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25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Pending constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise meritorious claims and syste…
25-6692 Ana Rosenda Mancio v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus strickland-standard Whether a federal court can review a state court's habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when the state court's factual determinations are underm…
25-814 Assata Acey Hackman v. Inductev Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review evidence-review judicial-procedure pro-se supreme-court-oversight Does the oversight of the US Supreme Court permit its lower courts to ignore submitted evidence in order to refuse pro se petitions?
25A761 Michael Jerome Newberry v. Texas Texas 2026-01-02 Application brady-violation constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas Whether the Due Process Clause requires a state appellate court to provide reasoned explanation when rejecting a lower court's favorable fact-findings…
25A767 Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-02 Application brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural default and insufficient evidence claims comports with due process and federal…
25-6433 Avis Coward v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit's determination of 18 U.S.C. §922(g) constitutionality violates the Second Amendment and whether a two-level role enhancemen…
25A718 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Application batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may apply an impossible standard of prejudice in reviewing ineffective assistance of counsel claims related to B…
25-6267 Alphonso Lataurean James v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending IFP application-note constitutional-review criminal-conviction firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Is Application Note 14(b) an unreasonable interpretation of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), and is 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to Mr. James under the Seco…
25A609 Aita Gurung v. Vermont Vermont 2025-11-24 Application certiorari constitutional-review criminal-case judicial-review state-court supreme-court Whether a state supreme court's decision in a criminal case warrants review by the U.S. Supreme Court under principles of federal constitutional revie…
25-584 Kenneth J. Rosellini v. Gary N. Wilcox, Individually, and as Judge, Superior Court, Bergen County, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-statute constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure younger-abstention Is there a full and fair opportunity for a person to raise constitutional issues in state court attorney ethics proceedings, so that Younger Abstentio…
25A534 Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit applied the correct standard of review in denying habeas corpus relief for a death-row inmate challenging the constitutiona…
25-6054 Clyde Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-review firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Whether a writ of certiorari should be granted to settle the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(l) given the Circuit Courts of Appeals and Distric…
25-496 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-22 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-review first-amendment licensing-standards nationwide-injunction professional-speech rules-enabling-act Whether federal district and bankruptcy court professional speech local rules creating a nationwide patchwork of conflicting licensing standards viola…
25-5937 Timothy Simms v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-review habeas-corpus judicial-prerogative legislative-limitation separation-of-powers Whether the Habeas Corpus provisions of the AEDPA constitute a legislative usurpation of the Judicial prerogative to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, in…
25-5850 Tremon Staley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-review felony-prohibition firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment f…
25A413 Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-review extension-of-time federal-appeal first-circuit procedural-standards writ-of-certiorari Whether the First Circuit correctly applied constitutional or procedural standards in reviewing the underlying case involving Jose M. Rojas-Tapia
25-426 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review supreme-court-precedent Whether a state-court decision is 'contrary to' federal law where its reasoning and outcome contradict materially indistinguishable Supreme Court prec…
25A381 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Application constitutional-review content-based-restriction first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny purpose-based-distinction speech-regulation Whether content-based speech restrictions that purport to draw distinctions based on the purpose of regulated speech are subject to strict or intermed…
25A302 Sonya Fuller v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia permits a conviction to be upheld when the evidence is acknow…
25-268 Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. Connecticut 2025-09-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-sanction constitutional-review defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure Whether a state court may impose a punitive administrative Death Penalty Sanction against a media defendant reporting on a matter of public concern th…
25-5563 Joseph Lee Smith v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-09-05 Denied IFP constitutional-review manslaughter post-trial-motions sentencing specific-intent writ-application Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's writ application on direct appeal regarding specific intent for manslaughter, whethe…
25-5490 Travis Broeker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-review criminal-procedure drug-liability judicial-review Whether the Certificate of Appealability process, as currently implemented, provides meaningful judicial review under 28 U.S.C. §2253 and Miller El v.…
25-184 Deamonte Law v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment Does the Second Amendment allow for an 'as applied' challenge to the constitutionality of Section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban?
