constitutional-issue

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6856 Curtis Hawthorne v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-issue judicial-review legal-jurisdiction pro-se-petition state-courts supreme-court-review Whether conflicting state court decisions on a constitutional issue warrant Supreme Court review
24-945 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-issue default-judgment federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-procedure pre-answer-motion void-judgment Whether bombing courts or shooting judges is a holy mission to counter a corrupt judicial system?
24A764 Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-06 Presumed Complete agency-rules constitutional-issue due-process loss-calculation pro-se sentencing-guidelines Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' agency-created rules for loss calculation violate due process when applied without judicial deference
24-830 Jenn-Ching Luo v. Owen J. Roberts School District, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Response Waived article-1-section-10 constitutional-issue due-process procedural-rules summons-deadline void-judgment Whether a court can issue a stay order to change a summons response deadline under Article 1 Section 10 Clause 1 or due process of law, and whether a …
24-5223 Michael Domonic Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-issue court-record due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-petition related-cases standing supreme-court takings Question not identified
23-7426 Saye Henry Gofan, Jr. v. Cameron C. Gustafson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issue court-of-appeals district-court due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's constitutional challenges to the government's actions
23-5747 Daryl A. Hess v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-10-11 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-issue due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals properly denied Petitioner due process and Eighth Amendment rights by refusing to consider newly discov…
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…
22-5657 Dawud Wilson v. Leon Hill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state p appellate-analysis constitutional-issue constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure merits-review plain-error plain-error-analysis state-appeals-court state-procedural-bar Whether the state appeals court's plain-error analysis amounted to a review of the merits, and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state procedural …
21-6516 Martin Robinson v. Sean Bailey Ohio 2021-12-07 Denied IFP appeals certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-issue due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court-decision meritorious-claims standing supreme-court-review Whether the trial court falsified the trial docket, whether the trial was illegal, whether the plaintiff was denied the right to present evidence, whe…
21-5402 Ronald E. West v. United States District of Columbia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-issue criminal-procedure due-process election-dispute election-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge recidivism rehabilitation sentencing supreme-court Whether the lower court erred in not considering the defendant's 30-year-old prior offenses, the COVID-19 emergency amendment, the defendant's 20-year…
20-7494 Kirk A. Simmons v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-issue fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-innocence rule-60 rule-60-motion standing Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it dismissed petitioner's Rule 60 motion, which asserted evidence falsification and Fraud on the Cour…
19-8117 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner has failed to properly rais…
19-5910 Benjamin Carpenter v. Georgia Georgia 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights complicity constitutional-issue criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process error-analysis indictment jury-instructions standing supreme-court-review unchorged-crime Whether a theory of criminal liability based on complicity in an uncharged crime is constitutional
18-9686 Bobby Bordelon v. Texas Texas 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict constitutional-issue criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus manifest-necessity mistrial mistrial-standard texas-courts Whether the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bars a retrial on one pending count since manifest necessity was not shown for the grant of a mis…
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…
18-7755 Pauline Garcia v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-regulation civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-law due-process henderson-v-shinseki judicial-review procedural-rights standing veterans-affairs veterans-law When should a Veteran be allowed to raise a Constitutional Due Process issue under 38 C.F.R. § 20.1409?
18-7616 Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States District of Columbia 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe…
18-6559 Tommy Alexander, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-procedure constitutional-issue constitutional-rights court-recusal due-process fair-and-impartial-court impartiality judicial-bias recusal tribunal-fairness Whether the District Court displayed bias against the Petitioner, creating a constitutional issue of a fair and impartial court
18-6085 Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation Whether a federal habeas court may reexamine a state court's interpretation of state law when it is an obvious subterfuge to evade consideration of a …