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25-961 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale Does a federal district court lack jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine where a state-court loser of a challenge of a tax sale of the loser'…
25-6771 Kionnataya Shevil Reed v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment Does the lifetime criminalization of any convicted felon's possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment?
25-6761 Kennan Alexis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation non-violent-drug-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to individuals who, like Petitioner, only have felony convic…
25A896 Homewood Associates Inc., et al. v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Georgia 2026-02-06 Application constitutional-challenge land-use-restriction municipal-ordinance property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause Whether a municipal ordinance imposing land-use restrictions constitutes a regulatory taking under the Takings Clause in light of the Supreme Court's …
25-935 United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with certain criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment as applied to de…
25-6750 Shawn Thomas Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-ban fourth-circuit Whether the Fourth Circuit applied the correct legal standard in rejecting Petitioner's as-applied challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and correctly co…
25-6732 Daniel Delgado v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP as-applied-challenge bruen-standard constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment Whether Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime firearm prohibition for individuals convicted of crimes punishable by imprisonment exceeding one year violates th…
25-6729 Antwaun O. Heaggeans v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-6721 Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-defect Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues based on an affidavit lacking objective facts, and…
25-6698 Dalando T. Garner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-6677 John Wayne Morgan, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-881 Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham California 2026-01-23 Pending constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant Whether States' Vexatious-Litigant Laws, specifically California's Vexatious-Litigant Law, are unconstitutional facial and as-applied challenges to fu…
25-6652 Jarmarl Thornton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-6648 Nathan Bermea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with prior non-violent criminal convictions
25-872 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly upheld Fairfax County's public park firearm ban based on the presence of four preschool programs across 420 parks
25-6606 Robert Paul Rosell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-6523 Dennis Martin v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) for firearm possession by a convicted felon is unconstitutional in light of the Bruen decision
25-6460 Brad O'Neal Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner
25-752 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant and uphold a…
25-6433 Avis Coward v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit's determination of 18 U.S.C. §922(g) constitutionality violates the Second Amendment and whether a two-level role enhancemen…
25-6435 Lenny Reyes v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-6428 Joshua A. Sottile v. City of Portland, Oregon Oregon 2025-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-regulation heller-precedent public-carry second-amendment Whether a law that criminalizes carrying a loaded firearm in public, subject to exceptions raised only as affirmative defenses, violates the Second Am…
25-6427 Devin Joe Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25A731 Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-22 Application 922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release Whether a conviction for a § 922(g)(1) offense that bars firearm possession for individuals with prior criminal records violates the Second Amendment …
25-735 Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (2) congressional-acts constitutional-challenge district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of jurisdiction to hear challenges to the constitutionality of acts of Congress affecting …
25-734 Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky, New York State Board of Elections Co-Executive Director and Chief Election Official New York 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived constitutional-challenge judicial-review mootness natural-born-citizen presidential-eligibility supreme-court-doctrine Whether the New York Court of Appeals improperly found a constitutional challenge to a presidential candidate's eligibility 'moot' by ignoring the 'ca…
25-6403 Miguel Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felony-possession gun-rights permanent-disarmament second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as a permanent disarmament of citizens with prior felony convictions under the Second Amendment
25-6401 Frankie Centeno v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure felony-conviction gun-rights second-amendment supervised-release Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-6393 Cortez D. Porter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-6382 Frank A. Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment federal-review lethal-injection method-of-execution undue-delay Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying review of a death row inmate's method-of-execution challenge based solely on undue delay, despite newly …
25-6375 Eddie White, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment
25-6371 Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment
25-6368 Luis Garza-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession plain-error-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s permanent disarmament of felons violate the Second Amendment?
25-6313 Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge 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…
25-6311 Christopher Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for possessing ammunition by a convicted felon is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court's Bruen decision
25-6281 Andre Michael Dubois v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional as applied to Mr. Dubois, because it …
25-6285 Rudy Altamirano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Pending IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25A642 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit Whether a state's lifetime sex offender registration requirement constitutes an unconstitutional ex post facto punishment or a permissible regulatory …
25A615 Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-25 Application constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power non-severability presentment-clause separation-of-powers vaccine-act Whether the Vaccine Act's delegation of power to the Secretary of Health and Human Services violates the separation of powers and presentment clause o…
25-6217 Christopher Wuchter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending IFP constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t…
25A607 Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-21 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to criminal defendants' rights
25-6189 Javonte Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-6161 James Capers v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-standard apprendi-rule constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement Whether a jury must find both conspiracy amount and personal responsibility amount under 21 U.S.C. §846 to comply with Apprendi and Alleyne, and wheth…
25-6153 Marco Antonio Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially or as applied to individuals with non-violent prior convictions?
25A561 Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al. v. Lauren Sanchez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application california-law commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-challenge emissions-reporting first-amendment Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state from compelling businesses to disclose climate-related emissions and financial risks through mandatory r…
25-6129 Paul Williams, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearms-rights gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment by permanently disarming a person in their home based on a prior felony conviction
25-6108 Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment and Congress's Commerce Clause authority as applied to firearm possession b…
25-6098 Elston Bone v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-challenge intermediate-scrutiny new-york-rifle-bruen state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Federal District Court have subject matter jurisdiction over a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action challenging a state court conviction's constitut…
25-6105 Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State…
25-6106 Rico Gonzalez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-6107 Davon Amos Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-6079 James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-10 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines Is the lifetime ban on firearms possession by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent and…
25-6077 In Re Brian William Schumaker 2025-11-10 Dismissed IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution district-court federal-jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-discretion Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute and convict the petitioner in light of newly discovered evidence from the Georgia Secretary of S…
25-6064 Marcus Gerrod Stokes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25A519 Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-05 Application constitutional-challenge drug-pricing fifth-amendment first-amendment inflation-reduction-act medicare-drug-negotiation Whether the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 violates the Fifth and First Amendments
25-6026 Martino Antwion Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-541 Benjamin Schoenthal, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived citizens-rights constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation fourteenth-amendment public-transportation second-amendment Whether Illinois' flat ban on ordinary citizens carrying firearms on public transportation violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments
25-6027 Deondre Lamont Bain v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25A504 Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-03 Application constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense Whether a local government's categorical ban on firearm possession in public parks violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense
25A502 Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-03 Application bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity veterans-benefits Whether the Veterans' Judicial Review Act precludes federal district courts from hearing constitutional challenges to federal statutes governing veter…
25-5976 Henry Leon Marrow, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5952 Theo M. Owens v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5944 Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
25-5931 Caleb Campbell v. Officer Terry Pruitt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process procedural-grounds state-court Whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated when a state court denied his constitutional challenge to a criminal conviction based on proce…
25-5920 Donald Otis Williams v. Florida Florida 2025-10-21 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge death-penalty first-degree-murder legislative-expansion proportionality-review Whether the Florida Legislature's expansion of 'aggravating factors' and the Florida Supreme Court's elimination of proportionality review has rendere…
25-5925 Tracy Jenkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v…
25-5916 Luis Espinal v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-469 Heriberto Carbajal-Flores v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response Waived bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge firearm-possession noncitizen-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawfully present noncitizens, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment…
25-451 Faytima Howard v. Macomb County, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-10-15 Rehearing Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge just-compensation property-rights state-procedure takings-clause tax-foreclosure Does the government violate the Takings Clause's 'categorical duty' to pay just compensation for property taken in excess of taxes by enacting a proce…
25-5867 James Bradley Vlha v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-regulation gun-rights manufacturing-license second-amendment Whether the statute prohibiting manufacturing and dealing in firearms without a license, 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A), is constitutional pursuant to the S…
25-5849 Darvin W. Gray v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner can challenge a state's obstruction of justice conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1503 through federal habeas review when state courts …
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 …
25-5825 Laterrence Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5772 Rudy Mario Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25-5770 Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-01 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional as applied to Petitioner because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution …
25-5755 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Dismissed IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-access judicial-proceedings venue-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals departed from accepted judicial proceedings and rendered an unconstitutional order in a civil case invol…
25-5748 She Ler Yer Lee v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession precedential-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Lee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso…
25-5747 Sidney Donnell Kimble v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with nonviolent criminal convictions
25-356 Steven P. Mancuso v. New York New York 2025-09-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense Whether New York's firearm possession laws prohibiting ownership for persons with prior non-violent criminal convictions are facially unconstitutional…
25-5717 Raul Acosta v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-5722 Isaiah Kahlil Wise v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge felon-disarmament firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment Whether courts should analyze as-applied Second Amendment challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) by examining historical tradition for permanently disarm…
25A339 Devin W. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-martial general-verdict military-justice sexual-misconduct Whether a military court's general verdict of guilt in a sexual misconduct case can be challenged based on recent legal changes affecting the soundnes…
25-5695 Frank Deonta Leopaul v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5697 Desmond Copeland v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-325 Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland Maryland 2025-09-18 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2) violate the Second Amendment on its face and as applied, in light of recent Supreme Court pre…
25-5672 Basaaly Saeed Moalin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records constitutional-challenge ex-parte-review fourth-amendment metadata-collection surveillance-act Whether a United States Court of Appeals may avoid ruling on a constitutional challenge to a statute implicating Fourth Amendment concerns if it deter…
25-5678 Thomas Jarrell Shoffner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law district-court-procedure firearms-regulation motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation Whether the District Court Erred in Denying Appellant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment on the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1)
25-5667 Antonio Deante Town v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5668 Matthew Chambliss Coleman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5637 Jeffrey Michel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-test constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permanently prohibiting individuals with felony convictions from possessing firearms is unconstitutional under the Second Am…
25-5655 Walter Lavelle Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5657 Pierre Demetrius Redd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5658 Devontae Lamont Royal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5634 Shawn M. Robertson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5624 Nathaniel J. Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
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 …
25-5627 Lennie Edward Coles, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5614 Franklin Jerome Coleman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-275 Clifford James Frost, Jr. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution election-law pre-emption younger-abstention Does the 'bad faith' exception to Younger pre-emption require the plaintiff to show that he or she has been subject to multiple criminal prosecutions …
25-5597 Joseph Carroll Bush, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5599 Raymond Lamont Seward v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5601 John Edward Mason, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5603 Germaine Edward Campbell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-252 Jalina Fluellen v. David Krasn, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied administrative-procedure-act article-iii-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure rule-5.1 Whether the District Court violated Rule 5.1 and due process by dismissing a constitutional challenge without notifying the state attorney general or …
25-5550 Jermaine Nelson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge due-process felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g…
25-5554 Marcus J. Ross v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5535 Jason Daniel Carbajal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially or as applied to individuals with non-violent prior convictions?
25-5518 Dejuan Dion Bruner v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge domestic-violence firearm-possession misdemeanor permanent-disarmament second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which imposes a lifetime prohibition on firearm possession by anyone convicted of a domestic-violence misdemeanor, is c…
25-5519 Demario D. Henderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5503 Bobby Nathaniel Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5477 Cornell Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce…
25-5482 Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is invariably constitutional both facially and as applied to any defendant, no matter the case-specific circumstances
25-5467 Patrick Lee Adams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment
25-5471 Jakari Alexander Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-219 Jay Warren Arnold v. Texas Texas 2025-08-22 Denied constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure §11.07(4)(a)-(c) unconstitutional as applied to the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and did the…
25-5433 Jon Jesse Terry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5434 Christian Lamont Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Pending Relisted (7)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5437 Sequan Anthony Fowler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5438 Tamonte Finney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5439 Naim Greene v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5441 Azontay Malik Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5443 Donovan L. Crews v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5424 Kiyel Tyquello Kearney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5415 Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were…
25-5417 Shalik Rasheem Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-199 Daniel Concepcion, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, dba MLB, et al. First Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-exemption baseball-litigation constitutional-challenge equal-protection sherman-act supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Federal Baseball Club should be reversed and whether the Curt Flood Act is unconstitutional under the Equal P…
25-5388 Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is invariably constitutional both facially and as applied to any defendant, no matter the case-specific circumstances
25-5393 Ross Farca v. California California 2025-08-18 Denied IFP assault-weapon constitutional-challenge due-process mens-rea search-warrant second-amendment Whether California's Assault Weapon Control Act is constitutional and whether various procedural and constitutional violations occurred in the prosecu…
25-5382 Meleke Osborne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Relisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of any felony violates the Second Amendmen…
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 …
25-5347 Daniel Lee Lusk, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
25-5319 Timothy L. Elliott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5301 Mario Leequan Thorne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
25-5263 Marvin Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25-5228 Geber Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the government's prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) violates the Second Amendment on its face and as applied
25A98 Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification Whether a pro se litigant's notice of constitutional challenge can independently trigger statutory certification requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b…
25-5170 Mark Richard Walters v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions involve fraud?
