
18-323 Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor requi…
18-5945 David Chiddo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP appeal-from-magistrate circuit-split district-court-order federal-magistrates-act felony-guilty-plea felony-plea judicial-procedure magistrate-authority plea-agreement plea-agreement-stipulation statutory-authority statutory-interpretation stipulated-facts Does a federal magistrate have authority to accept a felony guilty plea?
18-5913 Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline entitled to a presumption of reasonableness?
18-292 Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by binding but erroneous circuit precede…
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law
18-5890 Mark D. Whitfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe…
18-5884 Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor Whether the 'Mathis peek' used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment
18-5898 Armando Castillo Valerio v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review booker circuit-split criminal-sentencing downward-departure gall judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure is reviewable and the appropriate standard to apply for such review
18-5899 Rashod Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment probation self-incrimination Whether a probationer can be ordered to truthfully answer questions posed by his probation officer without a caveat that he still has the right to inv…
18-5876 Steven Sanford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson
18-272 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights compensation due-process employment employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination prior-salary sex-discrimination wage-differential Whether prior salary is a factor other than sex' under the Equal Pay Act
18-5747 Javier Amador-Flores v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on 's…
18-5840 George Stoney v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Under the categorical approach, does a Hobbs Act conviction qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
18-5838 Hosea Swopes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (4)IFP categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony Whether a state robbery offense that includes 'as an element' the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by …
18-5847 Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras?
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
18-5771 Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether a United States Magistrate Judge has statutory authority to accept a guilty plea in a felony case and adjudge a defendant guilty
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?
18-244 Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act Whether the rescission is effectuated upon mailing of notice where no challenge was raised within 20 days of receipt of said notice?
18-5773 Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-access
18-5775 William Christopher Hogan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic…
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed, sentencing re…
18-5781 Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing Does the First Amendment prohibit the government from requiring individuals to engage in speech that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs?
18-5782 Michael Lynn Cook v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-remedies procedural-timeliness state-misconduct state-waiver statute-of-limitations Does the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision conflict with a decision of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals?
18-5725 Alfred Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure Whether the Second Circuit correctly held that it is permissible to upwardly depart for the severity of the underlying offense when a defendant has al…
18-5727 Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell Whether Maples v. Thomas requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context
18-225 Zappos.com, Inc. v. Theresa Stevens, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights concrete-injury cybersecurity data-breach due-process future-injury judicial-standing personal-information privacy standing Whether individuals whose personal information is held in a database breached by hackers have Article III standing simply by virtue of the breach even…
18-229 Ralph Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion Whether a sentencing court may grant a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate a sentence based on the Supreme Court's invalidation of the Armed …
18-232 W. A. Griffin v. Teamcare, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied assignment assignment-of-rights benefit-assignment circuit-split erisa medical-provider medical-providers participant-rights statutory-penalties welfare-benefit-plan welfare-benefits written-assignment-of-benefits Whether ERISA authorizes assignment of statutory penalties
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…
18-5682 Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion?
18-5655 Cory D. Foster v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a 'crime of violence' supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied 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…
18-5636 Edgar Searcy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for a civil action arising under an Act of Congress' applies to civil commitment proc…
18-5622 Susan Elizabeth Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 breach-of-fiduciary-duty,sec-securities-exchange-c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability,circuit-split,jurisdi circuit-split de-novo-review denovo,circuit-split,uniformity,lawrence-v-dept-of fiduciary-duty hohn-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,circuit-split,un jurisdiction Should a Certificate of Appealability be granted to resolve a circuit split regarding Jurisdiction established by 28 U.S.C.§ 1291 and 28 U.S.C. § 2253…
18-5594 Cory Devon Washington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th…
18-5606 Hagop Demirjian v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Whether there is a statutory preclusion for successive §3582 motions
18-5562 Albert Norman Pierre, Sr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial innocence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-knowledge prosecutorial-misconduct recantation victim-recantation Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to victim's false testimony and post-trial recantation
18-5552 Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has entered a decision that is in conflict with its own precedent and the decision…
18-5569 Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar Whether the classification made by the Fifth Circuit Court in Colley v. Sattizahn, 130 F.3d 496 (5th Cir. 1997) constitutes a violation of clearly est…
18-185 Connecticut v. Michael Skakel Connecticut 2018-08-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation overall-performance performance-evaluation single-error sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court must evaluate counsel's overall performance in determining whether a single error is sufficiently egregious to render counsel's repres…
18-188 Ivy T. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted amounts to constitutionally deficient ass…
18-5549 Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition Does Section 2255(f)(3) toll the filing period for a defendant asserting that Johnson applies in a similar situation?
