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25-892 Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived court-of-appeals judicial-procedure mandamus petition-for-rehearing procedural-due-process supreme-court-rules 1. Whether a court of appeals may, by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, refuse to accept for filing or to docket a timely petition for …
25A826 Marco Antonio Naranjo-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Application court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-conviction procedural-challenge sentencing-review tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25-6563 Gary Craig Stephens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release 1. Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range,…
25-6546 Miguel Bocardo and Cyr Dino Banguguilan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals district-court evidence-challenge federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sexual-abuse In Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519, 534 (1992), this Court held that "[o]nce a federal claim is properly presented, a party can make any argume…
25-810 John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-misconduct petition-for-certiorari 1. Does this Court need to intercede because the lower courts have deviated substantially from the norm in judicial proceedings? 2. Did the judges in…
25-6500 Anita Bryant v. Estate of Laura J. Bryant Seventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending IFP appellate-rights court-of-appeals in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion meritorious-claim procedural-dismissal 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeal Seventh Circuit abused its discretion by improperly dismissing an In Forma Pauperis (I FP) action as friv…
25-6426 In Re Tamas Hampel 2025-12-23 Pending IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-process petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is required to docket a timely filed petition for rehearing submitted pursuant to Fed…
25A667 Nicole Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper Publishing Company, LLC District of Columbia 2025-12-08 Application certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
25-616 Juston D. Beyer v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review judicial-review military-justice Petitioner made an unrebutted showing of good cause to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to review his case. Nevertheless, the court denied re…
25-6154 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction I-(a) Did the court of appeals err in holding that the lower court violated Article 20, Part First, of the New Hampshire Constitution, which the parti…
25-6045 In Re Rayfield J. Thibeaux 2025-11-06 Denied IFP civil-rights-litigation conviction-reversal court-of-appeals district-court-access due-process judicial-procedure The District Court denied me access to the court after my 1987 conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Then, the District Co…
25-5780 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall Indiana 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived me of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, w…
25-5773 Karina Yohera Flores v. Texas Texas 2025-10-01 Denied IFP capital-murder court-of-appeals due-process jury-punishment lesser-included-offenses procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals, Thirteenth Judicial District, Corpus Christi, Texas err by affirming the trial court's order that no jury punishment hearing…
25A297 Brent E. Webster v. Redwood Holdings, LLC, dba Wedgewood Inc. Oregon 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-of-appeals pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant's request for a 60-day extension to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted based on the complexity of the …
25-5585 Arseles D. Miller v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendment court-of-appeals habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a 2254 application is second or successive if it challenges a new judgment for purpose of §2244(b). Whether a new judgment, resulting from re…
25-5572 Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie Fourth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied IFP administrative-malfeasance appeal-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT OT DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE CLERK OF COURT FOR THE FOUTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEA…
25-5553 Adrian Goudelock v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion legal-argumentation procedural-fairness Where the right to appeal a trial court judgment is provided by statute, "that appeal must accord with due process." Simmons v. Reynolds, 898 F.2d 865…
25A207 Daniel Gonzalez v. California Department of Real Estate, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete court-of-appeals filing-deadline petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal court of appeals may grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard 90-day period prescrib…
25A195 Marcus T. Dixon v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition court-of-appeals federal-criminal-case jurisdiction supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in a federal criminal case
25-5269 Michael D. Miller v. Florida Florida 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals due-process habitual-offender legal-violation sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the Fiesk Digkeict Court of Appeals Violate Ane Pet isioner's tight Yo due process of Vaw by Imposing a habitual oe , Sentence in violation of& sp…
25-5211 Kareem Muhammad v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals defendant-expectations four-corners judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining The overwhelming majority of criminal cases are resolved by plea bargaining. However, how these agreements are interpreted lacks uniformity in the cou…
25-46 Boat Santa Rita II, Inc. v. Magnus Aadland First Circuit 2025-07-14 Dismissed Response Waived court-of-appeals maintenance-and-cure maritime-law punitive-damages standard-of-review vessel-owner Under the general maritime law of maintenance and cure, what standard governs the award of punitive damages where a vessel owner provides maintenance …
25-16 Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-03 Denied appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("DC Circuit") err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the Distri…
24-1323 Peter Kleidman v. Audrey B. Collins, Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied appellate-procedure briefing-rules court-of-appeals legal-theory procedural-fairness supervisory-power Whether the Supreme Court will use its supervisory power to require Courts of Appeals to provide parties an opportunity to be heard on new authorities…
24A1280 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the lower appellate court's ruling improperly interpreted or applied the legal standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition f…
24-7345 Anita Sue Bryant v. Estate of Laura J. Bryant Indiana 2025-06-03 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure case-dismissal court-of-appeals in-forma-pauperis notice-requirement procedural-due-process Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly closed Appellant's case without addressing pending motions and without providing notice
24A1185 Elizabeth Flynt v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete civil-rights court-of-appeals extension-of-time ninth-circuit petition-for-certiorari summary-judgment Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting summary judgment in a civil rights case
24-7317 Laurack D. Bray v. Matthew Scott Kenefick, Individually and as Partner in Jeffers Mangels, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied IFP court-of-appeals judicial-bias legal-procedure race-discrimination section-1981 summary-reversal Is it reversible error for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to treat opposing parties differently based on race, and are false statements by a feder…
24-1199 Muntaha Tahar v. Creative Corner Early Learning Center, LLC District of Columbia 2025-05-23 Denied arbitration-award court-of-appeals d-c-code superior-court uncontested-counterclaim unpaid-rent Whether the District of Columbia Superior Court and Court of Appeals violated D.C. Code Section 16-4424 by failing to modify the arbitrator's award an…
24-7211 Jeffrey Spivack v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal May a Court of Appeals disregard the scope of an appeal when the appellant has clearly articulated the scope and nature of the appeal by identifying t…
24-1162 Gina Robinson v. Fashion District Dental, et al. New York 2025-05-14 Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights court-of-appeals jurisdiction-refusal Whether the New York Court of Appeals violated constitutional rights by improperly refusing jurisdiction and dismissing a case involving alleged 13th …
24-1113 New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. v. Jeffrey Colt, et al. New York 2025-04-28 Granted arm-of-state court-of-appeals financial-liability interstate-litigation sovereign-immunity state-entity Whether a State's formal financial liability for a judgment against a state-created entity carries more weight in assessing whether that entity is an …
24-7069 Thomas M. Adams v. United States Armed Forces 2025-04-24 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals judicial-review military-justice petition-review statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice Does the mandate under Article 67(a)(3) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice permit the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to deny review where …
24-6900 Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-03-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-process legal-documentation procedural-requirement record-submission Is a party in the Court of Appeals required to independently submit documents relevant to that appeal as part of the record when said documents are al…
24-6807 Carl P. Palladinetti v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-significance court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance section-2255 Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denial of Mr. Palladinetti's COA filing represents an issue of constitutional significance worthy of Supr…
24-6743 Andre Ricardo Roach v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals federal-custody judicial-review sentencing-procedure state-custody Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by failing to consider this Court's opinion in Hughes v. United States and by removing Petitioner f…
24-6673 Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,…
24-915 In Re Bart Wade Reagor 2025-02-25 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue a decision without delay
24-6607 In Re Stephanie Mykonos 2025-02-21 Denied IFP brief-filing court-of-appeals docketing mandamus pro-se procedural-error Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to error correct a pro se petitioner's timely filed brief that was not docketed
24-6466 David Alcorn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure defendants-rights district-court public-trial sixth-amendment Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Upholding The District Court's Violation Of Defendants' Sixth Amendment Right To A Public Trial?