25-67 Abhijit Bagal v. Kshama Sawant, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge federal-court injury-in-fact judicial-review legal-standing standing What constitutes a cognizable injury to establish standing in a federal court to challenge an unconstitutional law?
25-5124 Jacob Graves v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As…
25-5132 Jennifer Murphey v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment freedom-of-thought treaty-enforcement war-on-drugs Whether the War on Drugs enforcement violates constitutional protections of freedom of thought and procedural due process through international treaty…
25-5107 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-challenge detention-conditions due-process federal-courts pretrial-detention Whether the Bail Reform Act of 1984 is facially unconstitutional due to its lack of maximum detention duration, minimum conditions standards, and peri…
25-21 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-law constitutional-challenge first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers student-loans Whether federal courts can create federal common law on judicial immunity and student loan bankruptcy remedies in violation of separation of powers, a…
25-5049 DaJohn M. Hymes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
25A17 Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete commerce-clause constitutional-challenge federal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s jurisdictional element for firearm possession violates the Commerce Clause when applied to a defendant whose firearm p…
25-5034 Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri…
25-5009 Joshua Willis v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R…
25-5027 Gregory Stevens v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a court may bypass a Second Amendment challenge to the felon-status offense at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) when the defendant could have been charge…
25-5021 Dajavan Speaks v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge gun-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment self-defense Is § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to an individual with a nonviolent conviction who was a victim of a drive-by shooting and seeks to possess …
25-8 Matthew Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness Whether the undefined statutory language 'intangible right of honest services' in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is unconstitutionally vague
24-1328 United States v. Keshon Daveon Baxter Eighth Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment
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…
24-7507 Osmar Alexis Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-7491 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied IFP chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights Whether a method-of-execution challenge requires comparing the proposed lethal injection protocol to known alternative methods under the Eighth Amendm…
24-7479 Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Michael Reger, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process recidivist-statute residual-clause supreme-court-precedent Whether a judicially crafted residual clause allowing life sentences under a state recidivist statute is unconstitutional in light of recent Supreme C…
24-1290 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly wh…
24A1249 Andrew Charles Beard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence cyberstalking direct-appeal plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement Whether a cyberstalking conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2) categorically qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for sentencing enhancement purposes
24-1276 California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl v. Stanislaus County, California Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge property-rights regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations Whether a statute of limitations for facial constitutional challenges begins to run solely from the date of enactment, or whether each day of continue…
24-7417 Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-7419 Cardari Bradley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
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?
24-7398 Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
24-7400 Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol…
24A1217 Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-10 Presumed Complete commerce-clause constitutional-challenge controlled-substances-act federal-taxation marijuana-taxation state-legal-marijuana Whether Congress may constitutionally impose federal tax penalties on state-legal marijuana businesses under the Commerce Clause in light of the evolv…
24-1247 United States v. La'Vance LeMarr Cooper Eighth Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Relisted (3) constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment
24-1248 United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-06 Pending Relisted (3) constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment
24-1249 United States v. Kindle Terrell Sam Fifth Circuit 2025-06-06 Pending Relisted (3) constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment
24-7378 Margarita Leanos v. Allen Dills, Warden Georgia 2025-06-06 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge discriminatory-evidence gang-membership ineffective-assistance witness-testimony Whether appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge the admission of discriminatory gang membership evidence through a s…
24-7334 Brandon Rashaad Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,…
24-7296 Karen Hylton v. United States District of Columbia 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge judicial-discretion legal-error pro-se-plaintiff sentencing-appeal victim-rights Whether a victim who is a plaintiff has the right to appeal a defendant's sentencing if they believe the trial court made a legal mistake or abused it…
24-7310 Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court agree with the Appellant's claim that Oregon Revised Statute 14.270 is unconstitutional?
24-7286 Christopher Glen Mason v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-7279 Carlos Hernandez, aka Ra Saadi Lennox Hernandez El v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-government race-discrimination Whether a race-based constitutional challenge can be brought against a federal government action and whether the petitioner's constitutional rights ar…
24-7253 William Danta Toney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-7232 Lance James Talbot v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R…
24-7188 Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a statute criminalizing firearm possession by marijuana users violates the Second Amendment
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…
24-1147 Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge court-of-claims declaratory-judgment ex-parte-young standing state-officials Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously held that Petitioners lacked standing to sue under Ex parte Young when naming the Governor and …
24-7141 Kerry D. Gayfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-7143 Kelvin Greer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-7153 Melvin Clay Blake, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-7124 Gary Daniel Rodgers v. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-challenge frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis legal-briefing Whether the Circuit Court erred in their rulings regarding Rodger's legal filings, procedural challenges, and motion to proceed in forma pauperis
24-1100 Ashu Joshi v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment marital-relationship sexual-exploitation tenth-amendment Whether the federal prosecution for sexual exploitation of a minor is unconstitutional as applied to a legally married couple under state law
24-7051 Gmerrio Underwood v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied IFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-7057 Earl B. Penn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the ACCA unconstitutional because neither the judge nor the jury may make the occasions clause finding essential to every ACCA sentence?
24-6996 Deonta Damon Wheeler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-6984 Tyrone Woodson v. Florida Florida 2025-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment state-law Does a state law prohibiting firearm possession by felons violate the Second Amendment when applied to an individual with no violent felony conviction…
24-1070 Conghua Yan v. Mark A. Taylor, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal District Office Investigator, Tarrant County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure district-attorney first-amendment government-policy petition-rights Whether a criminal District Attorney office policy that bars individuals from filing perjury complaints without judicial request violates First Amendm…
24-6974 Michael Mejia v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability-law appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process mere-presence Whether the Illinois state accountability law at the time of petitioner's conviction, which omitted 'mere presence' as insufficient to convict, was un…
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…
24-6936 Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-07 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac…
24-6897 Joshua Michael Faust v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is invariably constitutional both facially and as applied to any defendant, no matter the case-specific circumstances
24-6788 Shannon Lamon Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied IFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-6791 Ladarrell C. Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied IFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-6793 Steve Dismore v. Kentucky Parole Board, et al. Kentucky 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto garner-v-jones kentucky-law parole-eligibility Does the fact that Kentucky treats parole as 'a matter of grace or gift' exempt parole hearing rules from ex post facto challenges under Garner v. Jon…
24-6794 Ismael Moises Haynes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied IFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-6782 Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is invariably constitutional both facially and as applied to any defendant, no matter the case-specific circumstances
24-6737 Carlsel Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of imprisonment, codified at 1…
24-969 Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-11 Pending constitutional-challenge governmental-action judicial-relief officer-replacement presidential-power removal-restriction Whether a party challenging governmental action taken by an individual who remained in office against the President's wishes due to an unconstitutiona…
24-6711 Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. Kansas 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant Whether a lower court's vexatious litigant order violates due process rights and is immediately appealable
24-6698 Joseph Smith v. United States District of Columbia 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge cross-section-challenge duren-test fourth-amendment jury-selection systemic-exclusion What is the proper test to determine a cross-section challenge under the Duren second prong, and how to resolve if intertwined within the 'systemic ex…
24-6669 Gregory Stump v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment serial-number-obliteration statutory-interpretation Whether 26 U.S.C. § 5861(h) prohibiting possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number violates the Second Amendment
24-6623 LaMorris Allan French v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied IFP bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St…
24-6625 Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment for individuals with nonviolent criminal convictions
24-6582 Dajuan Martin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearm-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face because it is per…
24-6569 Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent …
24-862 Michelle MacDonald v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2025-02-12 Denied Response Waived ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law judicial-candidates legal-qualification state-licensing Is an election law requiring proof that judicial candidates have state law licenses in order to qualify as 'learned in the law' unconstitutional under…
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 …
24-6517 Edell Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1) is susceptible to an as-applied constitutional challenge and violates the Second Amendment
24-6533 Jon Anthony Schweder v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statute-of-limitations Whether a criminal defendant can challenge the jurisdiction of a trial court on constitutional grounds after failing to raise such arguments in prior …
24-844 Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial …
24-6474 Leonard Morrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense Does the Supreme Court ruling in Erlinger v. United States render unconstitutional ACCA enhancements when predicate charges were not proven beyond a r…
24-6476 Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-validity felon-rights firearms-possession second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is invariably constitutional both facially and as applied to any defendant, no matter the case-specific circumstances
24-833 Aklilu Yohannes v. Olympic Collection Inc. (OCI), et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process garnishment-statute pre-deprivation-hearing property-seizure state-actor Whether Washington's garnishment statute is unconstitutional for lack of pre-deprivation procedural safeguards and whether attorneys issuing garnishme…
24-821 Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge direct-appeal evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance Whether Mr. Lewis's state court appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to present obvious and significant constitutional challenges to the admi…
24-6427 Jose Paz Medina-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution gun-rights historical-analysis second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether courts must conduct a historical analysis to decide a Second Amendment challenge to a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) and whether the …
24-6416 Carlos James Meeks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross…
24-781 First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey Third Circuit 2025-01-24 Granted Amici (52)Relisted (10) constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a …
24-792 Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-challenge declaratory-relief injunctive-relief ministerial-capacity state-court-officials Whether Petitioners have Article III standing to sue for prospective declaratory and injunctive relief against Texas state court officials
24-6374 James Clifford Goodwin, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion congressional-intent constitutional-challenge ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance restitution Whether it is an abuse of discretion to impose a judgment that does not adhere to congressional mandates or statutes when the defendant committed an o…
24A708 Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-precedent Whether a state court's denial of an evidentiary hearing in a habeas corpus proceeding constitutes an unreasonable determination of facts under 28 U.S…
24A692 Edward Moses, Jr. v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2018 G-CTT Louisiana 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete banking-law constitutional-challenge foreclosure pro-se property-rights sovereign-immunity Whether a pro se litigant claiming sovereign status can challenge a foreclosure proceeding based on purported sovereign immunity or constitutional def…
24A698 Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights Whether a state corrections director's denial of a prisoner's request for a specific method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition o…
24-6270 Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, Warden Montana 2025-01-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Montana Statute MCA (46-22-101) violates due process and equal protection when subject matter jurisdiction is challenged in sentencing
24-6282 Dominique Kevion Drake v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-unconstitutionality hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether the statute of conviction, Title 18, Section 1951 (The Hobbs Act), is facially unconstitutional?
24-6246 Benny Roe Stewart v. Jim Salmonsen, Warden Montana 2025-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Montana Statute M.C.A. (46-22-101) violates constitutional due process and equal protection when subject matter jurisdiction is challenged
24A648 Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge extraterritorial-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause search-warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment permits extraterritorial GPS tracking by state law enforcement without explicit statutory authorization or judicial warra…
24A629 National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar Second Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-challenge second-circuit sports-league standing time-extension Whether a professional sports league has standing to challenge a state law regulating its operations under constitutional or statutory grounds
24A634 Royhem Deeds v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden Georgia 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete aggravated-assault alford-plea constitutional-challenge first-offender habeas-corpus post-conviction Whether an Alford plea to aggravated assault can be constitutionally challenged in a post-conviction habeas proceeding when the petitioner was sentenc…
24A626 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-judge judicial-recusal structural-right Whether a state supreme court rule requiring timely judicial recusal motions violates a litigant's structural due process right to an impartial judge …
24A611 Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession fundamental-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals with non-violent criminal convictions
24A599 Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process federalism regulatory-board state-sovereignty Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits state regulatory boards from including industry representatives when there is no evidence of actual bias or p…
24-6102 Cleate Wilson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong…
24A558 Nicholas Paul Somberg v. Karen D. McDonald, Prosecutor, Oakland County Prosecutor's Office Sixth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete chilling-effect constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment governmental-punishment pre-enforcement-standing Whether a plaintiff has pre-enforcement standing to challenge a criminal statute that potentially chills First Amendment-protected activities without …
24-6089 Recardo Cartrell Pierce v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge 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)?
