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25-6726 William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2026-02-05 Pending IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error 1. Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante req…
25-6676 Vincent Terry v. Teresa Bailey, et al. Georgia 2026-01-29 Pending IFP attorney-immunity constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment summary-affirmance 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state appellate court resolves federal constitutional claims through …
25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Pending brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant's …
25-849 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O'Connell District of Columbia 2026-01-15 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived church-autonomy constitutional-claims legal-defense neutral-principles religious-offering state-power For over 1,000 years, Catholics have given an annual offering to the Pope called Peter's Pence. A parishoner claims he was misled during Mass by an in…
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights…
25-6539 Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process executive-overreach frivolousness-standard judicial-review separation-of-powers 1. Whether federal courts can brand as "frivolous" under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) a citizen's constitutional claims supported by official government …
25-798 Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar California 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules 1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional …
25-741 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2025-12-22 Pending Response Waived constitutional-claims federal-court first-amendment petition-clause statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review To protect the right of access to the courts under the First Amendment's Petition Clause, during the petition stage of this Court seeking review of fe…
25-6402 Anwar Mithavayani v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the lower courts provided sufficient and adequate process to test the legality of Petitioner's Detention under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and due pro…
25A657 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Application aedpa constitutional-claims due-process habeas-review ineffective-assistance word-limitation Question not identified.
25-6276 Hisan Lee v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-evidence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process federal-court-review judicial-discretion 1. Due Process and False Evidence: Whether due process is violated when a federal court relies ona demonstrably false affidavit from defense counsel, …
25-6231 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal—requiring federal courts to conduct mandatory Sprint analysis before invoking Younger abstention—u…
25-591 Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claims habeas-corpus judicial-review 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) and this Court's precedents establish that certificates of appealability ("COA") may be issued to habeas petitioners seeking ap…
25A515 Jose Duran, Individually and as Representative of a Class of Judgment Creditors of the Estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied constitutional-claims federal-court judicial-relief preliminary-injunction state-officials status-quo Whether a federal court may issue a preliminary injunction against state officials based on a likelihood of success on constitutional claims without a…
25-6023 Worldly Dieago Holstick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims ineffective-assistance miller-el-precedent plea-voluntariness sentencing-guidelines threshold-inquiry Whether the lower courts violated this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), by collapsing the certificate-of-appealability…
25-6017 John Todd Williams v. Richard J. Sullivan, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion 1. Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status to an indigent litigant raising substantial constitutional claims — including violations of the Four…
25-6002 Linaker Charlemagne v. Florida Florida 2025-10-31 Denied IFP constitutional-claims discretionary-jurisdiction evidentiary-conflicts legal-requirements newly-discovered-evidence record-of-appeal 1. Whether District court departed from essential requirements of law, by not allowing the Record of Appeal to be Supplemented as U.S. 4b Provide a Co…
25-5951 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts 1. Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator …
25-5949 Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-24 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance 1. Whether the Oklahoma courts ' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual …
25A178 Michael Rene Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus post-judgment-motions pro-se-litigation section-2255 Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability (COA) for challenging a district court's denial of post-judgment motions in a 28 …
25-5314 Theodore Justice v. McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts constitutional-claims due-process judicial-admission procedural-limitations section-1983 I. Whether federal appellate courts may dismiss 42 U.S.C. § 1983 constitutional claims through procedural limitations when the underlying due process …
25-5221 Anna Gristina v. Juan Merchan, former New York State Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-proceedings younger-abstention I. Whether the Younge r abstention doctrine requires a federal court to abstain from a state court civil proceeding (where a party seeks to pay for, a…