24-6311 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias precedential-decisions pro-se-litigants supreme-court-review Whether judicial bias, potential bribery, and conflicts with precedential decisions constitute grounds for Supreme Court review of Court of Appeals pa…
24-6267 Robert Moore v. New York New York 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals judicial-precedent legal-doctrine stare-decisis supervisory-power Should this Court exercise its supervisory power to clearly establish what is meant by stare decisis, where the New York State Court of Appeals sancti…
24-720 Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-strike Did the Court of Appeals err in ignoring a Motion to Strike the affidavit, denying an evidentiary hearing, and rubber-stamping the district court's de…
24-6179 Steven D'Agostino v. Gary A. Ashworth, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Third Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals fair-labor-standards-act federal-employee-wages jurisdictional-transfer minimum-wage-calculation tucker-act Whether the Third Circuit erred in jurisdictional transfer and federal employee wage calculations under the Tucker Act and FLSA
24A565 William Michael Dennis v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Presumed Complete court-of-appeals habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in denying petitioner's post-conviction relief claim
24-6010 Carlos Cantizano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel briefing-schedule court-of-appeals due-process legal-procedure motion-denial May the Court of Appeals withdraw the briefing schedule after approving a notice of appeal and deny a request for appointed counsel, thereby violating…
24-533 Unknown Heirs, et al. v. Howard Reiner, as Permanent Dependent Administrator for the Estate of Beda Garcia Barnett, Deceased Texas 2024-11-12 Denied court-of-appeals federal-question judicial-conflict obergefell-precedent supervisory-power texas-appellate-law Did the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeal's decision grossly depart from Texas law or create a substantial conflict with federal court decisions in…
24-460 Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants the Court's supervisory inte…
24-5765 Robert Lance Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented
24-5666 Lidia M. Orrego v. Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice Whether the Second Circuit recognizes constitutional due process and equal protection rights before their deprivation, and whether judicial bias viola…
24A263 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction legal-standards supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari Whether a federal court of appeals improperly deviated from established legal standards in a manner that could create a circuit split warranting Supre…
24-5370 Michael Deangelo Lowery v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-08-22 Denied IFP court-of-appeals federal-court judgment petition writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-5363 Anthony Wong v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals false-testimony federal-employee judicial-review perjury sanctions Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying Motions for Sanctions and Referral for Perjury by a federal employee, despite alleged false testimo…
24-5259 Isiah Williams v. Raymond Shanley Second Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights court-of-appeals evidentiary-hearing gateway-claim rule-52 Whether the Court of Appeals exceeded its authority under Rule 52(a) F.R.C.P. in dismissing Petitioner's actual innocence claim without an evidentiary…
24-5213 Gilbert Campa v. Ingrid Rosenquist, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal holidays judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review prejudice procedural-error time-limits Question not identified
24-95 Jason Lou Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied 28-usc-2072 28-usc-455 appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct recusal supervisory-powers Should-the-United-States-Supreme-Court-impose-a-requirement-of-mandatory-disqualification-of-Chief-Judges-of-the-Courts-of-Appeals
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23-7845 Kenneth Jackson, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-02 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure clearly-erroneous court-of-appeals manifest-injustice prior-decision Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that its prior decision was not clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice?
23-7807 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure,due-process,criminal-trial,federal court-of-appeals criminal-trial factual-evidence fifth-amendment rule-60b Whether descriptions or summary of evidence is sufficiently accurate enough to determine a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1) motion alleging mi…
23A1156 Rona J. Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal jurisdiction pro-se sua-sponte Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a sua sponte dismissal by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for lack of jurisdiction warrant …
23-7759 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent May the District Court and Court of Appeals ignore the Supreme Court's decision in Concepcion v. U.S.
23-7749 Carlos Enrique Lopez-Soto v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal due-process government-objection judicial-procedure notice notice-of-judgment standing timeliness Whether the Court of Appeals could dismiss an action based on untimely notice where (1) the district court's judgment was never notified, and (2) in t…
23-1314 Jennifer Harris v. FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act contract contractual-limitation court-of-appeals due-process intangible-damages lawsuit-filing maximum-recovery standing statute-of-limitations Whether a contractual provision reducing the limitation on filing a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 from four years to six months is enforc…
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel?
23-7604 Sheila Halousek v. Verizon Ninth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied IFP appeal-denial arbitrary-dismissal civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court first-amendment judicial-discretion petition-clause petition-government redress-grievances Was Petitioner denied her explicit constitutional civil right under the First Amendment to petition the government for a redress of grievances when th…
23-7568 Malek Lassiter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.…
23-7552 Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process evidence-review legal-procedure scotus-review summary-judgment use-of-force Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err in reviewing the full facts of the videotape and the use of force report by the commi…
23-7507 Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-extend ninth-circuit standing time-extension Did the United States District Court Judge Abuse his discretion in denying the Plaintiff's motions?
23-7474 Bogdan Nicolescu v. Dave Bobby, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-explanation merits-panel pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness uncandid-briefing Is a 3-judge merits panel of a U.S. court of appeals at liberty, perhaps over-reliant on the opposing party's counseled but uncandid briefing, to not …
23-7438 Anthony Espinosa Gonzales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review computer-generated-evidence conviction court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-authentication evidentiary-standards federal-rule-of-evidence-901(b)(9) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure Did the court of appeals' ratification of the use of computer-generated evidence to convict petitioner represent a clear departure from the requiremen…
23-7426 Saye Henry Gofan, Jr. v. Cameron C. Gustafson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issue court-of-appeals district-court due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's constitutional challenges to the government's actions
23-7381 Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Arizona Office of the Attorney General, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights clemency constitutional-claims constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection executive-clemency habeas-corpus special-action special-action-relief Whether the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency violated the petitioner's due process rights by denying his request for a commutation hearing without …
23-7371 Laron Darrell Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mandate mandate-rule procedural-law waiver Whether the rule requiring a district court to follow the mandate of a court of appeals is jurisdictional
23-7308 Marvin Holmes v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-law habeas-corpus Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process by not issuing a Certificate of Appealability?
23-1156 Eun O. Kim, et al. v. Parcel K-Tudor Hall Farm, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-reopen procedural-fairness timeliness Whether the Justice system (The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit) granting the Motion to Reopen to one party after 8 years from t…
23A877 Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Big Sky Water & Sewer District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under the Court's rules governing appellate procedure
23-7113 Nicholas Butler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure legal-standing procedural-rights standing Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal?
23-7069 Jesse R. Redmond, Jr. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction precedent rule-4 rule-4a Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals fails to apply the law in the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to Criminal …
23-7040 Hamid Houbbadi v. Kennedy Law Firm, PLLC, et al. Tennessee 2024-03-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeals constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process legal-principles state-court statutory-interpretation Is the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when the Tennessee …
23-6992 Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact…
23-6878 Jose Luis Avalos-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23A759 Warren Chen, et al. v. Razberi Techologies, Inc., et al. Texas 2024-02-20 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Texas Court of Appeals improperly applied procedural rules in a manner that prejudiced the applicants' right to seek Supreme Court review
23-6778 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2024-02-16 Denied IFP breach-of-contract contract-breach court-of-appeals district-court expedited-relief expedited-review habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-delay release-pending Can the district court or Court of Appeals refuse to rule on Petitioner's motions for expedited review and for release pending adjudication in a habea…
23-6725 Deonte Marques Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process electronic-filing forfeiture notice restitution sentencing sentencing-error Whether due process is satisfied when the government relies solely on the district court's electronic case filing system to notify defendant's counsel…
23A711 Fitz D. Jackson v. Courtney E. James Texas 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete court-of-appeals legal-standing petition-for-certiorari probate-court state-court-appeal supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether a probate court's ruling regarding a legal matter can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after exhausting state court remedies
23-6614 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss standing state-law supreme-court Whether NCCOA and NCSC improperly denied appellant's motions and orders, and whether the orders violate constitutional rights and state appellate rule…
23-6591 Tracie Ledora Green v. U.S. Bank National Association Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Relisted (4)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process foreclosure foreclosure-case jurisdiction legal-violations standing witness-protection Was the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in error dismissing the appeal for a 'lack of jurisdiction'
23A691 Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Presumed Complete certiorari court-of-appeals extension petition supreme-court time-limit Whether the Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari
23-761 Kionn Alls v. Florida Department of Revenue, on Behalf of Sharita Denise Gosa Florida 2024-01-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fundamental-error judicial-duty jurisdiction jurisdictional-error procedural-due-process standing Do our state court of appeals have an unrenunciable judicial duty to correct jurisdictional or fundamental errors that were preserved at trial, were r…
23-6458 Mario Astudillo-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6459 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-comment mistrial-motion self-incrimination Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his Fifth Ame…
23-6442 Pedro Hernandez Zarate v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-hearing meaningful-review statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal writ-of-certiorari Whether due process and the statutory right to appeal require the Court of Appeals to adequately explain the decisions made in a defendant's case in o…
23-6436 Luis Manso v. Patricia McGill, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied IFP brady-violation court-of-appeals evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington strong-evidence Does Strickland-v-Washington allow the Court-of-Appeals to dismiss the defendant's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on strong-evidence of…
23-659 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Westside Donut Huntington Ventures LLC Second Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied appeals brief-filing circuit-rules civil-procedure clerk-error court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk granting the defendant permission file an Appellee's brief …
23-656 Arthur Lee Hairston, Sr. v. Department of Veterans Affairs Martinsburg, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-of-appeals default-judgment due-process legal-procedure procedural-due-process service-of-process show-cause-order summary-judgment united-states-marshal-service Whether the Court of Appeals decision denying procedural due process was an error of law?