24-6061 Chadwick Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fifth-circuit-review firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that petitioner's argument challenging his federal firearms-related conviction under the Second Amendment c…
24-6063 Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong…
24A520 DeShaun L. Wells, et al. v. United States Armed Forces 2024-11-27 Presumed Complete article-134 constitutional-challenge military-justice parker-v-levy service-discrediting ucmj Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Parker v. Levy and find Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice unconstitutionally vague in its …
24A501 Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing-doctrine vexatious-litigant Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly interpreted standing doctrine and due process requirements in post-enforcement constitutional challenges to state…
24-5984 Jason Keith-David Manners v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-relief criminal-defendant organizational-rights procedural-grounds Whether a criminal defendant's organizational rights can be challenged when a court denies relief based on procedural grounds
24A483 Samuel Boima v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment guilty-plea search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Whether a federal district court's denial of a motion to suppress evidence obtained through an allegedly unconstitutional search can be reviewed on di…
24A476 Missouri, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-law legislative-findings standing state-resources tenth-amendment Whether a state can withhold resources from federal law enforcement based on its legislative determination of federal law's unconstitutionality withou…
24-5951 Manuel Moya v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a lifetime ban on firearm possession for felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional given the lack of a historical analog…
24-5866 Edward Moses v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-sanctions clearly-erroneous-standard constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity tribal-recognition Whether Emperor Moses is entitled to an injunction barring state officials from operating within the Atakapa Indian Nation based on the constitutional…
24A407 Susan Beals, Commissioner, et al. v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete Amici (7) ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law immigrant-voting voter-registration voting-rights Whether Virginia's election laws governing voter registration and ballot access unconstitutionally burden immigrant and minority voters' fundamental r…
24-467 Christopher Hadsell v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2024-10-25 Denied access-to-courts constitutional-challenge due-process fundamental-rights state-interest vexatious-litigant Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Law is unconstitutional on facial and as-applied grounds due to lack of narrow tailoring and compelling state …
24A396 Eric Dean Sheppard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete bail-pending-appeal constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal irreparable-harm prison-sentence substantial-question Whether a criminal defendant's appeal raising a substantial constitutional question warrants bail pending appeal to prevent irreparable harm from serv…
24-5786 Mark Allen Craig, II v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one …
24-420 Bill H. Walmsley, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-10-15 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-law constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-trade-commission private-enforcement rulemaking-authority Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act unlawfully delegates enforcement and rulemaking power to a private corporation
24-414 Reuben Larson v. CommunityWorks North Dakota, et al. North Dakota 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure brief-requirements constitutional-challenge court-rules judicial-discretion procedural-due-process Whether a court rule mandating brief page limits and paragraph numbering, with dismissal for non-compliance, is unconstitutional
24-5745 Brian Broussard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP collective-knowledge constitutional-challenge due-process probable-cause seizure warrantless-search Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional and fails to provide probable cause for detaining an American Citizen, and to what extent can collecti…
24-5746 In Re Trey Tarell Bradley 2024-10-11 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus self-representation state-court-procedure Can a State summarily deny a defendant's right to self-representation and subsequently bar a constitutional challenge to such because of the defendant…
24-5748 LaVanzel Kerr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure firearms-statute sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation May a district court apply a U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6) enhancement without resolving a defendant's affirmative defense claim, and is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) u…
24-5744 Andre Michael Dubois v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-10 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional on its face and as applied to a non-violent f…
24-5730 In Re Carlos Martinez 2024-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review three-strikes-law Whether the California Three Strikes Law's sentencing provisions violate due process when applied to a defendant with prior convictions that may be co…
24-373 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al v. Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Amici (2) constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation gun-rights handgun-license maryland-law second-amendment Whether Maryland's Handgun Qualification License Requirement violates the Second Amendment
24-5690 Rayzjaun Curry v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment Whether the federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by a felon is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
24A309 Patricia Weiss v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-01 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge declaratory-decree judicial-abstention subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the 1996 amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 permits federal district courts to issue a declaratory decree against a state judge challenging the con…
24-5560 Adam Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment and whether conviction for possessing a firearm that has previously crossed …
24A277 Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights Whether Mississippi's lifetime felony disenfranchisement law violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when it perma…
24-269 Lydia Olson, et al. v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-challenge failure-to-state-claim hypothetical-facts judicial-review pleading-standard rational-basis-review Whether a court may dismiss for failure to state a claim a constitutional challenge to a law subject to rational-basis review based on hypothetical fa…
24-5506 Rustam Yusupov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation unlawful-possession Whether Rustam Yusupov's conviction for unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment and whether his ap…
24A253 Kent Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge contempt-proceeding emergency-relief injunctive-stay pro-se state-court Whether a pro se litigant can obtain emergency injunctive relief to stay a state court contempt proceeding without demonstrating a clear constitutiona…
24A241 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-09-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus Whether a state court's refusal to entertain a declaratory judgment challenging grand jury proceedings violates a petitioner's due process rights when…
24-5470 Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation Whether a state's post-conviction DNA testing statute unconstitutionally restricts a criminal defendant's ability to challenge a conviction through ne…
24-5437 Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant declaratory-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution Whether a criminal defendant can seek judicial review of a criminal statute's constitutionality through declaratory relief without challenging a speci…
24A222 Oscar Stilley v. John Thurston, Secretary of State of Arkansas, et al. Arkansas 2024-08-29 Presumed Complete ballot-access ballot-initiative constitutional-challenge election-law supreme-court-review voter-standing Whether a state supreme court can deny a voter's standing to challenge a ballot initiative without a full evidentiary hearing on the voter's registrat…
24-219 In Re Warren Petersen, et al. 2024-08-28 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-challenge high-ranking-officials legislative-intervention legislative-privilege morgan-doctrine state-law Whether legislative leaders waive legislative privilege and Morgan doctrine protections when intervening to defend a state law in a private civil cons…
24-5406 Michael Hoeft v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-28 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9) prohibiting firearm possession by certain convicted persons are facially unconstitutional under the Second Amend…
24-5404 Mani Panoam Deng v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge drug-use firearm-prohibition guilty-plea menna-blackledge-doctrine second-amendment Whether a defendant retains the right to appeal an as-applied Second Amendment challenge after pleading guilty under the Menna-Blackledge doctrine, an…
24-5376 Donald Davis Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession based on interstate travel and whether such statute is facially unconstitutional …
24-5328 Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-08-15 GVR IFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit felon-in-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to a specific defendant under recent Second Amendment jurisprudence
24-154 Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-08-13 Judgment Issued Amici (43)Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organ…
24-5315 Kevin Deane Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-13 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment
24-144 Thomas Charles Felton Jones v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-08-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement overbreadth-doctrine verbal-resistance Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes verbal acts of resistance against law enforcement is facially invalid under the First Amendment due to ov…
24A164 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Amici (5) ballot-drop-box constitutional-challenge election-law election-procedures state-regulation voting-rights Whether state election laws governing ballot drop box procedures and accessibility violate constitutional protections of voting rights
24-5298 Jose Rosado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen
24-5258 Lance James Talbot v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-07 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(c)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R…
24-5261 Miguel Tejada-Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
24-124 Brent Brewbaker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness Is the criminal provision of Section 1 of the Sherman Act Constitutional?
24A126 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. California 2024-08-05 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-discretion state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate Whether a state appellate court's denial of a petition for writ of mandate violates a petitioner's due process rights
24-5194 George Henry Purdy, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
24-5126 Michael J. Brillon v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge As-Applied-Unconstitutionality Bruen bruen-decision constitutional-challenge conviction-review Due-Process facial-challenge Facial-Unconstitutionality Felons second-amendment Second-Amendment
24-5101 Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
24-5103 David Thomas Overman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
24-5112 Austin Wayne Massey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
24-5087 Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defendant'…
24-5034 Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska Alaska 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for sexual offenders for pa…
24-5005 Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii Hawaii 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority best-interest best-interests burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge due-process family-law federal-funding state-sovereignty How can a state enact 'best interest' laws in family courts when it has abandoned jurisdiction and sovereignty by accepting federal grant funding?
23A1142 Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete congressional-map constitutional-challenge equal-protection racial-gerrymander redistricting voting-rights Whether Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause by constituting an unconstitutional racial gerrymander
23-7772 Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies Whether the petitioner was denied due process by not being allowed to submit supplemental evidentiary arguments or be allowed to submit an amended mem…
23-1319 B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida 2024-06-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as applied when it contradicts the …
23A1120 Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-challenge first-amendment legislative-representation redistricting writ Whether the First Amendment protects the right of state legislators to challenge redistricting plans that allegedly infringe on legislative representa…
23-7727 Everett G. Miller v. Florida Florida 2024-06-14 Denied IFP aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-statute Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of the CCP aggravating factor has rendered Florida's death penalty scheme unconstit…
23-7728 Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness 2nd-amendment
23-7689 Ardis Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23A1101 Richard Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court Arizona 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-challenge employment-dispute pro-se state-court-remedies workplace-injunction Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge a workplace injunction on constitutional grounds after exhausting state court remedies
23-1290 Michael Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response Waived 598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether Ciminelli v. United States
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)?
23-1280 Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Amici (15)Relisted (8) civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process gender-identity parental-rights school-district-policy school-policy standing standing-doctrine student-privacy Do parents have standing to challenge a school district policy that usurps parental decision-making authority over a child's gender identity and keeps…
23-7660 Michael Steven Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
23-7653 Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
23A1068 Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-30 Presumed Complete bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-regulation prior-precedent second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s prohibition on firearm possession by convicted felons remains constitutional after New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc…
23A1070 Thomas George Stanko v. United States Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment supreme-court-review Whether a felon's possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid in light of recent Second Amendment jurisprudence
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)?
23-7500 Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute Whether and to what extent Virginia's 'not guilty by reason of insanity' (NGRI) statutes are unconstitutional
23-7501 Maurice Farris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-17 GVR IFP 18-usc-922 bruen-standard constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
23-1211 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-discovery federal-claims fraud judicial-notice prima-facie-evidence rule-60-motion standing void-order Whether the Court below misconstrues Petitioner's principal cause of action?
23-1202 Ellingson Drainage, Inc. v. South Dakota Department of Revenue South Dakota 2024-05-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived commerce-clause constitutional-challenge external-consistency fair-apportionment movable-equipment sales-tax state-tax-credits state-taxation use-tax Whether South Dakota's imposition of an unapportioned use tax on the fair market value of Petitioner's movable construction equipment violates the fai…
23A999 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judge-sentencing Whether judge-sentencing in death-penalty trials violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
23A992 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge county-commission equal-protection redistricting representation voting-rights Whether a county board of commissioners' voting procedures and redistricting decisions violate constitutional protections of equal representation and …
23-7401 Kristopher Lee Rocco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7402 Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas…
23A985 Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is unconstitutionally vague on its face and violates due process by creating uncertainty about prohibited conduct
23-1177 Eric Fisher v. Virginia Virginia 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli…
23-7349 Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer whether-mandamus-relief-is-available
23-7305 Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7293 Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-04-23 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
23-7259 In Re Quelyory A. Rigal 2024-04-19 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process factual-innocence materiality-threshold newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-juror totality-of-the-evidence Whether newly discovered evidence, which directly undermines the reliability of the petitioner's conviction and establishes a plausible claim of factu…
23-7235 Troy Dontae Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
23-7166 Charles Edward Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 GVR IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable …
23-7174 Richard Lee David Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence Whether the admission of prior drug convictions constitutes impermissible propensity
23-7179 Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7181 Austin Drake Day v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7160 John Michael Carrasco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23A881 Linda Baldwin v. Robert Pitman, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-challenge in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether a federal district court judge's adverse rulings in prior cases constitute a cognizable constitutional violation or impermissible judicial bia…
23-1053 Cletus Woodrow Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-state agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-challenge jurisdictional-dispute kelo non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers takings Whether this Non-Delegation Doctrine challenge to the constitutional authority of an agency was properly filed in district court, or whether an agency…
23-7045 Carol Ann McBratnie v. Charles Paul Rettig, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 26-usc-7436 28-usc-2680c administrative-procedures-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges due-process federal-payment-levy-program federal-tort-claims-act gross-negligence irs-administrative-remedy tax-court-jurisdiction Question not identified
23-7055 Jacob Lyon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement waives all other grounds for the enhancement
23A850 Benjamin F. Whiteman v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual due-process habitual-offender mandatory-minimum sentencing-statute Whether a state sentencing statute that mandates consecutive sentences for habitual offenders without judicial discretion violates due process and con…
23-7018 Julian Ash v. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights consolidation-of-cases constitutional-challenge due-process federal-agency government-oversight personnel-management title-v-exemption whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation Should the Title V Exemption extended to the Federal Aviation Administration from the Office of Personnel Management be considered Unconstitutional?