18-178 SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity Whether the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporated business trust determines federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)…
18-5504 William Lem Posey, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States
18-5516 Isaiah Galbreath v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline, which was crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or emp…
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-169 Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-rights circuit-split civil-procedure class-action class-certification intervention microsoft-corp-v-baker precedent standing united-airlines united-airlines-inc-v-mcdonald Whether an unnamed putative class member may intervene to appeal the denial of class certification after the named plaintiff's individual claims are d…
18-5483 Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other listed Circuits sufficient given it denies defendant's in all the other Ci…
18-5487 Angel Soto v. Unknown Sweetman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP accrual-of-claims administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights claim-accrual judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations When does a claim accrue under the Prison Litigation Reform Act's mandatory exhaustion requirement?
18-5460 David Hill v. Brent Reinke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP administrative-control-of-facilities baxstrom-v-herold circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process inmate-transfer mental-health mental-health-facility mental-health-facility-transfers prison prison-administration temporary temporary-transfers transfer vitek-v-jones Due-process-rights-of-inmates
18-5426 Gabriel Rivero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with …
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing Whether a severe physical condition that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is considered a disability under the law, in conflict with othe…
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
18-5422 Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness with respect to defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines
18-5424 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur…
18-132 Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation Whether the court should hold that liability under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act attaches independent of the defendant's motiva…
18-138 Brian Huffman v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied administrative-law agency-procedure agency-regulations circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process harmless-error remand right-to-counsel Whether a court must remand a matter for a new board hearing when an administrative board's failure to follow its own regulations implicates a petitio…
18-5391 Daniel Sexton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does this Court's reasoning in Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what a defendant…
18-5393 Shane McMahan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-…
18-122 Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing Whether candidacy for political office, standing alone, is a protected right under the First Amendment
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's interpretation of a Kansas traffic statute governing the failu…
18-5314 Shannon Dale Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) criminalize the defendant's subjective intent or the firearm's objective potential?
18-106 John R. Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure dual-sovereignty formal-charges plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pre-charge pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches during pre-charge plea negotiations
18-107 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Judgment Issued Amici (33)Relisted (14) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender Whether the word 'sex' in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination 'because of . . . sex,' 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant 'gender identity' and inclu…
18-5312 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing toll AEDPA's limitation period under 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2)?
18-5313 Joseph Steele v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erroneously determined that the statutory definition of a 'violent felony' under the 'elements cla…
18-5321 Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence
18-5286 Odere Suleitopa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony Whether Rule 701's personal knowledge' requirement permits law enforcement officers to offer lay opinion testimony regarding an investigation when the…
18-5269 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-89 AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation Whether state anti-SLAPP fee-shifting provisions apply in federal court
18-5232 Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony Whether a state robbery offense that requires only force sufficient to overcome victim resistance categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under …
18-5251 Sarjo Dambelly v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness Whether, in light of Global-Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal ca…
18-83 Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice Whether a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, or accepts the removal notice's allegations as true and resolves all doubt…
18-72 DRK Photo v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response Waived 17-usc-501b beneficial-ownership circuit-split copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-ownership-transfer infringement-claims standing statutory-construction statutory-standing Whether an unequivocal transfer of copyright ownership, together with accrued claims, is effective to give the transferee the statutory right to sue a…
18-5182 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied …
18-5190 Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights deportation discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law removal-proceedings right-to-counsel Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—that a non-citizen has no constitutional right to be informed of the …
18-5191 Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) can consider the current understanding of the nat…
18-5168 Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court resolve the conflict among the circuits concerning whether the remand rule should be interpreted restrictively, as held by three cir…
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Inmate-trust-fund-management
18-40 Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Charles Smith, Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-grants federally-qualified-health-centers fqhc health-centers managed-care managed-care-network medicaid-reimbursement public-health-service public-health-service-act statutory-interpretation Whether 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(bb)(1)-(5) impose an independent duty on States to fully reimburse FQHCs for all services they provide to Medicaid benefici…
18-5164 George Adrien Brooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation Whether the required intent for attempted inducement under § 2422(b) is the intent to cause a minor to engage in sexual activity (as the Eleventh Circ…
18-33 Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine
18-5134 Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to find a violation of the petitioner's due process rights when the district court denied…
18-5036 Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether attempted illegal reentry is a specific-intent crime or a general-intent crime
18-5061 Travis Horne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 1385 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and …
18-5003 Rolando Mulet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-protection criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-questioning miranda miranda-rights pre-arrest pre-arrest-silence pre-miranda self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence from being used as evidence at trial
23A1158 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit Presumed Complete canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent Whether a district court judge's recusal order violates constitutional due process standards and binding judicial ethics guidelines