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25-322 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver 1. Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a "firmly established" and "consistently fo…
24-5025 Delbert W. Hargis, Jr. v. Victoria A. Pritty-Pitcher New York 2024-07-09 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause-14th-amendment family-law non-parent-custody parental-rights standing 1. Whether the decision of the lower courts, which awarded full custody of a child to a nonparent due to the existence of a strong bond, violates the …
23-1310 Dean Gross v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether or under what circumstances a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in "custody" and therefore can commit the crime of escape.
23-7698 Garcia Coleman v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-transfer department-of-corrections due-process free-speech guardianship legal-procedure liberty Question not identified.
23-7498 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation, et al. First Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-prevention-order civil-rights constitutional-deficiency custody due-process in-custody legal-standing matthews-v-eldridge parental-rights Whether an individual who is a defendant of an abuse prevention order and whose parental right are restricted or terminated is "in custody ", pursuant…
23-7290 Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation I. Whether the district court properly "committ[ed] [Appellant] to the custody and care of the Attorney General " pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246, given …
23-1108 Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p…
23-7195 In Re Dechaun Toliver 2024-04-10 Denied IFP constitutional-custody constitutional-rights custody district-court district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus successive-petition successive-petitions writ-of-habeas-corpus 1. Is it mandatory for a District Court to entertain a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a petitioner is claiming to be in custody in violation of the Consti…
23-7064 Omar Sierre Folk v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2241-petition 2255-escape-hatch actual-innocence custodial-petition custody direct-cert-denial escape-hatch habeas-corpus procedural-shot procedural-standard section-2255 1. Whether Lower Court Misapplied Inadequate or Ineffective for purposes of § 2255 only when a Petitioner (1) Makes A Claim of Actual Innocence and (2…
23-6976 Juan Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes.
23-6742 Alexander D. Pennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant Under the Fifth Amendment, is a suspect in a criminal investigation "in custody" when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke dow…
23-705 Stephen Robert Deck v. California Ninth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response Waived criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration Whether California's sex offender registration mandates under Calif. Penal Code section 290 place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's l…
23-6206 Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions DOES THE DORMANT COMMERCE CLAUSE IN SECTION 12(C) ALLOW THE COURT JURISDICTION OVER A PERSON'S GOODS, PATENT, CUSTOM AUTHORITY, SINCE 22 U.S.C. SECTIO…
23-573 Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier North Carolina 2023-11-28 Denied custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based …
23-6055 Debora D. v. John D., et al. California 2023-11-20 Denied IFP custody due-process ex-parte ex-parte-orders idea-law jurisdiction parental-rights special-education state-encroachment Did the court make a mistake rendering orders on an ex-parte basis? Did the ex-parte application render the necessary elements for ex-parte relief? …
23-5761 Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle …
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a plaintiff asserting a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that questions the validity of his conviction or the…
23-153 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. David Lujan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived child-custody civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights contract custody due-process judicial-authorization parental-rights 1. Does court err omitting facts, dismissing Defendants that kidnapped child, interfered in legal custody, interfered in parental rights, with actions…
23-107 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Federal courts "shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court …
23-5217 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine Maine 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute Question not identified.