25A66 Gregory Montgomery v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25-5106 Milad Shaker v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-court jurisdictional-nullity post-conviction-relief 1. Whether a court may impose sentencing or supervised release after dismissing a criminal case under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) , whe…
24-7426 Stephen Lynn Buggs v. Texas Texas 2025-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-constitutional-rights fundamental-issues judicial-review subsequent-writs texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to consider petitioner's claims where he alleged fundamental and federal constitutional issues…
24-7424 Wilberto Arellano v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-tolling Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Equitable Tolling Based on His Claim of Actual Innocence
24-7331 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was proper after appellate review
24-7088 Sam Autry Fletcher v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Does Title 28 U.S.C. §2254(e)(1) provide federal courts discretion to disregard clear and convincing evidence submitted by a state habeas petitioner t…
24-7010 Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's blanket denial of a certificate of appealability complies with Supreme Court standards for COA review and whether the d…
24-6967 Robert Lee Crider v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims ex-post-facto felony-conviction habitual-criminal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in denying Crider's Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misunderstanding his constitutional claims and ap…
24-6828 Eric W. Strong v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-defendant no-merit-appeal Whether an indigent defendant is entitled to his attorney-client file and state court transcripts during a no-merit appeal to preserve constitutional …
24-6787 Ralph Reed v. Delaware Delaware 2025-03-18 Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-rule-61 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief Whether the Superior Court's denial of Reed's postconviction relief motion under Delaware Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 was an abuse of discretion v…
24-6513 Tavon Johnathon Magee v. Michigan Michigan 2025-02-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-standard habeas-relief sixth-amendment Has Petitioner Magee made a proper showing of actual innocence to have his constitutional claims addressed on the merits, and should the Supreme Court…
24A740 Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. Florida 2025-01-28 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims housing-dispute legal-hardship pro-se procedural-challenge supreme-court-review Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges and constitutional claims regarding housing and legal proceedings warrant extraordinary relief or re…
24A664 Pedro Ortiz-Romero v. Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete civil-procedure constitutional-claims discovery-rights discrimination due-process rule-12b6 Whether the district court's dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) and denial of discovery rights violated the plaintiff's constitutional due process protecti…
24-6229 Terrell Jason Armstrong v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Whether the district court erred in summarily denying an evidentiary hearing on claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and whether the Eighth Cir…
24A630 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari constitutional-claims death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's constitutional claims in a complex capital c…
24A538 Anthony Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a new trial when a defendant demonstrates ineffective assistance of counsel that potentially prejudiced the outco…
24A479 Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly denied habeas corpus relief by failing to fully address a defendant's constitutional claims and an intervening Su…
24A350 Eric Shawn Ray v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations Whether a state prisoner can obtain equitable tolling of the one-year federal habeas corpus statute of limitations based on prison lockdowns and delay…
24-5740 Douglas O'Neal v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-10-10 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process jurisdictional-issues pro-se-petition procedural-limitations Whether the lower court's procedural limitations improperly precluded petitioner's substantive constitutional claims and denied meaningful appellate r…
24-5695 Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the Supreme Court should review the lower court's opinion regarding constitutional claims related to sentencing and criminal procedure
24A314 Robert Darrel Batson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when state appellate courts have already adjudicated his ineffecti…
24-5613 In Re Lyndon C. Davis 2024-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the lower court's denial of his constitutional claims and ineffective assistance of couns…
24-5572 Ramon Lopez-Alvarado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Appointment of Counsel, and whether multiple co…
24A242 Paul David Storey v. Texas Texas 2024-09-06 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct victim-impact Whether prosecutorial misconduct that deliberately misrepresents victim's family's views during a capital sentencing proceeding constitutes a violatio…
24-5403 Tynia Levesy v. Christopher Scolese, Director, National Reconnaissance Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rule-26f rule-56d Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over constitutional claims and properly apply procedural rules in this case?