23A556 Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete certiorari court-of-appeals petition procedural-rules supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari under the Court's procedural rules
23-6184 Brian Best v. Virgil Smith Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-decision civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure panel-rehearing summary-disposition swimmer-v-irs Was Petitioner's right to Due Process violated?
23-6165 Jesus Del Valle Gonzalez-Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver brief-filing burden-of-proof court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process government-defense opening-brief plea-agreement reply-brief Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver…
23-577 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Denied administrative-law circuit-split court-of-appeals deference hobbs-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-question kisor-v-wilkie legal-background procedural-background statutory-provisions surface-transportation-board Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a Surface Transportation Board ruling
23-549 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd…
23-5981 Nestor Leon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts amendment-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-dismissal standing Did the district court err in not granting the petitioner an evidentiary hearing before the record conclusively declined that the petitioner was not e…
23-5818 Eduardo Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relief and…
23-371 D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-10-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived case-scope court-of-appeals harmonious-reading jurisdiction jurisdictional-question legal-sufficiency legislative-history military-justice standard-of-review statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1259(8) gives this Court jurisdiction to consider issues raised to, but not granted review by, the Court of Appeals for the Armed …
23-5722 Armando Orozco-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5431 Bryan K. Brown v. Ron Neal, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus prison-law-library strickland-standard strickland-test Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the Defendant's negligent actions did not violate the Plaintiff's constitutional right to access th…
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability
23-5340 Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit may prohibit consideration of sentencing errors under 18 USC §3582(c)(1)(A)
23-5335 Young Bok Song v. Tony Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-interpretation constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process section-1983 standing tax-fraud Whether the TN U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals are incorrect in reading Scholl v. Mnuchi
23-5285 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Gigi Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals docket-entry ninth-circuit procedural-history retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-fact Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability?
23-5271 Eric Villarreal v. California California 2023-08-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure disability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard legal-review mental-health psychological-disorder right-to-counsel Did the trial courts abuse its discretion by denying VeSendant and Repellant repeated request for new counsel
23-5262 In Re Stephen Harmon 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rule civil-rule-60(b)(4) court-of-appeals due-process independent-action ninth-circuit original-action standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in failing to address or resolve the 'Foundational Question' presented in an original and independent action under Civ…
23-5197 Marshall Ray Partain v. Jason Hallmark, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal civil-procedure court-of-appeals deadlines due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure filing-deadline judicial-process legal-timeliness mental-illness procedural-grounds standing Should a federal district court allow an appeal to proceed if the opposing party fails to object to an untimely filed appeal?
23-5176 Damarco Antonio Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-rights right-of-appeal standing Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal?
23-5107 Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly Fourth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari what-is-the-legislative-intent-of-18-usc-3553
23-5030 Nygel Dejon Freeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-evidence reasonable-doubt rule-29 statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals erred in denying Mr. Freeman's Rule 29 motion due to insufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a rea…
23-5027 Gabriel Gonzalez Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7873 Aguina Aguina v. Choong-Dae Kang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii bankruptcy-settlement constitutional-authority court-of-appeals judicial-discretion ninth-circuit public-policy rooker-feldman-doctrine Did the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in approving the settlement of Trustee's and petitioner ex-wife's dispute
22-7863 Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7869 Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in refusing to reverse Wysinger's conviction on count one for conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1)
22-7775 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
22-7761 Aaron Keith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection
22-7591 In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. 2023-05-18 Dismissed IFP 28-usc-1361 28-usc-1915 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation Did the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas Judge violate Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4(c)(3), and 28 U.S.C. §1915(d)?
22-7547 Carl Lee Ashley v. Mary Boayue, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-standard objective-prong prison-conditions standing Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that petitioner could not establish the objective prong of his Eighth Amendment claims
22-7549 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity Is retroactivity applicable for post-conviction relief?
22-7443 Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and its…
22-7374 Earl McCoy v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP court-of-appeals due-process false-statements juror-bias jury-selection mcdonongh-test mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire whether-the-court-of-appeals-misapplied-mcdonongh
22-967 David Banks v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sealing sealing-order Did the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violate the Petitioner's rights under the First Amendment when it sealed almost the entire transcript a…
22-7205 Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7207 Ignacio Martinez-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7179 Andres Ajualip-Pablo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7161 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2023-03-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process finality procedural-fairness time-limitation timeliness transcript-denial Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to issue its order for over 11 months and then denying the appellant the opportunity to file a petition for rehe…
22-901 Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson Utah 2023-03-17 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process
22-6986 Paulo Bernal-Ceto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6921 In Re Oscar Adrian Marquez 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction mandamus Is the failure of a District Court and a United States Court of Appeals to order instant dismissal of the immediate case for lack of Article III Stand…
22-6904 Robert Roderick Stubblefield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-merits petition-review standing writ-of-certiorari Should a COA have been issued and should relief have been granted after review of the merits of all three claims that were raised to the District cour…
22-788 Paul Edwards v. McMillen Capital, LLC Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied amendment breach-of-contract breach-of-implied-covenant court-of-appeals cutpa implied-covenant negligence nied statute-of-limitations tila Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled contrary to prior holdings of the Supreme Court, other Circuits, and state courts on the sta…
22-758 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-immunity procedural-rules record record-review standing u.r.a.p-11 Whether the Court of Appeals allowing materials not on the record conflicts with the requirements of U.R.A.P 11?
22-6673 Lenwood Mason v. Laurel Harry, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability counsel-replacement court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability after the district court failed to make an inquiry into a Title 18 U.S.C.…
22-712 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied appellate-jurisdiction attorney-disqualification case-dismissal court-of-appeals court-procedure district-court due-process false-reporting judicial-misconduct judicial-nominee lack-of-jurisdiction Did Judicial Nominee Mr. Iain D. Johnston fabricate a non-existent certiorari petition case name on his response to the U.S. Senate's Questionnaire fo…
22-619 In Re Larry E. Klayman 2023-01-06 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-discipline bar-discipline civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process legal-ethics legal-suspension professional-conduct temporary-suspension time-served writ-of-mandamus Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in suspending Larry Klayman from the practice of law?
22-6348 Douglas James Schneider v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation…
22-6308 Alberto Mendoza-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6223 Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review Whether the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court of Appeals on the sa…
22-6138 Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, South on Piswier of Iowa, abused its discretion by violating the Cera Feendeg guidelines, which t…
22-5950 Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-5830 William Richter v. Ghaliah Obaisi, as Executor of the Estate of Saleh Obaisi Seventh Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-assistance pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-errors Whether the Faivie Te Apnot Cowimwrel Oy Apneal Foa Rosie, OF the Disthirel Cords Alaue of Dis hes Ze Faleng To Recess wee Conmtel Upow Wilheincsal of…
22-5792 Armad Jamall Gatling v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process merits restitution sentence-enhancement standing Did the Court of Appeals err in dismissing Mr. Gatling's appeal without reviewing its merits?