22-7848 Danielle Lawson v. Matthew Lawson Georgia 2023-06-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-rights custody due-process joint-legal-custody non-custodial-parent parental-interference violence-against-women-act visitation visitation-rights Does the imposition of unending supervised visitation at the state level, upon a non-custodial parent who has joint legal custody, who has not been fo…
22-7543 Dwayne Mitchell Littlejohn v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act coram-nobis criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel novelty-of-legal-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's reliance on erroneous advice from counsel, the Court of Appeals and novelty of a legal interpretation constitutes valid reasons …
22-1051 Ronald Simon, et ux. v. Wayne Janke, et al. Washington 2023-04-28 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process equal-protection fraud jurisdiction racial-discrimination standing Appellants seek review of the jurisdiction of the State Court and a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington denying Appellants' petit…
22-7378 Patrick Ellis Cochran v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sixth-amendment speedy-trial Petitioner experienced extreme prejudice for 7 months while held in continous custody _2_ .counties away, waiting to answer charges — in Fairfax Count…
22-7197 Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation (1) Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer who is present on the orders of his probation officer, and armed law enforcem…
22-6944 Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell Florida 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, in the care, custody, and management of her child…
22-6920 Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri Missouri 2023-03-03 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony Pre. urstodys, Somedute sheuated on We 20\& order, The Gimina® Ur Way aod Noring tap Wer Son ¥o Fates on Quar lb) old, per The 2OIA order The, Missour…
22-6499 DeJuan B. Thornton-Bey v. Warden, Allenwood USP Third Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process parental-rights standing /• Xi 71 j ffa(y yf ji*** ^/«cxaa )li^ku '/A A- (i (a( li'l d&&Al<fT fl&j xfj-jSW. 'fh ^^ y// f/*cf t i/e J "fp / ffa \ QA&tA ^ jH^f n,ifXuo ^ U/*/ y…
22-6441 James D. Dayvault v. Kansas Kansas 2023-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consensual-encounter custody detention due-process family-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement photography reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure 1. Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the trial court's decision regarding custody for the purposes of Miranda, and does the court e…
22-6304 Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel 1. Was petitioner "IN Custody',* when (focus of investigation) (in presence of armed Officers)behind Locked doors)fnterragated for Hours)and Told"NOT"…
22-516 R. M. C., III v. J. D. L. Colorado 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2) adoption adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights custody custody-order due-process family-law parental-rights state-jurisdiction state-power Whether a state may require an adoptive parent to comply with a custody order issued prior to his adoption of the child without due process.
22-5963 Russell Spain v. Shenese Jones New York 2022-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority custody custody-dispute federal-law federal-law-violation judicial-jurisdiction national-security procedural-compliance rule-10 1- Did the lower Courts (Kings County Family Court, Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division Second Judicial Department) preside wi…
22-5642 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 collateral-consequences custody custody-status direct-consequence habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration suppression-clause suspension-clause writ-of-certiorari 1. Is A Person In Custody For The Purpose Of Either 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2254 If The Individual Is Still Under A Direct Consequence From Th…
22-86 Charles Chavez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied atm bank-robbery criminal-law custody customer federal-statute force-and-coercion property property-theft statutory-interpretation Whether a person violates this provision by forcing a bank customer to withdraw the customer's money from an ATM in order to take the money from the c…
21-8094 In Re Marcus O'Neal Jenkins 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest booked-on-charges civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process sixth-amendment speedy-trial (l) Did the action taken on April 20, 2010 at BCDC, constitute an arrest for purposes of determining whether Marcus O'Neal Jenkins ' (Jenkins ') 6th a…
21-7595 O. C. v. V. C. Ohio 2022-04-12 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment custody custody-order due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-procedure parental-rights 1. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. constitution states that, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or…
21-7137 Lonnel Porter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISCONSTRUED 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) TO FIND THAT AN ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY IMPOSED "BY VIRTUE OF . . . CONVICTION" INCLUDES PLACEM…
21-6982 Robert Stanley Gordon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied IFP benefits-denial conflict-of-interest custody erisa evidence evidence-retention long-term-disability plan-concealment Whether ERISA long-term disability benefits can be denied after years of plan concealment. Whether a conflict of interest is acceptable when a defend…
21-873 Damon Goodloe v. Christine Brannon, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody due-process show-up show-up-identification sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution to introduce statements elicited at a show-up conducted after the lone…
21-6350 Michael J. Greene v. Shelby Searls, Superintendent, Huttonsville Correctional Center Fourth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody due-process plea-agreement sentencing Question not identified.
21-743 Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is "in custo…
21-5639 Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation k)kje.-rkfiA +VUL U'5- CouA-t-o-f. Appeals, 44 a +VuL 4 C>N:ai^ cPf>Mio^ ;as u>eN at> -vW ©p<* '<M ©44U£ . ftfe-tNc-*' CcuM- -VW btetXcto4 ^av\SGS Qj…
21-308 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces…
20-1677 Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas Texas 2021-06-02 Denied 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo…
20-8008 Eric Christopher Conn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in "custody" so as to trigger conspiracy to escape for a "walk away."