23-7001 Todd Andre Whitfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-7006 Kelly Porter v. Axelon, Inc., et al. Kentucky 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fraud legal-notice standing workers-compensation Whether the Supreme Court's decision affirmed the Appellant Court is an abuse of discretion and against the rule of law
23-1011 Philip C. James, et al. v. Glenn Allen Hegar, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacities as Comptroller of Texas, Chairman of the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, and Administrator of Texas Unclaimed Property Funds, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process ex-parte-young property-rights standing standing-injury state-enforcement takings texas unclaimed-property Have Petitioners suffered an injury to confer standing to challenge Respondents' ongoing administration of Texas' Unclaimed Property Act?
23-6973 Oren Javentay Pichon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23-6979 Kyston Ivory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
23-990 George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject-matter-jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject-matte…
23-6940 Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus preiser-doctrine preiser-v-rodriguez section-1983 time-credits unconstitutional-legislation Does Preiser's holding that the restoration of time credits were not cognizable in a § 1983 action persist when there is a direct civil rights challen…
23-6879 Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington Washington 2024-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law Questions Presented
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?
23-6850 Eric Michael Lujan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
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
23-6830 Thomas E. Creech v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-secrecy lethal-injection Whether it comports with due process for a state to refuse to provide a condemned inmate information about his method of execution that would enable h…
23-6831 Thomas E. Creech v. Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP clemency clemency-hearing constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges due-process false-evidence harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Does the State's intentional presentation of false evidence at a clemency hearing violate due process?
23-6816 Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights Whether the Circuit Court for Alleghany County, Maryland should have given the pro se petitioner an opportunity to challenge the removal of his compla…
23-6769 Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, …
23A757 Breon Hicks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge controlled-substance due-process firearm-possession second-amendment unlawful-user Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(3), which criminalizes firearm possession by unlawful drug users, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
23-6732 Seth Conner Wells v. Florida Florida 2024-02-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration is an unconstitutionally excessive fine
23-6693 In Re John Waldon 2024-02-07 Denied IFP all-writs-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-violation discretionary-denial due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review remedy standing Does the court have jurisdiction to review a habeas corpus petition under the All Writs Act
23A720 Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release Whether supervised release conditions that a defendant claims violate double jeopardy protections can be challenged under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(2) witho…
23-6658 Ricky Johnson, aka Rodney Knuckles v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review ohio-supreme-court post-conviction procedural-rules revocation-hearing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a revocation hearing under Morrissey v. Brewer and Gagnon v. Scarpelli, and the right to effective assi…
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
23-6584 David E. Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech nlrb-sanctions standing statutory-interpretation Whether the NLRB's denial of access to the courts and administrative agencies violates the First and Fifth Amendment rights of the petitioner
23A683 Jill Hile, et al. v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge education-funding establishment-clause first-amendment parent-advocacy school-choice Whether state-level educational choice policies that provide funding or support for alternative education options violate the Establishment Clause or …
23-6539 In Re Jesse James Corbin-Bey 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto extraordinary-relief federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus imprisonment slavery state-court-jurisdiction Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to the Petitioner who has no other available forum to raise his compelling claims of …
23A665 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing factual-findings indeterminate-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Ohio's indeterminate sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment by permitting judicial factual findings that increase a defendant's impris…
23-762 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-revenues subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-assessment tax-assessments Whether the exclusive jurisdiction to shield local tax assessments from constitutional challenges in a federal court to protect state revenues can be …
23-770 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
23-772 David Andrew Bardes v. George W. Bush, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process federal-dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se standing supreme-court Why does the Constitution, or laws of any kind, not apply to George Walker BUSH or 'his associates? Why has the Constitution failed? Why does the Supr…
23-6470 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional Whether the South Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia have jurisdiction to hear and decide the Petiti…
23-708 Chava Rachel Mark, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of T. B. M., R. L. M., and E. B. M., Minors, et al. v. Republic of Sudan, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-29 Denied Amici (1) consolidated-appropriations-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act judicial-review settlement-agreement state-sponsored-terrorism subject-matter-jurisdiction sudan-sponsored-terrorism Whether the SCRA stripped courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the settlement and whether the denial of a judicial forum for these…
23A583 Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-challenge death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct legal standard in affirming the denial of a capital defendant's federal habeas petition challenging t…
23-6276 Danny Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa bitemark-evidence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-rights forensic-science habeas-corpus judicial-resources newly-ripened-claims second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition Is a habeas petition 'second or successive' when the factual predicate giving rise to the petitioner's claim occurs long after the petitioner filed hi…
23-6236 Joseph R. Dickey v. Warden, FCI Marianna Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions constitutional-challenge federal-prisoner felker-v-turpin habeas-corpus successive-petition Whether 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1) applies to claims in 28 U.S.C. 2255 motions
23-627 Chad Parker, et al. v. Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response Waived capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contact-tracing covid-mask-mandate due-process mootness pandemic-restrictions privacy-rights standing standing-doctrine voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania 'mask mandate' moot?
23-6199 Trayvon Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation Is a criminal defendant constitutionally entitled to have his sentence executed pursuant to the plain terms of the sentence orally pronounced in his p…
23-6170 Edell Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
23A485 Cletus Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge jurisdiction-stripping land-condemnation legislative-power non-delegation separation-of-powers Whether the Non-Delegation Doctrine prohibits Congress from delegating legislative powers to an executive agency without an intelligible principle, pa…
23A469 Mike Moyle, Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge federal-court gender-affirming-care legislative-standing preliminary-injunction state-law Whether a state legislature has standing to challenge a federal court's preliminary injunction restricting enforcement of a state law regulating gende…
23-6077 Royal Douglas Robinson v. Texas Texas 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-evidence forensic-misconduct medical-examiner scientific-evidence Does a conviction based on unreliable scientific evidence violate due-process
23A450 Franklin S. Tiegs, et al. v. Montana Department of Revenue Montana 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process net-operating-loss nonresident-income tax-statute Whether a state's tax statute that uses a nonresident's out-of-state income to offset a net operating loss deduction violates the Due Process and Comm…
23-6035 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2023-11-16 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations Can a judge of two appeal courts open a child protective custody case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state law, then set bail/bond …
23-6010 James Woo v. Jose Angel Baez, et al. Colorado 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-review civil-rights colorado-statute constitutional-challenge due-process expert-review expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff negligence-claims professional-conduct standing Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in holding that the certificate of review requirement pursuant to Colorado's Revised Statute (C.R.S.) § 13…
23A429 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-14 Denied constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un…
23A402 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-03 Denied constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate where there are substantial legal challenges to the method of execution or un…
23-5933 Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional
23-5934 Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
23-455 United States v. Litsson Antonio Perez-Gallan Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 GVR Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge domestic-violence due-process firearms firearms-possession protective-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment
23-5909 Eric A. Zevely v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 article-iii-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction federal-criminal-conviction judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3582 is a point in the litigation permitting a defendant to challenge subject-matter jurisdiction, where case law b…
23-5876 Christian Lamar Porter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
23-5883 Shardaye Jeacole Malik Bey v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1443 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-procedure criminal-removal due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis Whether filing fees are required for removal of a criminal action under 28 U.S.C. § 1443
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…
23-5742 Joseph Michael Easton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
23-5688 Angel Marie Jordan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-justice criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement right-to-appeal Does a facially valid and credible good faith claim of a Double Jeopardy violation constitute a 'constitutionally impermissible factor' which cannot b…
23-312 Lee E. Stephens, Jr. v. Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-relief impeachment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prior-convictions resentencing right-to-testify sentencing unconstitutional-convictions Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether habeas relief and resentencing is required when a defendant's sentence was premised on prior convictio…
23-5645 Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) requires proof of intent to make a reasonably believable threat
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
23-5637 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a COA for failure to properly consider the framework in which successive petitions are mandated to be reviewed
23-5639 Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard Was the defense counsel ineffective under Strickland v. Washington?
23-5613 Robert L. Allum v. Montana State Fund Montana 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-branch montana-constitution res-judicata state-court-structure subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Montana Workers' Compensation Court is a constitutionally valid judicial body
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
23-5485 Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 is unconstitutional
23-5419 Seth Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification Does the District Court have authority to change a sentence after 12 years?
23-5424 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)
23-5344 Aaron Abadi v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process mootness mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-regulation standing standing-requirement vaccine-mandate Do the vaccine mandates instated by the City of New York exceed their authority and/or are they arbitrary and capricious?
23-117 John Castro v. Donald J. Trump Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-07 Denied Response Waived candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election election-law insurrection political-competition standing vote-diminution Does a political candidate have constitutional standing to challenge the eligibility of another political candidate
23-5274 Wicahpe George Milk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1503 attorney-client-privilege constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dismissal indian-reservation jurisdiction statutory-interpretation suppression Whether acts occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation deprived the Court of jurisdiction over all parts of the indictment
23-97 Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harvis and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional challenges
23-5254 David Serrano-Munoz v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness due to lack of definitions of the term 'sexual abuse'
23-5263 Steven Dewayne Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process felon-in-possession felons gun-rights individual-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 Unites States Code section 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face because it infringes on a felon's individual right to keep and bear ar…
23-5242 Rebecca Wu v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. California 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-classification constitutional-challenge constitutional-law employee-classification employee-misclassification equal-protection labor-law statutory-interpretation Is the interpretation of a statute that creates an arbitrary classification unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment?
23-5161 Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation Are Oklahoma statutes conformity with U.S. Constitution, Amendments IX and XIV?
23-5107 Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly Fourth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari what-is-the-legislative-intent-of-18-usc-3553
23-5095 Marland Maynor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
22-1225 Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-21 GVR Relisted (8) administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.
22-7697 Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-06-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio Whether Act 84, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional
22-7674 John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari
22-1158 Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process Does agency rulemaking constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110?
22-7665 Demarkus Antonio Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-errors constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the merits of this case and issue a memorandum decision
22-7644 Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-7524 Larry Carl Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-7481 Anthony Allen v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-representation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-challenge constitutional-sentencing ineffective-assistance smith-vs-bailey substantive-law successive-petition Whether appointed Appellate Counsel's missapprehended the law and facts by failure to brief and raise the issues on appeal constitutes unreasonable if…
22-7485 Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a 'separate sentence' in addition to the 'sentence of imprisonment', i…
22-7465 Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden South Dakota 2023-05-04 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony Whether a scalp laceration is a 'serious bodily injury' as defined in SDCL 22-1-2(1A)?
22-7296 Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition Did the Sentencing Court give Petitioner a Substantively Reasonable Sentence?
22-964 Kenneth Allen Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge corruption default-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-corruption standing standing-doctrine ultra-vires uncac Are 'Pruitt-type' complaints of corrupt acts by ultra vires actors a special species of complaints that enable a lower hurdle standing?