22-300 Wessie Sims v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process final-judgment judicial-code standing takings zoning-law Whether the Court of Appeals is in conflict with Catlin
22-287 Gail Lewis Hicks, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. Indiana 2022-09-27 Denied Response Waived court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fifth-and-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-procedure summary-judgment Whether the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the Indiana Court of Appeals granting Respondent a summary judgme…
22-5646 Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing Did Court of Appeals err in ruling on disability claims under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act?
22-5628 In Re Tony Walker 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis mandamus procedural-rules seventh-circuit standing standings-blanket-order statutory-interpretation Whether the January 23, 2014 standing blanket order of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violates 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and 28 U.S.C. §1915(e)…
22-239 Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition Whether a district court is jurisdictionally barred from considering evidence supporting a claim in a second or successive habeas petition that the co…
22-5499 Scott James Repella v. Luzerne County Children and Youth Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-error procedural-challenge standard-of-review standing Did the court of appeals err in denying the COA and not taking into account the complexity and severity of the constitutional rights violation?
22-5454 Jesus Carreon-Grimaldo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals discretionary-decision discretionary-decisions downward-departure jurisdictional-label sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the advisory Sentencing Guidelin…
22-5391 Lin Ouyang v. Mark A. Borenstein, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-18 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process final-judgment mandamus procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court of Appeals has reached a genuinely final judgment under 28 U.S.C. §2101 (c) and this Court's Rule 13.3?
22-5349 Leopoldo Pacheco-Apodaca v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5259 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in distegard of the rule announced in Buck v Davis"
22-5258 Jeremy Lafitte v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal pleading procedural-error rule-8(a) Whether a plaintiff must plead a specific set of facts that constitute a cause of action under the federal pleading requirements of Rule 8(a) of the F…
22-5211 Ian LaMonte Cormier v. Lynn E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process false-accusations false-claims malicious-prosecution prisoner-complaint retaliation sixth-circuit standing Whether the district court in San Diego, California, was justified in denying the in forma pauperis status to the plaintiff-appellant
22-5112 Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process
22-5005 Gerardo Olvera-Vitela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8264 Ashley Georges v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-statute brady-v-maryland brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process equitable-tolling exculpatory-evidence fundamental-rights state-disclosure Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly applied the AEDPA statute of limitations is subject to equitable tolling
21-8288 William Jack Parkerson v. Oregon Oregon 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-instructions court-of-appeals due-process federal-standard harmless-error oregon-court-of-appeals trial-evidence trial-procedure Did the oregon court of appeals apply the correct federal harmless error standard violating Due Process, when viewing the evidence at trial when it de…
21-8227 Jose Fernando Ochoa-Fabian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8215 Nathaniel Ausbie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process government-theory jury-instructions legal-review sufficiency-of-evidence When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for his conviction, may a court of appeals affirm based on a theory different from the one…
21-8225 Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8175 Adrian Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals due-process government-objection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-jurisdiction sua-sponte sua-sponte-review Whether the Court of Appeals may sua sponte raise an alleged inadequacy of its own Certificate of Appealability after the parties have fully briefed t…
21-8180 Rives Grogan v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burwell-v-hobby-lobby court-of-appeals hobby-lobby-precedent punishment-magnitude religious-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act substantial-burden supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals erred, contravening Supreme Court precedent set forth in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., by weighing Mr. Grogan's al…
21-8163 Benjamin Perez-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8108 Daniel Gallegos-Quirino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8073 Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jen, aka Jennifer, aka Jennifer Sullivan, aka Lei Sullivan, aka Lei v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine court-of-appeals criminal-procedure divestiture-rule final-judgment non-appealable-order pro-se pro-se-status sentencing-phase Can a criminal defendant immediately appeal the revocation of her pro se status by a district court judge sua sponte during the trial?
21-8052 Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8013 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-06-01 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361
21-7892 Abdul Samuels v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance remand representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the court of appeals err in denying Petitioner—whose trial counsel had a conflict of interest because his child was applying for a job at the U.S.…
21-7882 In Re Lin Ouyang 2022-05-16 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals court-rules exceptional-circumstances final-judgment finality-of-judgment frivolous-appeal mandamus statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals to rule the motion for reconsideration
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Whether or not the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in its constitutional analysis regarding the petitioner's bail motion
21-7791 Aaron Ramirez-Almader v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1404 Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P., et al. v. Perry Cline, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Tenth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court-order finality finality-doctrine good-faith-appeal protective-appeal Whether a court of appeals can refuse to exercise its jurisdiction to determine its own jurisdiction
21-7724 Anthony Fields v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring comple…
21-7732 Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest Whether the court of appeals properly assessed prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation
21-7692 Manuel Geraldo v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petitioner-rights procedural-fairness Whether a Court of Appeals Paying Lipservice in denying a COA violates the princples of Due-Process
21-7696 In Re Stephen Harmon 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeals civil-rights constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process federal-statutory-authority harmless-error standing statutory-authority substantive-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, which is not a harml…
21-7711 Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court …
21-7680 In Re Israel Romero 2022-04-21 Denied IFP abeyance administrative-law appellate-review case-suspension civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by placing this case in abeyance pending a decision in an unrelated case?
21-7634 In Re Lin Ouyang 2022-04-15 Dismissed IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-of-appeals exceptional-circumstances finality-of-judgment judicial-procedure mandamus motion-reconsideration reconsideration writ-of-mandamus Whether the court of appeals has reached a genuinely final judgment?
21-7560 Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7494 David Samuels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals crime-of-violence district-court due-process fraud habeas-corpus legal-claims standing Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealability
21-7420 Isiah Pierce v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States apply where the ineffective assistance of counsel claim was first litigated and decided in a consider…
21-1275 Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal
21-7230 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the words 'a house' in the Fourth Amendment apply both to the defendant's conduct as a renter of a house and to the defendant's period of 2 to…
21-7247 Kevin Herriott v. Lieutenant Jackson Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-courts federal-rules legal-mail mail-room standing statutory-provisions Whether the claimant is entitled to offer evidence to support his claims?
21-7240 Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Did the lower courts erroneously employ the wrong legal standard?
21-7190 Jason Terrell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction merits plea-agreement procedural-facts standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred by dismissing the appeal based upon an appeal waiver contained in the plea agreement and should have addressed Mr. …
21-7174 Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1119 Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee First Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals committed error when affirming judgment from the Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel refusing to reverse the B…
21-7031 Joseph D. Davis v. United States District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with oth…
21-6997 Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright Whether deliberate indifference should be analyzed under the balancing framework of the substantial risk of harm test announced by this Court rather t…
21-7000 Dominic Dean Adams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction?
21-6960 Jonathan C. Roush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3164 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-order griggs-v-provident-consumer-discount-co retroactive-exclusion speedy-trial speedy-trial-act time-calculation zedner-v-united-states Whether a district court may enter a post-appeal order to place findings and calculations on the record of a case to explain an earlier oral ruling de…
21-6905 Ramon Diaz-Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6882 Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6862 In Re Daniel Jones 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-relief federal-courts filing-requirements judicial-procedure mandamus prisoner-rights standing is-petitioner-entitled-to-immediate-relief
21-6710 Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing Whether a court can impose restitution beyond the loss resulting from the conduct related to the count of conviction under the Mandatory Victims Resti…
21-6666 Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals district-court due-process legal-review military-service standing supreme-court Was the district court's discretion regarding issue A erroneous?