25A78 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure en-banc federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's en banc decision affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief comports with federal habeas corpus standar…
25-5096 Christopher John Spreitz v. Arizona Arizona 2025-07-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit Whether a court must consider all mitigating evidence in capital sentencing review without imposing a causal nexus requirement
25-5065 In Re Derrick L. Johnson 2025-07-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence Whether petitioner is actually innocent by a preponderance of the evidence of the crime charged against the respondents
25A15 Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas Texas 2025-07-03 Presumed Complete capital-conviction constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied constitutionally adequate standards of review in affirming a capital conviction and death sentence
24A1268 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether a state court's denial of a post-conviction petition raising claims of newly discovered evidence related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (F…
24-7436 Hans Thomas Reiser v. California California 2025-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-review death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-errors state-remedies Whether the split between Federal Courts and the California Supreme Court over state remedies for procedural errors in death penalty cases constitutes…
24-7377 Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause Whether the Third Circuit erred in failing to review a potential violation of the Supremacy Clause by the District Court of New Jersey
24-7203 Michael Inzitari v. Connecticut Connecticut 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-split child-pornography constitutional-review dost-factors lascivious-exhibition sexual-conduct When the six Dost factors are read to a jury to determine 'lascivious exhibition of the genitals' under a child pornography statute, is a conviction c…
24-7087 Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-04-29 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness Whether due process requires more than the arbitrary truncation of pending substantive review by an unnoticed death warrant signed midway through acti…
24-1114 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Sara Gagne-Holmes, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-review judicial-scrutiny litigation-sham religious-exemption vaccine-mandate Whether a State may avoid judicial review of a statute categorically prohibiting religious accommodations by rescinding an emergency rule while contin…
24-7049 Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-decision statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit step outside the bounds of § 2254(d) by considering reasons not found in the CCA's reasoned opinion to determine the reasonablen…
24-6823 Thomas Caves v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm a judgment of conviction for fe…
24-6805 Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether Dunn v. United States and United States v. Powell precedents allow habeas corpus detention based on inconsistent jury verdicts
24-6675 Pierre Cornelius Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-court Whether the principles of substantial limitation on collateral review in habeas corpus cases pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 apply to habeas corpus cases…
24-6561 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review exceptional-circumstances exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Whether a state court prisoner can seek habeas corpus relief under exceptional circumstances when procedural defaults exist and state remedies have be…
24-835 Seth Healey v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. Vermont 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure child-protection civil-rights constitutional-review due-process separation-of-powers Whether the Vermont Superior Court has a responsibility to determine the constitutionality of the child abuse substantiation procedure under separatio…
24-6379 Lamar Reese v. Ohio Ohio 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-review due-process evidence-admissibility polygraph-evidence scientific-evidence Whether the polygraph examination is admissible under Daubert and the Federal Rules of Evidence
24-6342 A. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights judicial-procedure Whether the lower court's de novo review of constitutional claims violated the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights and right to a fai…
24-6197 Gail Manney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard constitutional-review criminal-statute firearm-regulation ninth-circuit second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6) impermissibly regulates a Second Amendment protected right to firearm purchase
24-6134 Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review expert-evidence forensic-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard Whether the Ninth Circuit's conclusion that the state court reasonably applied Supreme Court precedents in finding a lack of prejudice when damning fo…
24-6117 Michael Eric Pennington v. Texas Texas 2024-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-precedent trial-procedure Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision was contrary to established Supreme Court precedent
24-588 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction party-presentation state-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the Ninth Circuit's sua sponte application of Younger abstention violates the party presentation principle and improperly evaluates federal co…
24-6022 Leonard Contreras Sandoval v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-analysis strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether a state court unreasonably applies the Strickland standard when evaluating habeas petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim by fail…
24-5949 Anastacio G. Ramirez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-court-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court-review Whether a federal habeas court can independently evaluate state court factual determinations under Cullen v. Pinholster and Harrington v. Richter when…
24-5934 Richard Balter v. United States Third Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release constitutional-review judicial-discretion pre-booker-sentencing sentencing-discretion united-states-sentencing-commission Whether a District Court has the Discretion to Decline to Follow the United States Sentencing Commission's Policy Statement and Whether It is Constitu…
24-5906 John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-11-04 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-fact-finding jury-misconduct Does the Due Process Clause require a more rigorous standard of review for judicial fact-finding beyond Georgia's 'any evidence' standard?
24A416 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2024-10-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance missouri-supreme-court Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's denial of habeas relief to a criminal defendant comports with federal constitutional standards of due process and…
24A355 James Cobb Hutto v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction successive-petition supreme-court-review Whether a state supreme court's denial of a successive post-conviction petition violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to meaningful hab…
24-5736 James Ray Pendergraft v. Texas Texas 2024-10-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense procedural-error trial-record Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly denied a lesser included offense instruction and found counsel not ineffective, and whether the…
24A339 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-09 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-review due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court is required to review subject-matter jurisdiction sua sponte when clear jurisdictional defects exist in lower court proceedi…
24-5692 Jamie Patrick Hahn v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure false-evidence habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Georgia Supreme Court improperly denied the petitioner's habeas corpus petition by failing to review false evidence and potential Sixth Am…
24-5587 Clayton Cornelius Reynolds v. Texas Texas 2024-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied constitutional standards in reviewing a state court's denial of a criminal defendant's post-conviction re…
24A190 Chad D. Begay v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether a state court's denial of a certificate of appealability in a post-conviction proceeding violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right …
24-5270 Patrick Douglas Johnson v. Texas Texas 2024-08-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-review due-process evidence-sufficiency jackson-v-virginia witness-identification Whether the use of selective evidence constitutes an impermissible divide and conquer strategy for evaluating evidence sufficiency under the 14th Amen…
24-5127 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with the …
24-5129 Sergio Estrada-Maduena v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
24A12 Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus postconviction section-2254 Whether a death-sentenced inmate's habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was improperly denied by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, poten…
24-5 Luis Gutierrez v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254(i) castro-v-united-states constitutional-ineffectiveness constitutional-review federal-statute habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-law second-in-time second-petition unexhausted-claims Whether a subsequent habeas petition, containing only claims which were unexhausted when the initial habeas petition was untimely filed, was second-in…
23-7792 In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness post-conviction-review state-law Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility criteria for a sentence of death under…
23-1330 Michael Stern, et ux. v. Mark Mcdonald Washington 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction certiorari constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-procedure judicial-review state-courts supreme-court Did the Supreme Court of Washington's order to deny review violate the United States Constitution?