24-5066 Lynual McElroy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel constitutional-amendment constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender speedy-trial speedy-trial
24A27 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete appellate-review comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction state-proceedings younger-abstention Whether federal courts must apply Younger abstention based solely on the state of proceedings at the time a complaint is filed or may consider subsequ…
24-16 Anthony Monroe v. Terry Conner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-interests owens-v-okure personal-injury section-1983 state-law-borrowing statute-of-limitations Whether applying a state's one-year statute of limitations to Section 1983 claims is inconsistent with the federal statutory scheme and the interests …
23A1103 Rahim Caldwell v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims dismissal judicial-procedure no-bid-contracts notice-of-deficiencies pro-se Whether federal courts are required to provide pro se litigants specific notice of pleading deficiencies before dismissing their complaints
23A1087 Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 comports with due process and federal constitutional standards
23-7452 In Re Ramsey Randall 2024-05-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-appeals first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-rights standing Whether the U.S. District Court's determination to dismiss the petitioner's case contradicts Supreme Court precedent
23-1200 Gregory Garmong v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-claims due-process federal-law fifth-amendment ninth-circuit private-right-of-action property-interest Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming dismissal of, and declaring frivolous, constitutional due process claims pursuant to an express private right o…
23-7381 Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Arizona Office of the Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights clemency constitutional-claims constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection executive-clemency habeas-corpus special-action special-action-relief Whether the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying his request for a commutation hearing without …
23-1176 Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals and district court made erroneous judgments in sua sponte dismissing the complainant's cause of action for lack of subjec…
23-7361 Sean A. Gray v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus military-habeas military-justice suspension-clause tenth-circuit Are the Dodson factors a violation of the Suspension Clause and therefore an unconstitutional bar to habeas for military prisoners?
23A945 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims death-sentence habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the correct standard for granting habeas corpus relief in a capital case involving multiple constitutional claims
23-1139 John F. Gallagher v. Northampton County Revenue Appeals Board, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction property-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tax-injunction-act Whether federal subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1331 is barred by the Tax Injunction Act or the doctrine of comity for claims challenging…
23-6752 Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent Whether Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied federal law
23-6743 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims effective-assistance effective-representation exhaustion-requirement exhaustion-requirements habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to 'effective representation' require that an attorney provide meaningful, conflict free consultation prior to the atto…
23A707 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in denying the petitioner…
23A705 Sherman Lee Ridley v. Brian Chambers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state prisoner's constitutional claims
23-6617 Michael J. Harvey v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process free-speech judicial-review medical-assistance standing Did the DC apply de novo review to A.'s Complaint?
23-6610 Wendell C. Helfrick v. Russell L. Rabb, III, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney of Culpeper County Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied IFP cases-and-controversies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing state-court-review Does the state's deprivation of an individual's right to due process violate the established guarantees protected by the Fourteenth Amendment?
23-651 John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings on a gateway innocence claim
23-6174 Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-12-06 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma collateral-proceedings constitutional-claims due-process expert-assistance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel state-prisoners Does a prisoner have a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings that provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assistance…
23A453 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-court-adjudication Whether a federal habeas court may grant relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when state court adjudications fail to provide a full and fair review of a crim…
23-5768 Frank Nathan Escalante v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-rights standing Whether Frank Nathan Escalante's due process rights were violated at any stage of the judicial proceedings
23-5744 In Re Jimmy Wheeler 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collusion constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fraud habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court Whether the Court's ruling in Shady Grove, 559 U.S. 393 (2010) remains active to review fraud, deceit, and collusion
23-330 Ani Creation, Inc., dba Rasta, et al. v. City of Myrtle Beach Board of Zoning Appeals, et al. South Carolina 2023-09-28 Denied amortization board-of-zoning-appeals business-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process penn-central-test takings takings-clause zoning zoning-ordinance Does a city's zoning ordinance prohibiting an existing business from selling legal products constitute a taking?
23-5447 Antonio Chimney v. Texas Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence common-law constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence great-writ habeas-corpus laches writ-of-right May Laches be used to deny an Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus that is based on Actual and Factual Innocence?
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams and Trevino v. Thaler when it holds an ineffective assistance claim was unexhausted and procedurally defau…
23-5047 Omar Javier Torres v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice state-court-findings Whether the federal court of appeals abused its discretion
22-7883 Latron Y. Cross v. Illinois Illinois 2023-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-standing speedy-trial standing state-court-review Whether the Illinois Supreme Court violated the petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial
22-7607 Sensa Verogna v. Andrea K. Johnstone, et al. First Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-duties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process extrajudicial-knowledge federal-judges judicial-immunity judicial-recusal recusal standing Should a judge recuse themselves having learned through their administrative duties, material facts deriving from an extrajudicial source?