21-6543 Craig Steven MacKenzie v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. District of Columbia 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-preclusion court-of-appeals due-process issue-preclusion judicial-doctrine res-judicata standing Can the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia deprive petitioner of a full and fair opportunity to be heard by mis-applying the judicial d…
21-6487 Lisa Marie Cano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeal court-of-appeals evidence historical-facts inevitable-discovery investigating-officer investigation verification Whether a court of appeal's inference regarding the future course of an investigation, unsupported by testimony from the investigating officer or by e…
21-6340 Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the petitioner to call a material witness violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendmen…
21-628 Ebenezer K. Howe, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-courts civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process irs judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant recusal Do courts of appeal exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresented litigan…
21-6122 Malek Lassiter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred by affirming the district court's denial of Lassiter's motion for judgment of acquittal on the RICO conspiracy char…
21-604 Stephen Kantos v. Leonard Major, et al. Michigan 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-right court-of-appeals dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial legal-sanction sanctions standing vicencio-v-ramirez Did the court of appeals err in denying plaintiff's right to a jury trial
21-5947 Jorge Petter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals covid-19 due-process fifth-amendment filing-deadlines incarcerated-filers pandemic-response standing-order Whether the Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth Amendment by failing to issue a standing order extending fil…
21-523 Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the dis…
21-510 PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response Waived and raised in the appellate briefing to such an e appellate-procedure appellate-review argument-abandonment civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court issue-preservation judicial-review legal-briefing merits-determination waiver Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised…
21-5907 In Re Matthew James Leachman 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance Whether the Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory …
21-5693 Eleno Guillen-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5578 Guy Don Minze v. Texas Texas 2021-09-03 Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts jurisdiction notice penal-code prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence tex-r-app-p Did the Court of Appeals err in failing to base its Opinion on the evidentiary and adjudicated facts in the record
21-340 Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-right court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process groppi-precedent groppi-v-wisconsin impartial-jury venue venue-change Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' categorical prohibition on changes of venue deprives defendants of the right to trial by an imparti…
21-301 Mario Lamont Sims v. Bank of New York Seventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment first-impression judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-openness judicial-transparency judicial-tyranny Whether the conduct of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals was so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the anonymous three judge p…
21-5494 In Re Eric W. Poirier 2021-08-26 Dismissed IFP attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate of Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Cou…
21-5415 Jarvis Brown v. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing supreme-court-review Whether the United States District Court and United States Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's case
21-5329 Omar Sharpe v. United States Second Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals courtroom-behavior criminal-trial district-court due-process illinois-v-allen shackling Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated
21-5333 Michael E. Harris v. Anthony Akidi Ninth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-dismissal jury-demand jury-trial personal-injury prima-facie Did the United States court of appeals error and abuse its discretion, in dismissing the petitioner's prima facie personal injury, civil rights compla…
21-5392 Jose Raymundo Rodriguez-Yanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-149 Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo Tenth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether the lower court has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, misrepresenting and ignoring material facts of the ca…
21-110 GMAG, LLC, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for the Stanford International Bank Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process factual-dispute jury-trial jury-verdict legal-ruling ponzi-scheme seventh-amendment transferee-liability Whether the Seventh Amendment and due process permit a court of appeals to reverse a jury verdict based on the court's own independent examination of …
21-43 Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan Michigan 2021-07-13 Denied appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner's conviction where the opinion is contradicte…
21-5031 Luis Pitt v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradshaw-v-stumpf circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review kercheval-v-united-states plea-acceptance plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated
20-8377 Herbert Garfield Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process external-interference habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations Whether state trial court's 'external interference' constitutes rare and extraordinary circumstance sufficient to excuse statute of limitations time-b…
20-8338 Mark Woods v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process final-judgment jurisdiction mandamus writ-of-procedencia Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Abused Its discretion in denying petitioner's Writ of Procedendo ad Judicium or Manda…
20-8260 Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court Whether Louisiana's post-conviction procedure violates due process
20-8270 Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having key …
20-1701 Walter P. Vargo, Jr. v. D & M Tours, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1631 civil-procedure court-discretion court-of-appeals federal-courts interest-of-justice jurisdiction jurisdiction-transfer procedural-rules statutory-interpretation transfer Whether 28 U.S.C. §1631 requires a court to transfer a case when it finds a lack of jurisdiction and it is in the interest of justice to do so
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements CERTIORARI IS APPROPRIATE WHERE THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE QUESTIONS…
20-1563 Amin A. Rashid v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process fifth-amendment final-judgment notice notice-and-opportunity rule-60(b) rule-60b4 Whether the court of appeals denies a petitioner due process
20-7856 Dennis Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding harmless error
20-7845 Oscar Minaya v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states Whether a court should consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the charged offenses in evaluating error under Yates v. United States
20-7628 Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court trial-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court of Mississippi have jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the Court of Appeals where there are two duty members who refused …
20-7599 Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera…
20-7471 Christian Joseph Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability without any analysis of whether the District…
20-7445 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. SunTrust Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-12 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation third-amendment Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioners' civil complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
20-1266 In Re Ivan Rene Moore, et al. 2021-03-11 Denied california-constitution constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure property-rights redress superior-court supreme-court Shall a writ lie for violation of due process
20-7376 Howard E. Martin, III v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP access-to-justice appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis legal-access standing systemic-racism Where are the Justices, Honorable Seer, who is sentencing Petitioner denied an opportunity to present Petitioner's defense, failed to avail the Petiti…
20-7384 Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner Second Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement Was the treatment of the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinement for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconstitutio…
20-7362 Charles Braye v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-step-act opportunity-to-be-heard remand sentence-reduction Whether Mr. Braye's due process rights were violated when the court of appeals determined that Mr. Braye was eligible for a sentence reduction under t…
20-1213 Marsha W. Mignott, et al. v. Brian Gardiner Georgia 2021-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals legal-procedure non-party non-party-corporation Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in ordering a non-party corporation and attorney to pay attorney's fees without due process
20-7267 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-112 court-of-appeals enablement invention patent prior-art Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that the claimed invention meets the enablement requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112
20-1144 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
20-7176 Jeffrey S. Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-law certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court habeas-petition judicial-review legal-error procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals err by not addressing the certified questions from the district court?
20-7117 Dervanna H. A. Troy-McKoy v. Mount Sinai Beth Israel New York 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraudulent-signature judicial-review legal-motion procedural-misconduct punitive-damages standing Question not identified
20-1101 Taniesheia Harden v. Comcast Corporation Seventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1981 42-usc-1981 burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-establishment court-of-appeals pleading-standard summary-judgment unsettled-law Is the grant of summary judgment proper when the movant does not meet its burden?
20-1059 Roy H. Murry v. Washington Washington 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived anders-brief court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-briefing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was Mr. Murry denied his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process?
