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25-561 Dominic L. Ruiz v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-07 Denied Response Waived common-law evidence-rule federal-appeals-courts intoxication temporal-requirement witness-credibility In 2014, this Court expanded Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 801(d)(1)(B) to allow the admission of prior consistent statements when a witness's credib…
25-5460 Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony In Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), this Court recognized the common law right to stand on…
24-1238 Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-04 Granted Amici (19)Relisted (2) common-law motor-carrier negligent-selection preemption safety-exception transportation-law Does § 14501(c) preempt a state common-law claim against a broker for negligently selecting a motor carrier or driver?
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-7032 Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when…
24-407 Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court Virginia 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of…
24-100 Doug Dyson v. Tiffany Deakins, Whitley County Auditor, et al. Indiana 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure common-law constitutional-rights due-process enabling-act fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding property-ownership property-rights takings tax-identification Whether the trial court violated the organic law and constitutional provisions to supplant its orders superseding my rights to a judicial proceeding a…
23-7589 Yuri I. Lee, aka Yuri Imuta v. U.S. Bank National Association, Successor Trustee to Bank of America, National Association, Successor in Interest to Lasalle Bank National Association California 2024-05-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure common-law constitutional-rights due-process equity-value jury-trial scheiding-v-dinwiddie summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury must be preserved in suits at common law where the equity value in controversy exceeds twenty d…
23-7095 Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio…
23-6991 Spencer P. Peace v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sixth-amendment speedy-trial Should this Court overturn Barker v. Wingo?
23-798 EEE Minerals, LLC, et al. v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit just-compensation property-taking sovereign-immunity takings Whether sovereign immunity bars a claim asserting the constitutional right to just compensation for a taking of property by a state?
23-283 Tri-City ValleyCats, Inc., et al. v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball Second Circuit 2023-09-22 Dismissed Amici (8) antitrust antitrust-immunity baseball baseball-exemption common-law flood-v-kuhn market-competition professional-sports sherman-act stare-decisis Whether this Court should overrule Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), and its predecessors and revoke the century-old, common-law antitrust immunity …
23-5447 Antonio Chimney v. Texas Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence common-law constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence great-writ habeas-corpus laches writ-of-right May Laches be used to deny an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus that is based on Actual and Factual Innocence?
23-65 Alfredo J. Molina, et al. v. BMO Harris Bank, et al. Arizona 2023-07-24 Denied arizona-judicial-system common-law common-law-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract property-rights ratification-doctrine Were Petitioners deprived of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-7902 Saul Navarrete De La Cerda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-1039 In Re Gary Pfeffer, Jr. Maryland 2023-04-25 Denied common-law constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-state-a-claim injunctive-relief judicial-review notice-and-opportunity pro-se-litigation redress-of-grievances Was the trial court's dismissal of the Appellant's Petition for Emergency Injunctive Relief lawful?
22-7208 Sherry Rock v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-04-04 Denied IFP brady-disclosure common-law common-law-access first-amendment judicial-records police-reports public-access public-access-to-judicial-records sealing-order standing standing-to-challenge-sealing-orders Whether petitioner lacks standing to bring First Amendment challenge to sealed police reports
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-…
22-7012 Lionel Jericho McCoy v. California California 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document common-law common-law-pleading criminal-charging due-process first-degree-murder notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the 1883 rule set forth in People v Soto, 63 Cal. 166 -that facts which expose a defendant to substantially enhanced punishment need not be pled …
22-771 Renè Joseph Foley Bey, et ux. v. Steve Prator, Sheriff, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitution damages due-process jury-trial legal-rights Does the Constitution guarantee the right to a jury trial in suits at common law exceeding $20?
22-632 Anthony Haworth v. City of Walla Walla, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity brady-violation civil-rights civil-rights-act common-law ku-klux-klan-act prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether this Court should overrule a halfcentury of precedent that has inaccurately interpreted the intent and purpose of Section 1983 by affirming im…
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?
22-113 Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas Texas 2022-08-04 Denied Response Waived common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law
21-1314 United States, ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3729 common-law false-claims-act fraud-prevention government-claims materiality motion-to-dismiss qui-tam statutory-interpretation Is materiality an element of all claims brought under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A)
21-1256 Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1) american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t…
21-7237 John Dalen v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP common-law constitutional-rights driver-license driver's-license due-process first-amendment right-to-travel social-security Was Petitioner denied right-to-travel,due-process,first-amendment
21-6586 Mark James Martinez v. California California 2021-12-13 Denied IFP california-law civil-rights common-law constitutional-right deadly-force due-process fundamental-right governmental-interest heightened-scrutiny imminent-harm self-defense Whether California's rule that self-defense is not available when a person does not act out of fear alone impermissibly infringes on the right to self…
21-805 Douglas Norberg v. Nevada Center for Dermatology, et al. Nevada 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights common-law court-rules due-process judicial-precedent precedent stare-decisis unpublished-opinions Is Nevada Supreme Court Rule 36 allowing appellate decisions to be unpublished and unable to the cited as precedent a violation of the rule of stare d…
21-802 Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., dba D. James Kennedy Ministries v. Southern Poverty Law Center Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) actual-malice common-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech public-figure reputational-harm sullivan Whether the Court should reconsider the 'actual-malice' standard in defamation cases involving public figures
20-1337 APC Investment Co., et al. v. Howmet Aerospace Inc., fka Arconic, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cercla civil-procedure common-law contribution contribution-claim environmental-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation superfund Is the statutory claim for contribution in section 113 of CERCLA, including the statute of limitations found in section 1138(g)(3), governed exclusive…
20-7304 Robert Phillip Ivers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)IFP attorney-client-privilege chilling-effect common-law communication-scope confidential-communication eighth-circuit evidentiary-privilege federal-common-law legal-advice legal-profession privileged-communication Whether a confidential attorney-client phone call made for the primary purpose of obtaining legal advice is protected in its entirety by the attorney-…
20-7090 Michael David Omondi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP authorized-entry civil-rights common-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute jurisdictional-boundary military-installation section-1382 trespass Does Section 1382 codify the common law of trespass, such that Petitioner could be convicted for unlawfully entering a military installation when he c…
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)
20-876 Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Should the qualified-immunity doctrine be abolished?
