constitutional-question

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A470 Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair Massachusetts 2025-10-24 Application appellate-review constitutional-question due-process extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigation state-court Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's application for further appellate review, coupled with alleged procedural irregularities and pot…
25A465 Christopher Wuchter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Application circuit-conflict constitutional-question controlled-substances criminal-justice firearms-possession second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment permits individuals who are unlawful users of controlled substances to possess firearms
25-5674 Byron Neal v. Warden, FCI Terminal Island Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question detention-legality habeas-corpus savings-clause second-successive-motion Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 as a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 despite…
24-927 Brian Burke v. Housing and Services, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-question judicial-error nys-labor-law remedy rico-claims standing Can Standing for a constitutional question (NYS Labor Law 190) be defeated by Judicial Error? Can RICO claims be defeated by Judicial Error, without a…
24-364 Anthony Futia, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-question federal-appellate-review guarnieri-precedent petition-for-certiorari second-circuit summary-order Whether the Second Circuit's Summary Order in Futia v. United States conflicts with Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri and presents an unsettled federal c…
21-5152 Lewis R. Fox v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-question criminal-defense criminal-procedure expert-witness expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief res-judicata Whether a trial counsel is to be considered incompetent when s/he fails to consult with their client (the criminal defendant) about their financial ad…
21-5019 Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already …
20-6935 Melvin Wofford v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-question criminal-trial deliberating-juror deliberation-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal juror-removal jury-unanimity merits-of-the-case sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Does a trial court violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when the record establishes a reasonable possibility that…
20-778 Anthony T. Grose, Sr. v. Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-question due-process employment-discrimination federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata standing Were any such documentation entries in the court's proceedings whether the U.S. District Court or the Appellant Sixth Circuit Court had jurisdiction p…
20-5509 Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order Whether the Court of Appeals erred in disposing of the constitutional question presented by habeas petitioner by denying his application for Certifica…
19-8812 Alfonso Pineda-Hernandez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-question constitutional-rights court-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial interpretation translation translation-rights Under what circumstances does a live, in-court translation violate a criminal defendant's due process rights?
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-6207 Kevin Henderson v. Don Bottom, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-courts judicial-precedent legal-interpretation merits precedent standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Did the Sixth Circuit err when reaching conclusions arguably in conflict and inconsistent with this Supreme Court's decisions?
19-5451 Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Whether the Eleventh Circuit exceeded its statutory mandate under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) when it issued published rulings on the merits of open leg…
18-9472 Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether the court of appeals decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-7945 Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict…
18-7957 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mikel Steinfeld Ninth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process constitutional-question due-process jurisdiction sixth-amendment-compulsory-process standing Whether the judge's denial of leave to amend complaint is a reversible error