23-1292 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act antitrust charter-school-regulation constitutional-review domestic-terrorism due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure injunctive-relief school-district-authority whistle-blower civil-rights
23A1088 Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied an unreasonable standard in evaluating claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in a death penalty case involv…
23-7597 William Hill v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-05-30 Denied IFP appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles…
23-7135 Antonio Benjamin Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compelled-testimony constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the AIA's statutory scheme for post-grant patent review violates the Constitution's separation of powers and due process protections
23-7100 Robert Merritt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted
23A868 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certiorari-extension constitutional-review death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus Whether the Fourth Circuit applied the correct legal standard in reviewing a death-sentenced prisoner's habeas corpus petition challenging the constit…
23-7026 Pedro Valencia-Ayala v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo…
23-7016 Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California California 2024-03-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review Whether the terms and conditions of a patent license agreement are admissible as evidence in a patent infringement case
23-6910 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied IFP 46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction Does the United States jurisdiction over a vessel under 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a) present a question of subject-matter-jurisdiction?
23-6833 Jason Matthew Karr v. Colorado Colorado 2024-02-26 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel clearly-established-federal-law colorado-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-law-application ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington whether-the-colorado-supreme-court-held-the-petitioner-to-a-higher-standard-for-pleading-ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
23A727 Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-06 Presumed Complete 28-USC-1257 appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure state-court-review Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals correctly applied state law in affirming a criminal conviction that may raise potential federal consti…
23-789 Larisa Dirkzwager v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure constitutional-review deadline due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-deadline standing Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiff's Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally rende…
23A673 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-criminal-conviction Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to a state prisoner was improper under federal constitutional standards for reviewing stat…
23A663 Brandon De McCall v. Texas Texas 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance texas-criminal-procedure Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied constitutionally adequate standards of ineffective assistance of counsel review in a capital case
23-651 John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings on a gateway innocence claim
23A541 Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Presumed Complete appellate-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-circuit Whether the Fourth Circuit's interpretation of a federal criminal procedural rule improperly limits a defendant's constitutional right to effective ap…
23-622 Dale Thrush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supported by manifest necessity
23-594 Christopher M. Hunt v. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts fraud judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict property-rights sovereignty state-court-sovereignty state-courts Which court resolves an irreconcilable conflict of jurisdiction between the federal courts and state courts?
23-6160 Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause Racial-discrimination-in-grand-jury-selection
23-6146 Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance Whether the 'Miller test' to prove obscenity violates the First Amendment
23-5964 William Glenn Rogers v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-phase prejudice-standard prejudice-test strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is application of a prejudice standard that requires a habeas petitioner to 'eliminate or completely discredit' the prosecution's trial evidence in or…
23-5758 Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Whether a defendant is entitled to a resentencing hearing when a count in their indictment is later found unconstitutional
23-5726 John Holden v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 2nd-amendment bruen bruen-test constitutional-review felony-indictment firearm-prohibition material-false-statement materiality-standard second-amendment Is the criminal prohibition on the receipt of a firearm by a person under felony indictment (18 U.S.C. § 922(n)) constitutional under the Second Amend…
23A233 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus penalty-phase Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals properly applied constitutional standards in affirming a capital conviction and death sentence after mul…
23-182 James W. Tindall v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment administrative-procedure article-iii constitutional-review federal-sovereign-immunity first-amendment judicial-power judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing strict-scrutiny us-constitution Whether the doctrine of federal sovereign immunity has any basis in the U.S. Constitution
23-5388 Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application Whether McHam v. State, 404 S.C. 465, 746 S.E.2d 41 (2013), requires that the petitioner be allowed to file a subsequent PCR application
23-5321 Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining procedural-barriers right-to-counsel state-courts Question not identified
22-7867 Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards Whether Poli biouee's Doe Peseoes Ricits Waser uiolated, When Ig tounge was not Present al TaCameva Wearing which Was conducted Lo assess the validity…
22-7754 Maurice Hunt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under The Commerce Clause
22-7654 Juan L. Caballero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence Can the lower court courts indiscriminately deny (timely) filed Federal habeas corpus (2261) of newly discovered evidence wherein the newly discovered…
22-7577 Lamonte Ealy v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied IFP blockburger-test constitutional-review double-jeopardy multiplicity procedural-default same-elements same-parties state-statute Whether jurist of reason would find it debatable or wrong the District court assessment of Double Jeopardy Multiplicity counts
22-7550 Daniel Novilla v. Department of Agriculture Federal Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-review court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction petition-timeliness procedural-due-process standing Why did the court accept my petition knowing it was late, they sent me a packet stating it was compliant with the rules of the court, it was processed…
22-7521 John Earnest Skrdla v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals state-court-appeals strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in contrary to Strickland v. Washington
22-1082 Steven M. Larrabee v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2023-05-08 Denied Amici (1) active-duty civilian-status constitutional-review court-martial due-process founding-era-practices military-jurisdiction retired-servicemembers ucmj Whether the Constitution permits military retirees to be tried by court-martial for offenses committed after they have left active duty?
22-7384 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2023-04-26 Denied IFP abstention circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in refusing to address the issue of abstention
22-7257 Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r…
22-7262 Alfred Coppage v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing Whether trial court abused discretion by hearing motion for substitution of judge
22-7215 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-05 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction Did the trial court have jurisdiction to convict the petitioner?