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure Whether the Court of appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is contrary to the decision of this Court
22-7076 Servando Pineda-Valdez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claims counsel-performance criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing writ-of-certiorari Whether Servando-Pineda's § 2255 motion sufficiently alleged constitutional claims violations due to counsel's ineffectiveness
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-837 Charles Clark, III, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived capable-of-repetition constitutional-claims evading-review government-defendant government-defendants inter-circuit-conflict judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether the government must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard under the voluntary-cessation exception to mootness
22-6707 Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims damages due-process habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the federal district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims as unconstitutional acts done within the court's jurisdiction?
22-676 Bonnie Carter v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction guardianship-proceeding standing state-agents younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires dismissal of constitutional and federal claims arising from false reports and other lies told by stat…
22-627 Harold L. Wilborn v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claims due-process procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Whether procedural due process under the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are denied, resulting in deprivation of a constitutionally protected …
22-6486 Atiq Weston v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process extraordinary-relief false-evidence false-testimony guilty-plea new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the post-conviction, due process violations exposed by false DNA testing on the petitioner's case warrant a new trial
22-6457 Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-issues constitutional-law district-court-assessment due-process federal-courts judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-rights standing Whether the district court's assessment of petitioner's constitutional claims are debatable or wrong?
22-6241 Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by denying petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, due-process, equal-pr…
22-6204 Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance Whether the district court violated the rule announced in Caines v. Dewac by denying petitioner's motion to stay and abeyance, thereby depriving him o…
22-443 Michael S. Zummer v. Jeffrey S. Sallet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service-reform-act constitutional-claims due-process employment employment-law federal-jurisdiction first-amendment free-speech judicial-review standing Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear colorable constitutional claims by federal employees related to their employment
22-367 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Cooperative de Ahorro y Credito Abraham Rosa, et al. First Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-claims equitable-treatment fresh-start just-compensation takings-clause unsecured-claims Are pre-bankruptcy unsecured claims for just compensation under the Takings Clause uniquely non-dischargeable, unlike every other type of unsecured cl…
22-304 Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl…
22-181 Resurrection School, et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review circuit-conflict constitutional-claims government-defendants judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine presumption-of-good-faith voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness
22-182 Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition 22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor…
22-5413 Roderick Taylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process federal-treaties ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-bar strickland-v-washington Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance revolving around federal treaties
22-5384 In Re Randell Joseph Redmond 2022-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-rights standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of habeas corpus
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…
22-63 Antoin Deneil Marshal v. Texas Texas 2022-07-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laches prosecutorial-misconduct reconsideration standing Whether the TCCA's application of the equitable doctrine of laches constitutes an independent and adequate state law ground that bars review of petiti…
21-8090 Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner Whether 'extraordinary circumstances' are present when a state prisoner's record shows a constitutional error that meets the federal 'plain error' sta…
21-7972 Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana Indiana 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in affirming the post-conviction court's denial of my post-conviction petition for relief
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Whether the criminal justice system lacks common sense in the treatment of pro se litigants
21-7504 Michael Bruce Bynoe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-31 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process equal-protection immunity-provision judicial-jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction racial-discrimination standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause
21-1295 St. Augustine School, et al. v. Jill Underly, in Her Official Capacity as Superintendent of Public Instruction, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-28 Denied constitutional-claims doctrinal-determination establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause government-interference public-benefits religion-clauses religious-preference summary-reversal Whether summary reversal is warranted
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver Whether objections to an untimely dispositive motion are waived if not presented orally prior to the response deadline
21-6977 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
21-6519 Jesse Driskill v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-06 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations constitutional-claims constitutional-review due-process evidence-destruction factual-findings independent-review prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct witness-testimony Whether Missouri's verbatim adoption of the prosecution's factually deficient findings without independent review fails to provide adequate due proces…
21-6533 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing state-court-review Whether the district court erred in its decision regarding the issue at hand?
