constitutional-standards

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-546 Julia Mae Robinson v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-standards federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Whether the Eleventh Circuit and Northern District of Georgia courts improperly applied federal law and constitutional standards in denying monetary r…
24-950 Urvashi Bhagat v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-standards due-process expert-testimony innovation nutrition-arts patent-law Whether lower courts erred in prejudicing innovation in nutrition arts by failing to uphold constitutional standards for patent advancement and due pr…
24-5645 Johnny Patterson v. Florida Florida 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standards due-process judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct legal-ethics procedural-integrity Whether a judge can commit fraud under constitutional standards
23A742 Luis Alexis Briceno v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-02-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-standards conviction-review court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction Whether the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals correctly applied constitutional standards in affirming a criminal conviction that may have violated t…
23-6704 Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana Seventh Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments
22-546 Nazira Urrego v. Samuel I. White, P.C. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process equal-protection foreclosure loan-assignment property-rights takings Whether Virginia courts have violated the constitutional standards of due process and equal protection?
22-384 Bronwyn Randel v. Rabun County School District Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process eleventh-circuit post-deprivation-process pre-deprivation-process procedural-claim state-court-remedy unbiased-decisionmaker Does the existence of a state post-deprivation process preclude a procedural due-process claim
21-5817 James E. Pearson v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming Tenth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-uscs-2254 constitutional-standards federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel malloy-v-hogan miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-procedure supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Does the reasoning within Malloy v Hogan require specifically apply to claims of insufficiency or ineffective counsel, and were the federal habeas rev…
20-8467 Cyrus Casby v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-standards criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-contamination expert-qualification expert-testimony scientific-procedure testing-guidelines Whether the contaminated exonerating evidence was misused to convict
20-7440 Paul Salazar v. Texas Texas 2021-03-12 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire Does a state's initial-review post-conviction collateral procedures meet constitutional standards when they fail to provide prisoners the opportunity …
20-7347 Warren Tarver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony constitutional-standards death-penalty due-process federalism state-law state-laws unconstitutional Whether it is a violation of due process to detain a person under a statute that classifies an offense as a capital felony where the death penalty is …
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…
19-8653 Jose Heriberto Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process independent-review judicial-review legal-principles sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether independent review is an obligation for the lower court and the appellate court to maintain control of and to clarify the legal principles in …
19-8419 Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition can be appealed to federal court when no state remedy is available
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness Whether the 'clearly established Federal law' provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categorical…
19-6460 Daniel Paul Copple v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standards discovery discovery-limitations dismissal-standards due-process evidence-preservation evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus institutional-mental-health-records judicial-discretion mental-competency pro-se-defendant state-records Whether a defendant claiming mental incompetency should have the state court records reviewed prior to denying equitable tolling
18A1263 Keith D. Nelson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance Whether the Eighth Amendment and standards for ineffective assistance of counsel require a new sentencing hearing when trial counsel's performance fal…
18-9127 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, et al. Virginia 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights consent-orders constitutional-standards due-process equal-protection foreclosure fraud loan-auction property-rights standing takings Whether Virginia courts have violated the constitutional standards of due-process,equal-protection
18-8279 George Wayne Brooks v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP brady-law constitutional-standards criminal-procedure due-process evidence-determination federal-law fraud-on-the-court judicial-process newly-presented-evidence Whether the United States has a substantial interest in preventing the risk of injustice to defendant and an interest in the public's confidence in th…
18-7083 Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver Whether the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit erred in not applying the per se presumed prejudice rule
18-679 Erick Virgil Hall v. Idaho Idaho 2018-11-23 Denied Amici (1) aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-standards death-penalty felony-murder heinous-atrocious-cruel jury-sentencing narrowing-requirement propensity-to-commit-murder sentencing-guidance utter-disregard Whether certain of the 'aggravating circumstances' used by Idaho to determine whether a defendant may be sentenced to death—those that ask whether the…