22-7178 David Frazier v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence
22-7068 Joshua Anderson v. Mark Bolster Fourth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burns-v-wilson constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus military-courts standard-of-review writ-suspension Does the indistinct standard of review promulgated in Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953) violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and result…
22-7040 Michael Lee Gordon v. Doe, Designation Sentence Computation Center Official, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-20 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law agency-review bias civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure recusal standing statutory-interpretation witness Whether the district court erred in denying Appellant's motion for recusal of the district court judge based on the judge's bias as a witness in the i…
22-6824 Daniel Dietz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process gall-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether imposition of a lifetime term of supervised release upon revocation of supervised release when the previously imposed term was 10 years is con…
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Whether the post-conviction court erred in concluding that the petitioners were not entitled to relief under the Court's opinion in Miller v. Alabama
22-6782 Richard Leon Wilbern v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment appellate-standard constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment standard-of-review witness-identification wrongful-convictions Whether courts of appeals should review de novo a district court's determination that an identification is constitutionally reliable
22-6595 Solita Harrington v. MedStar Washington Hospital Center, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-malpractice ninth-circuit standing state-court Whether the respondents' actions violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
22-6589 In Re Moses Jackson 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-review due-process federal-question judicial-power jurisdiction standing state-court-discretion supreme-court supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the judicial power of the United States under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution extends to the issues raised in this case
22-6532 Alfred E. Caraffa, aka Alfred Erik Caraffa v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules habeas-corpus state-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the writ of habeas corpus can be unconstitutionally delayed
22-6327 Anthony Naquan West v. Texas Texas 2022-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus state-court state-courts Whether the state Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas' adjudication denying Petitioner's writ of Habeas Corpus was contrary to or involved an unreasona…
22-6238 David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Court…
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order denying petitioner's §2254 petition legal?
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing Whether Ans Repellee's onmaddatery Response That Fully Riiefed The macs OF The Tesue Subject To Waiver Lohoot Realy Mew Or Vortec Gueerisa May Be The …
22-5979 Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all cou…
22-5952 Randell Joseph Redmond v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standard-of-review standing takings Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) does not preempt state laws prohibiting…
22-5924 Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing claims a standard and scope of constitutional dimension prohibit an appellate court from …
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 …
22-5356 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent Question not identified
22-5281 Leonardo T. Morales v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-08-04 Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus res-judicata sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Florida Supreme Court had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus despite applying Res Judicata
22-5294 Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing Does this court have jurisdiction & power to grant certiorari, excused limitation bar, correct fundamental miscarriage of justice, denial of COA by 5t…
22-5272 J. R. v. North Dakota North Dakota 2022-08-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-findings juvenile-court standing Did the Juvenile Court's record contain substantial evidence to support the court's jurisdictional findings as to the father
22-5155 In Re Donald Williams 2022-07-22 Denied IFP cage-v-louisiana cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan out-of-time-appeal writ-of-appeal Whether the facts of Cockerham and Petitioner Williams are exactly the same for purpose of out of time appeal and application of Cage to their convict…
22-5110 Onterio Dimitri Brown v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court has overturned Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), and if there is sufficient evidence to justify a conviction
22-5027 Justin D. Bennett v. Texas Texas 2022-07-05 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-protections constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia out-of-court-statements sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the due process standard recognized in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979) constitutionally protects an accused against out-of-court stat…
22-5019 Amber Renee Guyger v. Texas Texas 2022-07-01 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency mistake-of-fact self-defense Under the legal sufficiency standard of Jackson v. Virginia, a court violates due process by concluding that self-defense and mistake-of-fact are mutu…
21-8194 Richard Reynolds, et al. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Second Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-agency administrative-law constitutional-review corrections due-process first-amendment free-speech prison-regulations sexually-explicit-materials turner-standard turner-v-safley Whether a state administrative agency can deny access to publications protected by the First Amendment based on incarceration status
21-8132 James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r…
21-8077 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay
21-1456 Christy Poon-Atkins v. Sammy M. Sappington, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process evidence evidence-omission jury-trial procedural-rules standing Should the Defendants' documented admissions to speeding be reviewed by a jury, per Constitution Amendment VII, and due process?
21-7774 Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Alex Villanueva, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-and-statutory-provisions constitutional-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing state-court-adjudication Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim for adequate relief when petitioner is fully denied standing to bring his claims
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's inadvertent act was 'strategic'
21-6981 In Re Benny David Gibson 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-review court-jurisdiction default-judgment dismissal due-process judicial-procedure legal-rights procedural-dismissal settlement standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case without prejudice
21-6933 Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split concerning the standard of review for a constitutional speedy-trial-claim
21-6894 Arnoldo Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-924c borden-v-united-states constitutional-review criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime whether-alvarado's-conviction-qualifies-as-violent-crime
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition Should the Court use its power to grant certiorari to a noncapital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling claim …
21-918 Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) compelled-subsidies constitutional constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech government-speech johanns-precedent johanns-v-livestock-marketing-association private-speech Whether otherwise unconstitutional compelled subsidies of private speech are 'government speech,' free from First Amendment review
21-6662 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas Texas 2021-12-17 Denied IFP affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Did the court of appeals err in affirming the trial court where evidence is insufficient to rebut the affirmative defense of self-defense beyond a rea…
21-6629 Jimmy Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation Whether Congress intended a sentencing reduction under the First Step Act of 2018 to apply retroactively to defendants sentenced before the Act's enac…
21-6636 Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality
21-6566 Steven Craig Bethea v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance Whether the district court erred in sentencing the appellant to a greater sentence than necessary
21-6534 Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained b…
21-6519 Jesse Driskill v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-06 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations constitutional-claims constitutional-review due-process evidence-destruction factual-findings independent-review prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct witness-testimony Whether Missouri's verbatim adoption of the prosecution's factually deficient findings without independent review fails to provide adequate due proces…
21-6066 R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC First Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing Under what circumstances is it appropriate for the courts to refuse accommodation to the disabled?