20-6930 Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6934 Fred Cartwright v. Silver Cross Hospital, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-rehearing equal-protection legal-counsel medical-condition post-traumatic-stress-disorder standing writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated due to the dismissal of his case and denial of his motions for rehearin…
20-6736 Salvador Diaz v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection whether-the-court-of-appeals'-failure-to-remedy-the-district-court's-improper-venue-selection
20-852 Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA…
20-6694 Gerardo Flores-Riojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6563 Isaiah Devon Stallworth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals causation civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard petitioner standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that Petitioner failed to make the requisite showing to receive a COA, when two other Circuits have rul…
20-6568 Francisco Javier Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process legal-review procedural-question remand standard-of-review supreme-court united-states-v-penn Whether this Court should remand to the court below in light of United States v. Penn
20-783 Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-12-08 GVR Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal jurisdiction remand-order removal statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou…
20-6525 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2020-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals divorce-proceedings due-process judicial-decision-making judicial-interpretation legal-principles pension-division standing state-constitutional-law Are the NYS Court of Appeals' rulings consistent with the NYS constitutional requirement to articulate statewide principles of law in the context of d…
20-6476 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1495 28-usc-2513 certificate-of-innocence court-of-appeals dismissal district-court federal-court-of-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation technical-claim Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a certificate of innocence in 28 U.S.C. § 2…
20-6413 Maxine Shepard v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause pro-se-litigant procedural-default service-of-process standing Whether the COA improperly held in conflict with other courts that the Petitioner did not show good cause to excuse procedural default and allow for a…
20-6319 Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final order dismissing Petitioner's claims
20-6269 Gilbert Montrez Gardner v. Maryland Maryland 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review certiorari court-of-appeals felony-murder legal-remand mens-rea robbery rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review Whether the Court of Appeals of Maryland erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction for felony murder when the evidence was insufficient to establ…
20-6186 Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-review rule-60b section-2253 section-2255 successive-petitions Whether Court of Appeals fulsome review of potential meritorious claims in COA application overstep the bounds of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)
20-6180 Naquan Reyes v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Reyes's contention that the sentence was procedurally unreasonable based on the district court's failu…
20-6174 Marjory Childs v. Western Tidewater Community Services Board Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied IFP ada-1990 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure judicial-procedure mandate-rule standing title-vii Whether the Court of Appeals judgement shall take effect upon issuance of mandate in accordance with FED. R. App. P. 41
20-6147 Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence
20-6026 Kenneth H. Newkirk v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-matter civil-rights court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-review legal-proceeding medical-care pattern-of-misconduct physical-injury standing Whether the petitioner should be subjected to deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under the Eighth Amendment, even though the petitioner …
20-367 Anna Baran v. ASRC Federal Mission Solutions, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals defamation discovery-rule dismissal due-process equitable-tolling prejudicial-evidence statute-of-limitations Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing Ms. Baran's Defamation Claim on the Grounds that it was Time-Bar…
20-5657 Eric Bernard Scott v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review mandamus procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion
20-5660 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing Whether reasonable jurist could debate the third circuit court of appeals adoption that the district court's ruling that appellant's petition does not…
20-5509 Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order Whether the Court of Appeals erred in disposing of the constitutional question presented by habeas petitioner by denying his application for Certifica…
20-5298 Rodney A. Smith v. Susan Barker, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals de-novo frivolous frivolous-complaint informa-pauperis judicial-discretion standard-of-review Whether dismissal of informa pauperis complaint as frivolous is properly reviewed for abuse of discretion and it wass error for court of appeals to re…
20-5261 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2020-08-05 Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-testimony motion-to-suppress reliability-standard suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure totality-of-circumstances witness-reliability Does the in-court identification meet the reliability standard under the totality of the circumstances, even though the confrontation procedure was su…
20-69 William O. Fuller, as Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Otis Fuller v. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction court-of-appeals federal-procedure hypothetical-jurisdiction res-judicata standing steel-company subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a Court of Appeals panel can, consistent with Steel Company v. Citizens for A Better Environment, avoid a res judicata bar by determining that…
20-5021 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts judicial-opinion legal-standing petition-review pleadings procedural-complexity standing Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual matter to survive a motion to dismiss
19-8915 Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing Whether defendants' convictions under 18 U.S.C. 924(c) should be vacated
19-8863 Michael Strausbaugh v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination miller-el-doctrine procedural-standard standing Whether the Court of Appeals correctly determined that the requirements of Miller-El v. Cockrell for a Certificate of Appealability were not met
19-8827 David Fowler v. Indymac Bank, FSB, et al. New York 2020-06-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review leave-to-amend motion-for-leave state-court-jurisdiction Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal without detailed reasoning
19-8719 Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity whether-the-eleventh-circuit-entered-a-decision-that-conflicts-with-this-court's-precedent
19-1340 David Tribble, et al. v. First Security Bank, et al. Arkansas 2020-06-04 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review arkansas-judiciary civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection procedure state-court supreme-court Did reliance on the Appellate Review Attorney for the Office of the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals' instruction for drafting…
19-8576 Franklin Mackensie Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-record court-of-appeals criminal-case criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-jurisdiction grand-jury jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-compliance title-40-usc-s-255 Is the Petitioner entitled to review the Administrative Record?
19-8400 Roy Allen Nichols v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process
19-8327 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-21 Dismissed IFP case-processing certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-power due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the District Court should have granted a Certificate of Appealability
19-8311 John D. Dalen v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. South Carolina 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process foreclosure securitization standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Was Petitioner denied his Common Law Right to a trial by jury, and his right to due process of law
19-8291 Willis J. Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to advise a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the me…
19-8276 In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence 2020-04-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rule-60 court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal petit-rule Whether the district court should have filed the Petitioner's Civil Rule 60 petition as a notice of appeal in the Court of Appeals?
19-8179 In Re Harold Wayne Nichols 2020-04-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenting …
19-8172 Adam Carson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction perjury statutory-interpretation witness-credibility witness-tampering Can a conviction for witness tampering be upheld when a Defendant did not ask a witness to lie for him?
19-8155 Omar Saunders v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure denial due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review saunders third-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Saunders' Denial of Habeas Corpus?
19-8129 Charles Ben Bounds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Sentence Enhancement
19-8106 Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction
19-1163 Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question May the District Court overrule the previous unanimous Court of Appeals decision in the same case?
19-1155 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Ming Dai Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Judgment Issued Amici (1) asylum-application board-of-immigration-appeals court-of-appeals credibility-determination immigration-judge immigration-law ins-v-ventura judicial-review remand-rule removal-proceedings ventura Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume that an asylum applicant's testimony is credible and true
19-1129 Charles T. Fote v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-opinion judicial-reasoning judicial-review legal-reasoning rehearing supervisory-authority written-opinion Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in …
19-7922 Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl…
19-7736 Silvester Woods v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals damages district-court due-process emotional-distress employment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress jurisdiction representation standing Whether the WMATA and ATU Local 689 presented unjustified excuses to reinstate the plaintiff and deny representation, and whether the district court a…
19-7623 Sinyo Silkeutsabay, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-regulation civil-rights controlled-substances court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-preemption federal-response medical-marijuana state-law state-legalization washington-marijuana-laws washington-state-law Did the Courts below err in their analysis of Washington State law governing growing and selling medical marijuana?
19-7561 Ramiro D. Ramirez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note-3(c) application-note-3c court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing-guidelines mitigating-role mitigating-role-adjustment paid-tasks proprietary-interest sentencing-guidelines supervisory-authority united-states-sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 Whether the Court of Appeals inappropriately affirmed the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment
19-7525 Gregory Joel Sitzmann v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-laws conflict-with-other-courts-of-appeals conflict-with-supreme-court court-of-appeals criminal-procedure drug-smuggling evidence federal-sentencing foreign-drug-smuggling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-evidence pro-se-petition prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction over evidence of foreign drug smuggling and whether the United States Court of Appeals for the District…
19-7526 Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-7372 Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals discovery-rule due-process due-process,civil-procedure,statute-of-limitations judicial-review motion-to-dismiss notice statute-of-limitations Is the judgment of October 29, 2019, of the District of District Court of Appeals (DCCA) according to the law?
19-7374 In Re John Wallace 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute whether-magistrate-judge-exceeded-authority-in-issuing-strike
19-7112 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist…
19-7102 Ruben Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-6853 Nhuong Van Nguyen v. Jackson Lucky, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-judgment court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct legal-remedy motion-to-vacate rule-60 standing Whether the District Court and the court of Appeals correctly rejected petitioner's claim that the United States committed 'FRAUD UPON THE COURT?
19-6660 Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law Question not identified.
19-6600 Barry Lernard Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 60b-motion abuse-of-discretion coa-brief court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing manifest-injustice procedural-due-process psr psr-challenge section-2255 sentencing-claim sentencing-evidence sentencing-issue sentencing-review Where petitioner attacked evidence; State's Certified Motion to Dismiss allegation in his PSR, of R.D., to his 2255 Motion, and argued his evidence in…
19-6610 Mario Alberto Rubi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure door-doctrine evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-evidence fingerprints open-door-doctrine open-the-door precedent standard-of-review unknowing-courier Whether the court of appeals erred in finding Mr. Rubi opened the door to expert testimony regarding unknowing couriers
19-6483 Carl Robinson v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat Third Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard clearly-erroneous'-rule-52(a),exhaustion-of-remedi conviction court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-independence judicial-procedure legal-remedy procedural-due-process standard-of-review statute supplemental-response timeliness unfairness Was the Petitioner denied due process of law,in vi When there is no authority for the preparation of an opinion by the attorney for either side, should the Court of Appeals have applied the 'clearly-er…
19-579 William Boateng v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) rule-12(d) summary-judgment Can a Court of Appeals treat a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss as a converted motion for summary judgment under Rule 12(d) when the district court its…
19-6424 Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals misapplied 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
19-6383 Nelli Kesoyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)?
