| 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… |