21-566 Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty?
21-455 Mark's Engine Company No. 28 Restaurant, LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-09-24 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review due-process emergency-powers first-amendment jacobson-precedent jacobson-v-massachusetts meaningful-review narrow-tailoring public-health public-health-crisis Whether the appellate court's decision improperly expands the holding set forth in Jacobson v. Massachusetts
21-5765 Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes retrial for attempted murder after acquittal for murder in self-defense
21-395 Kevin Owen McCarthy, et al. v. Nancy Pelosi, in Her Official Capacity as Speaker of the House, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) congressional-powers constitutional-law constitutional-review judicial-review legislative-procedure legislative-process pandemic-governance proxy-voting separation-of-powers speech-and-debate-clause speech-or-debate-clause Does the Speech and Debate Clause foreclose judicial review of the constitutionality of the proxy voting resolution?
21-5600 Linda Hardison v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-law constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-procedure documentary-evidence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error judicial-review legal-adjudication Can the district court and the appeals' court overlook a blatant error of law when the petitioner presented all documentary evidence and declarations …
21-5497 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. …
21-5470 Aleksys Lomeli-Garcia v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arizona casey-v-united-states constitutional-review fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners indigent-rights judicial-fraud supreme-court-procedure suspension-clause Whether the concealed 28 U.S.C. 2244(c) facts caused the Supreme Court to unwittingly suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus for all Arizona indigent priso…
21-5436 William D. Dickerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Section 804 of the First Step Act of 2018's definition of 'covered offense' covers a 'dual-object' conspiracy that includes both crack cocaine…
21-5270 Robert Stanard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-interpretation legal-challenge personal-property state-law takings Does the taxing powers of Congress negate a person's possessory interest in personal property?
21-107 Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was counsel's performance deficient, and did the courts below apply the right standard?
21-5127 Noel Aldana v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se procedural-bar strickland-standard strickland-v-washington untimeliness Does a meritorious claim that a pro se Petitioner raises which clearly present and meet the cause and prejudice standard addressed in the Strickland v…
20-8476 Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issue where the district court failed to conduct de novo review of the portions of the Report and Recomm…
20-8360 Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction Was military appellate court obligated to accept late ineffective assistance of counsel claim
20-8343 Joseph Jenkins v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing Questions Presented
20-1706 Leevan Roundtree v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-06-09 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights constitutional-review due-process felon-dispossession firearm-dispossession firearm-rights non-violent-felony second-amendment standing Whether a non-violent felon may bring an as-applied challenge to a state law that permanently denies Second Amendment rights
20-8269 Kenneth Ray Marshall v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-review due-process-rights federal-habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the state court failed to apply the correct standard of 'reasonableness' under Strickland v. Washington
20-1640 Frederick M. Weber v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-review core-rights due-process firearm-regulation home-defense home-possession judicial-standard lower-court-uncertainty second-amendment standard-of-review Whether the proper standard of constitutional review for a law that impacts the core value of the Second Amendment and the use of a firearm within the…
20-7988 Robert Allen Poyson v. Arizona Arizona 2021-05-11 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-sentencing causal-nexus constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing mitigation-evidence non-statutory-mitigation Is the individualized capital sentencing requirement guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment violated when a State predetermines that in all cases only min…
20-7877 Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington Whether the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability
20-7849 Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing Whether mandatory sentences are constitutional
20-7816 Lassissi Afolabi v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix Third Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2246 18-usc-2255(e) 18-usc-2423(b) constitutional-review conviction-and-sentence-enhancement conviction-challenge criminal-statute due-process savings-clause sexual-abuse-of-a-minor supreme-court-interpretation Whether the generic federal definition of sexual abuse of a minor defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2246 applies to 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b) statute
20-7671 Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p…
20-7589 Donald Dallas v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review federal-review habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-state-court strickland-analysis Can a federal habeas court ignore post-conviction mitigating evidence solely because it is thematically similar to trial evidence?
20-7449 Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic…
20-7419 Kamil Johnson v. W. E. Mackelburg, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-2254 constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance iowa-supreme-court juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief Whether the lower courts acted unconstitutionally in denying the habeas corpus petition
20-7407 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments appointments-clause arthrex-decision article-i constitutional-review patent-appeal secretary-of-commerce separation-of-powers trademark-judges Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that the appointment of administrative patent judges by the Secretary of Commerce violates the Appointmen…
20-7345 Willie Ray Lewis v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abortion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-regulations standing statutory-interpretation Whether Louisiana's law requiring a physician performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local hospital is unconstitutional
20-7268 Jason P. Briscoe v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab…
20-7192 Phillip Vance Smith, II v. Josh Stein, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine Whether the rule announced in Melony v. Louisiana, 138 U.S. 1500 (2018) applies retroactively to cases on collateral review
20-1118 Robert Grundstein v. Lamoille Superior Docket Entries/Orders, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman standing state-court-review void-ab-initio Should the Circuit Splits with respect to the Rooker-Feldman Fraud Exception be reconciled in favor of the exception?
20-7060 Charles Lee Mosier, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP collateral-proceedings constitutional-review constitutional-standards due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state's initial-review post-conviction collateral proceedings meet constitutional standards when those proceedings fail to provide a prisoner t…
20-6833 Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review Whether the appellate court has a constitutional duty to state its reasons for denying a petition for a writ of certiorari?
20-6709 Lance Hundley v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with questionable mental health to represent himself?