22-7190 Dante R. Voss v. Kevin A. Carr, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection legal-loan-policy standing takings takings-clause Whether Voss's complaint states a claim upon which relief may be granted
22-7165 James Woo v. El Paso County Sheriff's Office, et al. Colorado 2023-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process governmental-immunity procedural-safeguards property-rights replevin takings Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in holding that the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act does not violate the petitioner's constitutional right…
22-7160 Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts
22-7115 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support-enforcement congressional-research-service constitutional-challenge constitutional-interpretation federal-matching-grant federal-reimbursement federal-reimbursements open-ended-program reimbursement-rate state-matching-grant In the context of the federal CSE reimbursement program, is the 'open-ended' and thus manipulatable federal program constitutional as currently practi…
22-7099 Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment Whether lower federal courts may transpose a prima facie §1983 claim into a constitutional challenge not presented by the plaintiff's complaint
22-7022 LeAnthony T. Winston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-prosecution trial-in-absentia Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial is violated when a state prosecution continues in the accused's absence after the accused has plea…
22-878 Alexander V. Brown v. William Harrington, United States Trustee for Region 1 First Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1930 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-fees chapter-11 constitutional-challenge equal-protection reopened-case reopening retroactivity statutory-interpretation united-states-trustee Whether 28 U.S.C. §1930(a)(6)(A) applies to a case under Chapter 11 of Title 11, United States Code, upon reopening
22-6971 Joseph Dingler v. Terry Garrett, Sheriff, Rockwall County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-evidence preservation-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings tax Whether Congress's taxing power under the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate as a valid exercise of that powe…
22-6916 Carlos Mejia-Quintanilla v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim plea-agreement plea-bargaining summary-enforcement whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate unconstitutional convictions
22-6946 Clement Mosseri v. 7 West 21 LI LLC Second Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process government-immunity judicial-immunity legal-standing rule-of-law standing Judicial immunity and government immunity conflict with the Constitution
22-6912 Michael Wright v. J. Pickett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence Can the Federal court deny a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel for his failure to raise a constitutional …
22-827 Carlos Herrera, Daniel Sanchez, and Anthony Ray Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-trial-motion rule-12 waiver Whether a facial constitutional challenge to a criminal statute under the Commerce Clause can be brought by post-trial motion under Federal Rule of Cr…
22-6770 In Re Alphonza Thomas Bey 2023-02-14 Dismissed IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 15th-amendment administrative-remedies constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions human-rights personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-imprisonment Whether the United States Constitution, the United States Congress, and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have government jurisdictio…
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…
22-6632 Michael A. Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-challenge counsel criminal-defendant-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing whether the Court failed to obtain a hearing and telling cost of Counsel
22-6527 William Langley, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Should the court find petitioner's conviction for '924(c) et al. unconstitutional
22-586 Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restrictio…
22-582 United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-22 GVR Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration is facially unconstitutional on First Amendmen…
22-478 David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the fact that the challenged portions of New Jersey's ERPO Act are flagrantly and patently violative of the Fourth Amendment bars the Federal …
22-6095 Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachusett…
22-6035 Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California California 2022-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits Does the state of California criminal appeal time limit (time bar) violate the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment equal protection clause pertaining t…
22-420 In Re Ohio, ex rel. Terpsehore P. Maras 2022-11-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge election-law election-observers equal-protection fundamental-right-to-vote independent-candidates party-representation political-parties strict-scrutiny voting-rights Whether Ohio law allowing for Republican and Democratic Parties' election observers while requiring Independent candidates to obtain consent from four…
22-5985 Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment?
22-5987 Anessa R. Fierro and Willie T. Johnson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-arson-statute lopez-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings Is the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. § 844(i), unconstitutional?
22-413 Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1?
22-5890 Ronald William Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief section-2255 Whether a boilerplate waiver of appellate and post-conviction rights bars a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 that the defendant stands convicted of a non-…
22-352 Missouri v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Amici (1) american-rescue-plan-act article-1-section-8 constitutional constitutional-challenge standing tax-mandate tenth-amendment treasury-interpretation Does Missouri have standing to challenge Treasury's interpretation of the Tax Mandate as inconsistent with the law?
22-5825 Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
22-5836 Laquan Kyle Duane Shakespeare v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583k consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy due-process mandatory-minimum marks-doctrine marks-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond Whether Mr. Shakespeare's five-year mandatory minimum revocation term of imprisonment is valid
22-5824 Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings Whether the Georgia statute OCGA 42-1-12 violates the Due Process Clause and the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution
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?
22-5639 Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
22-5577 Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in allowing the child video interview and whether T.C.A. section 24-7-123 is unconstitutional?
22-5503 Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons…
22-179 United States v. Helaman Hansen Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) 8-usc-1324 commercial-advantage constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment immigration immigration-law overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine private-financial-gain statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in v…
22-5425 William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-removal federal-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation removal sanction-fees sanctions vexatious-litigant Should-removal-from-state-court-to-federal-court-be-allowed-only-after-state-court-hearing
22-149 Rosalie Weisfeld, et al. v. John Scott, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-challenge election-law enforcement-authority ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federalism sovereign-immunity standing state-official Whether a state's chief election officer may invoke sovereign immunity solely because local officials carry out day-to-day election administration dut…
22-5372 Tony Lee Foster v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Federal and U.S. Supreme Court precedent demands Kansas Supreme Court precedent civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-precedent judicial-review kansas-supreme-court procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-precedent state-statute statutory-review supreme-court-precedent Whether a state high court can deny review of a constitutional challenge to its own statute when procedural due process, state precedent, and federal …
22-119 Christian Action League of Minnesota, et al., v. Mike Freeman, in His Official Capacity as Hennepin County Attorney Eighth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution due-process enforcement-authority free-speech pre-enforcement-challenge standing Whether, if a law authorizes both private and public enforcement, and a credible threat of private enforcement exists, a plaintiff may bring a pre-enf…
22-5321 William S. Divine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the court's application of 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(1) with complete zeal, while failing to apply 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(2) with equal zealousness, viol…
22-5193 Shaidon Blake v. Maryland Maryland 2022-07-26 Denied IFP appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard Did the courts err in their interpretation and application of Strickland v. Washington in petitioner's case, failing to find ineffective assistance of…
22-5167 Regis Storm Ervin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583g constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
22-59 Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal la…
21-8084 Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Amici (1)IFP as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing Whether federal courts may direct specific alterations to a state's execution protocol in an as-applied challenge under the Eighth Amendment
21-7971 Gaston Salazar-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-7890 Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech legislative-procedure legislative-process legislative-rules representative-rights separation-of-powers standing voting-rights Whether the eight rules of the IL 102nd General Assembly cited in this case violate and nullify Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr's. right to have his el…
21-7819 Kevin Ray Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect Whether Petitioner has Article III standing to challenge conduct not within the precise subject matter of nationwide Federal police power enforcement
21-7823 Robert L. Allum v. Montana Montana 2022-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation Whether a 46-year history of a state court violating due-process rights constitutes sufficient injury to the judicial system
21-7773 Eric Middlebrook v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for the…
21-1402 Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech
21-7559 Vitaly Kolosha v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge detention-powers due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law legal-standing retroactivity state-law state-official state-sovereignty treason Whether a new SCOTUS ruling is automatically retroactive and applies to all cases
21-7537 Leonardo Gutierrez v. Texas Texas 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence facial-challenge judicial-jurisdiction jury-trial penal-code ramos-v-louisiana Whether Texas Penal Code §21.02 is unconstitutional on its face
21-7554 William Burke v. Rosa Childs, et al. Georgia 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge court-access due-process incarcerated-litigants necessary-state-interest procedural-fairness statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Does OCGA § 42-12-8 unconstitutionally prevent equal-access-to-courts
21-7433 Donnell Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-7450 Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,…
21-7359 Kaleb Gattis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-7340 Joseph Louis Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner's false carrier letter must be considered as the ultimate basis of a defendant's commission of a crime under 35 U.S.C. 35530
21-1239 Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati…
21-1235 Robert Grundstein v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2022-03-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech standing statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigator Is the Ohio Vexatious Litigator Statute, ORC 2323.52, Unconstitutional on the basis of vagueness and insufficient standards?
21-7264 Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation Does the United States Constitution guarantee a United States citizen due process and equal protection under the law?
21-7227 Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a 'separate sentence' in addition to the 'sentence of imprisonment', i…
21-7195 James Leon Higgins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
21-7176 Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United St…
21-1160 Alfred Morin v. William Lyver, et al. First Circuit 2022-02-22 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation gun-rights licensing-requirements misdemeanor-restrictions second-amendment standing state-regulation Whether a state can impose a lifetime ban on purchasing handguns against anyone who has been convicted of a nonviolent misdemeanor involving guns
21-7115 Robert Stahlnecker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech?
21-1120 Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing Whether ever-changing and ongoing government-issued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions
21-6977 Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-petition postal-service-interference pro-se-litigant sex-trafficking sua-sponte-dismissal Question not identified
21-6957 David Kent Thacker, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied IFP amendment-due-process civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process exclusionary-rule federal-intervention investigation-scope miranda-rights pecuniary-interest self-incrimination whether MERANDA is part of the 5th Amendment's protection
21-1001 Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyon…
21-6850 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge district-court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandatory-hearing post-conviction-motion post-conviction-relief standing state-court-hearing state-court-review Whether a state court's denial of a mandatory hearing on a post-conviction motion was unconstitutional
21-951 Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine Did the Tenth Circuit err?
21-6735 Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-photography constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment government-interest intermediate-scrutiny public-place strict-scrutiny Did the appellate court err in applying intermediate scrutiny to a content-based statute criminalizing photographs of children, and does the statute v…
21-6714 In Re Rafael Verdejo-Ruiz 2021-12-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel military-appellate-review speedy-trial standing takings ucmj-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
21-6723 Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018)
21-6666 Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals district-court due-process legal-review military-service standing supreme-court Was the district court's discretion regarding issue A erroneous?
21-909 Khai Quang Bui v. Hernan Ruiz Cabaellero Virginia 2021-12-21 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment adverse-decision amendment-fourteen civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-decision procedural-due-process Does the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV Section 1 Procedural Due Process contradict the process, procedure, evidence, and decision of a U.S. court in…
21-6589 Lamont Guinyard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause
21-6529 Brandon Lamont Jenkins v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-06 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure matloff-v-wallace mcgirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma applies retroactively to final convictions
21-6532 Mary Noel Kruppe v. California California 2021-12-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law Whether the Appellate court's dramatic expansion of the law of homicides in People v. Watson (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 240 violates the defendant's due proces…
21-6503 Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
21-6489 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2021-12-02 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme Does the trial judge have the authority to make the charge a first degree felony?
21-6465 Andrew John Gibson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed at…
21-6485 R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(0) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
21-810 Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42-U.S.C-§1983 challenging the constitutionalit…
21-6417 Mausean Carter v. Maryland Maryland 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law Whether the lower courts' decision conflicts with an important federal question
21-6372 James Michael Bartley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights competency-proceeding constitutional-challenge due-process gun-rights judicial-review mental-competency mental-illness right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing Whether the government may deny a law-abiding citizen their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment based solely on a competency proceeding that…
21-6351 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing Whether the right to a direct appeal can be waived, diminished or abandoned due to a silent record?
21-751 Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System Louisiana 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived compensation-calculation constitutional-challenge equal-protection judges law-enforcement retirement-benefits state-employees statutory-interpretation supplemental-pay Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System violate the Equal Protection Clause?
21-727 Robert R. Snyder v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied access-to-courts active-interference civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process law-library-access plausibility-standard prisoner-rights procedural-due-process prospective-relief standing Did the lower court incorrectly apply Christopher-v-Harbury
21-686 Maria Esparraguera v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied administrative-law civil-service-reform-act constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board senior-executive-service whether-the-federal-circuit-erred-in-holding-that-neither-it-nor-the-mspb-may-review-a-career-senior-executive's-removal-from-the-senior-executive-ser…
21-601 Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. Amy Berman Jackson, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irs judicial-review pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen…
21-6067 Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility West Virginia 2021-10-25 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a judicially crafted residual clause unconstitutional?
21-588 United States v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-22 Dismissed Amici (20) abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent Whether Texas's S.B. 8 violates the Supreme Court's precedents on abortion rights
21-6046 Jacques Lisbey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional
21-5986 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee Virginia 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-law property-rights summary-judgment unlawful-detainer Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia's Opinion properly addressed the questions regarding the rules on granting summary judgment; or the constitution…
21-5967 Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver Does an unconditional guilty plea waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) on the grounds that Davis rendered it…
21-527 Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute Whether the Supreme Court has abandoned its precedent in Norton v. Shelby County regarding the void ab initio doctrine
21-5858 Enrique E. Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver actual-innocence,plea-agreement,waiver,indictment,collateral-attack,commerce-clause,gonzales-v-raich
21-5790 Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a 'crime of violence,' unconstitutionally vague, whe…
21-5772 Charles Eason v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation When the Appellate Court of a chemical that 'could' be used to manufacture a 'serious drug' is remand required?
21-5728 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-appeal administrative-exhaustion appointment-clause carr-v-saul civil-procedure constitutional-challenge patent-registration principle-officer trademark-board Whether under Carr v. Saul the exhaustion of administrative appeal to the Trial Trademark Board can be bypass directly appealing to the Court of Appea…
21-5652 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-procedure civil-petition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contempt due-process fraud fraud-on-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation standing Whether effective limitations on government power can define fraud on the court and criminal contempt in judicial misrepresentation of citizens' civil…
21-5645 In Re Donald Mack 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules?
21-5387 Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h)
21-5384 William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue?