19-6397 Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense…
19-6401 Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-10-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 gives the court of appeals error correction power to set aside or reverse a lower court's decision that is clearly inco…
19-519 Psara Energy Ltd. v. ST Shipping & Transport Pte. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response Waived admiralty-law admiralty-maritime admiralty-maritime-law civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction interpleader jurisdiction maritime-garnishment mootness supplemental-rules Whether the jurisdiction a court of appeals has over a district court's vacatur of a maritime garnishment under Rule B(1) of the Supplemental Rules fo…
19-6266 Willie Jones, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-among-courts constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct dilatory-purpose dilatory-purposes faretta-right faretta-v-california federal-courts self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-self-representation state-courts Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Faretta claim conflict with Faretta v. California?
19-6208 Darrell Alan Lussier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court due-process established-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-appeal judicial-precedent precedent right-to-appeal section-2255 When a District Court's denial of a §2255 motion is contrary to established precedent, is the Court of Appeals required to grant a certificate of appe…
19-6123 Castor Quintaires Gonzales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment mandate-recall presumption-of-innocence structural-error Does the Fifth Amendment compel a court of appeals to remedy its inadvertent affirmance of unrecognized structural error that was apparent from the re…
19-5969 Tawoine Aquil Frank Banks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process revocation revocation-sentence section-3624e sentencing supervised-release Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming of a supervised revocation sentence that ran consecutively to other supervised release revocation sentence?
19-5848 Saquawn Harris v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-review federal-rule-35 federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-statute judicial-procedure majority-vote recusal statutory-interpretation Whether recused judges are excluded from the count of a majority of judges in regular active service for purposes of granting en banc rehearing under …
19-5860 T'Challa Rhashaed Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-among-circuits court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jackson-virginia-standard judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review strickland-washington-standard Whether the district state court of appeals rendered a decision in conflict with decisions of this court and other courts of appeals, when unreasonabl…
19-5811 Joe Edger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity conflict constitutional-rights contract-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-process due-process government-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Does the phrase 'cited in the defense of conviction' have a specific legal definition?
19-5801 Emory Chiles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence?
19-5823 Jason Alston v. Arianna W. Eastman Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process eleventh-circuit in-forma-pauperis interested-parties judicial-discretion legal-procedure motion-for-leave recusal standing Whether United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abuse its discretion in denying petitioner Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauper…
19-201 Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert California 2019-08-16 Denied attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402 foreclosed Respondent's efforts to seek attor…
19-5579 Sebastian Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether § 2244(b)(3)(D)'s 30-day deadline for deciding motions for authorization is binding or merely advisory
19-5580 In Re Sebastian Eccleston 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-jurisdiction court-of-appeals extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-writ federal-prisoner judicial-discretion mandamus post-conviction statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus Whether the exceptional circumstances of this case warrant the exercise of this Court's discretionary powers to issue a writ of mandamus pursuant to 2…
19-5512 Gregory Green v. Donald Beckwith, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction standing Whether the Fourte Curcoct erred by denying 4 Coch fegte of oppealadibly ast the apileshle Sond of revrews
19-5460 Jose Ortega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis
19-5395 George Cleveland, III v. Jerry B. Adger Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-and-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus procedural-limitations standing suspension-clause writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether Slack v. McDaniel requires the Court of Appeals to determine if a Habeas Corpus Petitioner's Appeal states a valid claim of the denial of a co…
19-5398 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure internal-operating-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-claims local-rules pendent-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Will the Court provide for questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedure…
19-5399 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP cestui-que civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal dismissals federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure local-procedural-rules local-rules pendent-jurisdiction standing Whether the Court will provide for further questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Ope…
19-5315 Raymond Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C-§-2244 28-U.S.C-§-2255 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus johnson-rule residual-clause section-2244 section-2255 successive-motion successive-petitions void-for-vagueness When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a district c…
19-5249 George E. Kersey v. Herb Chambers 1186, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-07-22 Dismissed IFP appeal appeals civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals district-court due-process filing-fee frivolous in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation sanctions screening standing Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's certification that the appeal was not taken in good faith
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine…
19-5164 Lamont Renard Stewart v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP conflict-with-precedent court-decision court-of-appeals federal-law federal-question important-issue judicial-review jurisdiction legal-conflict legal-settlement petition-for-writ settled-by-supreme-court standing Whether a State Court or a United States Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled b…
19-5174 William C. Lewis, Sr., et al. v. Estate of Robert A. Lewis, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment asset-transfer civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the decision affirming the denial of a trial by jury on Petitioners' claims violated their 7th Amendment to the US Constitution
19-5186 Mauricio Warner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-court appellate-procedure application certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-ruling procedural-error standing Did the Appeal Court err in making a merits ruling on Warner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability and for failure to even consider the app…
19-5142 Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle Fourth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err on an important federal question by entering its decision/judgment, which is in conf…
19-50 John DeRaffele v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa…
19-5092 Joseph Stephenson v. Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence court-of-appeals district-court gateway-claims habeas-corpus house-v-bell Did the district court and the court of appeals misapply this Court's holdings concerning habeas petitioners' gateway claims of actual innocence as de…
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether a Court of Appeals may ignore an appellant's request to recuse itself in an appeal where the Court of Appeals is the only defendant and appell…
19-5069 Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing Whether the court of appeals followed the dictates of this court's decision in Buck v. Davis, explaining that the COA stage is not coextensive with a …
19-5073 In Re Elvis Rivera Cruz 2019-07-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-procedure federal-statutory-law-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review obstruction-of-justice statutory-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Did the United States Court of Appeals, For The Fifth Circuit, lack federal statutory law jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2244(b),(3),(D), when more tha…
18-9837 Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. Texas 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-code property-tax standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d)
18-9452 In Re Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. 2019-05-31 Dismissed IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-authority clerk-discretion court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts filing-requirements habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-authority procedural-compliance standing title-28 title-28-usc-1915 Does the United States District Court have the authority to gather and review civil service records & complaints to determine whether the party is a p…
18-9489 Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-process legal-claims procedural-rules remand standing supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari Why the Honorable United States District Court ordered the case closed without granting a 30-day order to amend the complaint
18-9345 Billy Gene Drake v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process findings findings-of-fact judicial-review lower-court lower-court-decisions procedural-rights standing Was the petitioner's procedural due process violated by the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to adopt the lower court's findings?
18-9333 Gustavo Gomez v. California Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal case-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction motion-to-amend sixth-amendment standing Were this Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth …
18-9222 Michael Owen Harriot v. Robert Waizenhofer, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mclaughlin-violation notice-and-opportunity standing statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Whether the Court of Appeals exceeded its authority to affirm a judgment as time barred
18-9208 Robert Tringham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights core-judicial-functions court-of-appeals due-process habeas judicial-delegation judicial-functions non-judicial-officer procedural-authority remand rule-12.1' 'Does the Court hold that pursuant to rule-22b2 rule-60b6 rule-60b6' 'Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court standing Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access to justice
18-1404 Dorsey Eugene Wallace v. Gary Edward Wallace, et al. Georgia 2019-05-08 Denied 5th-amendment corporate-stock court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals judicial-review judicial-taking property-rights standard-for-judicial-taking stock-ownership stop-the-beach takings takings-clause well-established-property-right Judicial taking of petitioner's stock ownership in Wallace Electric Company
18-9155 Robert Strecker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus standing Whether the court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability (COA) to the petitioner, where the district court denied the petitioner's…
18-9069 Hector Rengifo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court
18-9105 Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the North Carolina Court of Appeals erred by holding there are 'no aggravated crimes' in North Carolina, when the Supreme Court has held in Al…
18-9047 Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-motion-to-vacate,judicial- court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-bias motion-to-vacate recusal recusal-relief standing Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a Motion to Vacate under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60
18-8976 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-code legal-review standing writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court has the power to issue a Writ of Certiorari to review the action of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
18-1325 Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges…
18-1303 Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell California 2019-04-15 Denied appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing Whether a single court of appeals justice can dismiss an appeal after the appellant has shown that all notices of appeal were timely filed and fees pa…
18-8609 Robert L. Clark v. Carroll County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied IFP appeal appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process in-forma-pauperis standing Is the appeal lacking merits?