20-6680 Darryl Taylor v. Timothy E. Buchanan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether federal judges should safeguard the constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity for consideration in state courts
20-6549 Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler Does a denial of counsel on an initial state post-conviction habeas corpus application activate the exclusionary provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)(B…
20-746 South Bay United Pentecostal Church, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-30 GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-review first-amendment free-exercise free-speech jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-restrictions religious-liberty strict-scrutiny Do Governor Newsom's lockdown orders and reopening restrictions under the 'Blueprint' framework, placing strict limitations, including closures, on al…
20-6322 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-13 Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-standard post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-6251 Timothy Tyrone Byers, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review judicial-power standing state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction united-states Whether the prosecution must always prove territorial jurisdiction over a crime in order to sustain a conviction?
20-6238 Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site locat…
20-572 James R. Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires proof of a defendant's knowledge of their felon status or the firearm's interstate commerce connection
20-6023 Carlos Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-sentence procedural-bar state-court-decisional-law state-court-law Can the Florida Supreme Court use state court decisional law to procedurally bar a non-homicide juvenile defendant from seeking relief from an illegal…
20-5934 Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error Whether a United States Court of Appeal's has decided an important question of federal law that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court
20-5820 In Re Gregory Lamar Mathis 2020-09-25 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus standing state-law writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition Would the issuance of a writ of prohibition and/or mandamus be justified where the petitioner's circumstances could aid this court in supervising an a…
20-5762 Will Robertson Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent petition-standard retroactivity section-2255 successive-petitions unconstitutional-law Whether a petitioner must show it is 'more likely than not' that a district court's prior ruling relied on a provision of law later deemed unconstitut…
20-5700 Antonio Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction Why did a defendant's due process and equal protection rights be violated by the lower court's failure to address a defendant's sentencing error that …
20-5683 Carlton Smith v. Hilton Hall, Warden Georgia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitution fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-standard standing state-court structural-defect Does the state's waiver standard of fundamental constitutional rights violate the established standard of the Federal Constitution?
20-290 Charles Meyers, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived assembly civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-permission How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-5402 Joseph Glenn Savicki v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability violates due process and equal protection when the district court fails to consider the merits of…
20-5149 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-claim objective-standard standing Question not identified
20-5118 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-21 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancient-writs appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process jurisdiction post-conviction-relief procedural-constraints standing statutory-interpretation Do Pennsylvania appellate courts have the authority and jurisdiction to review and grant petitions of ancient writs ex statutory constraints?
20-5107 Vernon Montgomery v. Delaware Delaware 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review court-review due-process judicial-duty legal-argument perjury probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does a State's appellate court have to address the contentions of its appellant in its opinion?
19-8842 Angel Prado v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction search-and-seizure sentencing-standards speedy-trial Question not identified
19-8833 Christopher Mann v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maryland-court-of-appeals prejudice strickland-prejudice strickland-test weaver-precedent weaver-v-massachusetts Has the Maryland Court of Appeals abused its discretion by applying Weaver v. Massachusetts to mandate looking at the strength of the prosecution's ca…
19-8726 Terrance D. Goodman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process eleventh-circuit holmes-v-united-states judicial-discretion standing Was the Eleventh Circuit overruled its own precedent of Holmes v. United States, 657 F.2d 1545 (11th Cir. 1981) by assuming an order that conflicts wi…
19-8660 Thomas Michael Riley v. Arizona Arizona 2020-06-10 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty furman-v-georgia gregg-v-georgia narrowing-requirement sentencing-scheme To pass constitutional muster, must a death eligibility scheme collectively narrow the class of defendants eligible for the death penalty?
19-8614 Edward Leon Fields, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing constitutional-review donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process eighth-amendment jury-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Donnelly and Caldwell remain good law and, if so, whether the Tenth Circuit erred in applying a fundamental-fairness analysis to reject Petiti…
19-8403 Juan Miguel Lopez v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-oversight jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing-review Whether the Court can exercise its encompassing jurisdiction to redress the imposition of a disproportionate amount of time added to a primary base te…
19-8207 In Re David Dwayne Brown 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review default-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-v-delo Whether the petitioner's claim of actual innocence, supported by newly discovered evidence, entitles him to a de novo review of the merits of his defa…
19-7886 Dennis Mahon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing Whether the lower courts erred in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason could disagree on a constitutiona…
19-7832 Sean Wayne Pierce v. California California 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actually-innocent constitutional-review conviction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama mitigating-factor sentence standard-of-review-under-miller-v-alabama status-rather-than-criminal-conduct validity-of-conviction youth-offender Whether habeas corpus under Miller v. Alabama was necessary when a significant mitigating factor calls into question the validity of the conviction or…
19-7585 Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of first instance trial counsel
19-962 Travis Ray Norwood v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-01-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-review criminal-justice criminal-punishment drug-policy due-process equal-protection opioid-crisis opioid-sentencing recidivist-statute sentencing Whether defendants charged with crimes involving Schedule I opioids can be constitutionally treated differently for punitive purposes from defendants …
19-7460 David Wright v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general-discretion civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights-4th-amendment due-process fisa-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act national-security standing surveillance terrorism terrorism-conspiracy warrantless-search warrantless-surveillance Whether FISA's emergency provision is unconstitutional
19-7431 Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a 'mere modicum' of evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction
19-7348 Raymond Alston, aka Raymond Austin v. New York New York 2020-01-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution sentencing-standards standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to due process, double jeopardy, and malicious prosecution
19-7094 Ernest Lawrence v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-review criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona police-interrogation prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Whether The Lower Court's Decisions Were Contrary To Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) and Whether the Lower Courts Unreasonably Applied Miranda…
19-6806 Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida Florida 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification Whether the underlying felony is part of the crime charged to create a predicate felony that charge, cannot stand
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2?