21-818 EGAE, LLC, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development Ninth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-review civil-monetary-penalties constitutional-claims constitutional-issues due-process hud judicial-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals may refuse to consider constitutional issues raised at the administrative level when reviewing the Secretary of Housing a…
21-6469 Glen Campbell v. J. LaManna Second Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claims counsel-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the District Court overlooked Constitutional Claims and Cause and Prejudice
21-688 Neris Montilla, et al. v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law conservatorship constitutional-claims due-process federal-agency federal-housing-and-finance-agency federal-national-mortgage-association mortgage-association state-actor Whether the Federal National Mortgage Association, when under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing and Finance Agency, is a state actor for purp…
21-6070 Alan Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion in not protecting Petitioner's constitutional right to not be deprived of liberty, where Petitioner…
21-6088 George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the rulings as to the issues related to the withdrawal of claims and related issues debatable of wrong
21-5852 Jay Warren Arnold v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas pro-se-litigation procedural-inquiry state-collateral-review Whether an indigent prisoner's incorporation by reference of constitutional pleadings in the district court is adequate to state a valid claim on appe…
21-5741 Jonathan Godwin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 abandonment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-claims district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an applicant must demonstrate both the debatability of constitutional claims and the debatability of procedural rulings to obtain a certificat…
21-191 Sergei Vinkov v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-claims declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech insurance-coverage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court abused its discretion retaining jurisdiction over the Declaratory Judgment Act (28 USC § 2201(a)) in the insurance dispute
21-5288 Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-review standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the post-conviction pleadings were sufficient
21-5267 Robert Drawn, IV v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court-assessment due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard qualified-immunity reasonable-jurists summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari Did petitioner demonstrate that reasonable jurists would find the district court's assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong?
21-5155 Michael Wayne Shellito v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion postconviction-proceedings standard-of-review Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
21-35 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-usc-702 administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process employment-law federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction opm standing Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to determine its original and lower court's jurisdiction in OPM Investigation Case 01-904-277 and its Dec…
21-37 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-claims default-judgment federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge merit-systems-protection-board mspb-judgment office-of-personnel-management opm-investigation statutory-review void-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit has Jurisdiction or 'lacks jurisdiction' to determine its original and lower court's jurisdiction in OPM Investigation Cas…
20-1798 Sylvanus Rene v. Texas Texas 2021-06-25 Denied appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-court-proceeding witness-credibility Does the appellate court's rejection without explanation of a trial court's favorable, dispositive findings of fact based on witness credibility deter…
20-8337 Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court Appealability of habeas corpus denial
20-8255 Kenneth Darnell Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel more-usual-remedy procedural-bar writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable on a writ of error coram nobis
20-8087 William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to constitutional review and relief on his claims at the appeal level regarding his ineffective assistance of couns…
20-7989 Cash Wallace Pawley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal erred in its unelaborated denial of a certificate of appealability
20-7962 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds Should courts procedurally time-bar a pro-se-inmate's habeas-corpus petition when a prison-official with a serious-health-illness is responsible for t…
20-7916 Shomas T. Winston v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-v-delo Whether a petitioner should be allowed to assert a claim of actual innocence as a gateway to overcome procedurally defaulted constitutional claims wit…
20-1439 Phillip Dwayne Loyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus Whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition solely because a petitioner's factual allegations contradict a guilty plea
20-7720 Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure Are Ferecal Couels Allowed fo Tatecfees with pendine Stete Couet PROCEEDINGS
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7151 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Clifton Harrold, Sheriff, Lane County, Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP bail civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel speedy-trial state-court-review Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability when the petitioner raised debatable constitutional issues
20-7147 Joe Angel Acosta, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions post-conviction-relief procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated in the proceedings leading to his conviction and sentence