18-8551 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness Whether or not the Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, correctly viewed Appellant's Motion To Dismiss this Appeal, submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules…
18-8513 Mark Halper v. Gladys Passes Colorado 2019-03-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing civil-rights colorado-supreme-court-precedent court-of-appeals debt-repayment due-process gift gift-vs-loan judicial-misconduct legal-standing loan property-rights standing supreme-court-ruling Whether the Colorado courts denied the petitioner an equitable and honorable consideration of the legal arguments presented
18-8531 Omar Sharif Beasley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review assistance-evaluation court-of-appeals fair-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness-of-sentence record-of-reasons record-of-sentencing-reasons sentence-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-and-policies statutory-factors statutory-sentencing-factors Did the District Court and Court of Appeals properly consider sentencing guidelines and factors?
18-8327 Robert Nathan Alm v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8301 Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus What was the import of the Court's prior decision?
18-8239 Negus Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing Whether the district court erred in declining to resentence the defendant-Petitioner on remand
18-8220 In Re Damon Graham 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals discretionary-powers due-process exceptional-circumstances Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to promptly decide Mr. Graham's certificate of appealability
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
18-8061 Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-25 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition Whether the Certificate of Appealability standard can be consistently applied when petitioners are denied relief under Rule 60(b)
18-7991 George E. Kersey v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States First Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appeal appeal-certification civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals dismissal district-court frivolous immunity in-forma-pauperis standing Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's December 18, 2017 decisions
18-1051 James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department First Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C…
18-7869 Samuel Deorio v. Vic Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 acca-predicate-offenses constitutional-law court-of-appeals habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241-2255 new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity savings-clause second-or-successive-petition sentencing-enhancement successive-petitions unconstitutional-sentence Whether 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) may serve as a failsafe mechanism
18-7845 Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c…
18-7767 Joshua Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden…
18-7664 John Felix Greer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review case-or-controversy civil-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-of-court jurisdictional-review legal-jurisdiction mandate mandate-recall procedural-error standing Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in deciding the merits of a motion to recall the mandate without first determining jurisdiction
18-7684 Raynard Reginald Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process patent standing takings Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying the petition for appeal
18-7611 Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware Delaware 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and …
18-7612 Nathaniel Bowens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States
18-7550 Marbin Rene Reyes-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,immigration,r error-correction fundamental-fairness immigration-law immigration-status judicial-review legal-error procedural-due-process removal-proceedings unlawful-status Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against the petitioner was not fundamentally unfair,…
18-7541 Adrian G. Rangel v. Tippecanoe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity appeals civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals dismissal due-process federal-court federal-trial-court immunity jurisdiction legal-error standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and the Hammond Indiana Federal Trial Court err in dismissing Petitioner's Complaint based sole…
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action?
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability?
18-951 T&T Rock Distribution, LLC v. Rutilio I. Velasco Texas 2019-01-22 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion arbitration-agreement civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review federal-arbitration-act litigation-stay motion-to-compel standard-of-review stay-of-litigation trial-court-discretion Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the denial of a motion to compel arbitration
18-947 Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-timeliness appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion in-camera-review judicial-misconduct misconduct procedural-rules Whether if a member of the Court of Appeals sends a party a 'racist' mailing of a court initiated letter, whether intentional or unintentional, does a…
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…
18-7160 Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff New York 2018-12-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals divorce-judgment due-process forgery fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing pro-se standing Whether the New York State Court of Appeals can dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud/forgery in the lower court proceedin…
18-7111 Johnny Joe Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 constitutional-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment fifth-circuit injustice jurisdictional-review mandate-recall unadjudicated-claims Whether the Fifth Circuit erred when it did not recall the mandate in order to prevent an injustice relative to two unadjudicated claims in the distri…
18-7126 Ishmael Abdullah v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2) satisfies the elements clause of t…
18-7026 Bryan Coats v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts government-action jurisdiction jurisdiction-filing legal-procedure order-denying-rehearing petition-for-rehearing rehearing standing takings timeliness united-states Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
18-7001 In Re Michael Kennedy 2018-12-12 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction free-speech habeas-corpus pleadings standing Whether the lower federal courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims without allowing him to file any pleadings
18-6993 Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction…
18-6998 George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith civil-appeal civil-rights court-of-appeals direct-appeal docket-fee docket-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant indigent-litigants pro-se-litigation south-carolina Whether Bounds v. Smith 430 U.S. 817 97 S.Ct. 1491 (1977) requires the waiver of the docket fee in a civil on direct appeal to Indigent litigants who …
18-639 Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
18-6661 Bryan Christopher Samuel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-issues court-of-appeals delayed-opinions due-process first-impression-issues habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers jurisdictional-issues petition-for-certiorari petition-for-rehearing procedural-delay timeliness Whether the federal courts abused their discretion in causing delays that made the petitioner untimely in seeking further review
18-6536 Lewis Waters v. Charles L. Lockett, Warden District of Columbia 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-safeguard court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction unindicted-crime Where the Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be held to answer for a crime unless upon presentment of a Grand Jury's indictment, does the…
18-560 Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien Whether a lien is a 'statutory lien' under the Bankruptcy Code
18-6477 Delmer M. Ackels v. Randy M. Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied IFP answer civil-procedure court-of-appeals default-judgment excuse excuses jurisdiction procedural-rules timeliness timely-filing Whether the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to deny a default judgment when the defendant was untimely with its Answer without an excuse
18-6356 Earl Reyes v. Dale Artus Second Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-appeal court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-decision frap-rule-24 in-forma-pauperis indigent-appellant indigent-rights motion-to-vacate plain-error standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion Whether the court of appeals was correct to requir Whether it was plain error for a court of appeals to deny in forma pauperis relief to an indigent appellant
18-425 Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection consumer-warranty-act court-of-appeals due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judgment rico rico-violation song-beverly-consumer-warranty-act superior-court Did the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District Affirm the Judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles in favor of Petitioners Alvin E. Williams …
18-6155 Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decisions
18-6068 Rodney L. Jones v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion due-process habeas-corpus Did the court of appeals abuse its discretion in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability?
18-5988 Master Baye Balah Allah v. Brian Wilson, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915-e abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,abuse-of-disc court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-statute legal-standard lower-court standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion
18-5946 William A. Parrish, Jr. v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights court-of-appeals due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel grand-jury-selection indigent indigent-defendant indigent-litigant judicial-discretion perjured-testimony pro-se right-to-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial transcript trial-transcript Did the State Court of Appeals have the authority to deny a pro se indigent litigant a copy of his trial transcript because he choose to represent him…
18-5911 Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure
18-5895 Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition?
18-5796 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence Where must a court of appeals grant a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action where at least one judge votes in its favor?
18-238 South Carolina v. Lamont Antonio Samuel South Carolina 2018-08-23 Denied court-of-appeals criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ethics faretta-v-california judicial-conduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity self-representation sixth-amendment unethical-conduct Did the South Carolina Supreme Court err when it held — in conflict with many federal courts of appeals — that a trial court may not deny a criminal d…
18-5644 Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet…
18-5551 In Re Rafael A. Joseph 2018-08-10 Dismissed IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight jurisdiction malfeasance mandamus nonfeasance oversight Can the Circuit & Court of Appeals Executive refuse to refer my petition for reconsideration; Clerk Court of Appeals refuse to docket my motions to sh…
18-5526 Michael P. Lough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence?
18-5406 Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure Whether the police exceeded the scope of the search warrant and seized additional items in violation of the Fourth Amendment
18-5353 Juanita L. Berry v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process income-classification income-tax irs-regulations loans loss-calculation promissory-notes property-rights tax tax-evasion tax-law wire-fraud Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's legal holding that promissory notes between Berry and a vendor were income and no…
18-5264 Albert Jenkins, et al. v. WMC Mortgage, et al. District of Columbia 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process fraudulent-concealment futility-of-amendment lulling-and-fraudulent-concealment oral-contract service-of-process standing statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations was improperly applied despite fraudulent concealment
18-5058 Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Deante Drake's petition for rehearing en banc as untimely under Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(3)(A…
23A1169 Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas Texas Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals judicial-process procedural-rules texas-law Whether the Texas Court of Appeals improperly applied procedural rules that effectively denied petitioners their constitutional right to meaningful ap…