19-6622 Helene Tonique Williams v. Toni Preckwinkle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-discretion patent procedural-dismissal standing state-court-procedure takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the case against Pliner Porgue A Mhams, et al.
19-608 Mark Elster, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington 2019-11-12 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-subsidy constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech property-levy rational-basis speech-funding standing Whether a levy that forces property owners to fund other individuals' campaign donations implicates the First Amendment's compelled-subsidy doctrine
19-6513 Deyoe R. Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review controlled-substances criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federal-law federalism free-speech sentencing-disparity standing takings Whether the federal prohibition on certain substances has resulted in more crime and violence, and whether it is best to regulate or decriminalize the…
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6368 Richard Kalinowski v. Illinois Illinois 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process liberty liberty-interest pre-trial-detention speedy-trial standard-of-review Does the right to a speedy trial in a civil commitment case require the Courts to apply a more strict standard of review due to the loss of liberty in…
19-524 Roque De La Fuente, aka Rocky v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived anderson-burdick anderson-burdick-framework ballot-access ballot-clutter constitutional-review election-law independent-candidates presidential-election presidential-elections signature-requirements voter-confusion When evidence is adduced that signature collection requirements to secure ballot access for independent presidential candidates exceed what is necessa…
19-6295 Antonio Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure Does a broad appeal waiver preclude appellate review of a district court's findings if the judge created a constitutionally impermissible appearance o…
19-6211 Barry L. Clark v. Mark Gwyn, et al. Tennessee 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP academic-studies civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-precedent landmark-decisions legislative-intent recidivism sex-offender sex-offenders standing state-sponsored-surveys Is it proper and timely for this Supreme Court to give redress to pronouncements incorporated within earlier landmark decisions stating that recidivis…
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the exposure of cheating by the State of Arkansas and the concomitant collusion to cover up cheating evidence violates due process and the rig…
19-338 In Re Peter Appel, et al. 2019-09-13 Denied Response Waived 24th-amendment 26th-amendment all-writs-act all-writs-act-28-usc-1651a congressional-certification congressional-jurisdiction constitutional-review electoral-certification electoral-college justiciability presidential-election standing stare-decisis voter-disenfranchisement voter-injury Whether this Court has the 'other jurisdiction' (pursuant to Rule 20 of Part 4 of the Supreme Court rules) to grant the within petition for an appeal …
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Court should require de novo review (or at a minimum, review for clear error) of sentencing fact-findings based entirely on uncorroborated…
19-5756 In Re James Bryant 2019-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-doctrine-retroactivity habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdiction retroactive-application retroactivity subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness Whether the state trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction by convicting Petitioner in 1971 under a vague first-degree murder statute
19-227 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury or may hypothesize that…
19-5434 Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs…
19-5415 Darryl Dewayne Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether Applicant is entitled to a certificate of appealability or review by the Supreme Court
19-5291 Tyrone Jordan v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-review habeas-corpus habeas-proceeding iac-claim ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review trial-counsel What is the District Court's duty and what standard is the Court to apply to a habeas proceeding presenting a substantial and meritorious IAC claim of…
19-5292 Franky Joseph v. Florida Florida 2019-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim judicial-integrity leblanc leblanc-v-virginia merits-adjudication state-v-michel state-vs-michel supreme-court-interpretation Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision infringes on the petitioner's constitutional right to meaningful review of their federal constitutional c…
19-5229 Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Can the hintk Cireuid Courd of App esle dismissed My Lake US Frivelsus With 647. having given Ine opperrutedy 6 presentis documentary evidenze to demo…
19-5225 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-records constitutional-review discovery due-process judicial-review minor-protection pennsylvania-v-ritchie records sexual-abuse social-services social-services-records standing Whether petitioner has a constitutional right to in camera judicial review of confidential social services records
19-5060 Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction First Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons' abilities to …
19-5014 Ricardo Donate-Cardona v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP affidavit appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review court-filing defendant-dissatisfaction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-redress poverty-affidavit sixth-amendment standing substitute-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint substitute counsel when a defendant expresses dissati…
19-5018 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt Whether the willful and serial denial of attempts to demonstrate actual innocence, by the courts and counsel, presents at a minimum the debatable qual…
18-9733 Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-9389 Antonia Shields v. Juda Klein Second Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-action civil-rights constitutional-review court-fees due-process fees-and-costs fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-access standing unconstitutional Is 28 U.S.C. § 1915 unconstitutional, discriminatory, based on a person's ability to pay fees and costs and/or to give security for fees and costs for…
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
18-9299 Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether Apprendi error at sentencing is harmless based on the entire record or only whether the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum
18-9178 Matthew Oliver Alford v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment jurisdictional-constraints procedural-limitations standing state-court-conviction Did the district Court (WDNC) and the 4th Cir. Court violate petitioner's right to access a federal court & right to due process by applying the wrong…
18-9059 Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violated the procedure prescribed by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and imposed an improper b…
18-8949 Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in a decision that conflicts with decisions of other Courts of Appeals on the same important matte…
18-8967 In Re Larry L. Brinson 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence all-writ-jurisdiction all-writs constitutional-review constitutional-rights gate-keeping gate-keeping-order gatekeeping-order habeas-corpus jurisdiction successive-habeas-corpus successive-petition supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the United States Supreme Court has jurisdiction under habeas corpus and all writ jurisdiction to review circuit court's gate keeping order de…
18-8769 Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review Whether the Supreme Court should review and reverse the First Circuit's holding that an appellant is without recourse under the plain error standard o…
18-8722 In Re Curtis Lee Sheppard 2019-04-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-ruling mandamus prisoner-rights standing Whether the Eighth Circuit's refusal to allow the petitioner to file a successive habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b) was proper
18-8610 Antonio Sierra v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-impairment standing Whether the District Judge of the Custodial United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is precluded from exercising Article…
18-8623 Justin Cole Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review Are appeal waivers in federal criminal plea agreements unconstitutional?