20-5798 Jose Velasquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony Does the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which ignores the common law requirements of constructive-force robbery, conflict with the Court's adoption of the …
20-352 The Paine College v. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied accreditation administrative-procedure common-law common-law-due-process conflict-of-interest decision-making-body due-process federal-law higher-education procedural-rights quorum Whether a college's right of common law due process is violated in its accreditation removal proceeding when one-half of the members of the decision-m…
20-265 Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Texas 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit common law courts from eliminating property ownership by changing or disregarding their common la…
20-5535 Randy Platt v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission Whether robbery convictions for purposes of the career offender provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines should be limited to only those t…
19-8876 Solomon Jalloh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with…
19-1412 Mark Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Amici (2) common-law common-law-interpretation contract criminal-statute criminal-statutes false-promises federal-criminal-statutes fraud integration-clause mail-fraud right-to-control wire-fraud Can an oral promise excluded from a fully-integrated written contract, which is unenforceable under the common law, be a 'false or fraudulent...promis…
19-1364 Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the decision that Petitioners' claim is barred by Tennessee Code Annotated § 50-6-108(a) and the common l…
19-1321 In Re Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. 2020-05-29 Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process false-claims incarcerated-prisoner incarceration ninth-amendment standing tucker-act Does the respondent's creation of a court technicality that reiterated a false claim, incarcerated the prisoner, and originated from a U.S. Court of F…
19-8522 Richard Felton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-05-22 Denied IFP common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's request to amend records and assert rights under the Seventh and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7728 Wayne English v. Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP chose-in-action civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights claims-transfer common-law contract corporate-securities damages mitigation mitigation-doctrine party-standing securities standing Whether creditors and debtors, plaintiffs and defendants, and parties in interest are allowed, required, or exempt from instituting the mitigation doc…
19-7200 Barry Wayne Adams v. Calhoun County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights common-law de-facto-government due-process judicial-review martial-rule peonage pro-se procedural-fairness service-of-process standing Whether the lower courts properly addressed the petitioner's common law claims, viewed the claims in the light most favorable to the petitioner, and f…
19-7062 Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr…
19-771 Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified-immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement at …
19-699 Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discretionar…
19-620 Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa…
19-402 Howard L. Baldwin, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-deference brand-x-doctrine common-law common-law-mailbox-rule stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tax tax-refund Should Brand X be overruled?
19-62 Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement Whether Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter, based on words alone, violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
18-1427 Marie Laventure, et al. v. United Nations, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-procedure common-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure immunity jurisdiction legislative-enactment liability tort tort-action tort-claims un-general-assembly un-immunity un-liability un-secretary-general Whether the term 'liability' can be used in an unenforceable, non-obligatory context
18-1367 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Mark A. Sumner Virginia 2019-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof but-for-causation but-for-cause causation civil-procedure common-law employee-injury federal-employers-liability-act federal-employers-liability-act-fela fela negligence proximate-cause railroad-liability Whether FELA permits liability when the plaintiff cannot meet the common-law standard of proof for but-for causation
18-1299 Marie Gillispie v. Regionalcare Hospital Partners, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-retaliation at-will-employment circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-ruling civil-rights common-law due-process employment-law emtala emtala-statute free-speech medical-malpractice preemption public-policy-exception retaliation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent whistleblower whistleblower-protection Does the precedential ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals directly contradict Supreme Court precedent and the intent of Congress regarding the …
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)
18-928 Midwest Machining, Inc. v. Jena McClellan Sixth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination equal-pay-act federal-common-law state-law tender-back-rule title-vii Whether the common-law tender-back rule applies to Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims
18-913 Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (9) civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when…
18-737 Gregory Aime, et al. v. JTH Tax, Inc., dba Liberty Tax Service, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived certification common-law contract-formation diversity-jurisdiction federal-appellate-procedure federal-court lehman-bros-precedent lehman-bros-v-schein state-law state-law-certification virginia-common-law Whether a federal court should certify an issue of state law to the highest state court
18-685 Lynn Robinson, et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response Waived adhesion-contract adhesion-contracts airline-deregulation-act common-law common-law-contract consumer-rights contract-interpretation contract-law forfeiture statutory-interpretation unconscionability Whether a court may use and apply a State's common-law contract laws, rules and principles to interpret and construe an airline's adhesion contract wi…
18-6414 Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation Whether the second-degree felony murder rule is based on statute
18-6257 Edward Dean McCranie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender …
18-5741 George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying …
18-5579 In Re Brent Cole 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law common-law-right constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment justice petition-clause right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Is a court's refusal to allow an accused person any opportunity to be heard by themself and counsel a substantive violation of due-process, common-law…
18-91 Antoinette Pizzino v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response Waived actual-notice common-law constructive-notice cruise-line cruise-lines dangerous-condition maritime-law maritime-negligence negligence negligence-standard notice notice-requirement premises-liability Whether a plaintiff in a maritime negligence case should be required to show defendant's actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition when…