21-189 Patrick Okey v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-10 Denied Response Waived and Fourteenth Amendments and whether the Commonw Eighth constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment laches laches-doctrine sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Speedy Trial Rule (600) is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment, and whe…
21-155 John M. Custin v. Harold J. Wirths, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process inquisitorial-proceedings misconduct notice property-rights unemployment-benefits Does the deprivation of unemployment benefits based on a charge of 'misconduct connected to the work' when the only issue the employer disputed was 'v…
21-5299 John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-08-04 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 discriminate who is and is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing fac…
21-5277 Samuel Eaddy v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge disabilities due-process effective-counsel jurisdictional-time-limits mental-health mental-health-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-requirements Are the jurisdictional time limits imposed by Pennsylvania's Post-Conviction Relief Act unconstitutional as applied to individuals with severe brain a…
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…
21-86 Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (9) administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law federal-courts federal-trade-commission judicial-review jurisdiction removal-protections separation-of-powers Whether Congress impliedly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's structure…
21-91 Wesley Perkins v. Whitney Brewster, Executive Director, Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelled-arbitration constitutional-challenge criminal-sanctions due-process pleading-standard standing statutory-challenge statutory-interpretation transportation-code vehicle-definition Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE unconstitutional as applied?
21-5102 Jaime Meza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to determine materiality
21-5061 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide a criminal defendant with a meaningful opp…
20-8464 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointment-clause article-i congressional-intent constitutional constitutional-challenge enrolled-bill enrolled-bill-doctrine field-v-clark judicial-review patent patent-trademark-judges Whether Arthrex a hoax does not control be foreclosed from deciding appointment clause problem instead is Field v. Clark 143 US 649 (1892) that contro…
20-8369 Clarence Clark v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent
20-8328 Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand
20-8260 Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court Whether Louisiana's post-conviction procedure violates due process
20-8267 Christopher Jermaine Kelley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea judicial-review parties plea-bargaining Question not identified
20-1700 Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio…
20-8050 Jennifer Van Bergen, aka Gwendolyn Stone v. Scott Koppel Florida 2021-05-18 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection indigent medical-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigant separation-of-powers Does the Florida Medical Malpractice Act's presuit medical expert affidavit requirement violate the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and the 5th…
20-1595 Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied appellate-waiver arms-export-control-act class-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute executive-authority intelligible-principle rule-12(b)(3) separation-of-powers Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under the Arms Export Control Act, and whether those regulations and the Act violate …
20-8048 James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-05-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme Whether Florida's death penalty scheme is unconstitutional as applied because the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the 'especially heinous, atroci…
20-8030 Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-05-14 Denied IFP civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing Whether the court can compare Wilson's vagueness on an element to suggest possession with intent to sell and deliver
20-8012 Jack Vo v. California California 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law judicial-review public-interest standing supreme-court-discretion supreme-court-review voting-rights Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review a case of public importance that was denied consideration by the lower courts
20-7735 DeAndre Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2021-04-14 Denied IFP advocacy-appearance constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-breach evidentiary-issues fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court reversibly erred in admitting highly prejudicial and irrelevant evidence related to an alleged threat to Ms. Branson by Petiti…
20-7719 Robert L. Tatum v. Thomas Trettin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes-rule Whether the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) 3-strike rule is unconstitutional
20-1405 Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas Illinois 2021-04-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law Whether Sharia is contrary to our Constitution and laws?
20-7649 Robert Earl Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process frequency-of-orgasms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-victim-testimony sexual-battery uncorroborated-statement witness-testimony Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the testimony of the state's witness when she testified to the frequency of orgasms occ…
20-1380 Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review deprived Petitioner of its vested property in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention is applicable and the district court may decline jurisdiction when there is a state administrative proceeding brought under…
20-1331 Arthur J. Clemens, Jr. v. Local One Service Employees International Union, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied civil-rights class-counsel constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment free-speech labor standing union union-governance Should 29 USC 481(c) be declared Unconstitutional
20-7524 Mathew Ryan Byrd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review parolee probationer search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search and seizure of a person's home and personal effects based solely on the person's status …
20-7502 Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in upholding petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) despite his as-applied Second Amendment challenge
20-1277 Richard Meyer v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-03-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeitability forfeiture kentucky kentucky-statutes timbs-precedent timbs-v-indiana Does the Kentucky Court of Appeals decision in this case stand in direct contradiction to this Court's decision in Timbs v. Indiana, 139 S.Ct. 682 (20…
20-7451 David K. Jenner v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-revised-statute colorado-statute constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-us unconstitutional Is Colorado Revised Statute § 17-22.5-403(2)-(3.5) unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment due process protections?
20-7442 Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper burden and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand…
20-7445 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. SunTrust Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-12 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation third-amendment Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioners' civil complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-1236 Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 Is Anderson being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment because Va. Code Sections 18.2-361 and 18.2-366 are u…
20-7366 In Re John Peyton Alexander 2021-03-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process earned-time-credits ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing successive-petition Whether the AEDPA excludes an entire category of prisoners from seeking successive habeas corpus writs to raise due process claims
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'…
20-1219 Carline Maria Curry v. Douglas Mackenzie Ohio 2021-03-03 Rehearing Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge damages-calculation default-judgment due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-denial partial-liability resubmission summons-process Whether the plaintiff should have been awarded the amount prayed for in the initial complaint under Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 4 and Rule 54(C…
20-7317 Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing Whether the United States District Court decision to deny Petitioner's §2254 Habeas Corpus Petition as untimely is constitutional
20-7300 Robbull Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Bryant's constitutional challenges to his guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g…
20-1080 Stephen Edward May v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-challenge counsel-conduct counsel-performance effective-assistance hypothetical-strategies hypothetical-strategy ineffective-assistance judicial-deference performance-evaluation record-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Can a court find counsel's conduct to be effective under Strickland v. Washington by positing strategies that hypothetically could have, but demonstra…
20-1062 Chad Bennett v. Washington Washington 2021-02-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether defendants may challenge aggravating factors as vague under the Due Process Clause
20-6964 Dallas Ray Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past…
20-6967 Justin Loper v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the appeal where the conviction and sentence were unconstitutional because Hobbs Act robbery is not a…
20-6950 In Re John Poullard 2021-01-26 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Can the United States District Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Clerk of Court refuse to file my FRCP(60)(B)(4) motion for relief from the 2-1 decision ju…
20-6904 Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. Kentucky 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme Whether a court evaluating an ex post facto challenge to a statute that has previously been found to be nonpunitive and has since been amended should …
20-6883 Christopher Brent Garner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
20-928 National Coalition For Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (3) combat-roles constitutional-challenge equal-protection fifth-amendment gender-discrimination military-draft rostker-v-goldberg selective-service Whether the federal requirement that men but not women register for the Selective Service, authorized under 50 U.S.C. § 3802(a), violates the right to…
20-6825 Andrew Andersen v. Marisela Montes, Commissioner of California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment greenholtz-v-inmates-of-nebraska parole parole-denial prisoners-rights protected-freedoms swarthout-v-cooke Did this Court's ruling in Swarthout v. Cooke and Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska foreclose First Amendment challenges against statements of reasons…
20-6808 Thomas Traficante v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges courts-of-appeals direct-appeal due-process ripeness risk-condition second-circuit sentencing-reform-act sentencing-review supervised-release Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Traficante's constitutional challenges to his risk condition of supervision as unripe on …
20-6736 Salvador Diaz v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection whether-the-court-of-appeals'-failure-to-remedy-the-district-court's-improper-venue-selection
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 …
20-6667 Ronald Douglas v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights communications-act constitutional-challenge due-process eminent-domain government-owned-stations human-rights-violations jurisdiction property-rights takings Whether the district court had exclusive jurisdiction over the in rem eminent domain action
20-6640 James David Perryman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a…
20-6641 Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce clause and whether the statute requires knowledge of the interst…
20-810 Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (11)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit Pennsylvania to bar equitable relief for constitutional challenges to election laws?
20-815 Timothy King, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection michigan-election-code preliminary-injunction voter-fraud Whether the petitioners have presented sufficient evidence to support three claims pursuant to 42 USC§ 1983: (Count I) violation of the Elections and …
20-6618 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Whether an appeal brought under 28 U.S.C. 2255 is subject to the avenue of relief granted when an appellate court fails to adequately resolve ineffect…
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled?
20-6513 Calvin Teko Coston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-imprisonment revocation sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
20-704 Cesar Santana v. California California 2020-11-20 Denied age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender Does California create a liberty interest when it enacted legislation in response to Miller v. Alabama?
20-6303 Lamar Whatley v. Illinois Illinois 2020-11-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the separation of powers clause allows the legislature to limit the scope of judicial discretion in sentencing by deeming certain aggravating …
20-651 Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. Texas 2020-11-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act Whether private doctors who discontinue private care for a private patient at a private hospital are state actors for invoking a state law's internal-…
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…
20-594 Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona Arizona 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law Is a court rule defining and prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law an unconstitutional abridgment of commercial speech?
20-6196 Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in admitting inadmissible and prejudicial hearsay testimony
20-556 Special Services Bureau, Inc., dba Regional Bonding Co. v. Circuit Court of West Virginia, Berkeley County West Virginia 2020-10-27 Denied arbitrary-discretion bail-bondsmen constitutional-challenge discretionary-power due-process good-moral-character statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether W.Va. Code § 51-10-8 violates the due-process, vagueness
20-6138 Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process in his criminal trial
20-6034 Christopher Thieme v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-challenge equal-access-to-courts equal-protection equitable-estoppel first-time-filer habeas-corpus material-mutual-mistake suspension-clause Whether the doctrine of equitable estoppel or material mutual mistake applies to reset the AEDPA statute of limitations clock
20-482 Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. v. Adams & Boyle, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-order executive-order medical-procedures mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether the Sixth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and remanded as moot under Munsingwear
20-6007 William Harold Wright, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence venue Did the District Court err in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment?
20-462 Jesse Louis Kaiser v. Anthony R. Morfitt, Assistant United States Attorney Eighth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Jurisdiction-challenge
20-403 Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California California 2020-09-28 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e) is unconstitutional
20-5807 Geoffrey Graham v. Grady Perry, Warden, et al. Georgia 2020-09-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process indigent-prisoner judicial-discretion pro-se regulations standing state-court-procedure state-courts statutory-interpretation Is a pro se indigent prisoner held to a higher standard than state courts?
20-385 Judy Doe v. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge due-process establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-belief religious-liberty undue-burden undue-burden-standard Is the Establishment Clause violated by the proclamation that 'The life of each human being begins at conception. Abortion will terminate the life of …
20-373 Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to argue that the behavior of the Commission on Judicia…
20-5671 Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights Is Michigan's statute, MCL 600.2963(8) unconstitutional on its face and/or as applied to this petitioner, as violating the right of access to courts a…
20-5596 Kevin Dean Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Does Beckles v. United States foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that guideline is defined by a crim…
20-276 Christopher M. Gibson v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Amici (7) administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause constitutional-challenge dodd-frank free-enterprise-fund jurisdictional-review lucia-v-sec sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission separation-of-powers Whether Congress has implicitly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate separation-of-powers challenges to the authority of SEC…
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen…
20-5508 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment?