20-7299 Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-02 Denied IFP consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con…
20-940 Alaska v. Sean Wright Ninth Circuit 2021-01-13 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2…
20-6253 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4142 civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process federal-detention judicial-order mental-competency statutory-custody Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether continued custody under 18 U.S.C. § 4142 for almost four months beyond the expiration …
20-236 Jerry W. Wells v. Robbin Nelson, et al. Kentucky 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law federal-law jurisdiction uccjea 1. Can an original decree state, having lost personal and subject matter jurisdiction for purpose of an adoption pursuant to its own state statute, KR…
19-8906 Nathan Matthew Kinard v. Michael Hoffman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP abuse civil-rights commitment-procedures constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus individual-liberty mental-health Were the witness statements and emails considered? How many others were tortured into taking a plea while in Escambia County Jails protective custody…
19-1420 Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction when dismissing without adjudication petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2241 Federal h…
19-1360 William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994), held that, to prevent circumvention of habeas corpus's statutory exhaustion of state remedies requirement, a p…
19-8334 James Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation totality-of-circumstances If the totality of the circumstances establish that a defendant is under police control and not free to leave until police questioning is finished, do…
19-1216 Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller Oregon 2020-04-15 Denied birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions…
19-7815 Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facta of its own Sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts How can there be Habas Corpus reli…
19-1076 John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of seven other circuits, that the favorable termination rule applies even if …
19-7752 Daniel Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation custody due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona pre-miranda-questioning public-safety-exception self-incrimination Whether Mr. Ochoa's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found that the public-safety-exception to this Cou…
19-891 John Lehmann v. Nicole Haims New York 2020-01-17 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights standing state-intervention 1. Did the New York courts ' decisions to deprive a child 's only living natural parent of physical and legal custody of his child, while granting s…
19-7203 Arthur Luther McKinney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-challenge due-process habeas-corpus prison prisoner-rights property-rights reentry supervision 1. When you work for someone and they give you something for that work does it not belong to you? 2. Does the Texas Department of Criminal Justice no…
19-7008 Abraham Hernandez-Zavala v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis Criminal-Conviction criminal-procedure custody custody-status deportation deportation-supervised-release due-process Habeas-Corpus immigration immigration-law supervised-release writ-of-error-coram-nobis WHETHER DEPORTATION AUTHOMATICALLY ENDS AN IMMIGRANTS IMPOSED SUPERVISED RELEASE? IF COURT WAIVES COURT SUPERVISION UPON DEPORATION IS ALIEN "IN CU…
19-6310 Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights I. Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the child was wrongful under Articles 3 and 5 of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 …
19-516 Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments This case presents clear and intractable conflicts regarding: 1) the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the limitations it imposes on the jurisdiction of low…
19-6305 Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-bond bail-release civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process immigration immigration-detention immigration-orders non-citizen release statutory-period unsecured-bail Whether a non-citizen defendant, granted unsecured bail, whom immigration officials have failed to take into custody during the statutory 10-day perio…
19-5696 Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law ChARkeicharles r.mcloy, inerr for aesenting an vntruth that the petitiuner Adrian Fseis willams, didnt pAR Dui to the petitroner being Denied an impAR…
19-5554 Andres Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment In determining whether an accused person is in custody for purposes of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 486 (1966), must courts give significant weight to…
19-130 In Re Randolph George 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti…
19-39 Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of M…
19-5048 Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence Custody: 1.why des reasne opinions of jurist thoughout the federal system demonstrate that frirminded jurist can disagree As to whether the use of han…
18-1568 Cheryl Lynn Hager-Reilly v. Thomas Reilly New York 2019-06-24 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights custody custody-proceeding due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment natural-parents parental-rights standard-of-proof supervised-visitation visitation-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a certain quantum of proof before a state court, in a custody proceeding between the t…
18-9730 Gerald S. Lepre, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split custody domestic-order federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-threat personal-liberty suspended-sentence PURSUANT TO FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS JURISDICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. 2254 (A) FOR STATE PRISONER'S: 1. DOES A SUSPENDED SENTENCE COUPLED WITH AN ACTIVE DOM…
18-9557 Charles C. Brewington v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct legal-standard sixth-amendment standing wrongful-conviction (1)-Do thπ AStAchKO Okut stortk Couht OROARS VTOLAK A-DUE PROCASS (B-AEt tO SUSPANO HAAKA -CONUS. ( A VFOLATON OF US. CONAt AA 2 WheN Loth Cok Rrrue t…