18-8428 Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review Should the United States District Court of Colorado have granted the Petitioner Counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing Complaint agains…
18-8367 Lamar Williams v. American Auto Logistics New Jersey 2019-03-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review court-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards expert-opinion judicial-opinion legal-standing standing witness-testimony witnesses Is the prior court's decision constitutional?
18-8231 Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-review counsel-claim court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-8110 In Re LaShawn Anderson 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement Whether the Eleventh Circuit has effectively suspended the writ of habeas corpus by narrowing the circumstances under which a federal prisoner can pro…
18-8112 Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing Should the judgment be vacated and remanded in light of Buck v. Davis?
18-7655 Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag…
18-7568 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-01-25 Denied IFP co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and McCloud v. State
18-7566 Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether guilty plea cases are cognizable for federal review
18-901 Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas Texas 2019-01-11 Denied affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factual suffi…
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t…
18-7363 Christopher David Krohe v. Zandra Steinhardt Ninth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process facts judicial-remedy money-damages remedy standing If the district court should not have denied case on its resolution of facts presented & If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should not have denied …
18-7279 Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague Whether a federal question is raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller …
18-7044 Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr. v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections Wyoming 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-review federal-jurisdiction federal-laws-and-statutes habeas-corpus indian-treaties indian-tribes-and-reservations state-habeas-corpus Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's reliance on precedent derived from the state-friendly deferential standard of the Antiterrorism and Effective Deat…
18-742 Brandon Washington v. Alabama Alabama 2018-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-review cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance performance prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel trial-counsel-errors Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a court assessing the prejudice resulting from trial counsel's errors should consider ea…
18-6938 Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-6960 Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by errors in his criminal trial and sentencing proceedings
18-629 Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. California 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation Does the Clean Air Act withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of state regulations?
18-6622 Keeland Duralle Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether a court of appeals is required to grant a habeas petitioner a COA when the question presented clearly is debatable by jurist of reason as demo…
18-6480 Gregory Hill v. James Gammon, Superintendent, Moberly Correctional Center Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-bessemer-city batson-challenge batson-claim constitutional-review due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-jurisprudence federal-habeas jury-selection racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection thomas-v-keohane Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates racial discrimination in selection of its jurors
18-6320 Timothy Joseph McGhee v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-investigation reasonable-investigation strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard unreasonable-factual-findings unreasonable-findings-of-fact Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a certificate of appealability on the ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-6260 Jaime Traverso v. Maryland Maryland 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit-clause judicial-discretion law-of-case perjury prosecutorial-misconduct standing withheld-evidence Did the Maryland court abuse its discretion by refusing to reopen the law of the case established by the testimony of a convicted perjurer, withheld f…
18-6199 Marco M. Torres v. Frances M. Perrone, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County Florida 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in its interpretation of Article 3, Section 1 and 2 of the U.S. Constitution regarding the judicial power to d…
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 …
18-5947 Stevie Andre Roberson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations texas-supreme-court Whether district court's decision to deny petitioner's areas autonomy is barred by statute of limitation of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Pen…
18-5937 Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama Alabama 2018-09-11 Denied IFP aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors Whether Alabama's capital sentencing scheme is unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida and Caldwell v. Mississippi
18-5791 Robert Wharton v. Donald T. Vaughn Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law federal-laws judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure relief standing takings third-circuit Did the Third Circuit erroneously apply, enlarge and/or ignore several established federal laws in denying petitioner relief?
18-5805 George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing petitioner's application for Certificate of Appealability as untimely despite petitioner showi…
18-5731 Heather Jo Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states second-successive-filing successive-filing successive-petitions vagueness vagueness-doctrine vagueness-standard Did the lower court err in denying relief where this court has recognized robbery/burglary as vague under Johnson?
18-5696 Curtis Croft v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama opportunity-to-present-evidence sentencing-discretion split-of-authority Whether Illinois has misused the broad discretion allowed the states
18-5640 Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-5555 William Womack v. Landan Adams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review the district court's erroneous decision
18-5367 Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-100 Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden Georgia 2018-07-23 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state court…
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Arizona courts err in failing to apply the proper federal standard of review for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary plea…
18-5176 In Re Winex Eugene 2018-07-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement
18-5161 Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the state court's application of the Jackson standard of review in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence violated clearly established fed…
24A307 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied constitutional-review habeas-corpus identity-claim prisoner-rights procedural-default time-bar Whether a prisoner may bring an identity-related claim outside of standard procedural time limitations
25A174 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied aedpa chevron-doctrine constitutional-review federal-judiciary habeas-corpus supreme-court-deference Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's (AEDPA) deferential standard of review for state court decisions violates the constitution…