20-7077 Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims constitutional-provisions federal-procedure first-step-act gall-v-united-states habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-standards sentencing-reform statutory-provisions supreme-court-review united-states-v-booker Whether the first step act sentencing reform wreak havoc with the United States v. Booker (2005) and Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) precede…
20-1015 Alexi Ortiz v. Alfred D. Walsh, Jr. Maryland 2021-01-28 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-rights standing tax-sale Did the State court's reliance on Quillens v. Moore (requiring an individual to pay taxes, interest, and tax sale purchaser costs prior to any court r…
20-800 Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t…
20-787 Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al. Washington 2020-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-claims due-process evidence evidence-limitation fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing Does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for a state's judicial review statute to bar the introduction of evidence outside the ad…
20-6385 Jason D. Devers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-claims conviction-of-sole-participant criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pinkerton-doctrine post-conviction-relief state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-attorney-affidavit Did the State of Nebraska commit error when it convicted the defendant of felony murder using the Pinkerton doctrine when there is no principal and th…
20-625 Joseph Findler v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-claims dismissal-with-prejudice entitlement-to-relief federal-rules iqbal-twombly pleading-standards subject-matter-jurisdiction unconstitutional-conduct Do the lower federal courts have the authority to depart from the pleading standards required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and this Court's…
20-6263 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-court trial-attorney Whether petitioner is entitled to a copy of the state habeas evidentiary hearing record under the Due Process Clause
20-592 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-action state-court-proceedings Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar federal constitutional claims arising from a government action in the state trial court before a final ruling in …
20-562 John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad…
20-5523 Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure Whether the district court's assessment of the petitioner's constitutional claims was debatable or wrong, and whether the habeas corpus petition claim…
20-5487 Jerome Adams v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub…
20-5492 Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal
20-5466 John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel When a petitioner supplements his constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence, should a Court of Appeals exercise its…
20-5451 Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-08-21 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution When Petitioning for Federal Habeas Relief, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where Conceding Guilt Nevertheless Could Not Have Legally Au…
19-8776 Timothy W. Hatter v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review untimely-filing Whether the court can address the petitioner's habeas petition asking for his APPA rights back when a direct appeal is a fundamental constitutional du…
19-8472 Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure Did the federal court violate petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment rights
19-8357 Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana Montana 2020-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by failing to address Louis's claims of …
19-1245 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus section-2255 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) to review the denial of Peti…
19-8285 In Re David L. Williams 2020-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Circuit?
19-8226 Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition Whether federal constitutional claims were fairly presented under federal law
19-8207 In Re David Dwayne Brown 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review default-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-v-delo Whether the petitioner's claim of actual innocence, supported by newly discovered evidence, entitles him to a de novo review of the merits of his defa…
19-8042 Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi…
19-7861 Sean P. Reilly v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus in-custody in-custody-requirement lackawanna-county-v-cross schlup-v-delo witness-tampering Whether the 'actual innocence' gateway to federal habeas review allows a federal habeas petitioner to overcome the 'in custody' requirement
19-7818 Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington Whether district court required to give deference to state appellate court's finding of historical facts
19-7319 Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings Whether the district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, despite the plaintiff's claims that there were genuine issues…
19-7029 In Re Paul Fahring 2019-12-20 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prison-law-library prison-litigation pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing Whether an inmate has access to the state courts to address his constitutional issues in a guaranteed proceeding
19-6812 Steven Kurt Baughman v. Michael Seale, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-damage burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference due-process hyperglycemia insulin medical-treatment prisoner-rights retaliation serious-medical-needs Whether injecting a prisoner with insulin without knowing his immediate blood sugar level constitutes deliberate indifference to serious medical needs
19-6645 In Re Morgan Allen Armstrong 2019-11-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing Did the state court fabricate the evidence used to convict the petitioner, violate his right to a fair trial, and deny him due process?
19-6532 Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds Whether the lower courts prejudicially abused their discretion in denying both COA and the Rehearing request to review the district court's summary di…
19-6430 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-6342 Michael Shavers v. Lavern Sharp, Deputy Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process excessive-force excessive-use-of-force prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Whether plaintiff is entitled to relief from dismissal of lawsuit - Shavers v. Bergh (excessive use of force claims dismissed on the nature of the sus…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio…
19-6106 Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order Whether a 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis
19-5930 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-5894 Damon Bentley v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment fraud habeas-corpus state-prisoner statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause is violated when a State prisoner is not given a complete and fair hearing in the district court w…
19-5800 Darren Denson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-04 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was denied access to legal materials and s…
19-5612 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Whether the district court and the 5th circuit were correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance of trial couns…
19-5540 Thomas Edward Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fourth Circuit err in dismissing petitioner's constitutional, statutory, and other legal claims?
19-5467 Tyrone Murray v. Wanda Collins, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process factual-allegations grievances motion-to-dismiss prison prisoner-rights pro-se retaliation standing Whether a Pro Se inmate Complaint in a Conspiracy to Commit Murder lawsuit must Contain Specific facts and/or is Subject to a Heightened Pleading Stan…
19-5406 Ronald Lee Coleman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error petitioner-rights procedural-due-process standing takings Whether the District Court erred in failing to address Petitioner's constitutional claims
19-74 Michael A. Willner, et ux. v. James Dimon, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law constitutional-claims due-process fdic federal-deposit-insurance-corporation financial-institutions financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce firrea judicial-review jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the DC Circuit erroneously held that 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(6)(A) required claimants to have filed their constitutional claims against the FDIC i…
19-5108 Donald Covington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in denying the Petitioner the ability to have his substantive constitutional, statut…
19-5066 Jordon Louis Dongarra v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3161 constitutional-claims double-jeopardy due-process federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction plea-agreement prisoner-rights pro-se speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the dismissal of the first indictment under 18 USC 3161(b) and the subsequent untimely indictment without an alignment violates due process an…
19-5054 Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction Whether Hendershott was improperly denied time-credit for turning in his 2854 year old prison authorities to mail months before his deadline
18A1356 Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-24 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit pro-bono summary-judgment wrongful-death Whether a civil rights action for wrongful death can survive summary judgment when the underlying constitutional claims have been dismissed by the low…
18-9690 Curt M. Lockett v. Florida Florida 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions Should 4 habeas petitioners' claims of actual innocence, supported by the facts of the record, be subject to doctrines of abuse or successive use of t…
18-9511 Christopher Stepp v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to § 2254 habeas relief
18-9538 Mark Anthony Head v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-process merits procedural-error procedural-errors rule-60b standing Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to construe the appellant's motion under Rule 60(b)
18-1467 Ty Clevenger v. Melanie Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived abstention administrative-hearing administrative-law article-iii-judges civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-administrative-hearing state-court-judicial-review state-court-review younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Where a state administrative hearing officer is prohibited from hearing a party's federal claim, may a federal court abstain from hearing that claim o…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-8990 Raszell Reeder v. E. Wheldon, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compensatory-damages constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect medical-records medical-treatment mental-health prisoner-healthcare Whether the courts erred in denying the petitioner's claims for compensatory damages for physical and mental trauma caused by the defendants' failure …
18-8924 William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a habeas petitioner can obtain Rule 60(b) relief despite a prior adjudication on the merits
18-8729 Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter Whether the ambiguousness of the term 'material' within Title 18 USC 2252A(a)(2)(B) gives unintended breadth to District Courts to accept pleas of gui…
18-1268 Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California California 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Violen…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the decision of McQuiggin v. Perkins applies retroactively
18-8570 Damien Preston v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-decisions confrontation-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation harmless-error ineffective-assistance jury-determination prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Third Circuit's precedential decision created a conflict among its conflicting decision in Bey v. Superintendent Greene, SCI 856 F3d 230; …
18-8492 Reginald Gibson v. James Haviland, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ohio-constitution post-conviction-relief procedural-default res-judicata state-law Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process of law if the state improperly invokes its res judicata rule
18-8444 Primo C. Novero v. Duke Energy Florida, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims document-delivery due-process equal-access equal-protection right-to-jury-trial right-to-petition rules-of-court standing trial-by-jury Does the district court erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 due process in defining 'time…
18-8229 Sam Chinn, aka Sam Chinn, III v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-455 28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-iii-violation civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-rule-8 habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification magistrate-judge-process plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60b-motion Whether the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion was an abuse of discretion when the motion was about a judge violating 28 U.S.C. § 455
18-8170 In Re William Edward Cloninger 2019-02-27 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-rights congress-legislation constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection legal-reform prison-litigation pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments were violated by the dismissal of his appeal
18-8019 Bryan Austin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split coa congress constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the determination by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to Petitioner's COA application improperly deviated from the mandates of…
18-7787 Alan William Golder v. Carol Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the habeas petition on procedural grounds without reaching the petitioner's constitutional claims
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering
18-7670 Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contrary…
18-7411 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 Can the U.S. District Court, after first finding the Federal Petition does in fact allege federal constitutional claims, summarily dismiss the Federal…
18-7222 Winifred Jiau v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether a prisoner must prove that some jurists would grant habeas corpus
18-848 Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on her ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims
18-7081 Marlon Dantruce Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process false-testimony giglio giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review prosecutorial-misconduct slack-v-mcdaniel standing summary-judgment Whether Slack v. McDaniel requires a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability to a challenge a district court's holding that Giglio pe…
18-7060 Brian William Schumaker v. Hector Joyner, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process judicial-notice jury-instructions prudential-consideration theory-of-defense void-for-vagueness Whether the lower courts erred in recharacterizing and failing to fully consider the petitioner's constitutional claims of actual innocence and theory…
18-7012 Anthony Jerome Addison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-rights criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment origination-clause sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-claims Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability…
18-7016 Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing whether-district-court-assessment-was-debatable
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the Schlup v. Delo actual-innocence standard applies to a second habeas petition
18-6728 Francisco R. Quintana v. Colorado Colorado 2018-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure defense-evidence due-process evidence exclusion-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment materiality-requirement right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment What showing must a defendant make to establish that the erroneous exclusion of defense evidence at trial violated the defendant's Sixth and Fourteent…
18-6250 Curtis Nairn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th and 14th Amendment rights unexhausted and meritless which violated Petitioner's 5th aedpa amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-claims constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-default section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when it denied Petitioner's §2254 petition as procedurally barred by AEDPA, unexhausted and meritless…
18-6166 Syed K. Rafi v. Brigham and Women's Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1985-1986 circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process judicial-procedure mandate mandate-recall mandates motions-for-reconsideration pro-se-petition recall-mandate reconsideration standing supreme-court-rules time-frame Whether the time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should run from the date of the First Circuit Court's order denying appellant's motions for…
18-6079 Rowan Brooks v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review state-court-proceedings Where the state court disposed of Brooks' constitutional claims by relying on 'evidence' that indisputably did not exist and the district court affirm…
18-6086 In Re Daniel Clate Acker 2018-09-24 Denied IFP 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the…
18-6051 John Phillip Bender v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa-limitations appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review prima-facie-innocence rule-60b standing Did the lower court clearly err abusing its discretion applying certificate of appealability (COA) law outside Constitutional bounds
18-356 Robert Edward Orth v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-regulation all-inclusive-terms citizen-definition citizenship-definition constitutional-claims due-process free-speech impermissible-expansion passport-privileges procedural-due-process statutory-construction tax-law taxpayer-rights Whether the statutory definition of 'citizen' in 26 U.S.C. § 1402(b) includes the petitioner, and whether the regulations at 26 C.F.R. 1.1 impermissib…
18-5472 In Re Alan James Hedrick 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins permits a state court prisoner to rely on 'actual innocence' as a gateway to pursue constitutional claims that were previ…
18-5159 Allen Golden v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 aedpa suspension-clause aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus non-violent-crime non-violent-crimes suspension-clause Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its order and the Magistrate Judge's report and recommendation regarding the suspension of habe…
18-5110 Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court Is the decision of the court of appeals regarding the procedural default of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims in conflict with or …