20-5531 Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional
20-5441 Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b Whether reasonable jurists could debate the limitation on cross-examination of prosecutor about peremptory strikes in Batson claim
20-5374 In Re Amro Elansari 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-prohibition class-of-one constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review mandamus-writ medicinal-value substantive-due-process Does the failure of the Third Circuit and other courts to consider the Plaintiff's substantive due process claims applied to the prohibition of cannab…
20-162 Damon J. Claiborne v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-double-jeopardy administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process retroactive-enforcement retroactive-rule separation-decision separation-decisions statutory-authority Whether the Secretary violated departmental regulations that prohibited administrative double jeopardy
20-146 Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas Texas 2020-08-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Section 20A.03 of the Texas Penal Code is unconstitutional
20-5313 Melquan Tucker v. New York New York 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felony-penalties home-protection second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny takings Whether New York's Penal Law § 265.01-b(1) is unconstitutional as applied
20-5071 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-07-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with 14th Amendment due-process
20-44 In Re David A. Golden 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process false-claims-act free-speech judicial-discretion rule-of-law standing Whether the 9th Circuit and Western Washington District Court have abused their discretion
20-5100 Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the state's arrest of the plaintiff was frivolous
20-5087 Italo Ebaristo Napa Moreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge due-process johnson jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act miranda prosecutorial-discretion stateless-vessel Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts or nexus requirement
20-17 Wade Robertson v. Richard A. Honn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1963 civil-procedure constitutional-challenge federal-judgment-registration federal-preemption fraud-on-court judgment-registration registration-court rendering-court state-proceeding void-judgment younger-abstention Whether a registration court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1963, has the power to amend or annul the judgment of the rendering court so registered
20-5024 Calvin Earl Brown v. Blair Williams, Clerk, Superior Court of North Carolina, Wake County Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing state-court-procedure state-official Whether it is unconstitutional that this pro se litigant (Petitioner) is denied the ability to be able to challenge the explicit correctness of a stat…
20-5029 Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy Montana 2020-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution free-speech hearsay-impeachment jury-verdict ministerial-oath standing stare-decisis Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated (MCA) in-…
20-5030 Jimmy Lee Franklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-provision acca-sentence burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant federal-statutory-enhancement-provision retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing-relief statutory-enhancement Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing that his sentence may have been based…
20-5012 In Re Jeanette Woolsey-Ross 2020-07-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process equal-protection federal-state-laws judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legislative-intent standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified
19-8897 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review Whether a pro se petitioner is entitled to a liberal construction of their court papers or fair amendment, when the prosecutor presented no evidence t…
19-1451 Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge federal-circuit forfeiture ksr-international-co-v-teleflex-inc obviousness patent-act patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board pending-case separation-of-powers Whether a court can refuse to entertain a constitutional, separation-of-powers challenge based on an intervening change of law on the grounds of forfe…
19-8845 Charles Grover Brant v. Florida Florida 2020-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
19-1420 Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction
19-1387 Waseem Daker v. Theodore Jackson, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act religious-exercise three-strikes three-strikes-provision Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act 'three-strikes' provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), is unconstitutional as applied to deny a prisoner access to c…
19-1392 Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Judgment Issued Amici (141)Relisted (22) abortion civil-rights constitutional-challenge dignity-of-unborn due-process health medical-profession medical-profession-protection pre-viability-abortion standing third-party-standing undue-burden-standard women's-health Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional
19-8675 Issac Oral Chandler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Should this Court grant review to determine whether the mandatory provision for revocation of supervised release set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) viol…
19-8603 Melvin P. White, Jr. v. Internal Revenue Service Fourth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-docket-entry civil-procedure constitutional-challenge district-court-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-review notice-and-certification procedural-standards record-keeping standard-of-review Did the U.S. District Court fail to enter a petition for review by the Supreme Court, causing the exclusion of a prior order for money owed in the civ…
19-8448 Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing Whether an 18-year-old defendant's de facto life sentence violates the Illinois proportionate penalties clause
19-8394 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have duty to hear 42-usc-1983 action challenging state-court rule
19-8387 Robert C. Caldwell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute Whether sentencing defendants under both the Carjacking Statute and the Firearm Statute violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-8232 William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights Whether the Petitioner is another example of the deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from se…
19-8235 Justin K. Eaton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP beckles-v-us braxton-v-us constitutional-challenge dillon-v-us judicial-review retroactive-effect sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission's interpretations of the sentencing guidelines must be given retroactive effect
19-1204 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent-law patent-law-retroactivity patent-office retroactive-application retroactivity takings Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review to patents that were applied for before the America Invents Act violates the Fifth Amendmen…
19-8141 Eric Jeffrey Cowan v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights Constitutional-Challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment Judicial-Review jurisdiction Legal-Interpretation Petitioner-Rights standing Should Petitioner receive relief under United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection
19-8143 Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. Brevard County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP ad-valorem-tax civil-rights constitutional-challenge discovery discovery-rights due-process procedural-requirements property-rights quiet-title standing tax tax-authority Whether appellees have authority without a statute law by Congress to impose tax for private household goods and personal effects that are non-commerc…
19-8119 Walter E. Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process essential-element felony-murder judicial-review jury-instruction standing Whether the conviction for a crime without proof of an essential element of that crime violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-8121 Nikkolas Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP admiralty-rules burden-of-proof civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-challenge currency-seizure due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the 2000 amendments to the Civil Asset Forfeiture act are constitutional where it requires a Claimant to prove the source of the funds in ques…
19-8130 Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction Correcting-erroneous-denial-of-extraordinary-writ
19-1177 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-1-section-1 article-i-section-1 constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine presidential-discretion presidential-powers section-232 separation-of-powers tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Is section 232 facially unconstitutional on the ground that it lacks any boundaries that confine the President's discretion to impose tariffs on impor…
19-8045 Raymond Mata, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-19 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment legislative-veto nebraska nebraska-legislature referendum referendum-power standing veto Whether the citizens of Nebraska through improper use of their referendum power, or the trial court or Nebraska Supreme Court through erroneous approv…
19-1140 In Re Wesley Perkins 2020-03-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction recusal statutory-construction access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process probation-revocation standing statutory-construction texas-code-of-criminal-procedure Is TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 42A.755(e) unconstitutional, as applied?
19-7999 Christopher Parker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) categorically a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) w…
19-7990 Gabriel L. Roman v. Sarah H. Kim, et al. California 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-access standing vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute is Unconstitutional
19-1110 Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional…
19-7864 Derek Crosby v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-03 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum?
19-7777 John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-1047 Michael Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Damon Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. California 2020-02-24 Denied and whether California's vexatious litigant statu appellate-opinions bill-of-rights civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process first-amendment full-faith-and-credit standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes void-court-opinions void-grant-deed Whether the court erred in failing to declare the grant deed void as a result of the void court opinions, which is necessary for the proper dispositio…
19-994 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-agency-action state-agency-actions state-court-judgments Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violated the Due Process Clause when applying the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
19-975 Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2020-02-04 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law border-wall constitutional-challenge homeland-security immigration-law immigration-reform non-delegation-doctrine Presentment-Clause separation-of-powers Whether ITRIRA § 102(c) violates the separation-of-powers, the non-delegation-doctrine, and the Presentment-Clause
19-7449 Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review Whether the involuntary civil commitment of a non-dangerous individual violates due process and the Eighth Amendment
19-7417 Corey Michael Edwards v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Can a conviction in North Carolina state court involving the breaking and entering of outbuildings (storage sheds) that were visibly and actually padl…
19-7163 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts have an affirmative duty to exercise jurisdiction over a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging a state court rule
19-840 California, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response WaivedRelisted (2) affordable-care-act article-iii-standing congress-power constitutional-challenge due-process minimum-coverage-provision severability standing tax-power taxation Whether the individual and state plaintiffs in this case have established Article III standing to challenge the minimum coverage provision in Section …
19-841 United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation Whether the individual and state plaintiffs (respondents here) possess Article III standing to challenge the constitutionality of Section 5000A
19-7121 Jay F. Shachter v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-adjudication administrative-hearing administrative-hearings civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process employment-status judicial-independence municipal-ordinance municipal-ordinances state-supreme-court-split Whether the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions in the City of Chicago violates due-process
19-6964 David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights Issue being raised
19-6976 James Clayton Johnson v. Arizona Arizona 2019-12-17 Denied IFP arizona capital-punishment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings meaningful-opportunity standing Does a court deprive a capital defendant of his due process right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard when the defendant challenges the constituti…
19-6810 Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment Whether there is pretense that the statutes and laws of the state under which Mr. Gregley is convicted of, are repugnant to the Constitution and laws …
19-6764 Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighter's Retirement and Relief Board District of Columbia 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability disability-benefits disability-provisions due-process employment police-firefighters property-interest property-rights takings takings-clause Are the provisions of the United States Constitution, Amendment 5, Due Process Clause, compelled and/or implied as pertains to the expressed statutory…
19-668 Courtney Bird v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response Waived child-abuse-registry constitutional-challenge continuing-violation continuing-violations due-process erroneous-listing liberty-interest procedural-safeguards statute-of-limitations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the dismissal of Courtney's § 1983 claim as untimely?
19-647 Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-iii-standing certainly-impending chain-of-events constitutional-challenge eleventh-circuit future-injury speculative speculative-harm speculative-injury standing standing-article-iii substantial-likelihood supreme-court Does the Eleventh Circuit's 'substantial likelihood' test for Article III standing relating to future injuries comport with this Court's 'certainly im…
19-599 Samuel C. Mohorne v. Beal Bank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection foreclosure free-speech homestead-property property-rights standing state-court statutory-interpretation writ Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
19-6522 William Smith v. Texas Texas 2019-11-07 Denied IFP blood-draw constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-interpretation mandatory-blood-draw missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause public-safety search-and-seizure texas-transportation-code warrantless-search Was the Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers' mandatory blood draw constitutional under the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by Missouri v. McNee…
19-6539 Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere Fourth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing Whether the federal court erred in upholding the petitioner's mandatory sentence for a drug-trafficking conviction under North Carolina General Statut…
19-6516 Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to comply with heightened pleading standards
19-6531 Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability
19-6459 Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 5th and 14th Amendment Rig…
19-6450 Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas Texas 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction
19-6453 James E. Lang v. Florida Florida 2019-10-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of its statutory law committed by its lower appellate court, that has affirmed a con…
19-552 William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act rooker-feldman-doctrine standing third-party-standing title-ii-ada Does an attorney have standing to challenge a state's adult conservatorship/guardianship practices?
19-6395 V. A. C. v. J. L. W. Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion If it can be proven that the relied upon convictions in a Termination of Parental Rights action are unconstitutional and unreliable, does deference & …
19-6364 Eduardo Duffy, aka Eduardo Duffy-Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship-definition citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge conviction-review due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry judicial-precedent morales-santana severability statutory-interpretation Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 187 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant …
19-6331 Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida Florida 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework
19-6253 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 USCS 4246, 4248, 4241(d) are unconstitutionally vague for failing to define 'mental disease' and 'reasonable cause'
19-6263 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
19-481 In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy 2019-10-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions regarding his candidacy in the 2016 and 2020-2024 elections
19-6243 Jackie Ray Patrick v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process indictment indictment-validity jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mississippi-law standing state-law void-for-failure-to-state-offense void-for-vagueness Whether Patrick's conviction and sentence were derived from a defective indictment
19-6102 Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should grant petitioner's certificate of appealability pursuant to Miller v. Cockrell, 537 U.S…
19-422 Patrick J. Collins, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-30 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (3) administrative-law agency-independence agency-structure congressional-appropriations constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-housing-finance-agency independent-agency presidential-removal separation-of-powers standing Whether FHFA's structure violates the separation-of-powers
19-6088 Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant …
19-381 Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company Tennessee 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118 unconstitutional as applied?
19-5995 Jason L. Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining statute-of-conviction Does a guilty plea bar a criminal defendant from later collateral attack on his conviction on the ground that the statute of conviction violates the c…
19-5793 Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Alexander's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction must be vacated in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019)
19-5754 Charmar Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
19-245 GEFT Outdoor L.L.C. v. City of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana Seventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-unconstitutionality first-amendment free-speech injunction ordinance-validity prior-restraint speech-rights standing Whether a citizen who seeks to exercise core First Amendment rights must first seek and obtain an order from a court of competent jurisdiction invalid…
19-5578 Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process…
19-5511 Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of a civil case by a district court for lack of jurisdiction over an incarcerated petitioner violates the Eighth Amendment's pro…
19-5525 Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law Is there an issue of judicial conspiracy and malice to overtly conceal offenses of police officers against honest citizens fit the description, for th…
19-161 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-removal habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause Whether Section 1252(e)(2) is unconstitutional under the Suspension Clause as applied to respondent
19-160 Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al. Washington 2019-08-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court can authorize a pro tem judge to exercise judicial power consistent with the Supremacy Claus…
19-5303 Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision?
19-67 United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Judgment Issued Amici (11) civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi…
19-5043 Justin Panus v. Texas Texas 2019-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of an offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate…
19-5033 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with
19-5025 Isaac Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) conviction …
18-1569 Richard Chamberlain, et ux. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. New York 2019-06-24 Denied comptroller-of-treasury-of-maryland-v-wynne constitutional-challenge domicile dormant-commerce-clause double-taxation intangible-income interstate-taxation state-taxation tax-credits tax-jurisdiction tax-residency wynne-precedent Whether a state tax scheme that taxes the intangible income of individuals who are domiciled in the State and certain individuals not domiciled in the…
18-1570 Samuel Edelman, et ux. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. New York 2019-06-24 Denied Amici (5) double-taxation due-process residency state-taxation tax-credits ' domicile' comptroller-of-treasury-of-maryland-v-wynne constitutional-challenge domicile dormant-commerce-clause intangible-income interstate-taxation state-taxation tax-credits wynne-precedent The issue being raised is whether a state tax scheme that taxes the intangible income of individuals who are domiciled in the State and certain indivi…
18A1351 Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC Massachusetts 2019-06-21 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-challenge extension-of-time pro-se statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant experiencing homelessness and medical challenges is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiora…
18A1326 Lisa Montgomery v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge death-penalty federal-habeas section-2255 Whether a federal death row inmate's constitutional rights were violated by the denial of a certificate of appealability and the underlying judicial p…
18-9684 David Prien-Pinto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § …
18A1305 Carolyn Barnes v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine government-sovereignty judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits Congress from delegating legislative authority in a manner that unconstitutionally expands judicia…
18-9633 Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father, violates the equal protectio…
18A1288 Steve Chabot, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. Ohio 2019-06-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge district-court election-law gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering claims present a justiciable federal question that federal courts can adjudicate
18-1521 Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-07 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law de-facto-officer de-facto-officer-doctrine ongoing-injury oversight-board principal-officers puerto-rico relief uncon-stitutional-appointments united-states-constitution Whether the de facto officer doctrine allows for unconstitutionally appointed principal Officers of the United States to continue acting, leaving the …
18-9569 Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA?
