constitutional-provision

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-804 Frank W. Bibeau v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived congressional-authorization constitutional-provision federal-income-tax indian-taxation reservation-income self-employment-income Did the Court of Appeals err in upholding federal income tax on an individual Indian's self-employment income earned on his Tribe's reservation withou…
24-5399 Bruce K. Florence, III v. Eric Flowers, Sheriff, Indian River County, Florida Florida 2024-08-27 Denied IFP certiorari-petition constitutional-provision judicial-review legal-issue statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-5354 Angel L. Ruiz v. City of New York Police Department Second Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied IFP constitutional-provision court-filing jurisdictional-issue legal-document procedural-matter scotus-petition Question not identified.
24-5077 Gary Davis v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statutory-provision supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1360 Vernon Fiehler v. Catherine Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-07-01 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure constitutional-provision evidence evidence-interpretation federal-survey geographic-determination judicial-discretion jurisdiction property-law water-boundary Whether a court has the power to disregard evidence of the location of a water boundary from a federal survey based on subsequent evidence of the body…
23-1342 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c…
23-7200 Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ Whether the South Carolina District Court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to vacate their conviction with respect to the alleged civil rights…
23-7112 Christopher J. Barnett v. Doug Drummond, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process elected-official freedom-of-information judicial-records legal-standing oklahoma-supreme-court public-record public-records Did the Tulsa County District Court err in sealing a public police report?
23-6192 David Lewis Holland v. Texas Texas 2023-12-07 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process right-to-counsel speedy-trial trial-preparation Whether the new Speedy Trial requirement created by the Texas 7th Court of Appeals in the instant case is in conflict with current case law precedent,…
23-5498 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-31 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-matter legal-issue procedural-question statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
22-1155 Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine Maine 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-provision constitutional-rights field-sobriety-test fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-courts probable-cause search sobriety-test Whether a field sobriety test is a search for which the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause
21-7013 Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon Oregon 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity Does the ex post facto prohibition preclude a state from charging a defendant with a newly defined capital crime under a retroactivity provision
21-6973 Larry Lee Jacks v. Warden Lynch Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland case-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion for a new trial based on the government's failure t…
21-222 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing Whether the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense was violated
20-7976 Treyton Lee Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision court-filing due-process excessive-fines incorporation jurisdictional-issue legal-document scotus-petition writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
20-6669 Brian Zellner v. Georgia Georgia 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-provision criminal-charges criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment first-offender-statute state-prosecution substantive-criminal-charges Double Jeopardy Clause
19-8764 James William Burney v. Florida Florida 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b…
19-8714 Bodhi Tree v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-8149 Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-03-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP barker-test barker-v-wingo betterman-v-montana civil-procedure constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing-delay Whether the test of Barker v. Wingo governs Petitioner's claim that an eighteen-year sentencing delay violated due process?
19-6618 Delvin Deon Tinker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-provision criminal-motion elements-clause federal-statutory-provision mens-rea resisting-arrest retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-decision section-2255 Question not identified
19-5989 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi…
19-5516 Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a…
18-8943 David Raphael Concepcion v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure Whether the holding of Maryland v. Buie applies to protective sweeps incident to arrests made just outside a home
18-7997 Samuel Gregg Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement unconstitutional waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Allen's Plea Agreement
18-7665 Robert Tommy Garrett v. California California 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-provision double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation lesser-included-offense multiple-convictions multiple-punishments procedural-issue statutory-provision Whether the trial court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of law and the defendant's right to a jury trial viola…
18-7447 Christopher E. Lemon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Lemon's Plea Agreement