18-1505 C. S. v. L. S. New Jersey 2019-06-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, …
18-9454 Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-31 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA…
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond…
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
18-1420 Timothy Burns v. Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection court-procedure court-reporting custody damages discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-conduct legal-damages standing Are Plaintiff and minor child A.B. citizens of the United States? Are minor child A.B. and Plaintiff guaranteed protection under the United States Co…
18-1354 C. P., et al. v. C. A. California 2019-04-29 Denied child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a "third parent," regardle…
18-8982 Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis…
18-8832 Annamalai Annamalai v. Darrin Harmon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights custody district-court due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief illegal-custody jurisdiction legal-procedure standing warden-authority Whether the district court 'illegally' suspended Habeas Relief(s) for Annamalai Annamalai and or did not dispose of Annamalai Annamalai's habeas relie…
18-8640 Safron Huot v. Montana State Department of Child and Family Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP civil-rights custody custody-dispute due-process family-law judicial-review ninth-circuit-court parental-rights reunification standing How long must one take to be Given the Chance to be an Active Parent in the lives of Their Children? What do I need to do to satisfy the courts to Gr…
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit 1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? 2. Has Petitioner satis…
18-7600 Johnathan Holt v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure custody custody-analysis interrogation law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona objective-analysis personal-mobility sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-interpretation totality-of-circumstances Under the objective analysis criteria established by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), and its progeny, must a court evaluate all of the circum…
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 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action? 2. Did the United States Court of Appe…
18-7475 Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. West Virginia 2019-01-17 Denied IFP biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements of caretaking, providing for, legally acknowledging, and forming a par…
18-7392 In Re James Rudnick 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment 1 Whether the Respondent [Warden Hansen] - employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections] has valid authority (in accord with the thirteenth and …
18-7300 Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue 1. What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)? 2. Based on the correct interpretation of section 2255(e), is Mil…
18-7148 Austin Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest custody custody-rights detainer habeas-corpus implied-consent interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction prisoner-transfer speedy-trial 1. Is the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD") triggered when a prisoner in custody is arrested by another jurisdiction? 2. When there is no evi…
18-6868 In Re Peter T. Roukis 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP Article-12 bureau-of-prisons civil-rights custody discharged-prisoners due-process legal-custody military-prisoners uniform-code-of-military-justice Are discharged military prisoners confined within the Bureau Of Prisons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (ucmJ)? Does Article 12, UCMJ…
18-6811 Damaso Rivera Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody due-process interrogation interrogation-limits miranda-rights rhode-island-v-innis right-to-counsel spontaneous-statement voluntariness IF AN INTERROGATOR FAILS TO REMAIN WITHIN THE BRIGHT-LINE AFTER THE SUSPECT INVOKE COUNSEL, CAN A SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT -WHICH IS MADE AFTER THE SUSPE…
18-6491 Michael Reeves v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Illinois 2018-10-29 Denied IFP civil-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers speedy-trial DID MASSAC COUNTY, ILLINOIS WAIVE JURISDICTION WHEN I WAS SENT TO MENARD CORR. CTR, AUG.4, 2006. 2) MASSAC COUNTY, ILLINOIS HAD TEMPORARY CUSTODY OF …
18-5761 Kourtney Herman v. Crystal Young, et al. Illinois 2018-08-24 Denied IFP best-interests best-interests-standard custody custody-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-responsibilities parental-rights standing (1) Whether a state court's application of a "best interests" standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, vio…
18-5613 Ladina Sykes v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police …
18-5370 Thomas Juresic v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-26 Denied IFP civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions Does a Department of Corrections (DOC) or sentencing court retain constitutional custody and personal jurisdiction over a person until the expiration …
18-5224 Frank Costelon v. New Mexico Tenth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel cronic-violation custody due-process equitable-tolling federal-custody gideon-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing state-court-conviction Whether the District Court err in concluding that it did not have jurisdiction because Petitioner herein was no longer in in the custody of the judgme…
18-5199 Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari New Jersey 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness Whether in custody cases a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert. Is this an unconstitutional abuse…
18-62 Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S. C. §2254 where the child is suffering a s…
18-5086 Brian Keith Uzzle v. Lesley Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody custody-status double-jeopardy due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prosequy prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct re-indictment reindictment speedy-trial 1. Whether a state Court may benefit, gaming Ane advantage of a ceskact On ne Speedy Trial clock (ice indefinitely Post porin 9 prosecuticni, over Man…