18-9581 Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-31 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-1475 Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-28 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response Waived appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation de-facto-officer-doctrine meaningful-relief ongoing-injury principal-officers separation-of-powers standing Does the de facto officer doctrine allow courts to deny meaningful relief to successful separation-of-powers challengers who are suffering ongoing inj…
18-9394 Ward T. Evans v. Delaware Delaware 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) defines three distinct criminal offenses
18A1217 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus johnson-precedent section-924c vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. United States in light of the Supreme Court's vagueness jurisprudence
18-9323 Donald Duhart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 GVR IFP 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is the residual clause definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague?
18-9302 Xing Lin v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-16 GVR IFP 18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
18-9303 Larry Ray Lincks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpretatio…
18-1434 United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto District of Columbia 2019-05-15 Denied 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9263 Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional due to lack of minimum-contacts requirement
18-9244 Danny Herrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-13 GVR IFP and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9219 Yaqob Tafan Thomas v. Joseph P. Meko, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor alternative-means burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-scrutiny due-process jury-instructions presumption richardson-v-us-schad-v-arizona Does it violate the due process clause when a state intentionally refuses to define every elemental fact in 'alternative means' statute thereby creati…
18-9185 Bobby Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-08 GVR IFP 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya and Johnson v United States invalidated the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3…
18-9029 Tyron James v. Kansas Kansas 2019-04-29 Denied IFP appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure Whether a conviction based on an unconstitutional sentencing enhancement can be overturned under this Court's decisions in Apprendi and Alleyne
18-1338 United States v. Joseph Decore Simms Fourth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied 18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-8963 Jose Cobian v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the rule announced in…
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8900 Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 that require judicial factfinding about a prior conviction to increase the mand…
18-1317 American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Amici (3) article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 Whether section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 unconstitutionally delegates legislative power to the President, violating separation of powers
18-8831 Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as…
18-8760 James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony Whether a sentence as a career offender (ACCA) is valid when a prior violent offense conviction (Florida battery on law enforcement), deemed unconstit…
18-8726 In Re Stetory Calhoun 2019-04-08 Denied IFP alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation Whether Act No. 92-601 is unconstitutional on its face because it omits the subject of legislation as passed by the Alabama Legislature
18-8714 Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no…
18-8611 Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a cri…
18-8584 Antwan Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness Is Title 21 U.S.C. §846 ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE BECAUSE IT FAILS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED ESSENTIAL ELEMENT THAT THE DEFENDANT …
18-1245 Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, in Her Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irreparable-harm parental-rights procedural-rights standing state-action tribal-sovereignty younger-abstention Whether the procedures used for preliminary hearings in child removal cases violate due process rights of parents
18-8511 Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Emily Johnson Piper, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Minnesota 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention administrative-appeal breast-cancer breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-rights medicaid medicaid-benefits Whether the Minnesota Supreme Court erred
18-1216 R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. Florida 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis Retaliation against pro se respondents, emolument manipulation, falsification of facts, lack of due process, election irregularities, anti-American bi…
18-8479 Alexander A. Fels v. Mitch McConnell, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-healthcare free-speech healthcare healthcare-policy insurance-regulation legislative-claims obamacare standing statutory-interpretation Were the claims by President Trump, former Speaker Paul Ryan, Senator Mitch McConnell and others, that Obamacare is bankrupting our healthcare industr…
18-8393 Irma Ovalles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied IFP categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-8286 Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether Article 3, section 2, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists of …
18-8224 Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) should be interpreted as including at least a recklessly mens rea element regar…
18-1117 Kabani & Company, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied administrative-framework administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process hearing-officer judicial-review lucia-v-sec procedural-validity ryder-v-united-states separation-of-powers structural-constitutional-objections timely-challenge Whether petitioners who timely challenge the constitutional validity of the administrative framework, including the appointment of the officer adjudic…
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?
18-8063 Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied IFP aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment Is it unconstitutional for the Texas Legislature to authorize a greater punishment range and maximum punishment for aggravated assault - family violen…
18-1096 Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Is California's vexatious litigant law unconstitutionally vague?
18-8100 Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether Senica Franklin's conviction and sentence should be reversed and set aside based upon newly discovered evidence
18-8042 Aaron Maurice Blaylock, aka Stephan Blaylock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate residual-clause unconstitutional Should a certificate of appealability have issued after the district court denied as untimely a 28-U.S.C-2255-motion
18-7953 Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. New Hampshire 2019-02-14 Denied IFP appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a…
18-7967 James Dalton Smith v. Texas Texas 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh…
18-7954 Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan Whether the Slayton rule bars federal habeas relief for a jurisdictional claim
18-7719 Cesar Gomez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code Whether Texas Penal Code § 21.02, is Constitutional under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
18-7660 LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment Whether the 1-year limitation period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) and (D) can be tolled under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and (c)(1), and whether the tim…
18-989 United States v. Marvin Lewis Fifth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7578 Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings
18-7486 Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors Constitutionality-of-the-entire-docket-vanishing-from-the-public-records
18-7510 Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-01-24 Denied IFP 42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process constitute a process to seek 'other collateral review'?
18-7557 Terveus Hyppolite v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional
18-936 Jeremy Kettler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (2) 2nd-amendment congressional-taxing-power constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cox-v-new-hampshire due-process murdock-v-pennsylvania national-firearms-act second-amendment sound-suppressor standing statutory-interpretation tax taxation united-states-v-sonzinsky Whether the National Firearms Act of 1934 continues to be a constitutional exercise of Congress's taxing power
18-7417 Omari Robinson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague?
18-7446 Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioners' COA, when petitioners raise jurisdictional issues that can be ra…
18-7413 Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Does the Fell Faith and Credit Clause apply to the Bradshaw v. Ash case involving disciplinary actions against a prisoner?
18-7352 Giovanni Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18-7284 Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statute, 42 Pa.C…
18-7220 Pashtoon Farooqi v. California California 2019-01-03 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional?
18-7225 Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Florida 2019-01-03 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional?
18-837 Scott Harris, in His Official Capacity as State Health Officer, et al. v. West Alabama Women's Center, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (11) abortion abortion-ban abortion-rights constitutional-challenge dismemberment due-process gonzales-v-carhart medical-debate medical-procedure partial-birth-abortion reproductive-rights state-law state-regulation unborn-child Whether a state ban on dismemberment abortions is unconstitutional where there is a reasonable medical debate that alternatives to the banned procedur…
18-7182 Roy Dean Gates v. Texas Texas 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order Does the Texas court have authority to overrule a state supreme court order?
18-7166 Gerard Mann v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-21 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7136 Mark Hanna v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process incarceration incarceration-rights insurance-requirement motor-vehicle-law retaliation standing vehicle-registration Whether La. RS32:863 of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law is unconstitutional for due process of law
18-7024 Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence — post-trial — without notice are unconst…
18-6981 Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
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
18-6987 Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review Whether the failure of the Arkansas Department of Correction to pay equitable remuneration to its inmate population violates the Thirteenth Amendment'…
18-6946 Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas Texas 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity Can a presentencing waiver of appeal be knowingly and intelligently entered when potential errors cannot be anticipated and the consequences of the wa…
18-6855 Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness Whether appellate counsel was grossly ineffective by arguing a material variance instead of a constructive amendment
18-6789 Delroy McLean v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether an immigration judge is a protected person under 18 U.S.C.S. § 115(a)(1)(B)
18-677 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Jane Doe 2, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction transgender transgender-military-service Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide
18-678 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Aiden Stockman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction standing transgender transgender-military-service transgender-policy Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide
18-6774 Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute Whether a conviction based on a void statute can be used to increase punishment
18-620 Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the state trial court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction
18-629 Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. California 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation Does the Clean Air Act withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of state regulations?
18-6617 James L. Rudzavice v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review separation-of-powers standing supreme-law How can a constitutional challenge be frivolous?
18-561 Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Amici (1) 15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers Is a delegation of Congressional power an 'agency order' or 'agency action' such that a party wishing to challenge that delegation must file that chal…
18-6468 Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden Whether the Government must allege and prove a connection to interstate commerce for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
18-6445 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional Whether the provisions of Rule 36.1 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, Tennessee Code Annotated § 29-21-101, and Tennessee law are unconsti…
18-6407 Ong Vue v. Frank X. Henke, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review parole parole-procedures section-1983 standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Petitioner Vue failed to state a claim' is in contrary to the holding of Wilkinson v. Dotson
18-6359 Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U.S.C. 3661 and 3…
18-6372 Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was withou…
18-6379 Ramess Nakhleh v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a 'loud and unusual noise' unconstitutionally vague?
18-496 Barry Michaels v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felon-disarmament felons firearms-restriction heller heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment standing What does the phrase 'law-abiding, responsible citizens' mean?
18-6343 Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague
18-457 North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust North Carolina 2018-10-11 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) beneficiary-residency constitutional-challenge due-process federalism pennoyer-v-neff state-courts state-revenue state-tax-revenue state-taxation trust trust-income trust-taxation Does the Due Process Clause prohibit states from taxing trusts based on trust beneficiaries' in-state residency?
18-445 Tanya Ramirez v. Texas Texas 2018-10-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code Is Texas Penal Code §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr…
18-6282 Iseal Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional …
18-6241 Edward Jewell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Does this Court's holding in Mathis v United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of whether a prior convictio…
18-6222 Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez Whether as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction are waived by an unconditional guilty plea, and the standard of review
18-428 United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas Tenth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-6204 Jermaine Franklin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement
18-336 Thaddeus Jones, et al. v. Michelle Markiewicz-Qualkinbush, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied 15th-amendment 1st-amendment class-of-one constitutional-challenge Engquist equal-protection first-amendment municipal-referendum political-animus referendum-rights strict-scrutiny Whether the reasoning and decision of Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture extends to the political context, precluding class-of-one equal pro…
18-308 Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause
18-5877 Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad?
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
18-241 Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2018-08-24 Denied constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund Whether the State of Illinois failed to provide the Petitioner taxpayer with a clear and certain post-deprivation procedure consistent with the Due Pr…
18-5685 Clifton Patterson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-5654 Willie Lee Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mathis v. United States is retroactive to cases on collateral review
18-5593 Maurice Mitchell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 Whether the District Court committed error by failing to sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement of the sentence under USSG sectio…
18-5565 Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties whether-the-state-writ-of-habeas-corpus-is-valid
18-137 Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection Whether the application of the District of Columbia's personnel rules, including the Abolishment and DC Whistleblower Acts, by the District's Office o…
18-128 Mohamed Abouelmagd v. Debra Newell California 2018-07-27 Denied business-transaction business-transactions civil-procedure commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection interstate-commerce midwesco-precedent nonresident-tolling out-of-state-residents personal-jurisdiction procedural-defense statute-of-limitations Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents unconstitutional and violative of Bendix…
18-5371 Michael Ellis v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (7th Cir.) of an unconstitu…
18-111 Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor Virginia 2018-07-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional?
18-5293 George Anthony Autobee v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely
18-5066 Edward Vincent Ray v. California California 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine Whether Petitioner's sentence of 36 years violates equal protection due to disparities in California sentences for female and male offenders for the s…
18-5126 Jamal Hamilton v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. 16(b) is unconstitutionally void for vagueness under Johnson v. United States and whether 18 U.S.C. 16(b) can…
24A325 South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge fourth-circuit governmental-interest irreparable-harm sovereign-definition state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign definition and self-identification constitutes a compelling governmental interest sufficient to overcome constitutional ch…
25A343 Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais, et al. Louisiana Presumed Complete congressional-districts constitutional-challenge majority-minority-districts redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional as applied to redistricting and violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments