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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-6730	Daniel Carlos-Ramos v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2026-02-05	Pending	IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling recidivism supreme-court-review	Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States
25-6715	Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2026-02-04	Pending	Response WaivedIFP	congressional-power constitutional-interpretation define-and-punish-clause high-seas international-jurisdiction maritime-law	Under the Define and Punish Clause and the Founders' understanding of sea zones, does Congress have the authority to punish felonies that occur in ano…
25-899	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al.	First Circuit	2026-01-30	Pending		citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction	Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160 complies with the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause and 8 U.S.C. 1401(a)
25-6655	Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana	Indiana	2026-01-23	Pending	IFP	circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard	Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in conflict with Seventh Circuit and Supreme Court precedent
25-6595	Hugo Ivan Macias-Ordonez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2026-01-15	Pending	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure prior-convictions sixth-amendment stare-decisis	Whether Almendarez-Torres can be reconciled with the Sixth Amendment's history and tradition, and if not, should the Court overrule it?
25-6482	Arianne Alexys Myles v. Florida	Florida	2026-01-06	Pending	IFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath rule-of-lenity	Whether a life sentence without a definite release date violates the Florida Constitution's prohibition on 'indefinite imprisonment'
25-6490	Gary Crawford v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2026-01-06	Pending	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felony-regulation firearms-possession historical-tradition second-amendment	Whether Congress may constitutionally bar all felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) consistent with the Second Amendment
25-723	Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service	Fifth Circuit	2025-12-19	Pending	Amici (1)Response Waived	appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction	Whether 12 U.S.C. §3410(d) and (e) unconstitutionally restrict judicial review and appeal rights in financial record disclosure cases
25-6342	Sergio Zamora-Rios v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2025-12-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing precedent-review sixth-amendment	Whether Almendarez-Torres can be reconciled with the Sixth Amendment's history and tradition, and if not, should the Court overrule it?
25-675	Lawrence Rudolph v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2025-12-10	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute	Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute to allow prosecution of a federal crime committed abroad in any district chose…
25-615	Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C., et al.	Fifth Circuit	2025-11-26	Denied	Amici (5)Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation federal-enclaves legal-borrowing legislative-authority military-servicemembers state-law	Whether federal law on federal enclaves borrows current state law, rather than state law only as it existed when the enclave was created
25-6206	Brett Talmadge v. Alaska	Alaska	2025-11-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure	Did the Alaska Supreme Court misapply Heck v. Humphrey and violate the Bill of Attainder prohibition in a decision of national importance?
25-6055	Tamori Morgan v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2025-11-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	arms-classification constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment statutory-prohibition	Whether a handgun and handheld pistol that fire automatically constitute 'arms' under the Second Amendment's plain text, thus requiring the government…
25-545	Julia M. Robinson v. FedEx Inc., et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2025-11-05	Denied		appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief	Whether the lower courts improperly applied federal law and misinterpreted constitutional and procedural rules in denying monetary relief
25-456	Capital Health Regional Medical Center, et al. v. New Jersey, et al.	New Jersey	2025-10-15	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation due-process economic-burden government-regulation physical-taking property-rights	Whether the New Jersey Supreme Court erroneously distinguished precedents regarding physical takings of private property under the Fifth and Fourteent…
25-5885	Vasquez D. Hayes v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Arkansas	2025-10-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	amendment-principles constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction	Whether the constitutional principles of due process, legislative intent, and statutory construction govern judicial interpretation of legislative ame…
25-5875	Christopher Deonta Hemphill v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2025-10-14	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP	circuit-court-reasoning constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-possession rahimi-precedent second-amendment	Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the reasoning of the Supreme Court's opinion in United States v. Rahimi in deciding that the Second Amendm…
25-420	Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2025-10-08	Rehearing	Response WaivedRelisted (3)	case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine	Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights?
25-5836	James Shelly Taylor v. Texas	Texas	2025-10-08	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-provisions trial-rights	Whether the lower court's interpretation of the constitutional provisions regarding due process and trial rights comports with established legal prece…
25-421	National Association for Gun Rights, et al. v. Ned Lamont, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Connecticut, et al.	Second Circuit	2025-10-07	Pending	Amici (2)Relisted (2)	common-use-test constitutional-interpretation firearms-regulation gun-rights heller-precedent second-amendment	Whether a ban on AR-15-style rifles and magazines with over ten rounds violates the Second Amendment
25-5808	In Re David C. White		2025-10-06	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	administrative-law constitutional-interpretation dam-removal judicial-discretion loper-bright pro-se-litigation	Whether hydroelectric dams can be removed without Congressional consent and whether courts can dismiss cases as frivolous without thorough investigati…
25-364	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-09-29	Pending	Relisted (2)	birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law	Whether the Executive Order restoring the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause is constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment and 8 U.S.C. 140…
25-365	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al.	First Circuit	2025-09-29	Pending	Amici (22)Relisted (2)	birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law	Whether the Executive Order restoring the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause complies with the Fourteenth Amendment and 8 U.S.C. 1401(a)
25-5611	Daquan Carey v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2025-09-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	article-iii constitutional-interpretation district-court judicial-discretion sentencing-authority sentencing-requests	Whether a district court's sentencing authority is constrained by the parties' sentencing requests under Article III, Section 2, of the United States …
25-5596	Ardy Merritt v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-09-10	Rehearing	Relisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process fourth-amendment ninth-circuit-jurisdiction property-rights statutory-definition	Does the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit have the right to redefine words, disregard constitutional and state law statutes, and oversimplify felon…
25-243	Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2025-09-03	Pending		constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act	Does §2 of the Voting Rights Act require Alabama to create a second majority-minority district despite potential constitutional concerns?
25A252	Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al.	Sixth Circuit	2025-09-02	Presumed Complete		certiorari constitutional-interpretation federal-law michigan-officials sixth-circuit state-action	Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on a Michigan state action improperly interpreted or applied federal constitutional or statutory law
25-5510	Monte Barry v. United States	Third Circuit	2025-08-29	Denied	Relisted (4)IFP	as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction 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…
25-5495	Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2025-08-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights judicial-accountability procedural-fairness	Whether the Supreme Court should provide counsel for an indigent plaintiff and hold the judiciary accountable for potential due process violations in …
25-5476	Leigh Valorie Ford v. Florida	Florida	2025-08-27	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath life-sentence rule-of-lenity	Whether a life sentence without a definite release date violates Florida's constitutional prohibition on 'indefinite imprisonment'
25-5485	Taylor Dan Truex v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2025-08-27	Denied	Relisted (4)IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition historical-tradition second-amendment statutory-analysis	Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially, and must courts examine historical traditions of disarmament when assessing its constitutional…
25A188	Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2025-08-15	Presumed Complete		bank-fraud constitutional-interpretation ex-post-facto financial-institution prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction	Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits prosecuting a defendant under an expanded statutory definition of 'financial institution' that did not exis…
25-177	Vito Manente v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue	Third Circuit	2025-08-14	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation internal-revenue labor-taxation sixteenth-amendment sovereign-person	Whether the Sixteenth Amendment negates constitutional provisions on direct taxation and applies to sovereign persons' labor taxation
25-5344	Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2025-08-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement	Does the Court's Erlinger decision require a jury to pass on the three separate occasions factor in the Armed Criminal Convictions Act (ACCA), and if …
25-166	Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2025-08-12	Denied	Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)	constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure jury-size jury-trial-right nonunanimous-jury sixth-amendment	Whether the Court should overrule Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970)
25-163	Corrigan Clay v. United States	Third Circuit	2025-08-11	Denied		constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause missouri-v-holland optional-protocol	Whether the Foreign Commerce Clause empowers Congress to criminalize private, non-commercial conduct that occurs entirely abroad and whether Missouri …
25-5318	Deago Lee Eddings v. United States	Third Circuit	2025-08-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction 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…
25-5315	Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections	Eleventh Circuit	2025-08-08	Denied	IFP	aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus	Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
25-5245	Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services	Sixth Circuit	2025-07-31	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause	Whether state sovereign immunity can be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft under the Supremacy Clause
25-5248	In Re Quay Phipps		2025-07-31	Denied	IFP	article-i-powers congressional-power constitutional-interpretation habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment	Is petitioner entitled to immediate habeas corpus relief due to alleged lack of congressional jurisdiction under Article I, Section 8?
25-5133	Alexander P. Bebris v. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children	District of Columbia	2025-07-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation federal-authority foia-applicability incorporation-status law-enforcement-powers statutory-mandate	Whether an entity becomes a U.S. 'authority' based on federal funding, statutory directives, and law enforcement powers, and if so, whether such an en…
25-42	Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue	Fifth Circuit	2025-07-14	Denied	Response Waived	certiorari constitutional-enforcement constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review supreme-court-precedent	Whether the Supreme Court remains committed to enforcing the Constitution as written or has subordinated constitutional fidelity to political expedien…
25-5092	Hussein S. Yousif v. Susan Larson Christensen, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2025-07-14	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review rule-41	Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments are meaningless for a United States citizen under Rule 41 and constitutional interpretation
25-20	Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al.	Second Circuit	2025-07-07	Denied		appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure	Whether the Second Circuit misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment's application to alleged landlord fraud and governmental misconduct
25A8	Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2025-07-01	Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation criminal-trial jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment williams-v-florida	Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a 12-member jury and mandates overruling Williams v. Florida's precedent allowing smaller juries
24-1329	Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Second Amendment Foundation, et al.	Third Circuit	2025-06-30	Pending	Amici (1)Relisted (2)	age-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-interpretation founding-era-law gun-rights second-amendment	Do firearms laws imposing a minimum age of 21 violate the purported Second Amendment rights of 18-to20-year-olds?
24-1277	Pamela L. Bickford v. Alaska, et al.	Alaska	2025-06-16	Denied		administrative-procedures constitutional-interpretation election-law hava-compliance state-legislature voting-rights	Whether the failure of the Alaska Legislature to establish state-based administrative procedures violates the Constitution and the Help America Vote A…
24-1282	Robert Menzer v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al.	Ninth Circuit	2025-06-16	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit ninth-circuit void-judgment	Does the full faith and credit clause and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 require an independent court analysis of a void judgment where due process rights are alleg…
24-1254	City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company	Texas	2025-06-09	Denied		constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment	Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act's preemption provisions to a final …
24-1252	Real Property commonly known as: 11475 NW Pike Road, Yamhill, Oregon, Yamhill County and any residence, buildings, or storage facilities thereon, et al. v. Yamhill County, Oregon and forfeiting agency, on behalf of the YCINT seizing agency	Oregon	2025-06-06	Denied		civil-forfeiture constitutional-interpretation criminal-punishment double-jeopardy in-rem-proceeding property-rights	Whether civil forfeiture of property constitutes criminal punishment under the Double Jeopardy Clause and whether United States v. Ursery remains cons…
24-1253	Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al.	Third Circuit	2025-06-06	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)	administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations	Whether the CMS Rule 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n) is constitutional according to conflicting Circuit Court interpretations
24-7354	Seth Stewart v. City of American Fork, Utah	Utah	2025-06-04	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial stare-decisis	Whether stare decisis can be invoked to undermine constitutional guarantees when interpreting the Constitution
24-7308	Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2025-05-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation copyright-infringement due-process federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law	Whether state sovereign immunity applies to federal copyright infringement and fraud claims under the Constitution
24-7264	Michael Lee Sharpe v. Texas	Texas	2025-05-21	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation felony-conviction firearms-possession individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment	Whether the Second Amendment guarantees an individual who has been convicted of a felony offense the unencumbered right to possess firearms
24-7208	Cornell Slater v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2025-05-15	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review	Whether the Court of Appeals improperly allowed district courts to nullify sentencing guidelines through inoculating statements that latent errors wou…
24-7085	Howard Jefferson Atkins v. Guy Bousch, Warden	Tennessee	2025-04-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process juvenile-jurisdiction legislative-intent separation-of-powers state-courts	Did the Tennessee Supreme Court violate the Separation of Powers doctrine by granting concurrent jurisdiction to state circuit courts over juvenile de…
24-1115	Reuben D. Walker, et al. v. Andrea Lynn Chasteen, as Clerk for the Circuit Court of Will County and as a Representative of All Clerks of the Circuit Courts of All Counties in Illinois, et al.	Illinois	2025-04-28	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-deference state-immunity supremacy-clause takings-clause	May state courts ignore the Supremacy and Takings Clauses of the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by this Court based on arguably contrary provisions …
24-7075	Christopher E. Barnes v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2025-04-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment	Whether convicted felons retain Second Amendment rights under the Court's interpretation of 'the people' in Heller, and whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1)…
24-7033	Aqudre Quailes v. United States	Third Circuit	2025-04-18	Denied	IFP	as-applied-challenge bruen-framework constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-analogues second-amendment	Can a court avoid addressing under Bruen an as-applied challenge to Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban and corresponding punishment by looking, instead,…
24-6893	Jonathan Taum v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2025-03-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment hudson-v-mcmillian prison-guard prisoner-rights	Did the Ninth Circuit err when it disregarded Petitioner Taum's argument that Hudson v. McMillian was wrongly decided and should be overruled based on…
24-6783	Mitchell Dinnerstein v. United States, et al.	Third Circuit	2025-03-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	citizenship-rights constitutional-interpretation equal-protection originalism title-seven title-six	Whether the Supreme Court should correct the alleged misinterpretation of Title 6 and Title 7 and address unequal citizenship rights under the Equal P…
24-6693	Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2025-03-04	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent	Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece…
24-6686	Deonta Brown v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2025-03-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect	In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt…
24-926	John R. Stensrud, et al. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority	New York	2025-02-26	Denied		constitutional-interpretation expert-evidence federal-law just-compensation legal-preemption state-regulation	Whether a state regulation that precludes essential expert evidence can override federal law governing just compensation
24-6622	John Bradley v. United States	Second Circuit	2025-02-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appointments-clause article-two constitutional-interpretation federal-judiciary judicial-designation separation-of-powers	Does it violate the Appointments Clause for a Circuit Judge to be appointed to sit continuously as a District Judge by another Circuit Judge?
24-6507	Deonta Lowe v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2025-02-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment supreme-court-precedent	Whether convicted felons have Second Amendment rights based on Supreme Court precedent interpreting 'the people' and 'law-abiding citizens'
24-840	Andrew Sablan Salas v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2025-02-06	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation federal-legislation rational-basis-test territorial-clause territorial-rights us-cnmi-covenant	Is the application of federal legislation to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the US-CNMI Covenant properly evaluated by means o…
24-796	Missouri, et al. v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2025-01-27	Denied	Amici (3)	constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-review standing state-sovereignty tenth-amendment	Can federal courts second-guess a State's 'reason' for exercising Tenth Amendment authority?
24A734	Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew	Nevada	2025-01-27	Presumed Complete		certiorari-standard civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation insurance-coverage state-supreme-court tort-law	Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state law in a tort case involving insurance coverage raises a federal constitutional question warra…
24-6372	Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2025-01-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent	Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-6386	Richard Edward Boggs v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2025-01-24	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-income-tax sixteenth-amendment tax-law territorial-jurisdiction	Whether the lower courts improperly disregarded territorial jurisdiction and misinterpreted the constitutional basis for federal income tax collection
24-786	Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al.	Pennsylvania	2025-01-23	Denied	Relisted (2)	constitutional-interpretation elections-clause electors-clause judicial-review legislative-power state-election-law	What is the legal standard for determining whether a state court's interpretation of state election law exceeds the bounds of ordinary judicial review…
24-6314	David C. Lettieri v. City of Binghamton, New York, et al.	Second Circuit	2025-01-15	Denied	IFP	case-law constitutional-interpretation imminent-danger judicial-strike legal-standard procedural-review	What constitutes an 'imminent danger' under legal standards, and how does Neitze v. Williams impact the interpretation of a 'strike' in judicial proce…
24-712	Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc.	Tenth Circuit	2025-01-03	Denied	Amici (1)Response Waived	arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy	Whether the Supreme Court can relinquish Article III duties by deferring to arbitrators when enforcing arbitration awards
24-6214	Jessy A. Cambel v. City of Charleston, Illinois, et al.	Illinois	2024-12-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation equal-protection municipal-ordinance native-landscaping property-rights religious-freedom	Whether local landscaping ordinances that restrict native plant growth violate religious freedoms, property rights, and equal protection under the law
24A620	Narey Perez-Quibus v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2024-12-20	Presumed Complete		bruen-standard constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation rahimi-exception second-amendment	Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s prohibition on firearm possession by felons remains constitutional after New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso'c v. Bruen…
24-659	Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue	Eleventh Circuit	2024-12-18	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)	administrative-law constitutional-interpretation income-tax tax-deficiency territory-clause uniformity-clause	Did Puerto Rico become an incorporated Territory subject to the Uniformity Clause for federal income tax collection, and did the Commissioner of Inter…
24-654	David Lesh v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2024-12-17	Denied	Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)	article-iii constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment	Whether the Constitution's dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for 'petty offenses'
24-6142	Warren Lee Weisman v. Charles E. Clark	Washington	2024-12-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias linguistic-drift	Whether courts have deviated from the original constitutional intent through linguistic drift and bias, undermining due process and the self-correctin…
24A580	Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. Raymond Lofstad, et al.	Third Circuit	2024-12-13	Presumed Complete		administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation fishery-management regional-council significant-authority	Whether members of a Regional Fishery Management Council are 'Officers of the United States' subject to the Appointments Clause when they exercise adv…
24-646	Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Caroline Cartwright, et al.	New York	2024-12-12	Denied		ballot-access constitutional-interpretation election-law qualifications-clause residential-address twelfth-amendment	Does New York's ballot access law violate the Qualifications Clause and Twelfth Amendment by requiring presidential candidates to publish their reside…
24-613	Frederick Lewis Washington v. Sunflower County, Mississippi	Fifth Circuit	2024-12-04	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)	constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review public-employee-speech summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent	Should a court of appeals be summarily reversed for defying clear Supreme Court precedent, and should a judge or jury determine whether public employe…
24A540	Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts	Massachusetts	2024-12-04	Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule	Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law defining a criminal offense element when t…
24-6006	Michael Tyrone Young v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2024-11-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-split constitutional-interpretation controlled-substances felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment	Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with nonviolent felony convictions for distributing controlled…
24-6009	Christian Guadalupe Contreras-Torres v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-11-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5977	Sammy Lee Gibbs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections	Florida	2024-11-15	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction	Whether all judges in the United States are bound to follow the Constitution, whether state courts can deprive persons of life, liberty, or property w…
24-5942	Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden	Tenth Circuit	2024-11-08	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights	Whether state sovereign immunity bars a tribal member's lawsuit seeking declaratory relief against a state official
24A466	Eric Manuelian v. Jennifer Starr, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Trustee of the Laura Kirkland Trust dated 3/10/05 and in the Capacity as Trustee of the Starr Trust, et al.	Florida	2024-11-08	Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation dissolution-of-marriage full-faith-and-credit interstate-recognition state-court-jurisdiction trust-litigation	Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause requires state courts to give preclusive effect to a final order of dissolution of marriage from another stat…
24-5937	Randy Price v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2024-11-07	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	bruen-test constitutional-interpretation en-banc-review firearm-regulation second-amendment statutory-construction	Whether Second Amendment protected 'conduct' under Bruen's step one consists of more than an individual's possession or carrying of a bearable firearm
24-5922	Christopher Gabriel Allen-Shinn v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-11-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation guilty-plea judicial-precedent procedural-standard seven-factor-test withdrawal	Whether the seven-factor test for withdrawing a guilty plea complies with the Supreme Court's precedent in Kercheval v. United States
24-5913	Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2024-11-05	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements	Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted without violating the Confrontation Clause when the interpreter is deemed an ag…
24A408	Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al.	Pennsylvania	2024-10-28	Presumed Complete	Amici (5)	ballot-access candidate-eligibility constitutional-interpretation election-law state-supreme-court voting-rights	Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state election law regarding ballot access and candidate eligibility violates federal constitutional…
24-5783	Genaro Alberto Nunez Ugarte v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-10-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-368	Levi Rudder v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas	Fifth Circuit	2024-10-02	Denied		article-v constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review separation-of-powers unenumerated-powers	Whether the federal government's exercise of unenumerated powers violates Article V of the U.S. Constitution and infringes upon individual rights thro…
24A299	Martin Gonzales v. New Mexico, et al.	New Mexico	2024-09-27	Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation criminal-convictions double-jeopardy incidental-restraint kidnapping state-law	Whether a criminal defendant's kidnapping convictions violate double jeopardy principles when based on incidental restraint under New Mexico state law
24-5611	Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States	Second Circuit	2024-09-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power non-precedential-decisions	Whether federal courts of appeals exceed Article III judicial power by issuing non-precedential decisions and whether non-precedential orders without …
24-5605	In Re Shannon Clark		2024-09-20	Denied	IFP	all-writs-act constitutional-interpretation equitable-remedy federal-court-procedure judicial-power mandamus	Whether the All Writs Act empowers the Supreme Court to issue a mandamus order compelling a federal court clerk to fulfill his duty
24-5559	Daniel Salgado-Melendez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-09-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-doctrine constitutional-interpretation notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review	Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and reconsider the prior-conviction exception under the Sixth Amendment's…
24-5565	In Re Francisco Nunez Carrillo		2024-09-17	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy punishment-limits single-act-doctrine statutory-construction	Whether a person convicted of a single act can be subjected to multiple punishments under congressional statutes and if such punishment violates const…
24-5543	Jose Luis Sarmiento v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-09-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-doctrine constitutional-interpretation notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review	Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and reconsider the prior-conviction exception under the Sixth Amendment's…
24-5523	Calvin Carnell Edwards, Jr. v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2024-09-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law agency-deference constitutional-interpretation government-branches judicial-review sentencing-guidelines	Whether the Kisor three-part test applies to agencies beyond the Executive Branch, including the United States Sentencing Commission
24-5461	Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc.	Eighth Circuit	2024-09-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation copyright-law copyright-protection eighth-circuit feist-decision originality-standard	Whether the correct standard of copyrightability is the Constitutional and statutory standard of originality as articulated in Feist or the Eighth Cir…
24A227	Treniss J. Evans v. Supreme Court of New York, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-30	Presumed Complete		campaign-finance constitutional-interpretation election-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion supremacy-clause	Whether a state prosecutor can bring a state-level prosecution that effectively creates a localized interpretation of federal election law in potentia…
24-5362	Gumaro Maldonado-Sandoval v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review	Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and reconsider the prior-conviction exception under the Sixth Amendment's…
24-5317	Jose Jimenez-Maria v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent precedent-overruling supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari	Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States
24-5288	Edgar Alonso Esparza-Rodriguez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-09	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation judicial-review sentencing-precedent supreme-court-review	Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and clarify the scope of sentencing precedent
24-5295	Thomas Dean Jones v. California	California	2024-08-09	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction	Question not identified.
24-5253	Rafael Arden Jones v. Ned McCormack	Second Circuit	2024-08-07	Denied	IFP	administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation legal-standards municipal-association	Whether the Appellate Division's decision improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's determination of civil rights violations rel…
24-5255	Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-08-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-93	Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Madison M. Lara, et al.	Third Circuit	2024-07-30	GVR		2nd-amendment age-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms-law founding-era gun-rights historical-analysis historical-evidence rahimi second-amendment	Do firearms laws that restrict the rights of 18-to-20-year-olds comply with the Second Amendment?
24-5110	Cristobal Castillo-Velasquez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-07-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5060	Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole	Pennsylvania	2024-07-12	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes	Whether Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes for second-degree murder, which provide for a mandatory maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a requir…
24-5024	Timothy John Miers v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2024-07-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers	Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER…
24-5033	Jose Domingo Carranza-Rubio v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-07-09	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5019	Daniel Salgado v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-07-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-rule certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure-sentencing notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review	Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States be overruled?
24-3	City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, City Council v. Rama, Inc., dba Discount Liquor	Tennessee	2024-07-03	Denied	Response Waived	administrative-function alcohol-license constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legislative-body separation-of-powers	Whether the action of the Tennessee Court of Appeals ordering a legislative body performing an administrative function violated separation of powers w…
23-7843	Luis Alfredo Nanez-Lopez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-07-02	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7787	Enrique Martinez-Flores v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-06-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure historical-analysis notice-clause prior-conviction-exception recidivism sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-notice-clause	Can the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical practices…
23-7788	Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-06-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1331	William Christopher Schroeder v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2024-06-21	Denied	Response Waived	congressional-apportionment constitutional-interpretation electoral-representation equal-representation-in-house political-question-doctrine population-based-apportionment standing standing-doctrine us-constitution-amendment-14-section-2 us-constitution-article-1-section-2 vote-dilution voting-power-dilution	Do U.S. CONST. amend. XIV, § 2, and U.S. CONST. art. I, § 2, require that each Member of the House of Representatives be elected from constituencies c…
23-7730	Thomas Richardson v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2024-06-14	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority	Question not identified.
23-7692	Angel Jesus Paniagua v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-06-12	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing	Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
23-7655	In Re Jovon Montell Hollowell		2024-06-06	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts government-powers individual-rights jurisdiction legal-precedent standing tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty	Can a non-Article III court proceed without consent of the parties?
23-7599	Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7603	Anthony Tyrone Brown v. James Corrigan, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2024-05-30	Denied	IFP	administrative-law agency-determination civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel-of-choice due-process fraud fraud-statute judicial-review misconduct transcript	Whether the court committed fraud on the court when it changed the trial transcripts of the petitioner's case without notice to counsel and the petiti…
23-7466	Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi	California	2024-05-13	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law	Whether state court judges can defy orders of the U.S. Supreme Court
23-7455	Britt Jarriel Hammons v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2024-05-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute-922g1 gun-possession-rights individual-rights second-amendment standing treason	How can the tenth circuit have a ruling on the same subject matter as the Supreme Court & other circuits courts & has a ruling that is in conflict wit…
23-7404	William Maxwell v. United States	Third Circuit	2024-05-07	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process firearm-transfer money-laundering obstruction-of-justice rico-conspiracy wire-fraud	Whether this case should be granted certiorari for full briefing on issues already decided in Maxwell's favor by this Court or whether a G.V.R. would …
23-7374	David Allen v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2024-05-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent	Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a ce…
23-7378	Frederick Herrod v. Members of the 79th Congress	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	adjudication appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus liberal-construction motion necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se pro-se-litigant speech-and-debate-clause	if-the-congressional-command-of-federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-24(a)(5)-requires-certain-submissions-must-be-included-with-a-motion,-is-a-pro-se-…
23-7366	Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-05-02	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7341	Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado	Colorado	2024-04-30	Denied	IFP	appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion	Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error
23-7318	Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois	Illinois	2024-04-26	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty	Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
23-7303	Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois	Illinois	2024-04-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing	Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires the protections granted under Miller v. Alabama to be extende…
23-1124	Judson Hawkins, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources	Ohio	2024-04-17	Denied	Response Waived	14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-agency constitutional-interpretation due-process procedural-rights property-rights substantive-rights	Does the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantee a substantive right to prevail against …
23-7225	Leroy Hoyle v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-04-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing	Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
23-7183	In Re Joshua George Nowland		2024-04-10	Denied	IFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason	Whether the US Supreme Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed on its property in Washington D.C.?
23-7109	Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7083	Orlando Kim Ferguson, II v. Missouri	Missouri	2024-03-27	Denied	IFP	article-i-section-19 constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process missouri-constitution oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct retrial	Is the Missouri Constitution Article I; Section 19; limiting Double Jeopardy rights on retrial following intentional prosecutorial misconduct under Or…
23-7050	David Phillip Ryan v. Florida	Florida	2024-03-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing	Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury?
23-7015	Colby Jerome Hale-El v. Gene R. Claps, Sheriff, Adams County, Colorado, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2024-03-18	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment ballot-disqualification candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus notice-of-removal standing	Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted, and whether he was properly denied notice and an opportunity to prove …
23-1010	Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2024-03-14	Denied	Relisted (7)	2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms-ban firearms-regulation gun-rights military-weaponry second-amendment standing takings	Whether Illinois' categorical ban on millions of the most commonly owned firearms and ammunition magazines in the nation, including the AR-15 rifle, v…
23-6974	Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6948	Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma	Oklahoma	2024-03-11	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine	Question not identified
23-6956	David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-11	Denied	IFP	collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction	Did the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over the collateral order doctrine when the district judge failed to issue a COA for the final judgment und…
23-6941	Ricardo Fortino Martinez-Munoz v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation due-process jury-trial legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment statutory-maximum	Can Almendarez-Torres be squared with the history undergirding the Sixth Amendment; and if not, should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres?
23-6881	Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-03-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing	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)
23-943	Samuel T. Russell v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-28	Denied		11th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-tradition matthew-15-6 state-sovereignty	Is it a civil right for citizens to complain against their own state?
23-914	Diane Zilka v. City of Philadelphia, Tax Review Board	Pennsylvania	2024-02-23	Denied	CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3)	commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation interstate-taxation out-of-state-tax state-tax tax-burden tax-credit tax-scheme taxpayer-burden	Whether the Commerce Clause requires states to consider a taxpayer's burden in light of the state tax scheme as a whole when crediting a taxpayer's ou…
23-910	Ivan Antonyuk, et al. v. Steven G. James, In His Official Capacity as Acting Superintendent of New York State Police, et al.	Second Circuit	2024-02-22	GVR	Amici (6)Relisted (2)	2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process gun-rights historical-analysis judicial-review original-meaning second-amendment standing temporal-analysis	Whether the proper historical time period for ascertaining the Second Amendment's original meaning is 1791, rather than 1868
23-6803	Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent	Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
23-6780	George A. Teacherson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue	Eleventh Circuit	2024-02-16	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence due-process founding-documents judicial-review legal-hermeneutics originalism textual-analysis	Must any court fully address the actual wording of the founding documents, originalism of Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United S…
23-879	Caleb Barnett, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2024-02-14	Denied	Amici (3)Relisted (7)	2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms firearms-ban gun-rights second-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent	Whether Illinois' sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment
23-6714	Ramon Umberto Cortez-Rodriguez, aka Ramon Humberto Cortez-Rodriguez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-09	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	Almendarez-Torres certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-review jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6689	Guy Mena v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-02-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment assault-rifle assault-rifles common-use constitutional-interpretation dangerous-and-unusual-weapon high-capacity-magazine high-capacity-magazines methodology second-amendment statutory-construction weapon-classification	Whether 26 U.S.C. §5861(e) comports with the Second Amendment?
23-838	Brian D. Swanson v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State	Eleventh Circuit	2024-02-05	Denied	Response Waived	17th-amendment ballot-legality civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law elections equal-suffrage seventeenth-amendment standing statutory-violation	Does petitioner suffer a concrete and particularized injury, for the purpose of establishing standing, when the Secretary of State issues an illegal b…
23-6641	Cedric A. Gray v. Wisconsin	Wisconsin	2024-02-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning prophylactic-procedures prophylactic-rule self-incrimination text-history-tradition	Should this Court overturn the prophylactic procedures announced in Miranda v. Arizona and return to an interpretation of the Fifth Amendment which is…
23-6572	Mark E. Sells v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2024-01-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-court-precedent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-law judicial-review statutory-law	Did the Federal District Court and United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Constitution by enacting and applying a judicial law that …
23-6576	Caitlyn Williams and Tamarae Larue v. Missouri	Missouri	2024-01-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights compulsory-education constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness school-attendance statutory-construction vagueness	Whether the language 'on a regular basis' in the compulsory school attendance law is impermissibly vague in violation of due process guarantees
23A682	Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al.	California	2024-01-24	Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation	Whether the lower court's ruling improperly interpreted or applied constitutional or statutory protections in a manner that substantially impacts indi…
23-755	Andrew S. Clyde, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. v. William McFarland, in His Official Capacity as Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al.	District of Columbia	2024-01-12	Denied		congressional-immunity congressional-rules constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations judicial-review jurisdiction legislative-immunity legislative-procedure separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause twenty-seventh-amendment	Whether the Speech or Debate Clause creates a jurisdictional bar to judicial consideration of whether internal congressional rules or practices violat…
23-6464	Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2024-01-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness	Whether the dismissal of a criminal appeal as untimely violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counse…
23-6440	Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2024-01-09	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine	Can the U.S.S.G. commentary definition of a 'minor' in § 2L1.1 commentary note 1 be considered unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to…
23-719	Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al.	Colorado	2024-01-04	Judgment Issued	Amici (78)	14th-amendment ballot-access constitutional-interpretation disqualification election-law insurrection insurrection-clause oath-of-office presidential-election presidential-eligibility state-election-law	Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot
23-725	Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. v. Phillip Truesdell, et al.	Sixth Circuit	2024-01-04	Denied	Response Waived	buck-v-kuykendall certificate-of-need constitutional-interpretation dormant-commerce-clause ground-ambulance-services healthcare healthcare-regulation judicial-precedent sixth-circuit stage-lines	Whether the modern case law approach controls a court's analysis of the dormant Commerce Clause and repudiates the holding in Buck v. Kuykendall
23-691	Samuel Ghee v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2023-12-27	Denied	Response Waived	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-immunity official-liability standing stare-decisis state-law willful-misconduct	Whether qualified or judicial immunity immunizes willful misconduct and failure to perform duties
23-6246	In Re Tonya Knowles		2023-12-13	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power impeachment impeachment-power presidential-election presidential-transition separation-of-powers	Can a Peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate transfers Power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executive Order?
23-6252	Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-12-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6240	Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States	First Circuit	2023-12-12	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation	Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a …
23-566	Thomas Massie, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the United States House of Representatives, et al. v. Mike Johnson, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, et al.	District of Columbia	2023-11-27	Denied		article-i article-i-sections-6-and-7 article-one-provisions congressional-compensation congressional-immunity constitutional-interpretation legislative-procedure pay-claims speech-or-debate speech-or-debate-immunity twenty-seventh-amendment	Whether Speech or Debate immunity precludes claims against congressional officials over pay
23-6075	William Phillip Neidinger v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2023-11-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-remedy constitutional-interpretation due-process effective-counsel identity-rights judicial-defect judicial-review jury-selection mandamus presumption-of-innocence selective-prosecution	Is not having actual availability of effective counsel and actual presumption of innocence, particularly in cases deriving from previous judicial defe…
23-6041	Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-511	Terrence R. Bell v. Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc.	Texas	2023-11-14	Denied	Response Waived	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consumer-protection due-process equal-protection federal-trade-commission property-rights standing	Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of Amendment XIV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution
23-5979	Daniel Vargas-Hernandez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-11-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment	Whether the prior-conviction exception to the Apprendi rule can be squared with the historical practices codified in the Sixth Amendment, and if not, …
23-5917	Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-31	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5920	Leopoldo Ramirez-Moreno v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-31	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-authority firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce scarborough state-affairs united-states-v-lopez	Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because the firearm crossed state lines at some point before the defendant …
23-5859	Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation	Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed…
23-5839	Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-19	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5798	Edgar Eugene Oliver v. Florida Commission on Offender Review	Florida	2023-10-18	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review offender-review separation-of-powers state-agency-power supreme-court-authority	Does the Florida Commission on Offender Review have the freedom to disobey the United States Supreme Court, the Constitution of the United States, the…
23-5813	Medghyne Calonge, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States	Second Circuit	2023-10-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-venue data-access due-process fair-trial government-abuse statutory-construction venue venue-requirements vicinage	Whether the Second Circuit correctly held that the evidence of venue was legally sufficient under the Venue and Vicinage Clauses of the United States …
23-5804	Joseph Alexander Clarke v. Kimberly M. Esmond Adams, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2023-10-16	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure maxims-of-law pleadings standing supreme-court-review	Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to properly address the issues raised in the petition, including the failure to address the suffi…
23-5777	Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-10-12	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-370	Paul Erlinger v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2023-10-06	Judgment Issued	Amici (4)Relisted (2)	armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement	Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed on occ…
23-5715	Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2023-10-05	Dismissed	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consular-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice national-identity sovereign-status standing state-law treaty-rights	Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the court's judicial notice of certain facts under Federal Rule of Evidence 201 and Florida Statute §…
23-361	Brian D. Swanson v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2023-10-04	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation federal-appellate-procedure frivolous-sanction income-tax insular-cases puerto-rico territorial-status uniformity-clause unincorporated-territory	Has Puerto Rico become an incorporated Territory and become fully subject to the Constitution's Uniformity Clause when collecting the Federal Income T…
23-5679	Joshua Stephenson v. Robert May, Warden, et al.	Third Circuit	2023-10-02	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-rights standing	Whether the discretion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to deny a certificate of appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) is co…
23-5684	William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin	Wisconsin	2023-10-02	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis	Whether a felon can be convicted of armed robbery without having a firearm or weapon and without being present at the scene of the crime?
23-5657	Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. Kiry K. Gray, Clerk, United States District Court for the Central District of California	Ninth Circuit	2023-09-27	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction juvenile-custody legal-procedure standing state-courts	Whether the U.S. District Court violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by denying…
23-299	ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc.	Ninth Circuit	2023-09-26	Denied	Relisted (2)	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings	Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege
23-296	Michael L. Kiser, et al. v. Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al.	North Carolina	2023-09-25	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)	14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-takings just-compensation property-rights supreme-court-review takings takings-clause	Is a state supreme court able to 'side-step' the just compensation requirement of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by simply removing preexisting p…
23-279	Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al.	New Mexico	2023-09-22	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)	14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing	Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress
23-5632	Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-09-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5606	Samuel Valencia v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-09-18	GVR	Relisted (3)IFP	alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment	Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed on 'occasions different from one …
23-5590	In Re Jamar L. Williams		2023-09-14	Denied	IFP	actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings	Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for an evidentiary hearing to present newly discover…
23-5537	Euphrates Earl Bean v. Virginia	Virginia	2023-09-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-rights contracts due-process equal-rights judicial-review standing takings vested-rights	Was there an 'obligation of contracts' inferred?
23-5511	Jay F. Elhage v. United States	Second Circuit	2023-09-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution	Whether Congress has authority to criminally punish under the Commerce Clause
23-5487	Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-5468	Brittney Coleman v. Island Express Helicopters, Inc., et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	aircraft-operation civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation judicial-decision-making legal-competence negligence pilot-certification pilot-competency procedural-review reasonable-care	Question not identified
23-5451	Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-08-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5363	Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia	Georgia	2023-08-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing	Whether the U.S. Constitution allows the conviction of a U.S. citizen without an indictment
23-5360	Gregory Lynn McCoy v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2023-08-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition individual-rights lifetime-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation	Whether the felon-in-possession of a firearm statute, which did not exist in 1791, and which applies to all felonies and provides for a life-time ban,…
23-127	Leonard Cooperman v. Social Security Administration	Federal Circuit	2023-08-10	Denied	Response Waived	administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation disciplinary-proceedings due-process free-speech public-sector-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine	Is the 'conduct unbecoming' standard unconstitutionally vague and violative of due-process in a case involving free-speech concerns?
23-5235	Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5241	Lenroy McLean v. United States	Second Circuit	2023-07-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment judicial-conflict legal-precedent standing	Whether there is a conflict between Kimmelman v Morrison and Ex-Parte Milligan on the Fourth Amendment as a trial right in criminal prosecution
23-5210	Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-26	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-70	Traffic Tech, Inc., et al. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.	Eighth Circuit	2023-07-25	Denied		anti-waiver-statute choice-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights full-faith-and-credit interstate-commerce state-sovereignty	Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Due Process Clause require a State, which has its own Anti-Waiver Statute, to uphold a sister State's…
23-5136	Chastity Quintana v. Rodney Wirthlin, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2023-07-19	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-filing legal-standard procedural-error standing	Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by having an unqualified or ineffective court-appointed counsel represent them in a…
23-5097	Allen Auten v. California	California	2023-07-13	Denied	Response RequestedIFP	14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing	Whether the California Supreme Court prejudicially abused its discretion and acted in excess of jurisdiction when it refused to issue a decision on th…
23-5104	Annelies Aiking-Taylor v. Oliver Serang	Montana	2023-07-13	Denied	IFP	attorney-fees civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-judgment prevailing-party supremacy-clause takings	Did the Montana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by disregarding the US Supreme Court's definition of 'prevailing party'?
23A31	Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe	Fourth Circuit	2023-07-13	Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop	Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F…
23-5087	Michael R. v. Connecticut	Connecticut	2023-07-12	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-interpretation dost-factors due-process first-amendment free-speech miller-standard obscenity obscenity-test	Should the Dost factors be modified to prevent unconstitutional restrictions on First Amendment freedom of expression?
23-5035	Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-07-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5001	Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech individual-rights judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings	Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause and the Due Process Clause of the F…
22-7902	Saul Navarrete De La Cerda v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment	Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-1242	Jon McClelland v. Dr. Jack Chapman, M.D.	Colorado	2023-06-27	Denied		14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract due-process judicial-immunity property property-interest state-law	Is a Complaint a cognizable 'three-party' Contract
22-7854	Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7849	Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2023-06-22	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure damages due-process free-speech judicial-discretion legal-standards religious-claims standing state-court-review	Whether the regional ombudsman and the officials of the Common Cause Task Force violated the Petitioner's First Amendment rights under the U.S. Consti…
22-7698	Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2023-06-02	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance	Whether the court exceeded its authority by not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the statutory maximum
22-7689	Jose Guadalupe Romero Torres v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment	Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7665	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
22-7562	Joseph Tetak v. Jay Forshey, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2023-05-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue deference-standard federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-precedent stare-decisis state-supreme-court subjective-objective-analysis	Does the doctrine of stare decisis prevail on a state supreme court's determination of a constitutional issue in the same manner as this Court's deter…
22-1119	M. B. v. D. L.	New Jersey	2023-05-16	Denied	Response Waived	14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process family-law grandparent-visitation judicial-precedent legislative-authority parental-rights state-sovereignty troxel-v-granville	Should this Court's decision in Troxel et vir v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000) be reversed and the issue of grandparent visitation be returned to the …
22-1088	John T. Morris v. Texas, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-09	Denied	Response Waived	accumulated-knowledge article-1-section-2 constitutional-interpretation election-integrity first-amendment frequent-elections political-rights redistricting voter-participation voting-rights	Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitution t…
22-7495	Rudolfo Gill v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-09	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-precedent standing takings	Whether a plaintiff must make a 'substantial showing' of the deprivation of constitutional rights to establish standing to sue
22-7479	Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-05-08	Denied	IFP	Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7449	Robert Richard Spurling, III v. Arizona	Arizona	2023-05-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law jury-instructions retroactive-application sexual-abuse state-courts statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation	Whether a state court's decision that a state statute prevents the state courts from conducting analysis pursuant to United States Supreme Court prece…
22-1054	Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona	Ninth Circuit	2023-05-01	Denied	Response Waived	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights	Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court err in their analysis of the takings claim?
22-7403	Anthony Carl Eccarius v. Mendocino County Social Services	Ninth Circuit	2023-04-28	Denied	IFP	10th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equity federalism judicial-review legal-standing power-in-equity standing tenth-amendment	Shall the People exclude a single citizen's 10th Amendment power in equity?
22-7372	Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina	Fourth Circuit	2023-04-26	Dismissed	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings	When Article I, Section 9 of the North Carolina Constitution states that 'every person restrained of his liberty is entitled to a remedy to inquire in…
22-7352	Samuel Jesus Avila v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule plain-error precedent second-amendment standing	Is an error 'plain' within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) only if controlling precedent has recognized the exact same error i…
22-7287	Rodolfo Tovar-Zamarripa v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-14	Denied	IFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sixth-amendment	Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7298	In Re Gabriel Desmond Yankey, Jr.		2023-04-14	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-district judicial-recusal legal-standing petitioner-rights procedural-rights standing	Is the petitioner's confinement in violation of the United States Constitution?
22-7220	Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-05	Denied	IFP	appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7188	Brian Douglas Rambo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-04-03	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-underpinnings due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas habeas-corpus no-evidence no-evidence-claim sufficiency-of-evidence	Is there a conflict among the federal courts on whether Jackson-vs-Virginia-sufficiency-of-evidence-standard-abrogated-Thompson-v-City-of-Louisville-n…
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…
22-7025	Kevin Ariel Garcia-Archaga v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-17	Denied	IFP	almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment	Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-890	Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue	North Carolina	2023-03-16	Denied	Amici (4)	commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process interstate-sales judicial-precedent out-of-state-sales precedent state-courts state-taxation supreme-court-precedent	Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court was correct that state courts and taxing authorities no longer must follow Dilworth because this Court has im…
22-6903	William Landry, Jr. v. Oklahoma	Oklahoma	2023-03-02	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment indigent-defense sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitution statutory-interpretation	Whether Oklahoma's State Constitution Article II § 20 violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to contain the language of the Speedy Tr…
22-6906	Joseph Johnson v. Casey Campbell, Warden, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2023-03-02	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel due-process habeas-corpus judicial-prejudice legal-standard lower-court-error petition-review standing summary-judgment	Did the lower court err in granting Defendants' motion to dismiss?
22-6867	Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2023-02-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony	Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi…
22-805	BG Gulf Coast LNG, L.L.C., et al. v. Sabine-Neches Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas	Fifth Circuit	2023-02-24	Denied	Amici (1)	commerce-clause congressional-consent constitutional-interpretation harbor-navigation maritime-law port-fees takings tonnage-clause user-fees	Whether the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 permits localities to charge fees for incomplete and unusable increments of a harbor navigation pr…
22-800	Charles G. Moore, et ux. v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2023-02-23	Judgment Issued	Amici (51)Relisted (2)	apportionment apportionment-requirement article-i congress-power congressional-taxation constitutional-interpretation income-tax realization realization-doctrine sixteenth-amendment	Whether the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states
22-6820	Sergio Moises Ochoa v. Wisconsin	Wisconsin	2023-02-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review compel-witnesses constitutional-interpretation due-process enumerated-rights evidence-rules fundamental-rights judicial-discretion present-defense rules-of-evidence	May courts continue to treat fundamental and enumerated rights as mere guidelines to be discarded when inconvenient?
22-6806	Torrey Dewayne Walker v. Micha Neal, Warden	Eleventh Circuit	2023-02-16	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	appeals circuit-court-conflict civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-appellate-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction	Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
22-6764	Michael Ray Davis v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2023-02-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent	Whether United States v. Granados, 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Cooper,…
22-6689	Andrew J. Johnston v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2023-02-02	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency federal-deposit-insurance-corporation foia-request freedom-of-information-act insurance-coverage separation-of-powers	Whether the FDIC's denial of FOIA coverage for theft, robbery or embezzlement of the Byline Bank violates the separation of powers doctrine
22-6679	Debra Sauer v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2023-02-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-dismissal legal-claims ninth-circuit patent standing takings	Whether the Aveand and the Ut Cieecit decisions conflict with the Circuit decision which dismissed my case?
22-6648	Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al.	First Circuit	2023-01-27	Dismissed	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-misconduct judicial-overreach legislative-authority separation-of-powers standing state-statute state-supreme-court torture	Separation-of-powers
22-682	Tiange Huang, et al. v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al.	Third Circuit	2023-01-23	Denied	Response Waived	article-i article-iii constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers statutory-construction	Do Article III Courts have the power to judicially rewrite laws?
22-668	Nachaiya Kama v. Memorial Hermann Health Systems, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2023-01-19	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-law legal-standard sexual-harassment standing workplace-discrimination	Should any law repugnant to the US Constitution prevail?
22-647	Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas	Texas	2023-01-11	Denied		circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination	Whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrim…
22-6502	Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2023-01-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines	Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States …
22-6376	Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina	South Carolina	2022-12-22	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court	Whether the Respondent's arbitrary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is constitutional
22-6326	Mark A. White v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2022-12-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process illegal-detention judicial-error mcmillan-v-pennsylvania sentencing-factors sixth-amendment substantive-due-process	Whether the Justices of the 1986 Supreme Court violated the substantive due process rights, protection and guarantees of the petitioner and American c…
22-547	Randall E. Rollins v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-14	Denied	Response Waived	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law executive-action federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-policy judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers treason	Whether the court erred in not considering the emergency issue of illegal alien invasion and the government's failure to stop it
22-540	Paul Anthony Riojas v. Department of the Army, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-13	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)	circuit-court-standards civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review military-court-review military-justice service-member standard-of-review	Whether the proper scope and standard of review for a service member's habeas corpus petition challenging a military court proceeding is in accordance…
22-6292	Ryan L. Bessert v. Wisconsin	Wisconsin	2022-12-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process maryland-v-craig ohio-v-roberts two-way-video witness-testimony	Does testimony taken using two-way video violate the Confrontation Clause?
22-6255	Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2022-12-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines	Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defenda…
22-6267	Mack Doak v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2022-12-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation	What connection must exist between the defendant's travel and the unlawful sexual act or sexual activity to support the exercise of federal jurisdicti…
22-6220	Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-12-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6157	Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden	Eleventh Circuit	2022-11-28	Denied	IFP	appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review	Questions Presented
22-6098	Quartshezz Leonard Lewis v. Texas	Texas	2022-11-18	Denied	IFP	burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error legal-review statutory-analysis	Whether the lower courts erred in failing to rule on a constitutional claim that deprived the petitioner of due process
22-6040	William H. Wyttenbach v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina	Fourth Circuit	2022-11-10	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	article-iii-court civil-procedure conclusions-of-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process findings-of-fact fourth-circuit-court jurisdiction rule-of-law	Has the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court and the lower court violated all three foundational corner stones of Rule of Law; Jurisdiction, Finding of Fact…
22-6043	Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-11-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5989	Michael Edward Bowman v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2022-11-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process jury-trial ninth-circuit religious-freedom-restoration-act tax-return	Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly ignore the express language of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and deny Mr. Bowman his right to a jury trial…
22-414	Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al.	Pennsylvania	2022-11-02	Denied	Response Waived	article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights	Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution?
22-387	James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division	Michigan	2022-10-25	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)	14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition	Does the Ninth Amendment guarantee certain rights?
22-5874	Dustin Nguyen v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2022-10-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	collateral-attack constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process final-order judicial-jurisdiction rules-of-construction void-judgment	Did the panel err, violate statute or the public trust, when they failed to State their reasoning for deciding they had no jurisdiction?
22-5869	Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-19	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-362	Matt Huffman, President of the Ohio Senate, et al. v. Meryl Neiman, et al.	Ohio	2022-10-18	GVR	Relisted (2)	congressional-elections congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-review ohio-supreme-court proportional-representation redistricting state-constitution state-legislature	Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by enforcing state constitutional limits on a state legislature's power to regulate congressional el…
22-5720	Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional	Whether Mr. Edmonds was required to prove that it is 'more likely than not' that the sentencing judge 'actually relied on' the ACCA's unconstitutional…
22-5740	Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-10-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5713	In Re Roy Allen Nichols		2022-09-29	Denied	IFP	article-iv article-vi commerce-clause congressional-power constitution-cession constitutional-interpretation enumerated-powers federal-lands legislative-jurisdiction morality-legislation	Which Article in the U.S. Constitution specifically provides for cession of lands from any of the several 50 Union States to the United States?
22-5685	Tyrice Hill v. Neil Turner, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2022-09-27	Denied	IFP	access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-access deadlines due-process inmate-legal-assistance legal-research meaningful-access prisoner-rights sixth-circuit	Does the Sixth Circuit's narrow interpretation of Bounds v. Smith deny the petitioner meaningful access to the courts?
22-5700	Eric E. Johnson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation	Ninth Circuit	2022-09-27	Dismissed	IFP	access-to-courts circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-protections	whether-the-united-states-court-of-appeals-erred
22-269	Dawn Moore v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-09-22	Denied	Response Waived	appointments-clause article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law federal-courts federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-decision judicial-review separation-of-powers	Is the application of Fed. R. App P. 2 unconstitutional and violates the appointment provision under Art. II, § 2, cl. 2 of the United States Constitu…
22-5663	Danny Terron Roney v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2022-09-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-rights due-process legal-procedure property sovereign-rights standing takings witness-testimony	Who owns the Dollar General Stores corporation?
22-258	Wayne B. Holstad, et al. v. Department of Labor	Eighth Circuit	2022-09-20	Denied	Response Waived	administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review statute-of-limitations takings	Whether a statute of limitations is a due process requirement, and if so, what statute of limitations is applicable to this case?
22-5592	Harry Sharod James v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety	Fourth Circuit	2022-09-15	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation court-authority due-process federal-courts jurisdictional-challenge legislative-power state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction	Does Suloskantial and Procedure Due Process of the 5th and 14th Amendments establish Subject Matter Jurisdiction, and do Courts (Federal and STATE) ha…
22-229	In Re Brian D. Swanson		2022-09-12	Denied		17th-amendment administrative-law article-5 article-five 22-228" article-five-consent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-ratification equal-suffrage federal-question-jurisdiction georgia judicial-discretion patent-rights popular-elections senate-elections senate-representation seventeenth-amendment state-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion in di	Does the Seventeenth Amendment deprive the State of Georgia of its equal suffrage in the Senate, requiring its consent under Article 5 of the Constitu…
22-5430	Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2022-08-24	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts	Whether the lower courts abused their discretion and erred in light of Supreme Court precedent
22-5405	Perry Sawano v. Colorado	Colorado	2022-08-19	Denied	IFP	8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review	Does the Eighth Amendment require a sentencing court to consider a defendant's overall/aggregate sentence when conducting a proportionality review?
22-5392	Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-08-18	Denied	IFP	abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-accountability due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-procedure	Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to disregard the US Supreme Court's law, the US Code, the Federal Rules, the Constitution, the …
22-5367	Derrick Lee Hinton v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2022-08-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation federal-jurisdiction federal-power first-amendment free-speech government-criticism judicial-review legal-precedent native-american-rights sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty	Whether the federal government's reliance on the tribal sovereignty doctrine violates the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause by restricting criticis…
22-151	Lasean Dejong Houston v. Estate of Lasean Dejong Houston, et al.	Sixth Circuit	2022-08-17	Denied		barbary-treaties civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equitable-claims fiduciary-duty fiduciary-relations indigenous-status standing treaty treaty-rights trust	Whether petitioners' equitable primary rights are destroyed by denying their status as Moors, Americas' aboriginal Illinoisan nationals and subjects o…
22-5306	Micky Rife v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2022-08-08	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	article-i article-i-powers congress congressional-power constitution constitutional-interpretation criminal-penalties necessary-and-proper-clause treaty treaty-enforcement	Does the Necessary and Proper Clause contained within Article I of the Constitution provide an independent basis for Congress to create criminal penal…
22-5222	Travis Lee Combs v. Washington	Washington	2022-07-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings	Unsure
22-5169	Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-07-25	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings	Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
22-65	Michael Van Cleve v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2022-07-25	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)	article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process resource-diversion standing standing-doctrine statistical-information statistical-policy three-judge-panel	Is the current standing doctrine in conflict with the historical method of interpreting the Constitution?
22-5151	James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan	Michigan	2022-07-21	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations	Whether the State of Michigan's interpretation of its statute of limitations to revive an expired offense violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due…
22-29	Richelle D. Wallace v. City of Hampton, Virginia, et al	Virginia	2022-07-11	Denied		actual-malice constitutional-interpretation curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech libel-law new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure	Whether the actual-malice standard should be reconsidered for public-figure defamation cases
22-5014	Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2022-07-01	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing	Whether the District Court for the District of South Carolina erred in dismissing the case on the ground that the petitioners lacked standing to chall…
21-1592	Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2022-06-27	Denied	Response Waived	administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers	Whether Congress violated Article I, § 1 by improperly vesting the Department of Health and Human Services with discretion to determine criminalized a…
21-8238	James Seeley v. United States	Second Circuit	2022-06-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation	What is the correct United States Sentencing Guideline for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 2252A?
21-8206	Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2022-06-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review	Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Bennett's appeal without an opportunity to be heard
21-8152	Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2022-06-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum	Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o…
21-1565	State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, et al. v. I. Beverly Lake, et al.	North Carolina	2022-06-15	Denied		civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contracts-clause due-process employee-rights government-benefits government-employees legislative-reservation statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation	When a state legislature expressly reserves the right to amend a statute providing benefits to government employees, does that reservation bar a claim…
21-8059	Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-06-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8069	Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas	Texas	2022-06-06	Denied	IFP	4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search	Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas made a decision in this instant case that is in direct conflict with this Court's decision and gu…
21-1509	Ryan Costello v. Carol Ann Carter, et al.	Pennsylvania	2022-06-01	Denied		2-usc-2a(c) congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-remedies legislative-impasse partisan-gerrymandering state-court-discretion state-courts	Do the Elections Clause and 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c) constrain the remedial discretion of courts when they impose congressional maps in response to a constitu…
21-8000	Elijah Johnson v. California	California	2022-05-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment	Whether a reviewing court may uphold a general verdict by relying on a specific fact the jury rejected as not proved beyond a reasonable doubt, in lig…
21-7989	Peter Vu v. San Francisco Police Department, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-05-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleading-standard prison-litigation-reform-act stare-decisis u.s-constitution	Whether the Iqbal & Twombly fact-pleading standard applied and extended in the Ninth Circuit through the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in Hebbe …
21-7975	Amir Karim Beigali v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2022-05-26	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	924-c consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum section-924c sixth-amendment supervised-release	Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment prohibit a consecutive mandatory penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C)(i) when the second § 924(c) offense was …
21-1478	Nicholas Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, California, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-05-24	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation due-process finality-requirement finality-ripeness knick pakdel ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings takings-claim williamson-county	Whether Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019) and Pakdel v. City and Cty. of San Francisco, 141 S.Ct. 2226 (2021) have sanctioned a pervas…
21-7965	William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al.	Third Circuit	2022-05-24	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitution constitutional-breach constitutional-interpretation government government-advocacy mass-tort oath-of-office social-contract totalitarianism	Is it Unconstitutional and a Mass Tort to have Socialists in government advocating and supporting Totalitarianism?
21-7935	Jason K. Feister v. Florida	Florida	2022-05-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers	WHETHER THE SECOND DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS
21-1454	The Ohio Adjutant General's Department, et al. v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, et al.	Sixth Circuit	2022-05-17	Judgment Issued	Amici (7)	civil-service-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-structure federal-agency-regulation federal-executive-agency federal-labor-relations-authority labor-practices militia-clause state-militias	Does the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 empower the Federal Labor Relations Authority to regulate the labor practices of state militias?
21-1439	Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections	Fifth Circuit	2022-05-13	Denied	Response Waived	certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent	Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability
21-1441	Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration	Sixth Circuit	2022-05-13	Denied	Response Waived	administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers	What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that …
21-7788	Karen Marie Isaacson v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-05-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	barrier civil-rights constitutional-interpretation economic-barrier federal-regulation intra-state-activity northeastern-florida-chapter precedential-standing standing standing-doctrine	Does enforcement of a federal regulation penalizing an intra-state activity constitute a barrier as per Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated…
21-1408	Peter Efo v. Diane Fondjo	Maryland	2022-05-02	Denied		13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-order damages due-process employment-law labor labor-rights restitution thirteenth-amendment	Whether a Court Order for refund of paid labor cost for work ordered by an employer and was completed by a laborer violates the U.S.C. Amendment XIII …
21-1394	John Fitisemanu, et al. v. United States, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2022-04-29	Denied	Amici (9)Relisted (2)	14th-amendment birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment insular-cases territorial-status territories	Whether persons born in United States Territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause, includin…
21-7738	Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7678	Robert Elton v. Oklahoma	Oklahoma	2022-04-21	Denied	IFP	arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty	Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to inv…
21-1354	Bast Amron LLP v. United States Trustee Region 21	Eleventh Circuit	2022-04-18	GVR		bankruptcy-administrator bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-uniformity chapter-11-bankruptcy congressional-power constitutional-interpretation fee-disparity judicial-districts	Whether the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act violates the uniformity requirement of the Bankruptcy Clause
21-7639	Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-04-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent	Whether the Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues and Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues were correctly interpreted, or contr…
21-7622	Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-14	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7602	Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney	New Hampshire	2022-04-12	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment	Whether the State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process under …
21-7560	Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-04-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review	Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1311	Rinaldo Pierno v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC	Second Circuit	2022-03-31	Denied	Response Waived	appellate-courts article-three circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-power judicial-precedent non-precedential-decisions precedent	Whether the proliferation of 'non-precedential' appellate court decisions violates Article III of the U.S. Constitution
21-7439	Curtis Henry Johnson v. Paul Benton	Mississippi	2022-03-23	Denied	IFP	article-1-section-8 constitution constitutional-interpretation indian-affairs land-occupancy plenary-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-courts treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty	Whether Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution authorizes or allows state courts to deal with Indian affairs regarding reserved Treaty…
21-7435	Ronell Williams v. Kansas	Kansas	2022-03-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discretionary-sentencing jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion youth-characteristics	Does this Court's decision in Jones v. Mississippi mandate that states must strictly apply that any discretion in sentencing a juvenile to life withou…
21-1271	Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al.	North Carolina	2022-03-21	Judgment Issued	Amici (74)Relisted (3)	constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights	Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the 'Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives .. . prescri…
21-1250	Jamal Darius Parker v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2022-03-15	Denied		civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions equitable-remedy equity equity-doctrine fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion procedural-rights treaties treaty-law	Whether the lower court's and agent's who are people bound by oath to be Persons worthy of trust, decision to dismiss petitioner claim is not contrary…
21-7367	Adam Shane Swindle v. S. Ma'at	Fifth Circuit	2022-03-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation court-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pandemic-review record-review	Should an inmate be punished for an act they could not have known to be prohibited?
21-7266	Fredy Zamora-Reyes v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-03-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment	Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never…
21-7140	Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2022-02-17	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing	Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
21-1123	William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2 v. Clinton Nurseries, Inc., et al.	Second Circuit	2022-02-14	GVR	Response RequestedRelisted (2)	bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-trustees congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law judicial-districts quarterly-fees uniform-laws	Whether Section 1004(a) of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017 contravened Congress's constitutional authority to establish uniform laws on the subje…
21-1078	Office of the United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2022-02-04	GVR	Relisted (2)	bankruptcy-act bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-trustees congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation judicial-districts quarterly-fees uniform-laws	Whether Section 1004(a) of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017 contravened Congress's constitutional authority to establish uniform laws on the bankr…
21-7050	Guy Cozzi v. New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al.	Second Circuit	2022-02-03	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review necessary-and-proper-clause rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supreme-court-discretion	Whether Section 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 violates the Constitution
21-6989	Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden	Eighth Circuit	2022-01-31	Denied	IFP	certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review	Whether the petitioner's conviction was supported by sufficient evidence under the standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia
21-7011	Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2022-01-31	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction ninth-circuit standing supreme-court takings	Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Plaintiff's claims
21-6916	Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al.	First Circuit	2022-01-20	Denied	IFP	civil-rights common-carriage constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech internet-law public-accommodation section-230	Correct interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230
21-6895	Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois	Illinois	2022-01-18	Denied	IFP	6th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing lineup-identification statutory-construction	Whether the lineup identification procedure employed violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and the right to effective assistance of co…
21-6799	Erich William Norris v. Brook Forest Community Association, Inc.	Fifth Circuit	2022-01-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation racial-inequality rule-of-law state-court-procedure state-remedy texas-constitution	Does patently unequal, disparate state administration of the Rule of Law and failure to provide state remedy in strict accordance with the Texas Const…
21-6775	Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2022-01-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction	whether-a-person-who-obtains-proceeds-and-makes-a-separate-and-distinct-agreement-from-the-anterior-criminal-conduct,-to-engage-in-a-financial-transac…
21-930	Xiu Jian Sun v. Barack Hussein Obama	District of Columbia	2021-12-23	Denied		civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law divine-law due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus religious-petition standing	Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
21-6684	Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al.	Nevada	2021-12-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation reproductive-freedom state-supreme-court	Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause prohibit the government from denying a person's fundamental right to…
21-6645	Robert Brandon Bilus v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2021-12-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction plea-bargaining precedent sixth-amendment	Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Sixth Amendment to the Unite…
21-6591	Daniel Spottsville v. Georgia	Georgia	2021-12-14	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdictional-limits standing state-court-jurisdiction state-court-procedure takings	Whether the State of Georgia's denial of Petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari violates the Petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6512	Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden	Louisiana	2021-12-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict	Can Louisiana's 1997 and 1998 legislative amendments to La. 14:42 (C) and (D) qualify, absent a constitutional amendment, as the attendant provision n…
21-6530	Tyreese Thompson v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2021-12-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum	Whether any facts that increase the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a rea…
21-6506	E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility	Second Circuit	2021-12-03	Denied	IFP	abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review	Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and adjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invol…
21-822	Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission	Alaska	2021-12-03	Denied	Response Waived	campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing	Whether the original meaning of the First Amendment permits regulations against contributions to independent political action committees
21-6457	Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2021-11-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-6408	James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al.	Second Circuit	2021-11-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action	Whether a state violates the express terms of a settlement agreement by refusing to affirm the decision maker of their authority to grant approvals th…
21-6387	Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida	Florida	2021-11-23	Denied	IFP	apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction	Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Proce…
21-6263	Gary Aaron Coble v. David Anderson, Warden	Fourth Circuit	2021-11-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-review self-incrimination supreme-court-jurisdiction takings	Whether the petitioner's due process rights under the U.S. Constitution were violated by the state's refusal to allow him to remain silent at trial
21-6162	Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee	Tennessee	2021-11-03	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation	Whether the lower courts in Tennessee exceeded the jurisdiction conferred and acted illegally
21-6168	Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2021-11-03	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines	Did Judge Katsten M. Culney violate the strictures of Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) self-incrimination?
21-6103	Moses D. Estrada v. California	California	2021-10-27	Denied	IFP	attorney-client-relationship collaborative-discovery constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rights right-to-counsel victim-rights	Does an accused have a right to effective assistance of counsel when the accused does not collaborate with counsel?
21-620	Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, et al.	District of Columbia	2021-10-27	Denied	Response Waived	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency free-speech legal-representation standing state-regulation supremacy-clause younger-abstention	Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies
21-6058	David James Lola v. Florida	Florida	2021-10-22	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty	Does due process pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments dictate that a state court clerk may assign a criminal case to a judge who ex…
21-583	Stephen Brint Carlton, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2021-10-21	Denied		abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-precedent judicial-review reproductive-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent texas-law	Whether the Court should overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
21-5994	Choo Washburn v. John Nunez, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2021-10-19	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction divorce-proceedings due-process erie-doctrine personal-property property-rights real-property takings	Does the meaning of the word 'PROPERTY' in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments indicate 'PERSONAL PROPERTY' or 'REAL PROPERTY
21-5961	David K. Horsley v. Ohio	Ohio	2021-10-14	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure	Whether the holding in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26(B)(1) which requires a defendant to prove ineffective assistance …
21-5952	Robert Paul Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube, and Aaron Eason v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2021-10-13	Denied	Amici (1)IFP	18-usc-2101 anti-riot-act brandenburg-v-ohio civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overt-act riot speech-restriction	Whether the Anti-Riot Act is facially unconstitutional
21-5922	Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2021-10-07	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process individual-rights judicial-review statutory-construction statutory-interpretation	Should this Court grant writ of Certiorari addressing constitutional issues, correcting a miscarriage of justice
21-5800	Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Idaho	Idaho	2021-09-28	Denied	IFP	atkins-standard Atkins-v-Virginia clinical-assessment clinical-standards conflict-between-lower-courts constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing death-penalty intellectual-disability national-concern sub-average-intellectual-functioning	Did Atkins v. Virginia require the use of clinical standards for the determination of sub-average intellectual functioning?
21-5663	Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia	District of Columbia	2021-09-14	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty	Whether United States citizens have the right, duty, and privilege to alter, abolish, and form a new government
21-317	Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al.	Sixth Circuit	2021-08-31	Denied	Response Waived	11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction	Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction
21-5388	Wilbert Kelly, Jr. v. Louisiana	Louisiana	2021-08-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	age-restriction burden-of-proof constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process legal-standing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence public-official sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-jurisdiction	Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's application for post-conviction relief despite the lack of evidence proving the …
21-206	Mourice Neal v. City of Detroit, Michigan	Michigan	2021-08-13	Denied		civil-rights constitutional-compliance constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-oath judicial-power legal-jurisdiction standing state-law-conflict statutory-interpretation	Whether the United States Constitution and state constitutions are the supreme law governing the land, and whether judges and law enforcement officers…
21-5244	Burudi Jarade Faison v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2021-07-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	commerce-clause commerce-jurisprudence congressional-power constitutional-interpretation federal-sentencing firearm-possession overrule precedent scarborough-v-us tenth-amendment us-v-lopez	If the current precedent case law for commerce jurisprudence, i.e, U.S. Lopez 514 US 549, conflicts with another currently-applied case decision, i.e,…
21-5264	In Re Melvin Dinkins		2021-07-29	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause	Whether the 'usages and principles' of 28 USC 3730(b)(2) allow a person to bring a civil action for the United States Government, and whether this is …
21-5157	Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands	Third Circuit	2021-07-21	Denied	IFP	appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation	Is a lesser-included-offense of an unconstitutional-statute authorized by federal-statute
21-5113	Michael Anthony Almendarez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2021-07-16	Denied	IFP	article-vi constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process state-court-records united-states-constitution	Is a judge categorically in excess of jurisdiction to enter an order if said judge refuses to obey the interplay between Article VI, cl. 2 of the Unit…
20-8460	Marcus Snipes v. Florida	Florida	2021-06-30	Denied	IFP	Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum	Whether the state can avoid Apprendi's reach by writing its penal statutes so that a fact that increases the penalty for a crime instead becomes a fac…
20-8294	Markeith Loyd v. Florida	Florida	2021-06-14	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure history-based-re-evaluation jury-rights legal-precedent lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-mccree sixth-amendment trial-by-jury	Whether this Court should recede from Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U.S. 162 (1986), as part of its ongoing history-based re-evaluation of the Sixth Amendme…
20-8253	Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2021-06-08	Denied	IFP	28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause	Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intellec…
20-8210	Anthony A. Patel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al.	California	2021-06-03	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-authority executive-power judicial-authority judicial-independence martial-law presidential-powers separation-of-powers supreme-court-justices	Can the Executive Branch impose martial law on courts?
20-8198	In Re Khayree Smith		2021-06-02	Dismissed	IFP	14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery	What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (negro, black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865?
20-8183	Themba Bernard Sanganza v. Warden, Allenwood FCI	Third Circuit	2021-06-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitution-supremacy constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism governmental-branches judicial-review legislative-precedence separation-of-powers state-sovereignty	Does the Constitution take precedence over other forms of legislation?
20-8078	Calvin Lamont Mack v. Florida	Florida	2021-05-20	Denied	IFP	blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy enhanced-compound-felony federal-question judicial-discretion legal-precedent legislative-intent same-element-offenses state-court-review supreme-court-discretion	Whether the state and federal constitutions were violated under the Double Jeopardy Clauses
20-8061	Jermaine Davis v. Illinois	Illinois	2021-05-19	Denied	IFP	5th-amendment administrative-law agency-adjudication civil-rights constitutional-interpretation custodial-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction miranda-rights police-misconduct property-rights	Whether the proper procedural safeguards were provided to the petitioner in their request to remain silent and request for an attorney
20-1588	Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al.	Third Circuit	2021-05-17	Denied		actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act	Whether the Court should revisit the 'actual malice' doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
20-1589	Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office	Federal Circuit	2021-05-17	Denied	Relisted (2)	15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law	Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064
20-7994	In Re Lee Robert Scott		2021-05-12	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	agency-authorization civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct judicial-misconduct legal-immunity procedural-protection standing state-prosecution	Does the Supreme Court allow lower courts to cover up victorious and malicious prosecution cases when vindictive legal sentencing is clearly on the re…
20-7948	Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-05-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation	Whether the 15 Supreme Court justices are the last line of defense for religious freedom and the free exercise thereof?
20-7950	Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2021-05-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court	Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and hold that a prior conviction is an element of the aggravated form of the ille…
20-7910	Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States	First Circuit	2021-05-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status	Whether Congress's authority to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas is unconstrained by Article I, § 8, cl. 10 to the United States …
20-7900	Monique A. Lozoya v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2021-04-30	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute	Is the airspace above a State part of that State, for purposes of the Constitution's provisions permitting venue only in the State and district where …
20-7857	Benjamin Ayala v. New York	New York	2021-04-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision	Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated
20-7747	Anthony A. Patel v. Charles Robinson, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-04-14	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-discrimination standing	Does Article III of the U.S. Constitution belong to the legal profession or to the American people?
20-7677	Juan Manuel Fuentes-Morales v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2021-04-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	attorney-speech constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt victor-v-nebraska	Whether the Fourth Circuit's reasonable doubt charge conflicts with Victor v. Nebraska
20-7714	Dario Reyes-Torres v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2021-04-13	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants	Whether resident undocumented immigrants are part of the people whose right to keep and bear arms for individual self-defense the second-amendment pro…
20-7547	Saloman Martinez v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2021-03-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent	Whether the defendant's conviction and sentence are in conflict with the Supreme Court's precedents in (1) Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004),…
20-1344	Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2021-03-24	Denied	Response Waived	16th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process income-definition irs standing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent tax-law taxation	Can the IRS/United States consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis) on the definition of income, as 'legally frivol…
20-7493	Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-03-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review	Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) is unconstitutional
20-1269	Amanda Kay Renfroe, et al. v. Robert Denver Parker, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2021-03-12	Denied	Response Waived	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-doctrine qualified-immunity separation-of-powers standing	Qualified-immunity-violates-separation-of-powers
20-7339	Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia	Virginia	2021-03-05	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error	Whether trial counsel's absence during the Commonwealth's witness direct examination constitutes a critical stage of the trial and a structural error
20-1159	Vermont National Telephone Company v. Vermont Department of Taxes	Vermont	2021-02-23	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)	constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-communications-commission federal-license nonbusiness-income situs situs-principle state-taxation whitney-v-graves	Whether the Vermont Supreme Court erred in holding that a federal license, that can be used only in one state, lacks a situs in that state under Whitn…
20-7205	Leonardo Franqui v. Florida	Florida	2021-02-22	Denied	IFP	capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction	Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to assess a capital defendant's intellectual disability consistent with…
20-7099	Brandon Lamonte Sorenson v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2021-02-10	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses promulgation-of-guidelines sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction	Whether enabling the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to expand the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' to add inchoate offenses n…
20-7086	Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2021-02-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause	Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying a death penalty sentencing review in a non-death penalty case
20-7049	Edwin Gonzalez v. United States	First Circuit	2021-02-04	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	8th-amendment age-based-sentencing brain-development constitutional-interpretation criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation	Whether the Miller ban on mandatory life without parole sentences for juvenile homicide offenders should be extended to youths under the age of 21
20-1025	Juan Francisco Vega v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2021-01-28	Denied		antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution florida-rules-of-court florida-statutes involuntary-commitment jury jury-verdict mental-abnormality	Whether the jury's verdict must be reinstated based on the United States Constitution, Florida Constitution, Florida Statutes, and Florida Rules of Co…
20-969	Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al.	District of Columbia	2021-01-15	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (6)	1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing	Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political di…
20-6894	Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-01-14	Denied	IFP	appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines	Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it denied Appellant's motion to review a 2019 order
20-6852	Cindy Bauer, fka Cindy Gamrat v. Edward McBroom, et al.	Sixth Circuit	2021-01-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-and-just-treatment fair-treatment legislative-immunity legislative-investigations-and-hearings pleading-standard pleading-standards sixth-circuit	Whether Michigan's Article \| § 17 affords Michigan citizens the protections of fair-and-just-treatment during legislative-investigations-and-hearings
20-6860	Antonia W. Shields v. United States	Second Circuit	2021-01-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	28-usc-1915 28-usc-453 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se-litigation standard-of-review	Does the federal government give unequal rights to a free U.S. citizen and the U.S. Constitution when the judiciary requires a different standard of r…
20-945	Samuel T. Russell v. Texas	Fifth Circuit	2021-01-13	Denied		11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity	When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said they reviewed 'an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo,' did they fail…
20-6765	Kevin Wayne Dickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2021-01-04	Denied	IFP	appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-sufficiency standard-of-review state-court-review	Whether the Fifth Court of Appeal committed error in concluding that the appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim could not be reviewed on …
20-882	Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, et al.	Wisconsin	2021-01-04	Denied	Response Waived	absentee-ballot article-ii constitutional-interpretation election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review laches legislative-intent state-courts voter-fraud wisconsin-legislature	Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts to invoke the non-statutory, judg…
20-855	Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland	Fourth Circuit	2020-12-29	Denied	Amici (3)	certification certification-doctrine constitutional-interpretation due-process horne-v-department-of-agriculture maryland-constitution personal-property property-rights takings-clause	Whether the Takings Clause protects lawfully acquired personal property banned by the State legislature
20-853	Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Fall Line Patents, LLC, et al.	Federal Circuit	2020-12-28	GVR	Response RequestedRelisted (3)	administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation department-head inferior-officers officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office	Whether administrative patent judges are principal officers or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-845	Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al.	Pennsylvania	2020-12-23	Denied	Amici (4)Response Waived	article-ii constitutional-interpretation due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority mail-ballot presidential-election	Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's alteration or suspension of state election law violated the U.S. Constitution
20-6653	Scott P. Roeder v. Kansas	Kansas	2020-12-18	Denied	IFP	abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-review personhood roe-v-wade standing	Whether the notion of overturning Roe v. Wade includes other possibilities besides leaving abortion up to the states
20-6630	Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2020-12-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing	Whether the lower courts should be sanctioned for protecting the unconstitutional imposition of void and obsolete statute
20-802	Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	2020-12-15	Denied		civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law	Are Pennsylvania state laws constitutional?
20-803	Morgan Joseph Langan v. United States	Federal Circuit	2020-12-15	Denied	Response Waived	article-iv constitutional-interpretation due-process federalism judicial-sovereignty legislative-act property-rights republican-government separation-of-powers takings vested-rights	Does the State of Arizona possess the transcendental sovereignty to take away petitioner's vested rights in private property by a mere legislative act…
20-774	Georgianna Parisi v. Dayton Bar Association Certified Grievance Committee, et al.	Ohio	2020-12-07	Denied	Response Waived	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent open-records separation-of-powers state-constitution state-legislature state-separation-of-powers	Whether the Ohio Supreme Court violated the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions by applying Superintendence Rules 44-47 to records that are not 'court documen…
20-6455	Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2020-11-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings	Which parts of the constitution (if any) justify the doctrine of state sovereign immunity?
20-725	Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine	Pennsylvania	2020-11-25	Denied	Response Waived	amendment-xi civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process existential-threats judicial-bias originalism pro-se-access systemic-bias systemic-justice	Does Judge Colville's elevation to the federal bench or any other events during the pendency of this case lend urgency to the problem of Thrasymachus?
20-6419	Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2020-11-24	Dismissed	IFP	clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles	Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.…
20-6345	Thomas Reid DeCarlo v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2020-11-19	Dismissed	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-rights congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-constitution judicial-review legislative-acts legislative-process separation-of-powers	Whether Congress can override the Federal Constitution
20-6332	Cecil Salyers v. Kentucky	Kentucky	2020-11-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard	Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the Sixth Amendment in holding the petitioner cannot demonstrate prejudice under Stricklan…
20-546	Michigan v. Laricca Seminta Mathews	Michigan	2020-10-26	Denied		constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment	Whether Miranda v. Arizona is satisfied when a suspect in custody is advised of the right to an attorney but not explicitly advised of the right to th…
20-6101	Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2020-10-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation	Whether 18 U.S.C. 3§583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6005	Victor Brancaccio v. Florida	Florida	2020-10-14	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc	Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5932	In Re Maurice Johnson		2020-10-08	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights	What branch of law authorized the states to apply abolished slaves labels (Negro, Black, Colored or African-American) to any African descent after 186…
20-5913	Bradley M. Cox v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2020-10-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	bail-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards factors-for-detention presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention release-conditions witness-testimony	Whether the lower courts used the provisions of the Bail Reform Act in a manner contrary to the constitutional right to bail?
20-5914	Clifton Robinson v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2020-10-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent	Whether the lower courts erred in determining that the scheme involved in this case did not affect 'interstate commerce' as required by the Hobbs Act
20-420	Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor	Eighth Circuit	2020-10-01	Denied	Response Waived	administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent	Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid…
20-5869	Michael Robert Everett v. Florida	Florida	2020-10-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law	Whether reclassification of a criminal offense from one degree to another violates the Double Jeopardy Clause
20-414	Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al.	Federal Circuit	2020-09-30	Denied	Relisted (2)	administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections	Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-330	Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al.	Second Circuit	2020-09-14	GVR	Amici (4)Relisted (2)	article-iii constitutional-interpretation domestic-emoluments-clause emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments-clause judicial-review presidential-immunity presidential-powers standing	Whether plaintiffs who claim to compete with businesses in which the President of the United States has a financial interest can seek redress in an Ar…
20-272	Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers	Maryland	2020-09-02	Denied	Response Waived	constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment	Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey
20-273	Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al.	Federal Circuit	2020-09-02	Dismissed		administrative-law administrative-patent-judges agency-adjudication appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states-patent-and-trademark-office	Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-5537	Anderson Alexander v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2020-08-31	Denied	IFP	aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony	Whether Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the armed career criminal provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act
20-5502	Kareem K. Kirk, Sr. v. Janet Richardson, et al.	Florida	2020-08-26	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-duties motion-for-rehearing unelaborated-decision	MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN IT, AND PERFORM JUDICIAL DUTIES WITHOUT BIAS, OR PREJUDICE
20-5485	Maurice Moss v. Florida	Florida	2020-08-25	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc	Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5486	Spencer E. Miles v. Florida	Florida	2020-08-25	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc	Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5456	Lorenzo Robertson v. Ozell Pace, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2020-08-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedures judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-construction	Why have My Care not been Yaking, Serioas 2
20-5416	Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida	Florida	2020-08-19	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc	Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause
20-5329	Douglas Dean Scyphers v. Washington	Ninth Circuit	2020-08-12	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection grand-jury indictment indictment-procedure statutory-conflict vagueness	Question not identified
20-131	Essity Hygiene and Health AB v. Cascades Canada ULC, et al.	Federal Circuit	2020-08-07	Denied		appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation discretion federal-circuit forfeiture judicial-discretion pending-cases precedential-decision scalia	Whether courts have discretion to apply a precedential Appointments Clause decision in pending cases where the issue was not raised in the opening app…
20-122	Eric E. Taylor v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al.	District of Columbia	2020-08-05	Denied	Response Waived	14th-amendment 5-usc-3331 certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction	Whether due-process-of-law, 5-usc-3331, 14th-amendment, civil-rights, civil-procedure, standing
20-5277	Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2020-08-05	Denied	IFP	appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure	Whether the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in d…
20-102	Christopher Hadsell v. Barry Baskin, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2020-08-03	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)	civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction rooker-doctrine separation-of-powers state-court-judgments state-courts	Whether Rooker's usurpation of Congress' power to expand this Court's jurisdiction to include exclusive jurisdiction for appellate review of state-cou…
20-5207	William Joe Long v. George Jaime, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2020-07-29	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection legislative-discretion prison-overcrowding separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation	Whether the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause applies to all citizens when the government enacts legislation
20-5070	Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia	Virginia	2020-07-19	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia	Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence in criminal convictions violates the Due Process Clause as interpr…
20-5090	Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2020-07-16	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines	Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a…
20-5092	Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections	Virginia	2020-07-16	Denied	IFP	appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-construction supreme-court	Whether the ruling by the Supreme Court constitutes a clearly established law error in the United States Supreme Court Ineffective Assistance of Couns…
20-5026	James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2020-07-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction	Does the power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations include the prosecution of a volunteer missionary who engages in noncommercial illicit sexual…
20-5021	Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2020-07-10	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts judicial-opinion legal-standing petition-review pleadings procedural-complexity standing	Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual matter to survive a motion to dismiss
20-5028	Richard Charles Lussy v. Wade J. Dahood	Montana	2020-07-10	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech jury-trial legal-procedure ministerial-oath oath-of-office standing stare-decisis	Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated
19-1452	Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al.	Federal Circuit	2020-07-02	Judgment Issued	Amici (1)Relisted (2)	administrative-adjudicators administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit inferior-officers lucia-v-sec patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers	Whether administrative patent judges are 'principal' or 'inferior' Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause
19-1443	S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2020-07-01	Denied	Response Waived	circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments	Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States
19-1446	Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America	Eleventh Circuit	2020-07-01	Denied	Response Waived	5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation	Does the 'right for the wrong reason' doctrine allow federal appellate courts to violate due process?
19-1450	Samuel T. Russell v. Texas	Fifth Circuit	2020-07-01	Denied	Response Waived	11th-amendment bill-of-rights case-law civil-rights congressional-authorization constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law-violations federal-rules-of-law founding-fathers state-sovereign-immunity	When the lower Courts overlooked the Framers' written intent of the 11th Amendment, by applying this oversight to Rules of law that discredit Bill of …
19-8853	Alan Rene Sajous v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2020-06-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-significance due-process federalism judicial-review legal-meaning legal-validity national-principles rule-of-law standing	Does the Constitution mean anything in the United States of America anymore?
19-8788	Travis Job v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2020-06-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review prior-conviction prior-criminal-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum	Whether the Court should overrule the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States
19-8755	Levi West v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2020-06-19	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment	Is the different-occasions requirement an element for the jury to decide, or for the sentencing judge to decide?
19-8637	Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2020-06-08	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation	Whether the Court should overrule the 'legislative override' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause
19-1314	Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille	New Hampshire	2020-05-26	Denied		constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights	Whether the NH statute governing tenant eviction or the NH Supreme Court's interpretation of that statute resulted in an unlawful impairment of a cont…
19-1294	Geoffrey Young v. Amy McGrath	Kentucky	2020-05-15	Denied	Response Waived	ballot-access ballot-challenge civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation democratic-party due-process election-integrity election-law judicial-procedure kentucky-constitution political-parties primary-election standing	Whether Kentucky's Judicial Department unlawfully enabled the names of Amy McGrath and Andy Beshear to appear on general election ballots
19-8441	Richard John Vieira v. California	California	2020-05-12	Denied	IFP	attorney-general-duty constitution-violation constitutional-interpretation federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-authority judicial-misconduct judicial-oath legal-accountability oath-of-office prosecutorial-discretion state-law	What statute or authority do California Supreme Court judges have to violate, ignore, and disobey the absolute commands in the state and U.S. constitu…
19-8287	Muhammad Toure v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation	Ninth Circuit	2020-04-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-question judicial-review jurisdiction precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation	Whether the scope of a court's discretion in declining to exercise jurisdiction over a claim for relief in the absence of a federal question is limite…
19-8265	Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2020-04-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor	Are the actions of a district court in denying a motion to dismiss a civil rights claim for damages against a state actor constitutional?
19-1184	Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al.	Third Circuit	2020-03-30	Denied	Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5)	buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law	Whether federal courts have authority to save a state or local law from unconstitutionality by positing a limiting construction that has no state-law …
19-8068	Daniel B. Boudette v. Tammy Boudette, nka Tammy Oskerson	Montana	2020-03-23	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law enforceability foreign-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-enforcement originating-state sister-state-judgment state-law time-limit time-limitation	Does a state's enforcement of a sister state's judgment beyond the time limit when it is enforceable in the originating state contravene the Full Fait…
19-7905	Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation	Fifth Circuit	2020-03-09	Dismissed	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason	Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case constitute…
19-7842	Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2020-03-02	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret	Whether agency expertise could be applied to threshold questions accompanying a constitutional claim against a federal statute
19-7732	Jerad Hanks v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2020-02-21	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP	bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine	Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) is unconstitutionally vague
19-7717	Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections	Florida	2020-02-20	Denied	IFP	bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review	Whether the constitutional prohibition on excessive bail, as incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, requires a state cour…
19-1019	Texas, et al. v. California, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2020-02-14	Judgment Issued		affordable-care-act affordable-care-act-aca congress congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation due-process health-insurance individual-mandate severability standing tax	Whether the unconstitutional individual mandate to purchase minimum essential coverage is severable from the remainder of the ACA
19-7635	Timothy Courtney v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2020-02-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review	Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a defen…
19-7497	Richard Silvestri v. United States	First Circuit	2020-01-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force	Should the United States Constitution be construed to prohibit Congress from enacting Laws that punish people for extcaterritorial conduct under the C…
19-954	Brian E. Harriss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue	Ninth Circuit	2020-01-30	Denied	Response Waived	amendment-xvi civil-rights constitutional constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation due-process income-tax ninth-circuit standing statutory tax tax-law	Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in recharacterizing the petitioner's right to refute the presumptive evidence of the Commissioner's correctness
19-7461	Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner	Fourth Circuit	2020-01-28	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent	Question not identified
19-7381	Percy Jones v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2020-01-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing	Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal …
19-7172	Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2020-01-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump	Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina violated the judicial code of ethics when they refused to recognize a Cong…
19-7152	Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al.	Massachusetts	2020-01-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont	Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substanti…
19-6986	Jarvis H. Neely v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2019-12-18	Denied	IFP	5th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction pension-regulations property-rights standing statutory-analysis takings	Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for…
19-6980	John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas	Kansas	2019-12-17	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers	Whether mandatory vehicle liability insurance using criminal sanction violates NFIB v. Sebelius
19-6922	Charles Edward Bates v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2019-12-13	Denied	IFP	8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing	Whether the lower courts erred in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines and punishments as the forfeiture amount…
19-6938	Gabriel Garcia-Solar v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2019-12-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	congress-power congressional-power constitutional-interpretation extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause felony-definition foreign-nationals high-seas maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act nexus-requirement nexus-to-us sentencing-discretion	Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act exceeds Congress' power under the Felonies Clause
19-749	William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al.	Third Circuit	2019-12-12	Denied	Response Waived	appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents	Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 1) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-6855	Jose Luis Morales v. G. D. Lewis, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-12-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	abuse-of-discretion constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-discretion res-judicata supreme-court supreme-court-directives	Is it an abuse of discretion when the federal courts do not follow directives from the United States Supreme Court on how to apply res-judicata?
19-6846	James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al.	Third Circuit	2019-12-05	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court	Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel applies to a defendant's first appeal as of right
19-6873	Anthony Dale Carter v. Florida	Florida	2019-12-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights individual-rights judicial-review standing state-court supreme-court-precedent	Is it a departure from the essential elements of law to deny a notion based in part or whole on the Court's failure to rule within a reasonable time?
19-6777	Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida	Florida	2019-11-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure	Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS…
19-6737	Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida	Florida	2019-11-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent	Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
19-6692	Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2019-11-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release	Whether the revocation of supervised release and imposition of additional imprisonment for a violation of the conditions of supervised release violate…
19-641	Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC	Colorado	2019-11-18	Denied		8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation	Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require…
19-607	Woodcrest Homes, Inc. v. Carousel Farms Metropolitan District	Colorado	2019-11-12	Denied	Amici (1)	5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking private-benefit property-rights public-use takings	Is the Fifth Amendment's restriction of eminent domain to 'public use[s]' satisfied even if a condemnation is undertaken 'for the purpose of conferrin…
19-6564	In Re Wei Zhou		2019-11-08	Dismissed	Relisted (2)IFP	28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction	Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite…
19-562	Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al.	Second Circuit	2019-10-29	Denied	Response Waived	42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality	Pleading standards for pro se parties in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and ADA cases
19-6412	Dennis Jones v. Arizona	Arizona	2019-10-28	Denied	IFP	appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure	Whether the state court decided a federal question in a way that conflicts with this Court's precedent on the right to counsel and due process
19-6373	Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington	Washington	2019-10-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code	Did the Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington err by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the public?
19-6358	In Re Morris J. Warren		2019-10-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation	Does Daniel v. Fulwood, Case No. 12-5327/Citation 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. Cir. 2014), apply to my parole-eligible sentence, where which was given December …
19-487	Kevin W. Culp, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2019-10-15	Denied	Amici (1)Relisted (7)	2nd-amendment concealed-carry constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection firearm-rights illinois non-resident-licensing second-amendment standing state-restrictions	Whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms requires that the State of Illinois allow qualified non-residents to apply for an Illinois co…
19-6220	Nerses Nick Bronsozian v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2019-10-09	GVR	IFP	2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process firearms firearms-regulation national-firearms-act registration statutory-construction taxation taxation-power	Does Congress's power to tax give it the power to punish the possession of unregistered machineguns under § 5861(d) of the NFA, even though it is impo…
19-6167	Thaddeus Saunders v. Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	2019-10-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	art-iv-section-1 article-iv constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process full-faith-and-credit judicial-precedent miller-v-alabama people-v-house public-acts	Whether the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution should apply to the rulings in Miller v. Alabama, 567 US 460 (2012), People…
19-6158	William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2019-10-03	Dismissed	Response WaivedIFP	1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion	Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in ruling that the statement that Judaism is a 'doctrine of hate' is equivalent to 'violence and murder' such that l…
19-6078	Terreall McDaniel v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2019-09-26	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation	Does Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant when his appeal is still pending?
19-6009	John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2019-09-20	Closed	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability diplomacy diplomatic-immunity extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals foreign-sovereigns human-rights international-diplomacy international-law original-jurisdiction self-executing standing treaty	Does the U.S. Supreme Court have original jurisdiction in cases pertaining to foreign-sovereigns, foreign-nationals, protected-persons, and disputes b…
19-372	William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2019-09-19	Denied	Response Waived	42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction	Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative 'voids'
19-5987	Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington	Washington	2019-09-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state	Whether the Washington State Courts can refuse to adhere to the Supreme Court's holding in North Carolina v. Pearce
19-5971	Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah	Tenth Circuit	2019-09-17	Dismissed	Response WaivedIFP	appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing	Does appeals court's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts?
19-5924	James Hennessee v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2019-09-12	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment	Is the different-occasions requirement an element for the jury to decide, or can the sentencing judge decide it?
19-5875	Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2019-09-09	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5850	Yurie Yamano v. Hawaii State Judiciary, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-09-06	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-rules due-process judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity rules-of-court separation-of-powers standing stare-decisis	Whether the Court should resolve the issues of treason and anarchism by state judges
19-290	Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service	Fifth Circuit	2019-09-04	Denied	Response Waived	antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations	Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and interstate commerce…
19-5822	Ronald Tuttle v. United States	Second Circuit	2019-09-04	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	appellate-jurisdiction certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing supervisory-powers supreme-court-review the-supreme-court	Did the United States Supreme Court err in denying the petition for writ of certiorari
19-275	Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-08-30	Denied	Response Waived	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights	Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to 'equal and universal suffrage'?
19-5709	Sam Newman v. Louisiana	Louisiana	2019-08-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine	Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995) is unconstitutionally vague
19-5714	Dianne Michele Carter v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2019-08-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings	Is the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature superior?
19-5685	Larry Brandon Moore v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2019-08-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	article-i bill-drafting congress-authority congressional-power constitution-article-1 constitutional-interpretation law-making-authority legislative-delegation positive-law prior-laws statutory-codification third-party-codification title-18 title-18-usc	Does Article I of the U.S. Constitution confer on Congress such authority as to have enacted 62 Stat 683 et seq into positive law thereby enacting, sp…
19-201	Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert	California	2019-08-16	Denied		attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing	Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402 foreclosed Respondent's efforts to seek attor…
19-5485	Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona	Arizona	2019-08-06	Denied	IFP	arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent	Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's decision violates the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011)
19-5372	Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al.	Florida	2019-07-29	Dismissed	IFP	ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings	Whether the Florida Supreme Court's order requiring the petitioner to write a longer brief and award attorney's fees to the respondent violates the pe…
19-5358	Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2019-07-26	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5301	Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana	Louisiana	2019-07-25	GVR	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict	Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca and Bertrand?
19-5283	Kyle Jason Korte v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2019-07-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law	Does the 'good faith exception' outlined in Illinois v. Krull extend to circumstances where the statute remains valid but was improperly applied?
19-5238	Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-07-19	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law	Whether the Plaintiff and the General Cable did B permitted to Pursue Relief from Violations of the Kou Hearing Act (1968) for Segregation and Hearing…
19-66	George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al.	Idaho	2019-07-12	Denied	Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis	Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
19-5094	In Re Donna Sneller		2019-07-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals	Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court?
19-4	Jackson National Life Insurance Company v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML	Sixth Circuit	2019-06-28	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)	certification consistent-application-of-state-law constitutional-interpretation cooperative-federalism judicial-efficiency sixth-circuit state-law tennessee-constitution tennessee-supreme-court	Do principles of cooperative federalism, judicial efficiency, and concern for the consistent application of state law compel the Sixth Circuit to cert…
18-1575	Jerry Preston McNeil v. Oklahoma	Oklahoma	2019-06-25	Denied		civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-state-relations judicial-duty property-tax real-property standing state-government supremacy-clause takings treason	Whether the Supremacy Clause will be given its controlling effect in this extraordinary instance?
18-9749	Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General	Eleventh Circuit	2019-06-21	Denied	IFP	citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel	Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabitant …
18-9737	Laquan L. Kellam v. United States	Third Circuit	2019-06-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest	Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
18-9532	Lemuel Clayton Bray v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2019-06-04	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection feres-doctrine military-compensation retaliation sovereign-immunity veterans-affairs veterans-rights	Are U.S. War Veterans and active duty military separate and unequal citizens under the Constitution?
18-9499	Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden	Fourth Circuit	2019-05-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar	How can the Bureau of Prisons make petitioner's federal sentence, where petitioner was sentenced of violating 18 USC 3581(b), 18 USC 3553, USSG § 5G1.…
18-1464	Milos Jiricko v. Frankenburg Jensen Law Firm, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2019-05-24	Denied	Response Waived	civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-oath due-process judicial-review legislative-statute medical-malpractice standing supreme-court-review takings	Whether the US Supreme Court can apply a blind eye to the alleged unconstitutionality of the Utah State Medical Malpractice statute, Code 78B-3-401
18-9415	Michael Don Neely v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2019-05-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional	Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th…
18-9378	In Re Tae Hon Chon		2019-05-22	Dismissed	IFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law	Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio…
18-9380	Miguel Daniel Leal v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-05-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-court-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel marital-communications-privilege marital-privilege ninth-circuit-review sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights state-courts supervisory-power supreme-court-dicta	Is SCOTUS dicta authoritative?
18A1210	Marshall Martinez v. Todd Thomas, Warden	Arizona	2019-05-22	Presumed Complete		civil-rights constitutional-interpretation incarceration jurisdiction legal-status thirteenth-amendment	Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits the continued incarceration of an individual who claims to be improperly classified as a 'slave' rather tha…
18-9372	Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2019-05-21	Denied	IFP	aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court	Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18A1198	Lynn Lumbard, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan	Sixth Circuit	2019-05-20	Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation federal-claims property-rights ripeness state-court-remedies takings-clause	Whether the Court should reconsider the exhaustion requirement for federal takings claims under Williamson County
18-1421	Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando	Second Circuit	2019-05-14	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23)	aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street	Whether the state court's admission of an accomplice's inculpatory statement, accompanied by limiting instructions, violated the Confrontation Clause
18-9231	Matthew Leachman v. Texas	Texas	2019-05-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation continuing-jeopardy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction indictment indictment-strategy retrial retrial-rights	Whether a State may break the original indictment into discrete pieces to obtain multiple trials in a retrial comprising 'continuing jeopardy' where t…
18-9188	Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution	Ninth Circuit	2019-05-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle	Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-9101	Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski	Illinois	2019-05-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent	Whether the subject of peremptory challenges are valid under the Separation of Powers, Due Process, and the Supremacy Clause
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…
18-9006	Donald Ray Boles v. United States	Second Circuit	2019-04-26	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment	Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be reconsidered
18-8887	Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance	Eleventh Circuit	2019-04-19	Denied	IFP	appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law	Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex-post-facto-clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due-process at …
18-8899	Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-04-18	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony	Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definit…
18-8902	Gustav Kloszewski v. United States	Second Circuit	2019-04-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements	Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)?
18-8862	Roderick White v. Louisiana	Louisiana	2019-04-17	Denied	Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP	confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss testimonial-hearsay united-states-v-owens	Whether the rule of United States v. Owens, 484 U.S. 554 (1988), as used by courts to admit testimonial hearsay from witnesses not amenable to cross-e…
18-8835	Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc.	Fourth Circuit	2019-04-15	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional	Are the lower courts abusing the Judiciary Act of 1925 to ignore fraud on the court?
18-1281	Hayes B. Milliman v. Timothy L. Randall	California	2019-04-08	Denied	Relisted (2)	bankruptcy bankruptcy-law congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question markham-v-allen probate-exception state-probate-court trust trusts wills	What is the scope of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction?
18-8670	Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama	Alabama	2019-04-02	Denied	IFP	capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment	Does Alabama's capital sentencing statute violate Hurst v. Florida?
18-8671	Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina	South Carolina	2019-04-02	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution	Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document…
18-8572	Christopher Jones v. Florida	Florida	2019-03-27	Denied	IFP	community-control-violations community-controller constitutional-interpretation continuance counsel-of-choice due-process judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel speedy-trial statutory-analysis unconstitutional-conditions unrepresented-defendant violation-proceedings	Whether there is a minimum set of guidelines to be considered by a Court, in violation proceedings, before denying an unrepresented Community controll…
18-8412	Lamar Perryman v. Georgia, et al.	Georgia	2019-03-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	11th-amendment cherokee-nation-v-georgia civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment johnson-v-mcintosh native-american-rights non-intercourse-act sovereign-immunity treaty-law worcester-v-georgia	Does Title 25 U.S.C. Section 177 (Non-Intercourse Act) and this Court's decisions abrogate Georgia's sovereign immunity and Eleventh Amendment immunit…
18-8432	Kelly Foust v. Ohio	Ohio	2019-03-15	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment	Does Ohio's death penalty scheme violate the Sixth Amendment right to a jury as explained in Hurst v. Florida?
18-8379	John Anthony Dobbs v. Texas	Texas	2019-03-11	Denied	IFP	civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process evidence forensic-evidence medical-examination medical-forensic medical-forensic-purpose sane-nurse sane-nurse-examination testimonial-statement testimonial-statements	Whether statements obtained during a 'sane nurse' examination have become 'testimonial' for purposes of the Confrontation Clause under Crawford v. Was…
18-8339	Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden	Seventh Circuit	2019-03-08	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation	Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co…
18-8336	London Ettione Dunbar v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2019-03-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis	Should this court grant this petition to determine whether the lower court's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability is at conflict with this …
18-8241	Andrew Guy Moret v. Pat Garrett	Ninth Circuit	2019-03-06	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-petition	Does the seriousness of criminal charges obviate the states' governments' obligation to uphold the constitutional rights of the accused?
18-8228	Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden	Ohio	2019-03-01	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review	Whether the state courts' sua sponte dismissal of the petition is in direct conflict with other precedents on standing legal issues as well as federal…
18-8188	Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2019-02-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution	Whether the plea agreement affirmed by the lower tribunal judgment violated the contract and due process clauses of the United States Constitution
18-8197	Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas	Texas	2019-02-28	Dismissed	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law	Whether Texas Penal Code, Art. 42.082 is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Texas Court in Ex Parte Kuester, 24 SW3d 247 (2000)?
18-8200	Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas	Texas	2019-02-28	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings	Whether the Texas legislature's strategic dismantling of the SAFE-Keeping proviso of the 1987-Amended Law violates substantive due process
18-8148	Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2019-02-27	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement	Whether the 'New Law' of the First Step Act made this an appeal 'Pipeline' case with First Step Act legal protections
18-8093	John Ferreira v. Georgia	Georgia	2019-02-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation	Did the State of Georgia err and violate the Petitioner's constitutional rights by upholding a statute that lacks an essential element of the crime ch…
18-8048	Darnell D. Owens v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2019-02-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release	Whether the Due Process Clause permits a judge or factfinder to rely on a person's criminal history to conclude that he or she likely committed anothe…
18-7923	Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2019-02-12	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change	Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-1052	Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States	Third Circuit	2019-02-11	Denied		article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment	Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur
18-7887	Rodney Lyle Roberts v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2019-02-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	16th-amendment apportionment brushaber-case constitutional-basis constitutional-interpretation direct-income-tax direct-tax fifth-circuit-precedent income-tax parker-v-commissioner precedent sixteenth-amendment tax tax-law	Whether the Fifth Circuit precedent in Parker v. Commissioner becomes unassailable in holding that the Sixteenth Amendment provided the needed constit…
18-7827	Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden	Seventh Circuit	2019-02-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner	Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a parole hearing under the Due Process Clause and Separation of Powers Doctrine when a court disposes of feder…
18-7830	Rheuben Johnson v. Kansas	Kansas	2019-02-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy multiplicity same-offense schoonover-test single-statute unit-of-prosecution	To determine 'same offense' in a single-statute case, regarding multiplicity that affects double jeopardy, does the directive set forth by the United …
18-7832	Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-02-07	Denied	IFP	access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing	Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe…
18-7767	Joshua Sanchez v. Texas	Texas	2019-02-05	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals	Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden…
18-7712	Andre Mims v. United States	Eleventh Circuit	2019-02-01	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness	Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague?
18-7686	In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey		2019-01-31	Denied	IFP	civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-prohibition national-importance separation-of-powers standing	Whether the issues presented are important and beyond the particular facts and parties involved, whether there exists a conflict between courts of app…
18-7598	Carol J. Morris v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2019-01-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings	Whether the petitioner's convictions should be vacated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of due process
18-7555	Doiakah Gray v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden	Seventh Circuit	2019-01-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	28-usc-2244 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent state-prisoners statute-of-limitations statutory-construction	What is the limitations period for newly recognized rights for state prisoners?
18-952	Christopher Anthony Mountjoy, Jr. v. Colorado	Colorado	2019-01-24	Denied	Amici (1)	apprendi-precedent apprendi-v-new-jersey colorado-sentencing colorado-sentencing-system constitutional-interpretation jury-determination legal-elements sentencing-factors sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-precedent united-states-v-gaudin	Whether the rule of United States v. Gaudin applies to sentencing factors covered by Apprendi v. New Jersey
18-950	LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al.	Texas	2019-01-22	Denied	Response Waived	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort	Whether the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions by private plaintiffs against private defendants
18-7441	James L. Wheeler v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2019-01-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process haines-standard haines-v-kerner judicial-review liberal-construction pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-fairness standing	Was the lower Court's Action in failing to allow Liberal Construction of Petitioner's claims in conflict with this Court's holding in Haines v. Kerner…
18-7377	Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2019-01-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review	Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t…
18-7242	Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona	Arizona	2019-01-07	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent	Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016)
18-7206	Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2019-01-02	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review	Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente
18-7180	Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-12-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent	Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
18-819	Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin	Illinois	2018-12-27	Denied		civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition	Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un…
18-820	Teresa Y. Weinacker v. National Loan Acquisitions Company	Eleventh Circuit	2018-12-27	Denied	Response Waived	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence legal-precedent plausibility-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction twombly-iqbal	Whether lower courts can disregard precedent, the Constitution, and federal rules
18-7168	Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2018-12-26	Denied	IFP	actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent	Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable in federal habeas
18-7158	Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections	Virginia	2018-12-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute	Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, such as: (1) A Vague Statute Was…
18-7080	Yusufu Danmola v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-12-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code	Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution?
18-7042	Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas	Texas	2018-12-14	Denied	IFP	constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent	What is the proper application of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to Petitioner…
18-7013	In Re E. Edward Zimmermann		2018-12-13	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	commerce-clause congress constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-authority federal-government interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce legislative-interpretation regulatory-scope state-governments state-powers	Does Article One of The Constitution of The United States (The Constitution) say, 'We the people grant to ... The Congress of the United States the co…
18-717	PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al.	District of Columbia	2018-12-04	Denied	Response Waived	administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation	Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes?
18-6860	Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2018-11-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state	Was Perkins v. State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied?
18-6862	John Thomas v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2018-11-28	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law	When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals, should an appellate court reviewing …
18-6771	Johny Gardner v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-11-21	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation	Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause
18-6671	Jimmy David Malone v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2018-11-13	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation	Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta…
18-6515	Kevin Wayne Vanover and Meredith Ann Yates v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2018-10-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment,constitutional-interpretation,histor civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-rights founding-era government-power historical-evidence historical-intent individual-liberty military-force right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing takings	Whether the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to be prepared to resist abuse of government power by military force, with equal force
18-6414	Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2018-10-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation	Whether the second-degree felony murder rule is based on statute
18-6429	Victor Dewayne White v. Ector County Appraisal District	Texas	2018-10-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	abuse-of-discretion california-v-larue civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-law judicial-ruling jurisdiction legal-procedure standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction	Did the Texas Courts abuse their discretion when they ruled contrary to established Federal Law, or as now ruled contrary to this Honorable Court's Ru…
18-6395	Alex D. Ramos v. United States	Seventh Circuit	2018-10-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation	Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior co…
18-6353	Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas	Texas	2018-10-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals	Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict…
18-6121	Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-09-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review	Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
18-5976	In Re Jaame Amun Re El		2018-09-14	Denied	IFP	administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis	Is it a judge's/administration's duty to interpret a statute?
18-312	David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard	Tennessee	2018-09-11	Denied	Response Waived	civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act	Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,…
18-276	Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al.	Federal Circuit	2018-09-04	Denied	Response Waived	article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial	Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders, courts must forward…
18-5812	In Re Richard DeCaro		2018-08-29	Denied	Relisted (2)IFP	appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception	Whether the Court should overrule the 'separate sovereigns' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause
18-5741	George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al.	Fifth Circuit	2018-08-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly	Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying …
18-5764	Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation	Ninth Circuit	2018-08-24	Denied	IFP	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent	Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) and Garner v. Jones (2000) to apply to in…
18-5693	Arlow Antone Kay v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2018-08-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker	Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered 'obsolete' and 'superfluous' by this Court's opinion in United …
18-5672	Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al.	Third Circuit	2018-08-21	Denied	IFP	appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts	Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision that is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, all other Courts of Appeals, feder…
18-5496	Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California	California	2018-08-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law	Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, permit a court to find a defendant ineligible for resentencing based on judicia…
18-5361	Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2018-07-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant	Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits retrying a defendant on a higher level charge after being convicted of a lesser include…
18-5363	Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-07-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines	Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim…
18-5385	Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-07-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights	Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons…
18-108	David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company	Eleventh Circuit	2018-07-24	Denied		14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent	Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme…
18-5146	Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections	Fourth Circuit	2018-07-06	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment	Whether Virginia's anti-sodomy statute violates due-process, equal-protection
18-18	Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2018-07-03	Judgment Issued	Amici (5)Relisted (5)	civil-rights constitutional-interpretation establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech monument public-display reasonable-observer religious-symbol standing war-memorial	Whether the Establishment Clause requires the removal or destruction of a 93-year-old memorial to American servicemen who died in World War I solely b…
18-5050	James E. Whitney v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States	Eighth Circuit	2018-06-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	accountability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-authority judicial-independence jurisdiction legal-standing separation-of-powers sovereignty standing	Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of-man government constructs known as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugated…
18-6	Jerry Preston McNeil v. Scott Marsh, et al.	Oklahoma	2018-06-29	Denied		civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-sovereignty due-process federal-power federalism federalism-principles government-structure legal-remedy separation-of-powers state-jurisdiction state-sovereignty union	Whether civil governments shall be restored to each of the several indestructible States of this indestructible union of American States, and sovereig…
23A423	R. J. Kulick v. Patrick Soon-Shiong, et al.	Ninth Circuit		Presumed Complete		constitutional-interpretation disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se	Whether the Due Process Clause protects a pro se litigant's right to file federal court pleadings despite disability and procedural challenges
25A693	Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al.	Florida		Denied		atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability	Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when state courts have arbitrarily interpreted federal la…